Clio

JANUARY 17, 2024

Below, you’ll find the best legal blogs to read in 2021, covering multiple practice areas and topics of interest. Legaltech solutions help law firms and solo attorneys optimize everything from case updates and client management to legal billing and payments. We’re here to help. What is a legal blog?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Since the formal launch of the product in 2021, is now being used in more than 50 public defender agencies, the company says. “Hearing stories of how attorneys have used JusticeText to save hours reviewing discovery and secure dismissals for their clients has reaffirmed all the reasons we started this company to begin with.”

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 10, 2023

Since launching to the legal market in 2021, the matter management platform Dashboard Legal has built a loyal following among law firm associates, who find it a superior alternative to updating and circulating checklists in Microsoft Word or Excel, says founder and CEO Mat Rotenberg. The user can see all tasks across all matters.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JULY 3, 2023

This is particularly useful given that my initial training only encompasses knowledge until September 2021. Over at Holland and Hart Ada Scott found success in sparking interest by letting attorneys experiment with generative AI tools, flipping skeptics into believers. We’d love to hear from you so reach out to us on social media.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Let attorneys be attorneys and leave the admin work to those who get paid to get it done. According to the “ 2021 State of U.S. This is why, when I hear that a tech “replaces” the need for a human in the process of law firm operations, I call it what it is: BS sales tactics. Imagine all the cost savings … right?

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2020 and 2021, your firm may have had to make quite a lot of changes quickly to meet the new remote normal. For 2022, attorneys and law firms should take a careful look at where they are at on their tech journey, and set a reasonable budget to get to their next level. For 2022, it is time to review: What works, and what doesn’t?

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A 2021 survey by Businessolver found that only 1 in 4 employees think empathy in their organizations is sufficient. I hear horror stories from paralegals of getting text messages from their supervising attorneys at all hours of the day and night. Your employees need to know that you understand what they are going through.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Whereas 2020 ended with a newfound sense of the possible, 2021 ends with us still not knowing what is ahead, and therefore which way to turn. Whereas 2020 ended with great promise for regulatory reform, 2021 ends with little further progress on that front – and even retreats to some extent. I should be more optimistic.

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MatterSuite

MARCH 30, 2023

in comparison to Q2 2021. This leaves litigation attorneys to fight a case without adequate data. Most clients lack the patience to withstand the attorney until the case ends. A hearing is a critical ground where making a slight mistake could offer an advantage to your opposing counsel to crack you down.

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ABA TECHSHOW

JANUARY 29, 2021

Jim and Sharon welcome this year’s co-chairs, Allan Mackenzie and Roberta Tepper, to hear all about the reinvention of TECHSHOW 2021 in the virtual realm. Tepper’s career has included service as an assistant district attorney in North Carolina and in court administration at the Superior Court of Delaware.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Like a recent meme I shared, maybe a million times too many, they think of attorneys as “attack librarians.” Attorneys are fierce factotum warriors armed with quivers of precedents and the ruthless blades of facts. People outside of law don’t think of it as a creative field. ” That is not too far off the mark.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Determine if there’s a possibility of confusion, such as mistaking you for another attorney with a similar name. If the review appears to be a mistake, possibly intended for another attorney, explore the option of identifying and contacting the reviewer to remove it themselves. See NC State Bar Formal Ethics Opinion 1 (2021).

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

If you or members of your team have IoT-connected devices at home like Amazon’s Alexa or a Nest security camera, you need to be wary of what work-related information those devices might see or hear during the day. We tried to participate in virtual court hearings and prayed our video didn’t freeze or our audio wouldn’t get choppy.

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LawSites

AUGUST 23, 2021

AMBROGI: I would love to hear, to begin with, what it was that attracted you to this position — why you wanted to join the company. So I had grown up in the household of an attorney and I had gone off to undergrad pretty certain I was going to follow in his footsteps to be a federal prosecutor. million in revenue on pace.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 2, 2022

That’s how many pieces of mail were sent in 2021. I can hear Ice Cube now, “Looks like this stamp thief’s been … licked.”. But look at these postcards: The post How to Fall in Love With the USPS appeared first on Attorney at Work. Snail mail is ancient history. It’s second-generation old school. Who even does that anymore?

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Clio

AUGUST 28, 2024

Unions usually hire labor attorneys themselves, or through corporations that hire unionized employees. They also often help with litigation and formal hearings if compliance issues arise with agreements relating to energy harvesting, production, and use. The Department of Energy regulates federal energy laws, which can change quickly.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 29, 2023

This is done by a staff attorney. Step Six: 14 days after the Initial Order and payment of the second fee, the CCB issues a Scheduling Order , which includes a timeline for the respondent’s response, pre-discovery conference, discovery, post-discovery conference, written position statements, a hearing, and determination.

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Clio

MAY 2, 2024

Corporate lawyers working in biglaw will likely be more stressed than estate planning attorneys in a small firm. Attorneys might feel stressed or anxious in the workplace for various reasons. It’s also worth mentioning that attorneys might feel stressed due to a lack of work-life balance or troubles outside their office’s four walls.

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Martindale-Avvo

MARCH 4, 2025

In 2021, 83% of law school grads found employment where passing the bar was a requirement or advantage. What Type of Work You Perform Its common to hear the term grunt work to describe first-year associate duties. This is largely a research position, where you have to look into complex issues and write briefs for senior attorneys.

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Colin S. Levy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

in the summer of 2021, intending to put my negative clerkship experience behind me and launch my career as a prosecutor. I filed a formal judicial complaint; hired attorneys; and participated in the investigation into the now-former judge. To take the enormous judicial accountability steps I took, law clerks need to hire attorneys.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 31, 2023

Last month, the Colorado Supreme Court issued official guidelines for virtual participation in trial court proceedings , allowing litigants, victims, witnesses, and attorneys to attend virtually. Key to this access was a call to judges to “promote the use of remote audio and video services for case hearings and case management meetings.”

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The Barrister

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

5] Days before the 2023 World Series, a bipartisan state coalition of 18 attorneys general went up to bat for the two teams by filing a brief with the Court. [6] Alston decision in 2021 which held the NCAA in violation of antitrust law, there is hope that the Court will rule against the MLB and in favor of antitrust enforcement. [8]

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Marlene Gebauer 1:08 So this, this is very exciting, because our our listeners may or may turn into viewers and so they’ll get to see and hear all of the great content that our guests provide. Since, you know, the the GPT-4 cutoff date of September 2021. Greg Lambert 1:23 Yeah. Marlene Gebauer 1:29 I just open that up right for you.

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LawSites

JANUARY 4, 2023

The inventor, Xcential CEO/CTO and co-founder Grant Vergottini , has been working with legislative attorneys – the professional bill drafters inside government – since the early 2000s, watching and absorbing every detail of their highly specialized and critically important work. The Holy Grail? Instead, we heard from Akin’s lawyers.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

I think we’ve all heard about hallucinations, and that it can be very confident in the way it gives answers even when the raw that the currency of some of these base models, for example, even GPT four, which was announced just a couple of weeks ago, the data that was used for training, that model cuts off at September of 2021.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We apply Natural Language Processing and a semantic knowledge graph to the process that attorneys use to research, analyze and write complex legal documents. Target customer: In-house legal departments and law firm attorneys who serve as outside general counsel. Attorney users $199/mo. Founded: 7/6/2021.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 12, 2023

During the annual Clio Cloud Conference , a legal education and innovation event that was recently held in Nashville, Brian Banks , an NFL player who was wrongfully accused of a crime as a teenager, urged attorneys to think of themselves as agents of justice and creators of fairness. Illinois attorneys are answering the call.

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Clio

JANUARY 15, 2024

Network more The 2021 Legal Trends Report found that when looking for a lawyer, 81% of legal consumers seek positive referrals from friends and family. Get more top attorney networking tips. No matter how your clients hear about you, they’ll likely look you up before they sign on the dotted line. Start Now 4.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 27, 2021

After hearing about Monday.com from an ABA TECHSHOW 2021 speaker, attorney Regina Edwards, and how she used it in her practice to organize cases and collaborate with her staff, I had to test this out. Are you generating a motion that will require a supervising attorney to comment, review and approve?

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LawSites

MAY 31, 2022

Our basic jobs started in England as an assistant to an attorney. That’s how Abraham Lincoln became an attorney. I tell them, We tell the attorneys what to do and when to do it, we just don’t tell them how to do it. SCREECHFIELD: Right, 2018 through 2021. I’ve hired people from attorney services.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2024

The women “are the movers and shakers within the legal community, and we have all benefited from hearing them speak at conferences, publications they’ve written, and programs they’ve developed,” Martinez said. ” Alma began her career as a successful attorney at an Am Law 10 firm.

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 13, 2023

After 2021 resulted in a virtual TECHSHOW and 2022 was a hybrid show, the consensus among attendees was that it was great to be 100% in person again. She will teach “Legal Marketing Design: Crafting a Standout Strategy” at the OBA Solo & Small Firm Conference and wanted to hear what experts in the field are saying today.

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Colin S. Levy

JUNE 4, 2024

Justice tech companies are empowering individuals to address their legal problems with tech-assisted support, mostly without hiring an attorney. I hear lawyers continually point to public defenders, the courts, legal aid and pro bono as what their profession is doing to support access to justice.

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Lawmatics

MAY 4, 2023

Based on numerous annual reports regarding the state of the legal industry, associate turnover has been a top pain point for attorneys in the past few years. Here is a sampling: A 2021 McKinsey study found that more than 50 percent of employers face lower-than-average employee retention rates. In November 2021, approximately 4.5

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 27, 2023

When Jerome “Jerry” Larkin joined the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) in 1978, he had just graduated from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, spent eight years in the Catholic seminary system, and knew he wanted to dedicate his career to public service. Rinella , 677 N.E.

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