MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

A legal assistant is a person who implements clerical and administrative services for lawyers and other legal personnel. A legal assistant supports legal professionals such as lawyers and offers a variety of clerical duties. This can include preparing or handling legal papers and even assisting an attorney in court.

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The Barrister

MARCH 11, 2025

While many law graduates do indeed follow the path of practicing lawyers, the training and knowledge acquired during law school can lead to a wide range of non-traditional career opportunities, such as roles in public policy, legal technology, or social advocacy. 14 Read more about alternative legal career paths with Sol Blatt, Jr.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

” Toyota cited the 2020 Bose decision, which said that online marketplace alleged counterfeiters could be analogized to BitTorrent infringers, where courts have held that joinder against BitTorrent participants can be supported when they are all part of the same swarm. The rule establishes the standard.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 6, 2025

In April, the court ruled on Microsoft and OpenAI’s motions to dismiss. But the court found that while the article may show general awareness of what OpenAI was doing in 2020, it did not show that the plaintiffs should have been aware of the specific issues raised by the complaints when the article was written. The court agreed.

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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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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. The Supreme Court is taking a steady stream of Internet Law cases, a trend that will continue for some time. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear the TikTok ban, and Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear Free Speech Coalition v.

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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

But a close look at the numbers shows the perception is indeed reality: at least when it comes to LGBTQ+ lawyers, the industry lags in terms of representation and elimination of bias. The data: How many lawyers are LGBTQ+? of lawyers at 785 firms surveyed were LGBTQ+. Let’s start with those numbers. That’s up from 2.2%

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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. Below is the complete catalog of our 12 episode podcast coverage from ABA TECHSHOW 2020 including a list of its 35 participants: Judy Perry Martinez. Stay tuned to hear about Proposition 115 and the 19th Amendment.

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LawSites

MAY 10, 2021

Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In its statement announcing the order , the court described its move as making “far-reaching changes that could transform the public’s access to legal services.”. 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. Subsequently, I received an email from Stefanie Shah , an Austin lawyer with the firm Vela Wood, who represents the defendants. “It is my understanding Ms.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

Just 28 years old, he had won accolades as an entrepreneur, first starting California Legal Pros, a company that marketed various legal services to both consumers and lawyers, then QuickLegal, a service that provided on-demand legal advice to consumers, and then QuickLegal Practice Management, a cloud practice management platform for lawyers.

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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. ClearBrief integrates into Microsoft Word to align with lawyers’ existing workflows. As the lawyer you’re just like, oh, no, we’re gonna Lose, he hates us kind of thing.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Reynen Court , the so-called app store for legal technology, has promoted two of its key executives to new roles. The news comes a week after Reynen Court launched a general solicitation stock offering in order to bring on individual lawyers and “legal technology enthusiasts” as investors in the company. .

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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. That is the power and beauty of the Supreme Court’s rule changes and the legal regulatory sandbox.”.

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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 lawyers return to the office or not?

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Clio

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

If there has been one constant about the qualifications to own an American law firm, it has been this–you must be a lawyer. jurisdictions for decades has been that non-lawyers cannot own law firms. where non-lawyers can hold minority stakes, with more states slowly considering or adopting similar reforms. Once Rule 5.4

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 27, 2020

I recently spoke to two lawyers turned legal tech entrepreneurs about their early stage software companies. Solving a Broad Problem: Allocating Lawyers to Matters and Managing Capacity At most large law firms, partners can choose associates to staff their matters. Some lawyers get good work and others do not.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But danger lurks behind certain technology, or the way lawyers and staff might use it. What are some scary things WFH has revealed about lawyers’ tech habits? He is the author of several books including “Microsoft Office 365 for Lawyers,” “The Lawyer’s Guide to Microsoft Outlook” and “OneNote in One Hour.”

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 30, 2023

In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. Its lawyers will not appear in court. ” Leading the firm as managing partner is Andrew R.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The pandemic has raised a number of ethical issues for lawyers and resulted in the issuance of several ethics opinions addressing those issues. 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).

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LawSites

JUNE 11, 2021

I reported here last week on a statement issued by a committee of Massachusetts’ highest court recommending that law firms and other legal employers permanently adopt flexible working options as their standard, rather than as the exception.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. It also improves access to justice for society as lawyers can handle more cases, as well as remove some bias from the legal system through fact-first drafting. What problem do you solve? It also allows us to work internationally. We cover all the tech.

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LawSites

APRIL 28, 2025

In federal court in Colorado, Eric Coomer, a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems, is suing Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, for defamation, over Lindell’s claims that Coomer somehow rigged the 2020 presidential election. This story has all the ingredients of a parody on The Onion. Regrettably, however, it is all true.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Reynen Court , the so-called app store of law, is reducing its headcount, cutting expenses, and telling vendors on its platform they might experience service delays. Reynen Court has now discontinued the online stock offering. But Andrew D. million round earlier this year. Klein did not say how many people have been laid off.

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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?” Back then, lawyers working anywhere but a traditional bricks-and-mortar office with their firm name on the door typically glossed over their nontraditional working environment.

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Clio

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Being a lawyer isn’t easy. From intaking new clients to juggling open legal cases and keeping up with administrative work, being a great lawyer requires careful management, patience, and dedication. The great news is: Chatbots for lawyers can help with all aspects of a lawyer’s day-to-day.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 4, 2023

of more than 1 million lawyers, or more than three-quarters of all lawyers in the United States. vLex developed one of the first AI assistants for legal research, called Vincent, and it has long used an internal AI tool, Iceberg, to structure the data it collects from courts and other sources.

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LawSites

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Arizona Supreme Court has granted an alternative business structure license to law company Elevate , enabling Elevate and its affiliated law firm, ElevateNext, to operate as a single entity in that state, the company says. ” In August 2020, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms.

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LawSites

MARCH 7, 2022

A future release will expand these analytics to state courts, Fastcase says. “These analytics, across every case type in federal courts, for the first time allow lawyers to understand the likelihood of success across broad ranges of pleadings and motions before different judges,” Fastcase says.

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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. How might we prepare young lawyers to succeed as the practice fundamentally changes?

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LawSites

MARCH 19, 2024

You may know it more through its brands, including ServeNow for finding process servers, One Legal for California court filing, LawToolBox for court calendaring, and the Legal Talk Network group of legal podcasts. InfoTrack may be one of the fastest growing yet least known legal technology companies in the United States.

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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. The court reporter can mark and manage the exhibit. People and Process Meet Technology.

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For lawyers, it’s an opportunity to gain new insight into new legal trends, network with other attorneys, and connect with artists, musicians, and filmmakers who want support with their creative endeavors. It’s a place for the convergence of ideas, from some of the top names in industry and many up-and-comers in cultural spaces.

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