Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 28, 2021

I lack both the breadth and depth of his knowledge and tend to more narrowly focus here on law firm marketing and its regulation. Red Hot Law Firm Marketing Trends. The first wave of law firm marketers were often high-performing administrative staff. Other states, such as Arizona, have cut the rules to the bone.

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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. Related: LawNext: Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms.

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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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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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MAY 10, 2021

Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In its statement announcing the order , the court described its move as making “far-reaching changes that could transform the public’s access to legal services.”. Thank You To Our Sponsors.

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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. 5, approves a framework proposed by the […]

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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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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

QUESTION: I’m a solo practitioner with a general practice handling everything from real estate transactions to family law. 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. When Are Legal Fees Earned?

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

Small law firms generally have it pretty good, in that they’ve mostly had to compete only against other small law firms, that aren’t particularly innovative either , and that also don’t spend money aggressively to build their businesses. So, yes: Walmart can open law firms. That’s a whole new ball game.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

With both Arizona and Utah now allowing nonlawyers to deliver legal services through alternative business structures, the American Bar Association today issued a formal ethics opinion that addresses the question of whether lawyers outside those states may passively invest in an ABS. may the lawyer passively invest in an ABS?

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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. Learn more about Nextpoint at the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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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. Related: LawNext: Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

He will also oversee the company’s alternative business structure initiatives in the UK and as part of the Utah regulatory sandbox, seek ABS designation in Arizona, and play a key role in executing Rocket Lawyer’s plans to use artificial intelligence to accelerate lawyer productivity. We are excited to have him join our team.”

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The Cloud Court Blog

JANUARY 26, 2025

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. He captivated the audience by separating the hype from practical applications of AI in law departments.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 25, 2022

Regulatory reform is needed to make sure there is coverage for “legal deserts” where citizens have access to few or no law firms. ” What Do Legal Deserts Mean for Citizens Who Need Help? A lawyer in rural North Carolina shared that his law firm was one of two in a 40-mile radius. There are 1.3

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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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JULY 27, 2022

Cantil-Sakauye was the keynote speaker last week at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries. “Every year, the state bar dues bill — the bill that lawyers have to pay for the privilege and right to practice law in California — goes before the legislature.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation. Her answer was optimistic.

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LawSites

MARCH 9, 2023

As discussed in yesterday’s part one , this post is the second in a three-part series of reflections on the ReInvent Law Silicon Valley event, held in Mountain View Calif., on March 8, 2013, and what it meant to the authors and to the broader movement for innovation in law. Reinvent Law was there when we were all thinking, “Could we?”

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LawSites

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Among the most divisive issues facing the legal profession today is that of revising the rules that regulate law practice – and more specifically the questions of whether to liberalize the rules to allow those who are not licensed lawyers to own law practices or to engage in the practice of law.

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JULY 25, 2023

Nextpoint recently became the first e-discovery company to launch a law firm , launching Nextpoint Law Group in Arizona under that state’s liberalized practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

As states seek to find innovative ways to address the access-to-justice crisis, a key component has been eliminating or loosening the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. Two years ago, Arizona became the first state to completely eliminate the prohibition. Other states continue to study the issue.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the blur of activity that was last week, I attended two legal tech conferences, plus an adjacent legal technology summit. After starting the week in New York at the glitzy celebration of big law tech that is Legalweek , and ending it in Charlotte, N.C., billion was invested in legal tech in 2023 and $2.2

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Every week, I get to sit down at the mic for my LawNext podcast and have a conversation with the leading “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” Casetext’s Three Top Execs On CoCounsel, GPT-4 and ‘A New Age in the Practice of Law’. Call me lucky. Top 15 of All Time 1.

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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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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Michigan Courts have their self-represented litigants page at: [link] It also provides links to the Michigan Legal Help website at: [link] And interestingly, the court has created a "Learning Center" as a resource for educators around the state.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In my LawNext podcast , I have the great privilege of engaging in conversations every week with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 1, 2023

Clio’s CEO and Founder Jack Newton will be hosting the leading innovators and builders of legal technology in this keynote. Together they answer some of the most pressing questions about the future, legal tech, and law practice! This already has happened in Arizona and Utah.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The authors, Maya Markovich , executive director and cofounder of the Justice Technology Association , and Tom Gordon , executive director of Responsive Law , an organization that represents the consumers’ voice in the legal system, agreed to allow me to publish it. As I said above, you can read that op-ed here on LawNext.)

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MARCH 10, 2023

As discussed Wednesday in part one of this three-part series, these posts are a collection of reflections on the 10th anniversary of the ReInvent Law Silicon Valley event, held in Mountain View Calif., on March 8, 2013, and what it meant to the authors and to the broader movement for innovation in law. ReInvent Law was shocking.

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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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DECEMBER 11, 2023

A group of us were in the hotel bar, stridently debating whether an alternative business structure, licensed under Arizona’s liberalized legal regulatory scheme, could deliver legal services in other states. Marriott and swallowed up everyone there, it would have been a dramatic setback for legal innovation.

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LawSites

MAY 25, 2022

. “The end goal was to create something that can encourage a greater comfort with data for the legal ecosystem.” ” Recently, Gartner and Amanda Brown , executive director of Lagniappe Law Lab and a member of the committee that developed the site, gave me a tour of the site and a briefing on its development.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

In my LawNext podcast , I have the great privilege of engaging in conversations every week with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Courtroom5 , a platform that helps self-represented litigants navigate complex civil litigation matters, licensed their tech to NCCU Law for classroom use and is in development on a new platform slated for release in spring 2024. descrybe.ai , a free generative-AI legal search engine, has summarized 1.8

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation. Her answer was optimistic.

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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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