LawSites

MARCH 30, 2022

Read about ContractWorks on the LawNext Legal Tech Directory. found that two thirds (64%) of them prefer policies that would permit them to work from home, even as many companies are now insisting they return to the office full-time. What is holding legal departments back from adopting technology?

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MyCase

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Over the past 2 weeks I’ve shared statistics on lawyer demographics and diversity , and lawyers’ use of technology obtained from a recent survey, The ABA Profile of the Profession. In today’s post I’m going to focus on lawyer well-being data from the Report.

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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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MyCase

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The legal community was no exception to the tragic impact of COVID-19. With little notice, law firms across the country were forced to shut their doors, leaving attorneys of all practice areas to figure out a way to work from home. Legal Practice Areas that are Thriving during the Pandemic. According to the U.S.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

While we once might have thought these issues were temporary, many legal professionals continue to operate virtually, and even when we are fully free of the pandemic, many of us are likely to continue to practice virtually, at least part of the time. Issues addressed: Working out of state. Issues addressed: Working remotely.

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MyCase

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It’s hard to believe that 2020 is nearly over. Our 2020 webinar series is a great place to start! Webinar: 5 Game-Changing Features MyCase Released in 2020. COVID-19 has brought more change to the legal profession in the past nine months than in the past decade. And what a year it’s been! And, good news!

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If you’re interested in learning about how lawyers are using technology, then the ABA’s annual Legal Technology Survey Report is exactly what you’re looking for. Of course, lawyers use many other methods for communicating with clients, especially now that working from home has become commonplace.

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MyCase

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The unforgettable year that was 2020 is nearly over. And what better place to begin planning for 2021 than with our FREE series of law practice management guides from the past year? Every month in 2020 we published an eBook designed to help law firms weather the unexpected challenges of the past year and thrive despite the uncertainty.

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

2020 was perhaps one of the most disruptive years for law firms in recent history. 7:12 – The Biggest, Sweeping Industry Change of 2020. In many ways, the pandemic has accelerated the adoption of modern, more pragmatic operational practices in the legal industry. 47:43 – What Modern Legal Consumers Expect From You.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

In the professional realm, businesses, including law firms, have been and will continue to be impacted by the repercussions of social distancing requirements and the work-from-home revolution that followed. Of course, the effect of the pandemic on the practice of law varied greatly from one firm to the next.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

In the professional realm, businesses, including law firms, have been and will continue to be impacted by the repercussions of social distancing requirements and the work-from-home revolution that followed. Of course, the effect of the pandemic on the practice of law varied greatly from one firm to the next.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 18, 2021

The pandemic caused disruption to all industries—including legal—which threw traditional ways of doing business and engaging with clients out the window. Hard-wired desk phones were replaced with cloud telephony, and in-office firewalls and security protocols needed to be transformed for home WiFi.

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The pandemic caused disruption to all industries—including legal—which threw traditional ways of doing business and engaging with clients out the window. Hard-wired desk phones were replaced with cloud telephony, and in-office firewalls and security protocols needed to be transformed for home WiFi. Republished Advertisement.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 21, 2022

This month, we asked our panel to tell us about legal technology trends they expect to see in 2022. What technology that you or your firm adopted in 2021 reflects some of the new legal technology trends? DK: My move to a Mac Mini with a large monitor reflects both the work from home approach and my reluctance to travel.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. Every Monday and Wednesday, we will be featuring a woman from our class of 2021. Young lawyer turned legal tech geek. How did you become involved in legal tech?

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 3, 2020

She used it for the first time on April 1, 2020 when taking a remote deposition over Zoom. Remember early 2020? Routines of work, school, family and other obligations were clicking back into place. Routines of work, school, family and other obligations were clicking back into place. Before, I would never work from home.

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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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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back then, lawyers working anywhere but a traditional bricks-and-mortar office with their firm name on the door typically glossed over their nontraditional working environment. Over time, the taboo surrounding less traditional work setups began to ease, and early in 2020, when COVID-19 hit the world, the stigma had all but disappeared.

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SimplyLawJobs

MARCH 29, 2021

We recently caught up with the Institute of Legal Secretaries (ILSPA) to discover why they think LinkedIn is an essential tool for legal secretaries. Here is what they said: Remote working, video meetings, online systems and digital appointments are now standard parts of the daily working lives of legal professionals.

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InHouseOps

APRIL 29, 2021

Jonah Paransky, executive vice president and general manager of Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions, reflects on the effects COVID-19 will have on the legal industry moving forward, as it relates to diversity, alternative legal service providers, and what he’s both concerned and excited for looking ahead.

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MyCase

AUGUST 17, 2021

If nothing else, 2020 and 2021 have been years to remember. Not surprisingly, the legal profession has not been immune, and lawyers and their firms have been impacted in many different ways. What follows are some of the more notable data points from this year’s Report relating to lawyer wage and demographic information.

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LawSites

MAY 13, 2021

Published for the fourth consecutive year by Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms, the Business of Law and Legal Technology Survey was conducted during August and September 2020. 5% said they were completely unprepared and had to scramble to enable work from home.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 16, 2021

Taking depositions remotely may have been standard as a stopgap measure when the world was forced to work from home, but now it is commonplace in the practice of law and likely will continue to be so. Working paperless has become far more common as people are working from home. 20, 2020)).

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Vanguard

JULY 7, 2020

Tuesday, July 7, 2020. workforce w ould be working from home multiple days a week by the end of 2021. . That trend could be —and already has been— especially disruptive to the legal industry, where in-person meetings have long been considered vital to the attorney-client relationship.

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MyCase

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The shift from office work to working-from-home has triggered a colossal transformation in industries like healthcare, finance, education, and even law firm management. . From billing to staffing—you name it, nearly every facet of legal operations has had to adjust under these new working conditions.

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SimplyLawJobs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In addition, many lawyers must now work from home and avoid the office to help prevent the spread of COVID. Also, some governments like the UK are providing relief schemes such as the furlough scheme to those who’s companies have had to temporarily relieve them from work.

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 17, 2022

Perhaps this pandemic, at least for some, has prompted a new analysis of what work-life balance for lawyers means. I lead a team of 70 people who provide civil legal assistance each year to more than 3,000 low-income and vulnerable residents of Queens, the most diverse borough of the largest city in America.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What new collaboration tools have you started using since March 2020? TM : I was already using Zoom and Microsoft Teams for collaboration prior to March 2020; but my use of them increased exponentially due to the pandemic. Also, more people are using meeting scheduling apps with me than before 2020.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The ABA TechReport combines data from the annual ABA Legal Technology Survey Report with expert analysis, observations, and predictions from leaders in the legal technology field. Every Wednesday, we’ll be posting a new report from one of our experts, so stay tuned! Legal is a lagging industry in cloud use.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Remote Work. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that employees can work from home and the firm can still operate efficiently. In fact, a study from Harvard suggests that at least 16% of employees will continue working from home after the pandemic ends. 2020 brought unique challenges, too.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The ABA TechReport combines data from the annual ABA Legal Technology Survey Report with expert analysis, observations, and predictions from leaders in the legal technology field. Every Wednesday, we’ll be posting a new report from one of our experts, so stay tuned! Customer Relationship Management.

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LawSites

JUNE 15, 2021

Legal professionals agree that the pandemic accelerated the critical role of technology in the future success of their law firms and legal departments, but only a third believe their organizations are well prepared for addressing technology’s increasing importance. It polled 700 legal professionals across the U.S.

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MyCase

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Every year I write a post that highlights the mobile lawyering statistics from the latest ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. Not surprisingly, the number of lawyers working remotely has increased year over year as attorneys became more comfortable using the technologies that permitted them to work from anywhere.

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MyCase

JULY 21, 2021

Whether the near future entails a full return to the office or a hybrid return with some employees working remotely, it’s important to have legal software in place that will allow your law firm to run regardless of where your employees are working. There are also great standalone options to choose from, such as Woodpecker.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 18, 2020

By way of example, many law firms transitioned to remote working at the start of the pandemic and many continue to have work-from-home mandates in place. Just as the practice of has been affected by all of these changes, so too have the expectations of 21st century legal consumers. So what are you waiting for?

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MyCase

JUNE 15, 2021

2020 was a year for the record books. Businesses, including law firms, are beginning to re-open, and employees are heading back to work. According to a recent survey , many firms had a more profitable year in 2020 compared to 2019. Some employees prefer to work remotely – and you should let them.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 3, 2022

Even casual observers of the goings-on in Big Law know the Great Resignation, as with the rest of America, has not spared the legal profession. You should have learned a few things from how your present firm has handled the work-from-home issue. How has the firm answered questions about working from home?

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