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Different Types of Law Practice Areas: Which is Right For You?

MatterSuite

For instance, the growth of e-commerce and digital industries has given rise to areas of law like Intellectual Property and Technology Law. Criminal defense lawyers often find themselves in courtrooms, defending or prosecuting individuals accused of crimes.

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5 Best Cities for Attorneys to Join or Start a Practice

Lawmatics

In other words, a criminal defense lawyer will probably find a lot more clients in a city with a higher crime rate like Washington D.C. Whereas an intellectual property attorney would probably be better off choosing a city with a strong tech industry like Seattle.

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Johannes Scholtes: AI Is Finally Here. Now the Hard Work Begins for the Legal Industry (TGIR Ep. 191)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

And let alone that there’s a lot of risk in this these datasets, others HR risks, there’s intellectual property risks. One is that if you have a criminal defense lawyer, and most of their clients are guilty, they are absolutely not interested in factuality, they come up with some kind of story like, okay, the bank was robbed.