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Nomination Window Opens to Award the 2024 Legal Visionary

Legal Tech Monitor

The award is designed to encourage and showcase innovators, risk takers, visionaries, and emerging leaders who bring a different perspective and a reform-minded approach to the improvement of our legal system.

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At A Turning Point for the Law Firm Docketing Profession, A Conversation with Three of its Trailblazers

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It’s interesting because we’ve been around longer than paralegals, longer than legal secretaries. SCREECHFIELD: I tell people that we’re a cross between a paralegal and a librarian. We don’t provide legal advice, even if we’re lawyers. And, like paralegals, we work on the actual cases.

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The Diverse Landscape of Community-Based Justice Workers

Legal Tech Monitor

IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, has conceptualized regulatory models as consisting of four pathways to change: regulatory sandboxes, alternative business structures, allied legal professionals, and community-based justice worker models.(1) 33) Services by CAPP began in June 2021.(34)

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A Literal Generative AI Discussion: How AI Could Reshape Law

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

The legal field operates under strict rules and ethical standards. Like if an AI tool gives wrong legal advice, who’s to blame? These ethical and legal conundrums pose significant challenges. It’s a team effort that pulls together IT folks practicing attorneys, paralegals and admin staff.

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Benefits of Attending Legal Conferences and Events

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Legal conferences unite professionals to share knowledge and discuss legal field advancements. Conferences unite lawyers, judges, paralegals, and legal tech experts, fostering collaboration, learning, and networking among legal practitioners.

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Balancing Consumer Protection and Consumer Access with Alternative Legal Service Providers

Legal Tech Monitor

They help people on matters related to family law, domestic violence, elder abuse, housing, and debt collection—matters that often have the highest rates of self-represented litigants (SRLs) and that comprise a majority of legal matters in our civil justice system. They can also communicate with opposing parties to help resolve matters.

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Legal Paraprofessional Summit Showcases Arizona’s Leadership and National Momentum

Legal Tech Monitor

One of the best ways to learn what is going well and how to improve an ALP program is to hear from current ALPs, and this summit provided that very opportunity. There were a handful of current Arizona legal paraprofessionals who joined the two-day summit and shared their experiences throughout the sessions.