LawSites

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Arizona Supreme Court has granted an alternative business structure license to law company Elevate , enabling Elevate and its affiliated law firm, ElevateNext, to operate as a single entity in that state, the company says. The committee’s recommendations are then sent to the Supreme Court for final approval or rejection.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A Stanford Law School study published today of regulatory reforms in Utah and Arizona finds that they are “spurring substantial innovation,” that they are critical to serving lower-income populations, and that they do not pose any substantial risk of consumer harm.

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LawSites

JANUARY 24, 2023

Axiom , a company that is one of the longest-running alternative legal services providers, this week stepped into the world of regulated legal services as it formally launched Axiom Advice & Counsel , an Arizona law firm. That follows from Arizona’s historic decision in 2020 to become the first U.S.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Similar to regulatory reform initiatives in Utah and Arizona, the Washington Supreme Court has entered an order approving a pilot program that will allow companies and nonprofits that are not owned by lawyers to provide legal services under carefully monitored conditions.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Reasonableness of a Fee When Are Legal Fees Earned? The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal Resources About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. They provide the client with some certainty about the cost of legal services and lawyers with more financial stability and consistency in taking on client matters.

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LawSites

JANUARY 6, 2025

5, in a move to enhance access to justice, the Supreme Court of the state of Washington issued a historic order authorizing a regulatory reform pilot program by which entities not owned by lawyers will be able to deliver legal services. The move makes Washington only the third state, after Utah and Arizona, […]

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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The Cloud Court Blog

JANUARY 26, 2025

Cloud Courts first-ever in-person CLE event, held last week at the vibrant Surly Brewing Co. The event, themed "Brewing the Future: In-House Legal in the Age of LegalTech and AI," brought together 100 registrants from in-house legal departments, law firms, and legal service providers.

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LawSites

MAY 12, 2021

These are only the second and third non-profit projects to be approved to participate in the sandbox and the first in the nation to empower non-lawyers go give limited-scope legal advice about medical debt, according to Stacy Butler , director of the Innovation for Justice Program at the University of Arizona James E.

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LawSites

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Arizona Supreme Court has granted an alternative business structure license to law company Elevate , enabling Elevate and its affiliated law firm, ElevateNext, to operate as a single entity in that state, the company says. The committee’s recommendations are then sent to the Supreme Court for final approval or rejection.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 25, 2022

Increased pressure to study regulatory reform is rising due to access to justice concerns, increasing legal technology innovations, changes in the legal marketplace, as well as the pandemic and the havoc it has caused for citizens, the courts and lawyers. Access to legal services is going down. Court navigators.

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LawSites

JULY 27, 2022

The chief justice of the California Supreme Court, Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye , said that the state legislature is to blame for stalling efforts to bring about regulatory reforms to address the state’s gap in access to justice. Every year, the bar dues bill has to be approved by the California legislature, not the Supreme Court.

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MAY 30, 2023

In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. Its lawyers will not appear in court. Learn more about Nextpoint at the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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LawSites

AUGUST 12, 2021

Innovation for Justice , a legal innovation lab focused on social justice, launched at the University of Arizona James E. Innovating Legal Services, in which students will create a Medical Debt Policy Scorecard that inventories the medical debt policies in all 50 states and ranks states based on existing consumer protections.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the blur of activity that was last week, I attended two legal tech conferences, plus an adjacent legal technology summit. By contrast, at the ITC conference, the attendees come mostly from the ranks of legal aid offices, pro-bono programs, court self-help staff, and the like.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 1, 2023

Should Rules of Professional Conduct be relaxed to address the growing access to justice problem and other challenges affecting legal services delivery in our state? This already has happened in Arizona and Utah.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Two episodes relating to legal regulatory reform also made the list. Scott Timmer , vice chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, on that state’s groundbreaking changes to the rules regulating the delivery of legal services. Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 15, 2021

Roberta Tepper is the Lawyer Assistance Programs Director of the State Bar of Arizona. How did you become involved in legal tech? Those colleagues helped me on what was a crash course on legal tech so that I could advise our members and assist them in implementing legal tech into their practices.

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LawSites

MAY 25, 2022

data source (bar association, regulator, court, etc.), The metrics are keyword searchable based on the type of data they supply, the location where the data can be found, or by keywords connecting similar metrics. Metrics can also be filtered by their key focus (consumer harm, market viability, etc.),

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Rasa Legal provides simple and affordable criminal record expungement services and has raised $2.1M In its first year, Rasa served over 10,000 people with criminal records across the state of Utah and will be expanding to Arizona. It also announced a partnership with LegalEase to join their nationwide group legal services plans.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Two episodes relating to legal regulatory reform also made the list. Scott Timmer , vice chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, on that state’s groundbreaking changes to the rules regulating the delivery of legal services. Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms.

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 16, 2014

She began her legal career in Columbus, Ohio while attending The Ohio State University. Karen joined NALS in 2002 in Phoenix, Arizona, received the NALS of Arizona Award of Excellence in 2005, and the NALS National Award of Excellence in 2009, the most prestigious member award. Karen is a veteran of the U.S.

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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

Watching the 2013 presentations about disruption of legal services might not be very shocking, because the format, the presentation, and the topics have become so widely adopted that they seem like they have always been around. Today we take for granted that legal services must be reformed, or they will be disrupted.

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Diane Drain

JULY 16, 2021

Arizona Residential Eviction Actions Procedures – effective July 15, 2021. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED beginning on the effective date of this Order, all other eviction cases shall be processed solely under Arizona statutes and rules, except as provided herein. PLEADINGS. CALENDARING FOR ALL CASES. – 10:00 A.M.

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LawSites

JANUARY 23, 2023

Axiom , one of the longest-running alternative legal services providers, today joins the ranks of licensed legal services providers as it opens Axiom Advice & Counsel LLC (AA&C), a law firm in Arizona, where it plans to provide corporate legal services to businesses.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2022

Cassandra Laskowski , Associate Librarian, Head of Research, Data & Instruction, University of Arizona College of Law. Colin Levy , Director of Legal and Evangelist, Malbek. Sam Moore , Director of Vendor Relations, Reynen Court. District Court for the S.D. Leslie Jones-Dove , CTO and Co-Founder, JusticeText.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Intapp, Tech Provider to Legal and Financial Firms, Files Papers for IPO (June 6, 2021). Ontario Court Lays Down the Law on Technology Competence and Video Proceedings (Dec. Arizona Licenses First Three Alternative Business Structures for Delivering Legal Services (May 7, 2021). 8, 2021).

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Intapp, Tech Provider to Legal and Financial Firms, Files Papers for IPO (June 6, 2021). Ontario Court Lays Down the Law on Technology Competence and Video Proceedings (Dec. Arizona Licenses First Three Alternative Business Structures for Delivering Legal Services (May 7, 2021). 8, 2021).

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 16, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Justice Samuel Alito has spoken of the importance of safeguarding the free exercise of religion , and recently , free exercise questions have been a particular focus of the Supreme Court.

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Above The Law

APRIL 21, 2025

Read the full article, including observations from Scott Cummings (UCLA) and Gabe Roth (Fix the Court) here. In addition to being indicted in Arizona, Epshteyn was one of the co-conspirators named in the federal indictment against Trump that has now been dismissed – revisit LER #2 for more on that history. #2

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

From the Washington Post : A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of ordering a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip , whose long-running appeal attracted broad support after independent investigations revealed prosecutorial misconduct. Law Firm Following Court Approval. 2 KPMG to Launch U.S.

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