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What If I Don’t Want to Litigate? Law Degree Alternatives: Exploring Unconventional Career Paths

The Barrister

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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What is a Legal Assistant? How to Become One?

MatterSuite

The terms legal assistant and paralegal may be used interchangeably, but the jobs of the contemporary legal assistant and paralegal differ. 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.

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Ep 293: Litera’s Avaneesh Marwaha: The CEO Who Left Before AI and Returned to Lead Through It

LawNext podcast

Marwaha stepped down as CEO in 2022 to become Literas chairman, just before the tidal wave of gen AI swept over legal technology, and then, in a surprising move last October, he returned to the CEO role. Marwaha was formerly on this podcast in 2020: LawNext Episode 68: Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha on Growth During A Crisis.

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It’s the Oscars of Legal Innovation: 5 Reasons You Gotta Go to the American Legal Technology Awards Gala

Above the Law - Technology

The American Legal Technology Awards launched in 2020 with a mission to honor those innovating in the legal space. It was founded by three friends (a lawyer, a law professor, and a legal tech entrepreneur) and is truly a grassroots effort with a big heart. Don’t miss out! This event will not be televised.

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Top 5 legal technology stories of 2020

LLRX

Black discusses the wide ranging effects on the legal technology space from the pandemic across all corners of the legal technology world. In some cases, the transition was a smooth one, and in others, it was a spectacular disaster.

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ABA TECHSHOW 2020

Legal Talk Network

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. Apps Apps Everywhere–Tablet and Mobile Legal Practice.

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Legal Tech Look-Back: A New Series Highlighting Moments from the Annals of Legal Technology

LawSites

.” Fast forward to 2020, and LexisNexis was once again rolling out the next generation of its legal research platform , this time with the launch in July 2020 of Lexis+, which the company positioned as a premium research service. And with that launch came an end to Lexis Advance — not to the product, but to the name.