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Top Attorney Pain Points of 2024

Martindale-Avvo

Long hours and extensive client demands can quickly place a burden on hard-working lawyers, who, although driven by passion, may struggle to find the work-life balance they crave. McBride reminds us that, prior to 2020, “it was uncommon to appear remotely for a hearing within the same state the hearing was to take place.”

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How to Solve Unmet Legal Needs and Restore Public Trust – A Justice Blueprint

Colin S. Levy

Frequently individuals do not even recognize when a lawyer or legal services provider might be able to help them, and those who do try to navigate the civil justice system on their own encounter insurmountable complexities. Arizona became the first state to allow nonlawyer ownership of law firms in 2020.

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What is a Legal Assistant? How to Become One?

MatterSuite

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. What is a legal assistant? What does a legal assistant do? What is a legal assistant vs. paralegal?

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Weathering Economic Uncertainty: How the Legal Industry Adapted—And What Comes Next

Clio

During this time, many lawyers did more than survive the pandemicthey actually adapted and thrived, laying the foundation for a more resilient and tech-enabled way of practicing law. Lawyers also reported that they werent panicking, but rather preparing for the worst-case scenario. The uncertainty was palpable. Youre not alone.

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AI and Beyond: Key Trends at ABA TECHSHOW 2025

Lawyerist

For 2025, attendees get to experience a new venue, dig deeper into AI tools, and hear from keynote speaker Cory Doctorow. AI for Lawyers? AffiniPay, LawPay s parent, is building out an AffiniPay IQ initiative to integrate generative AI into tools that lawyers already use. For 2025, the show moves south, literally.

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Judge Rejects SAD Scheme Joinder–Toyota v. Schedule A Defendants

Eric Goldman

” 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.

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2024 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear the TikTok ban, and Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear Free Speech Coalition v. In May 2020, Trump issued an anti-230 executive order , but that was pointless because the executive branch can’t unilaterally amend legislation passed by Congress. If you recall, Trump 1.0 in press).

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