Attorney at Work

JUNE 4, 2022

Before we invest in training our attorneys and staff, how do we know what companies are secure and trustworthy? requires attorneys to keep abreast of changes in law and its relation to technology. This means that attorneys need to be aware of the benefits and risks of technological applications and the standards that regulate them.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Several years ago, I published a piece here on Attorney at Work titled “ Solo Lawyers: Where Is Your Office?” A great barometer for that is California’s social media ethics opinion (State Bar of California Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct, Formal Opinion 2012-186), which was trailblazing at the time it was issued.

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Clio

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

So where does this leave the practice ownership prospects of non-attorneys, including other legal professionals such as paralegals ? Whether or not you are an attorney, running a law firm is a huge challenge, but the right software can help. is that only licensed attorneys can own law firms. Trend in U.S. requirements.

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Martindale-Avvo

JUNE 25, 2025

Let’s have a look at how things stand in 2025: how many attorneys identify as LGBTQ+, the barriers they face, and some strategies the profession is using to increase inclusion. Notably, the ABA stats pertain only to attorneys in private practice in a firm environment. figure lags behind 2025 survey data showing that 9.3%

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LawNext podcast

MAY 10, 2021

Justice Timmer discusses why the task force recommended such sweeping changes, why the court adopted them, the status of their implementation, and the implications for access to justice. Justice Timmer was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2012.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Michael Sander , the founder of Docket Alarm , a product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts and case analytics, has left the company, seven months after its acquisition by legal research company vLex in April. legal dockets and documents daily, with analysis tied deeply into attorney workflows.

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 6, 2023

Enforcing court rules that require expedited actions can improve fairness, cost, and efficiency in the civil justice system while also relieving case backlogs exacerbated by the pandemic, according to new findings released by national experts today.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal Resources About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. The post Ethical Considerations for Flat Fee Billing appeared first on Attorney at Work. Table of contents What Are Lawyer Flat Fees?

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 25, 2022

In 2012, South Dakota was one of the first states to tackle the problem of legal deserts. According to a “South Dakota Law Review” 2014 study, 20% of the country’s residents live in rural areas, but only 2% of attorneys practice in rural areas or small towns. Court navigators. appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Michael Sander , the founder of Docket Alarm , a product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts and case analytics, has left the company, seven months after its acquisition by legal research company vLex in April. legal dockets and documents daily, with analysis tied deeply into attorney workflows.

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Discovery Advocate

APRIL 6, 2018

Peck in 2012, an entire legal industry has grown up on the premise of streamlining the document review process in discovery – that is, taking a repetitive task traditionally performed entirely by attorneys and introducing the concept of computer assistance to increase efficiency and improve consistency.

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LawNext podcast

AUGUST 31, 2021

Gavin McGrane was a litigation attorney in San Francisco when he saw an opportunity to improve how legal professionals interface with the federal courts electronic records system, PACER, and to enable them to better tap into the data and knowledge contained within that system.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 9, 2023

In 2012, Washington became the first state to implement an allied legal professional (ALP) program, which allows people other than attorneys—who Washington calls Limited License Legal Technicians (LLLTs)—to provide limited scope legal representation in family law. Unfortunately, this is already the reality.

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Wisblawg

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

turns to developments since Xi Jinping took power in 2012, and Section IV offers concluding observations. Nonmarital Fathers in Family Court: Judges’ and Lawyers’ Perspectives 99 Washington Univ. Section III addresses lawyer regulation during the high tide of Soviet and the Maoist influence (III.A.), Section III.D.

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Colin S. Levy

MARCH 7, 2023

Josh Blandi is the CEO and Co-Founder of UniCourt , a SaaS offering using machine learning to disrupt the way court data is organized, accessed, and used. With no real viable options for bulk access to court data available, we started building extractors to grab it from online public court portals.

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Issues addressed included technology competence, confidentiality, and the requirement of candor, both with legal clients and courts. COPRAC explained that supervisory and managerial attorneys must ensure that clear policies are in place that address permissible uses of AI. Below you’ll find some of the most notable takeaways.

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Joshua Gilliland

MARCH 3, 2016

US District Court Judge Robert Bryan in Washington limited additional searches of email based on proportionality and overbroad search requests. Unfortunately, the Court did not agree. The Defendant further argued that the relevant emails from 2012 were likely deleted. Lowe’s Home Ctrs., LLC (W.D.Wash. 19, 2016, No.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 1, 2024

This guidance was extensive and addressed many different issues including technology competence, confidentiality, and the requirement of candor about AI usage with legal clients and courts. However, as highlighted by the Louisiana Supreme Court’s recent letter (online: [link] while this guidance is helpful, it may be unnecessary.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 1, 2023

Starr of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a standing order in April requiring lawyers to certify that generative AI tools were not used to assist with drafting any papers filed with the court. Similarly, U.S. Funny how that works, isn’t it?

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 5, 2024

This was followed by Florida, which issued Ethics Opinion 24-1 on January 19th, and the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Courts preliminary guidelines handed down on January 24th. The State Bar of California was first when it released guidance in November 2023. Client consent was also addressed.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As I discussed in another article, the guidance provided was extensive and covered many different ethical issues including technology competence, confidentiality, and the requirement of candor, both with legal clients and courts.

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Colin S. Levy

MAY 9, 2023

Jason Smith has over 25 years of experience as a practicing attorney (both firm and in-house) and legal technology consultant. He has also been admitted to practice before the United State Supreme Court. He’s been a finalist for the ILTA Leadership Award four of the past eight years. My position is the exact same as it was in 1998.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 25, 2024

The client, however, may have their assessment of the lawyer’s performance clouded by the number of times they waited several days for the lawyer to return a telephone call or the in-person office appointment that started 15 minutes late and was then cut short because the lawyer had a court appearance. and government 3.6%.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

It was an ex parte case, but it was actually reviewed by an attorney, a 23 year prep long practicing attorney that had somewhere in the area of eight made up citations that you know, and I can tell you, I took that brief and I passed it through Lexuses brief analyzer and it immediately found those eight.

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Colin S. Levy

JANUARY 29, 2024

Anna worked as an attorney-at-law in an international litigation practice for over ten years, amongst others at the top-tier Dutch law firm NautaDutilh. But I hope that legal tech and design will also help the court system, the legislative system and governments work more human-centred.

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Lawmatics

MARCH 15, 2023

The Founder's Journey The Founder’s Journey Matt’s arc from practicing criminal defense attorney to serial legal tech entrepreneur is an unusual one. I mean, you graduated law school and then worked for an attorney's office for a couple years and then started your own firm. But I was in court all day. Matt Spiegel: I guess.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2023

It was an ex parte case, but it was actually reviewed by an attorney, a 23 year prep long practicing attorney that had somewhere in the area of eight made up citations that you know, and I can tell you, I took that brief and I passed it through Lexuses brief analyzer and it immediately found those eight.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

The NCBE conducted a study in 2018 and asked practicing attorneys and non-licensed lawyers about basic technology tasks in their law practice. Attorneys said they expect proficiency in word processing, research platforms, electronic communication, desktop publishing, and document storage, including the cloud. and Comment 8.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 23, 2022

Understandably, few attorneys want to talk about their experience with the disciplinary process, even though it’s not as rare as some might think. My home state, Iowa, has disciplined an average of 68 attorneys (just under 1% of the number of practicing attorneys in the state) each year over the past decade.

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Law Technology Today

APRIL 18, 2023

“Professed technological incompetence is not an excuse for discovery misconduct” is not a court holding you want to see (James v. In 2012, the ABA acknowledged that technology competency is a critical skill in the evolving nature of law practice when it passed Comment 8 of Model Rule of Professional Responsibility 1.1. 5, 2014)).

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 9, 2024

Growth among Asian American, Hispanic, and mixed-race attorneys The percentage of lawyers of color has grown 10% over the past 10 years, according to the ABA Profile of the Legal Profession. Lawyers of color now make up 21% of the legal profession, almost double the number of diverse attorneys in 2013. lawyers in 2023 compared to 2.5%

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 14, 2023

The NCBE conducted a study in 2018 and asked practicing attorneys and non-licensed lawyers about basic technology tasks in their law practice. Attorneys said they expect proficiency in word processing, research platforms, electronic communication, desktop publishing, and document storage, including the cloud. and Comment 8.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 8, 2025

One immediate effect of this deeper-level integration will be that court rules banning AI-generated documents will quickly become outdated and impractical, in part because they could effectively prohibit lawyers from using essential technology altogether.

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Martindale-Avvo

JUNE 23, 2025

The legal evolution of immigration law and why it matters to all attorneys The United States started regulating immigration after winning independence from Great Britain. In 1875, the Supreme Court declared immigration regulation a federal responsibility. But why does this matter to attorneys?

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