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Legal Staffing Lessons for Today’s Marketplace

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Contract attorneys have made it possible for legal organizations to level up their teams’ expertise without increasing headcount. . The PMI reached 69 — its highest mark since 2006 and second-highest mark ever. Some executed successful staffing strategies using contract attorneys in 2020.

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Illinois Supreme Court Increases Compensation for Attorneys Representing Indigent Parties

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The Illinois Supreme Court announced this week amendments to Rule 299 that will double compensation for an attorney appointed by a court in Illinois to represent an indigent party. The amended Rule raises attorney compensation to $150 per hour, up from its previous minimum of $75 per hour. Rule 299 was last updated in 2006.

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You Subpoenaed My Documents, Shouldn’t You Pay for Them?

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If the subpoena issued is in federal litigation, your company is likely responsible for the cost of compliance, especially if it has a connection to the litigation. As a result, the SBA requested documents from attorneys who represented Cardinal in prior business transactions. For instance in, In re Aggrenox Antitrust Litig. ,

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At Long Last, CaseMap Moves to the Cloud

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CaseMap, a product first introduced nearly a quarter century ago for managing litigation matters and evidence, and which has continued to remain locally installed software with no cloud access or collaboration capabilities, is finally moving to the cloud. A dashboard lets users easily navigate these elements.

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Illinois Supreme Court Names Lea Gutierrez as New ARDC Administrator

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Gutierrez as the new Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC), the organization responsible for the registration and discipline of Illinois lawyers. More recently, she led diversity and inclusion efforts at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the American Lung Association.

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At Long Last, CaseMap Moves to the Cloud

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CaseMap, a product first introduced nearly a quarter century ago for managing litigation matters and evidence, and which has continued to remain locally installed software with no cloud access or collaboration capabilities, is finally moving to the cloud. A dashboard lets users easily navigate these elements.

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New Director Named to Lead Illinois Commission on Professionalism, As Jayne Reardon Retires

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A commercial litigation attorney with the firm Meyer Capel P.C. Harold was a 2014 Republican primary candidate for Illinois’ 13th Congressional District and the 2018 Republican nominee for Illinois attorney general. She joined the commission as deputy director in 2006 and was appointed executive director in 2009.

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