Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MAY 30, 2025

When someone searches for a criminal defense attorney, Google assumes they mean near them and shows localized results. Instead of just family law attorney, use family law attorney in San Jose or Los Angeles child custody lawyer. Include court admissions, awards, media features, and speaking engagements.

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MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

This can include preparing or handling legal papers and even assisting an attorney in court. Moreover, the American Bar Association (ABA) still only changed the definition of paralegal, which specifies that one cannot use the term legal assistant in 2020. Clients’ communication and handling of the clients and their needs.

Paralegal

The Barrister

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Third, the court must determine that the individual’s symptoms can be treated effectively with the proposed plan. She was accepted into the diversion program after her attorneys successful argued that her mental illness played a significant role in her actions. However, the programs differ significantly in scope and application.

Dispute resolution

Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The state sued Facebook again in 2020. The superior court found that Facebook violated this law and awarded $35M in penalties and attorneys’ fees as well as an injunction. In December 2024, the appeals court affirmed everything. ” To me, this framing of the state’s interest boxes the state in. .”

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Legal Talk Network

JANUARY 9, 2025

Weve gathered the best highlights with those whove walked the halls of Congress and presided over our nations highest courts because their insights dont just shape policies and decisions; they offer valuable lessons for anyone navigating the complexities of law, leadership, and life itself. North Dakota Senator Byron L. Dorgan Former U.S.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 7, 2025

2] The failure to preserve and produce off-channel communications has also resulted in significant adverse consequences in civil litigation, where courts have imposed sanctions for improperly preserved or produced communications. [3] 2020-1061-JTL, 2024 WL 303638 (Del. City of Atlanta , No. 1:21-cv-02172-SDG (N.D. Denner, C.A.

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lennyesq

MARCH 24, 2025

By David Rohde Critics called the move “autocratic,” “authoritarian” and “hypocritical,” noting that Trump’s lawyers have made myriad false legal claims, including that he won the 2020 election. ” Read more…

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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. Therefore, comparing the general U.S.

Attorney

Eric Goldman

AUGUST 4, 2025

” The district court dismissed the victims’ case against Twitter. The court explains: Plaintiffs’ thinking is there can be no monitoring duty if the posts are already on Twitter’s radar. ” The court says this claim isn’t preempted by Section 230 due to Lemmon v. .” My prior blog post.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

APRIL 12, 2025

4] One particular lawsuit, filed in October 2024 by a Norfolk resident claiming the cameras violate their privacy, will proceed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia after Chief Judge Mark Davis denied the city’s motion to dismiss. [5] 7] What exactly are ALPRs? 10, 2025), [link] [2] Colin L.

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Legal Talk Network

MARCH 4, 2020

ABA TECHSHOW 2020 kicked off with its 4th annual Start-Up Pitch Competition on February 26th. In so doing, the attorney activates an application that helps gather client information with ease while also integrating with existing practice management platforms. The idea is to better track for time while entering and maintaining data.

Dispute resolution

LawSites

MAY 10, 2021

In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court acted on the recommendations of a task force that had called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, all with the goal of enhancing access to justice. Justice Timmer was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2012.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The pandemic caused civil courts in the United States to adopt technology at an unprecedented pace and scale, improving participation in court proceedings and helping users resolve disputes more efficiently. Pew researchers examined pandemic-related emergency orders issued by the supreme courts of all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

District Court in Manhattan by a legal tech executive who alleges her former company owes her over $1 million in stock and that her former boss sexually harassed her. “We expect that the New York and Texas courts will rule in favor of our clients,” attorney Shah said in her email.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In “ How Attorneys Can Use Legal Data for Business Development and Intelligence ,” we looked at how attorneys interested in incorporating legal data into their marketing toolkit can begin by using a series of simple reports to view their clients’ and competitors’ litigation data. Subscribe to Attorney at Work.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Traction: We are adding about 25 people a day as registrants, having fully launched in late October 2023, and have begun demos with attorneys. Demo video: [link] Founded: 10/28/2020, Vancouver, BC, Canada Target customer: Solos, small and medium size firms. In this way attorneys can always be confident in the results of their work.”

Mediator

Eric Goldman

MAY 31, 2024

Microsoft’s filings made some unredacted disclosures about Medina that were repeated in an unredacted court opinion, and those documents appeared on several websites that publish court documents. In 2020, Medina got the disclosures from the 2014 case sealed. The trial court anti-SLAPPED that lawsuit. He didn’t win.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”. Do courts fully reopen or not?

Legal tech

LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law, Opinion 24-20 (March 23, 2020). Pennsylvania Bar Association Formal Opinion 2020-300 (April 10, 2020). New York County Lawyers Association Formal Opinion 754-2020 (Aug. Issues addressed: Health concerns over appearing in court.

Intellectual Property

Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“So often when attorneys are writing court documents or preparing for oral arguments and they want to know what their judge thinks about different issues in their case, they have very little information to go off of. . federal courts. The company’s roadmap calls for it to eventually expand into state courts as well.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

She founded ClearBrief in 2020 to leverage AI to analyze documents and suggest relevant evidence and citations to streamline drafting. According to Schafer, attorneys now exhibit much greater openness to tailored AI tools that enhance productivity versus disrupting their workflows entirely. Excuse was Sorry, didn’t check it.

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LawSites

MAY 25, 2021

Not according to a recent survey by the court reporting company Esquire Deposition Solutions , which found that 78% of attorneys plan to continue conducting up to half their depositions virtually in a post-pandemic world. Attorneys can lock these rooms to ensure they are secure from other participants in the deposition.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 30, 2023

Its lawyers will not appear in court. The Arizona Supreme Court — which in 2020 eliminated the longstanding ban on nonlawyer ownership of law firms — approved Nextpoint’s application to be licensed as an alternative business structure on April 18, 2023. They were hired to appear in court, take the depositions, and so on.

e-discovery

Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

the percentage of in-house legal budgets spent on technology is expected to increase threefold by 2025 from 2020 levels as legal departments “increase spending on technology to reduce the dependency on outside counsel, address COVID-19, and satisfy a long-overdue need to modernize, digitize and automate legal work.”.

Legal tech

LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

The product, Compose , introduced in February 2020 by legal research company Casetext , helps attorneys automate the creation of the first draft of a litigation brief. Compose launched with the ability to create core federal court procedural and discovery motions. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%.

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Legal Talk Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

An extension to the New York Legal Tech Community and also held on the backside of Legalweek 2020, the Inspire.Legal un-conference made it through its second year. pic.twitter.com/NcxxqBPnWq — Laurence Colletti (@LaurenceEsq) February 7, 2020. pic.twitter.com/UppqJJTl50 — Laurence Colletti (@LaurenceEsq) February 7, 2020.

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Legal Talk Network

JULY 3, 2019

All in all our convention coverage spanned 15 episode with 26 participants including Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles T Canady, Florida Bar President-Elect Dori Foster-Morales, and return guests like Denis deVlaming and Kevin Johnson. The Florida Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Charles T.

Estate planning

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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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice (ATJ Commission) recently issued a report documenting the cost and time savings of remote court appearances in southern Illinois’ First Judicial Circuit. Both agreed to provide the ATJ Commission with data on the impact of remote court appearances during the pilot program.

Court

Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The plaintiff doesn’t indicate whether or not WGNAFM’s photo usage was licensed, but the court seemingly wouldn’t care if it was. Breitbart , the court says that “reposting” on “social media” is enough to find copyright infringement in a default judgment. It no-showed.

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LawSites

JUNE 4, 2021

As law firms begin to reopen offices, a committee of Massachusetts’ highest court today issued a statement recommending that they permanently adopt flexible working options as their standard, rather than as the exception. Executive director of the committee is Heidi S.

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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?” Over time, the taboo surrounding less traditional work setups began to ease, and early in 2020, when COVID-19 hit the world, the stigma had all but disappeared. Working Remotely: Ethics Regulators to the Rescue.

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LawSites

MAY 3, 2022

From putting the SEC’s EDGAR database online in 1993 – effectively shaming the SEC into putting it online itself two years later – to his 2020 U.S.

e-filing

Colin S. Levy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term. Aliza now writes and speaks regularly about judicial accountability, clerkships, and diversity in the courts. Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term because I aspired to be a homicide prosecutor in the D.C. Attorney’s Office (USAO), and I knew that D.C.

Judge

LawSites

AUGUST 4, 2022

state to mandate that attorneys take continuing legal education courses in cybersecurity, privacy and data protection. Under the order, the one-credit cybersecurity requirement does not increase the overall numbers of CLE hours required for New York attorneys, which is 32 hours for new attorneys and 24 for all other attorneys.

Data protection

Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In early 2020, it passed what is known as Resolution 115 , encouraging states to consider regulatory reforms to increase access to justice. Supreme Court. appeared first on Attorney at Work. Where does the American Bar Association stand? More in the “not so much” camp. as they relate to nonlawyer ownership of firms.”.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The pandemic caused civil courts in the United States to adopt technology at an unprecedented pace and scale, improving participation in court proceedings and helping users resolve disputes more efficiently. Pew researchers examined pandemic-related emergency orders issued by the supreme courts of all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

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