LLRX

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The shift to remote work had a dramatic impact on both the practice of law and the business of law, resulting in the rapid—and singularly remarkable—adoption of technology at rates never before seen. In some cases, the transition was a smooth one, and in others, it was a spectacular disaster.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

MAY 23, 2025

For one, the law aimed to shield online platforms services from liability for unlawful third-party content, avoiding overburdening online platforms in monitoring user-generated content. On the other hand, the law was supposed to encourage self-policing of offensive material. Likewise, in Prager University v. Google (9th Cir.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

It launched in 2017 to great fanfare, promising to “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of both a law firm and a technology company. In 2020, Bluford published a book in which he claimed to have become an FBI informant assisting in a political corruption investigation into the former mayor of Sacramento, Calif.,

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Candidate, 2027 In 2026, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which succeeded the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 2020, will undergo a joint review to assess its effectiveness, consider a 16-year extension, and evaluate potential adjustments to better align with current economic and technological trends.

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Legal IT Professionals

JUNE 20, 2024

Shieldpay, the payments partner for the legal sector, is working with KPMG Law UK (part of KPMG LLP) to provide payments services for its high value, complex client transactions. Shieldpay has been supporting KPMG Law’s corporate clients as an escrow and paying agent provider for corporate and M&A deals since 2020.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

APRIL 8, 2025

The FTCs Complaint Against Blackbaud The FTCs complaint against Blackbaud stemmed from a 2020 data breach in which an attacker allegedly exploited an end users login credentials to infiltrate the companys databases.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JANUARY 24, 2025

As regulatory focus on cybersecurity grows, CISOs may continue to face increasing scrutiny under both securities law and potential new regulatory frameworks. When Liability Comes Knocking, CISOs Answer the Call appeared first on Berkeley Technology Law Journal. The post The Security Scapegoat?:

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Kevin O'Keefe

OCTOBER 20, 2023

in September 2020 to just 6.5% Law firms have published close to one million open digital legal articles or blog posts. Data from Similarweb reveals that top news sites saw web traffic from social networks drop from 11.5% by September this year. Why the possible impact to lawyers?

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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. ” Leading the firm as managing partner is Andrew R. The firm will officially open its doors on June 1.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

As I reported yesterday, the plaintiff in the New York case, Silvia Diaz-Roa , filed the lawsuit against Hermes Law , a Texas law firm, and ClaimDeck , a litigation management system for insurers and insurance-defense firms that spun out of Hermes Law.

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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. On Wednesday, for my Litera TV show, Law Insights , I discussed the statement with Heidi S.

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Do Law Firms Offer Maternity and Paternity Leave? Traditionally law firms have not been generous with leave for lawyers who have just given birth, or their partners. One journalist wrote in 2024 that law firms are notorious for pretending that attorneys just dont have a life outside of the office.

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LawSites

MAY 27, 2021

COVID was not kind to law firm marketing and business development, with two-thirds of firms reporting that business development was more difficult in 2020, and the overwhelming majority of firms pivoting their marketing strategies, turning from live conferences and face-to-face meetings to social media, email alerts and Zoom.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

A first-of-its-kind tool introduced last year to automate the drafting of litigation briefs has been named new product of the year for 2021 by the American Association of Law Libraries. It later expanded to add employment law briefs and product liability briefs. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%. Second Product Award.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 10, 2024

Friedrichsen, who will start as CEO on April 29, comes to DISCO after having been CEO of Emburse, LLC, a provider of expense management products, from January 2020 to January 2024. I’m inspired by DISCO’s mission to make the law work better for everyone. a provider of marketing automation technology and a subsidiary of Adobe Inc. .

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

Founded in 1995, its collaborative approach to content management made it popular among among law firms virtually out of the gate, and it was acquired eight years later for $171 million by Interwoven. Among the most enduring yet dramatic success stories in legal tech is that of iManage , the document and email management company.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Depending on your point of view, there’s either lots new or “not so much” new with law firm ownership. In a nutshell, it says that lawyers must own law firms. New Developments in Law Firm Ownership. Australia and the United Kingdom already permit outside ownership of law firms. The post What’s New in Law Firm Ownership?

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As we mentioned in a previous blog post , Google introduced Core Web Vitals in 2020, three specific metrics Google deems crucial for a web page’s user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): This measures loading performance. Looking for a new law firm website provider? Looking for a new law firm website provider?

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Using legal data for strategic law firm planning is no longer reserved for BigLaw. For law firms, it’s critical to gather intelligence about real-time trends that are creating sharp and sudden changes as well as longer-term trends affecting the overall health of your markets. Long-Term Trends.

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Legal Talk Network

JANUARY 14, 2021

One more for my Goodreads wish list comes from The Modern Law Library. Before you leave 2020 in the dust, the hosts of Lunch Hour Legal Marketing are asking for nominations for the good, the bad and the ugly of legal marketing. To keep up with timely insights on the law, legal innovation, and law practice, visit Legal Talk Network.

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LawSites

AUGUST 17, 2021

law firms have made little progress towards achieving greater diversity, with only minimal gains over the last seven years, according to a new analysis by Law360 Pulse. More strikingly, in the seven years since 2014, the percentage of minority attorneys in law firms rose just four points, from 14.1% of law firm associates and 10.8%

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Legal Talk Network

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Lee Rawles, host of The Modern Law Library , has a fitness tale to share. Albert Perez Oyola about paralegal training paths in the military and specializations in military law. Business of Law: Bonus season in full swing, plus pandemic-related workplace and hiring trends. Not quite ready to do the exercise? No worries.

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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. Central to purpose was the lineup of attendees. That’s where the magic happened.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 13, 2022

That doesn’t mean, however, that law firms and litigation support teams have been quick to embrace them. In the ABA 2020 Legal Tech Survey , 23% of law firms reported not being interested in AI, while 34% said they didn’t know enough about AI to speak to their firms’ interest. The law isn’t unique in its resistance to AI.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 4, 2023

It provides access to comprehensive primary and secondary law collections from more than 100 countries. The company told me last year that its collection of case law, legislation, journals and dockets serves over 2 million users across Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean, and the Americas. case law and other materials.

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Clio

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When it comes to law firm billing, hourly billing is still a mainstay of the legal industry. But the billable hour is no longer the only option for law firms. Law firms can reach more clients by offering hourly billing and setting prices for other services. Why should your law firm consider alternative fee arrangements?

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 28, 2022

Jared Correia, host of Legal Toolkit , acknowledged in the December 22, 2020 episode. You can look at] small data, I mean think about it, you’ve got a corpus of information in your law firm through which you can measure your clients and your staff and the activity of those two groups. Give Yourself Permission to Be Geeky.

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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. Whether or not you are an attorney, running a law firm is a huge challenge, but the right software can help. Once Rule 5.4

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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). Synopsis: Working from home has become the new normal, forcing law offices to transform themselves into a remote workforce overnight.

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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.”. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Every week, I get to sit down at the mic for my LawNext podcast and have a conversation with the leading “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” You can also check out the most popular LawNext episodes of 2022 , of 2021 , of 2020 and of 2019. Call me lucky. Top 15 of 2023 1. Top 15 of All Time 1.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

ROSS’s prototype won the competition, earning them a write-up on the front page of The Globe and Mail – which touted ROSS as the future junior associate at Bay Street law firms – and serving as a springboard for the company’s rapid acceleration. The Toronto-based company recently closed a $2.1

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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. She is chair of the Supreme Court’s Attorney Regulation Advisory Committee, a member of the National Conference of Bar Examiners board of trustees and has been elected as a member of The American Law Institute.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Small law firms are not immune to this trend. How many law firm services are in the cloud, especially today? Often, they think the evasion of the policy is good for the law firm, that it allows for better solutions. The larger the law firm, the more prevalent shadow policies are. The likely answer is no.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

In fact, as I described in my very first post about Casetext , its original vision was a crowdsourced case law library that its users would edit and annotate and then have other users upvote or downvote the annotations. Think a marriage of Wikipedia and Digg, but for law. The Failure of Crowdsourcing in Law (So Far, At Least).

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 22, 2025

Mark Bartholomew (Buffalo Law) Sam Bayard Prof. Law) Nyssa Chopra Prof. Stephen Diamond (Santa Clara Law) Prof. Elizabeth Townsend Gard (Tulane Law) Cary Glynn Prof. Deborah Gerhardt (North Carolina Law) Kyle Graham Franklin Graves Prof. Leah Chan Grinvald (now at UNLV Law) Prof. Lisa Ramsey (USD Law) Prof.

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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. Rigorous security and confidentiality controls provide the trust needed to gain adoption at top law firms. ClearBrief integrates into Microsoft Word to align with lawyers’ existing workflows.

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