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Eliminating Bias in Work Allocation Is a Growing Focus for Law Firms

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When the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School explored law firm work allocation in 2017 , longtime partners confirmed that traditional work allocation has an implicit bias toward associates who can easily develop relationships with partners. “An Hybrid Work Realities and Work Allocation.

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Predicting and Protecting Yourself Against Violence: Interview With Craig Gundry

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The 2017 shooting at Perona, Langer, Beck, Serbin, Mendoza and Harrison in Long Beach is one example. What characteristics would a lawyer or law firm have that would indicate to you that they need a security assessment from a firm like yours?

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Get Inside the Heads of Experts and Judges Using Their Own Historical Data

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The Killer Feature Context grew out of Ravel Law , which LexisNexis acquired in 2017. Ravel Law garnered attention for its judge analytics offering, enabling lawyers to get inside the head of a judge before starting a legal research project. Explore Context on Lexis Advance and bookmark the website.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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In 2017, I bypassed the list to focus on a single overarching development, The Year of Women in Legal Tech.). But it is, at this point, beyond doubt that the law office of tomorrow will not be the same as the law office of 2019. For 2019, I replaced the year-end list with a decade-end list.

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Marking the Retirement of Jerry Larkin, Who Led the ARDC With Exceptional Foresight, Integrity, and ‘Irish Wit’

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Welsh continued that the “first-in-the-nation proactive law-office management self-assessment program for practicing attorneys, known as PMBR (‘Proactive Management-Based Regulation’ ),” that Larkin implemented is of particular note.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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In 2017, I bypassed the list to focus on a single overarching development, The Year of Women in Legal Tech.). But it is, at this point, beyond doubt that the law office of tomorrow will not be the same as the law office of 2019. For 2019, I replaced the year-end list with a decade-end list.

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Next-Gen Bar Exam Must Tackle Google Schools and the Digital Native Myth by Testing Basic Tech Skills for Practice

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Now, 670 courses may sound like a large number, but this number includes every e-discovery, cybersecurity, law office management, and law practice and technology course in the country. technology courses at each of the ABA-accredited law schools. This results in an average of 3.38 candidates.