LawSites

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Among the most divisive issues facing the legal profession today is that of revising the rules that regulate law practice – and more specifically the questions of whether to liberalize the rules to allow those who are not licensed lawyers to own law practices or to engage in the practice of law. Now, Stanford Law School’s Deborah L.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A Stanford Law School study published today of regulatory reforms in Utah and Arizona finds that they are “spurring substantial innovation,” that they are critical to serving lower-income populations, and that they do not pose any substantial risk of consumer harm. Who will be served by those innovations?

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Winners have been named for the second annual American Legal Technology Awards , a competition launched last year to honor exceptional achievements in legal technology. Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico. Justice Deno Himonas , Utah Supreme Court. Priori Legal. Startup Legal Garage. Honorable Mention. Neota Logic.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Current restrictions on how lawyers structure their businesses stand in the way of meaningful access to justice for many Americans, so states should follow the lead of Utah and Florida and test out innovative law firm business models through regulatory sandboxes, says Zachariah DeMeola at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System. (..)

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LawSites

AUGUST 12, 2021

Innovation for Justice , a legal innovation lab focused on social justice, launched at the University of Arizona James E. Innovating Legal Services, in which students will create a Medical Debt Policy Scorecard that inventories the medical debt policies in all 50 states and ranks states based on existing consumer protections.

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CourtTechBulletin

MARCH 11, 2021

Legal technology writer Molly McDonough posted an article about the Utah Outreach Court ( [link] ). That court takes a courtroom to the litigants, in some instances to the homeless person's campsite, using a repurposed mobile command center vehicle and tents. Read more ».

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. ” Listen: I interviewed Himonas and John R. .”

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The online behemoth has been authorized to dispense legal advice in Arizona and Utah.

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LawSites

MARCH 15, 2023

During his tenure, he drove a number of innovations around innovation and technology, including the launch of LawX, a legal design lab committed to tackling access-to-justice issues with solutions that address pressing legal problems such as debt collection, eviction and asylum.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Mississippi has legalized medical marijuana for debilitating conditions. Utah's clean slate law might be a bit of help. Utah's clean slate law might be a bit of help. Who lives in Utah, of course. [ Californians look to legal solutions to deal with their feral hog problem. Bleeding Cool ]. Record keeping you down?

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Law 360

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Delaware Chancery Court has recommended the state's highest court consider a midcase appeal in a Utah company's dispute with a former executive, saying guidance is needed on "substantial" legal questions and the "problematic and unsustainable" trend of pushing noncompete disputes into Delaware to bypass other states' laws.

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JURIST

AUGUST 30, 2021

The OCR launched investigations in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah to determine each state’s compliance with § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 , which protects students with disabilities against discrimination.

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LegalReader

MARCH 18, 2022

Trucking companies tend to avoid bad publicity and they won’t want to be dragged into a long legal battle. Will your case turn into a lawsuit? Probably not.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Winners have been named for the second annual American Legal Technology Awards , a competition launched last year to honor exceptional achievements in legal technology. Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico. Justice Deno Himonas , Utah Supreme Court. Priori Legal. Startup Legal Garage. Honorable Mention. Neota Logic.

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Patently O

JANUARY 22, 2024

The primary legal hook in the case is that the flexible standard of KSR v. Feb 16 – Utah IP Summit at the University of Utah ( REGISTER HERE ). Thanks to Sarah Jelsema & Phil Harris and the Utah Bar for organizing what looks to be a set of really interesting topics.

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Above The Law

MARCH 27, 2023

* "This is our third major financial crisis," said Sullivan's Mitchell Eitel describing his experience weathering the legal fallout of economic troubles. Courthouse News Service ] * "Utah governor: Social media law limiting minors' access not 'foolproof.'" Maybe we were all onto something. Maybe we were all onto something. percent.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. ” Listen: I interviewed Himonas and John R. .”

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

* Missouri's “Make Murder Legal Act” was kind enough to not actually become a law. Prescriptive law is just what the doctor ordered: Utah has lower rate of crashes after setting a more restrictive blood alcohol limit. [ Had us worried there for a bit. [ USA Today].

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LawSites

APRIL 14, 2022

Filevine , a Utah-based case management company founded in 2014 with an initial focus on litigation and personal injury law, has raised $108 million in a Series D funding round that it says will help fuel its expansion more deeply into big law, insurance defense, corporate, governmental, and nonprofit legal counsel teams.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Parents of both parties are entitled to due process and legal protection.

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LawSites

APRIL 29, 2021

Eight students in the LawX legal design lab at BYU Law have developed an online resource, called Goodbye Record , that is designed to address flaws in the process for expunging criminal records in Utah and potentially other states as well. Plans To Go National. “It is such a powerful example of design thinking and application.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Nationally, slavery is still legal in the United States for people in prison. Three states have already passed similar legislation, including Nebraska, Utah and Colorado. Jimmy Jackson (front) with a work crew at Angola prison. Photo by Ron Levine/Prisoners of Age.

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LawSites

JULY 27, 2022

During a question-and-answer session following her speech, I asked her about the stalled efforts to bring about reform in California and what the Supreme Court could do to move the issue forward, particularly in light of the leading roles taken by the supreme courts of Arizona and Utah to bring about reforms in those states.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 7, 2022

Utah has to figure out how they are going to deal with armed protesters. The legal aftermath of the men who lynched Ahmaud Arbery continues — the length of their sentencing and a potential death penalty are still on the table. [ McConnell backing an election law change has a few people confused. [ The Hill ]. * And a 1 and a 2!

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LawSites

AUGUST 7, 2023

Paradigm , home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther , Bill4Time , MerusCase and LollyLaw ; the e-payments platform Headnote ; and the legal accounting software TrustBooks. Nota , the online business banking platform designed specifically for solo and small law firms.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

He will also oversee the company’s alternative business structure initiatives in the UK and as part of the Utah regulatory sandbox, seek ABS designation in Arizona, and play a key role in executing Rocket Lawyer’s plans to use artificial intelligence to accelerate lawyer productivity. We are excited to have him join our team.”

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As states such as Utah and Arizona have approved opening up their legal marketplaces to alternative business structures in recent months, there has…

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LawSites

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This week, my wish came true, in a sense, as I attended what felt like the legal tech world’s answer to Davos or Renaissance. It was the inaugural TLTF Summit , a three-day program convened in Miami by The LegalTech Fund , the first venture capital firm to focus exclusively on legal tech. That description aptly fits the TLTF Summit.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Some of what we talked about is under embargo until Monday, when Clio will be announcing new products and releasing its latest Legal Trends Report. But Newton did share some of his thoughts about the state of the legal industry and the legal tech market. State of the Legal Profession. Legal Trends Report.

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JURIST

MAY 1, 2021

The Ninth Circuit reversed the dismissal, determining that the dispute was not about rights to the river, but rather whether the US was breaching its treaty with the Navajo Nation by failing to adequately supply water for reservations in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

With both Arizona and Utah now allowing nonlawyers to deliver legal services through alternative business structures, the American Bar Association today issued a formal ethics opinion that addresses the question of whether lawyers outside those states may passively invest in an ABS. may the lawyer passively invest in an ABS?

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 22, 2023

September 1, 2023: TILA Disclosures re Index Rates; California Garnishment ; Minnesota Debt Collection December 1, 2023: Bankruptcy December 31, 2023: Utah Data Privacy Musings by Diane Consumer legal protections are rare.

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LawSites

APRIL 6, 2022

LEAP Legal Software , an international provider of cloud-based practice management software for smaller law firms, has acquired WealthCounsel , a leading provider of software, training and support for estate planning lawyers, and its related company ElderCounsel. Going Deep on Content.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Attorneys for the two men sentenced to death have argued in legal filings that the electric chair is “cruel and unusual,” noting that f rom 1890 to 2010, 84 executions in the electric chair were botched. . South Carolina is joined by Utah, Mississippi, and Oklahoma, according to the DPIC. . in 1976, according to DPIC and The State. .

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

On February, 18, 2010, David Oxenford conducted a seminar for the Utah Broadcasters Association on legal issues that affect radio and television broadcasters. First, David summarized the various broadcasting legal and policy issues pending before the FCC and Congress. David's PowerPoint presentation will be available here soon.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Practically all geofence warrants are targeted at Google, given its vast amount of search and location dataGeofence warrants have reportedly been used to investigate relatively minor crimes, such as a wallet stolen from a Utah hospital. Google made the move to explicitly bring an end to such dragnet location searches.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 19, 2021

This involves client representation, offering legal advice (solicited or otherwise), and drafting legal documents. Offering Legal Advice. The definition of legal advice as a concept tends to be vague and ambiguous. The definition of legal advice as a concept tends to be vague and ambiguous. Negotiating Client Fees.

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