Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

When Professor Daniel Schwarcz talks about AI in law, its clear youre hearing from someone deeply passionate and incredibly informed. A leading voice at the University of Minnesota Law School, Schwarcz bridges the academic and practical worlds of AI, insurance law, and legal technology. and start trying it out.

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ABA Journal

MAY 13, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, author of the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade , managed to evade a question about Supreme Court collegiality…

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Patently O

APRIL 23, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office announced the winner of this year’s National Patent Application Drafting Competition (NPADC), the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. I would encourage any law student interested in pursuing a career in patent prosecution to consider participating in the competition next year.

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Above The Law

JUNE 21, 2023

Getting into the NBA Draft is as much about lawyering as anything else. The post Law Student Declares For NBA Draft Like Any Good Lawyer Would… On A Technicality appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 20, 2023

customers , along with limited release in law schools to select faculty, librarians and students. Now, the company is further expanding access to the tool, making it available to 100,000 second- and third-year law students starting in the spring semester, with some getting access as soon as this week.

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JURIST

MARCH 29, 2021

JURIST law student staffers have drafted and launched a petition calling on law students worldwide to support Myanmar law students defending democracy, human rights and the rule of law following the February 1 military coup that led to the overthrow of the elected civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The 2024 event was expertly hosted by Professor Richard Garnett and Professor Ying Khai Liew of the University of Melbourne Law School, and held at University House at UniMelbs Parkville campus. The theme of the 2024 Colloquium was Private International Law: Domestic Law or International Law?.

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The Estrin Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As paralegals, it’s our job to provide support to attorneys and clients, dedicating countless hours to research, investigation, drafting, and client engagement. I was considering law school and wanted to get a taste of what it was like to work in a law firm. It’s also never too late to reconsider law school.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Columbia Law School June 12-13, 2025(via Zoom) This13thAnnual Sabin Colloquium will allow junior environmental law scholars to present early-stage work and receive constructive feedback from a panel of senior scholars and from each other. to sabincolloquium@law.columbia.edu by March 15. Footnotes are not expected.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Before law school sucks their dreams away under a mountain of student debt, many students picture themselves getting into the entertainment industry. Then everyone ends up drafting venue clauses for regional office supply distributors. Famous clients! Exciting legal problems! Hollywood living!

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Patently O

MARCH 25, 2024

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School I realize most readers aren’t law professors, so you can stop now… I have taught IP courses for years and often the books seek to teach the subject through cases, which is a very difficult way to learn it. More importantly to me, it is efficient.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

Risk-averse lawyers will sometimes leave large amounts of personal funds in trust as a buffer, a safeguard against accidentally over-drafting the trust account. Managing our trust accounts is not a skill emphasized in law school. As Jared Correia recently mentioned, lawyers go to law school to avoid math classes.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Usually, this will be drafting a specific pleading an attorney has asked me to do. Some of the typical pleadings that I draft are notices, case management statements, declarations, judgments, requests (any type), and motions to appoint a referee, etc. I place it in the drafts and send it to the attorney for review.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The other, Lexis Create with Lexis+ AI, brings generative AI drafting assistance to the Lexis Create add-in for Microsoft Word. Now, with the addition of Lexis+ AI, Lexis Create users get access to generative AI functions directly while drafting a document in Microsoft Word. Generate a draft. Summarize a case.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 30, 2022

A surprisingly large number of lawyers, judged from my anecdotal experience, are interested in teaching a law school class. I just wrapped up my whirlwind of a first semester as an adjunct law professor teaching Contract Drafting at the University of Richmond School of Law. This was invaluable for me.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 9, 2022

They are responsible for: Drafting documents/agreements Corresponding with clients Meeting with clients for the signing of documents Legal Research Using eDiscovery software Representing individuals in small matters Administrative duties. One website in France calls a Law Clerk a, “Second-in-Command Lawyer.” Education/Certification.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The traditional path involves calling a law firm partner, who assigns an associate to do the first draft, resulting in a $2,000 bill for approximately four hours of workmainly research, drafting, and revisionat a weighted rate of $500 per hour. from Stanford Law School in 1985, she clerked for the Honorable Joseph T.

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Above The Law

APRIL 17, 2025

Except the crucial distinction in Newegg is that the lawyer lifted from a draft brief. As in law school, passing someone elses work off as ones own is wrong as a matter of fact and professional ethics. But it’s not law school. Law school is about gauging individual knowledge mastery.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MAY 13, 2023

But, one place that law firms have traditionally been able to generate good work is through interns – by bringing on students from law schools, or from college s or universities. If you’re looking for help in your law firm, and struggling to find it, maybe it’s time to go back to school.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As paralegals, it’s our job to provide support to attorneys and clients, dedicating countless hours to research, investigation, drafting, and client engagement. I was considering law school and wanted to get a taste of what it was like to work in a law firm. It’s also never too late to reconsider law school.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The courses in legal research and writing equipped me with the ability to efficiently locate and analyze relevant statutes, regulations, and case law. Understanding Legal Procedures I was exposed to multiple areas of law such as Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Business law, etc.,

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Unfortunately, this art is not on the curriculum of many law schools. As I look back over the cases I tried, the matters I negotiated and mediated, even the documents I drafted and reviewed, I wish I had known these principles. Following these six principles will help you be a more persuasive lawyer.

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The Estrin Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

After spending just one year at a large law firm in South Florida, I joined a few law school colleagues in a boutique law firm representing policyholders against insurance carriers for failing to pay benefits. How important is it for a lawyer to go to a top-tier school? Can you share the funniest?

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Write the First Draft of a 300-Word Blog Post, Article or Alert (60 Minutes) Take a common issue and write about it. Check in with an old law school classmate. Write the First Draft of a 300-Word Blog Post, Article or Alert (60 Minutes). You will have a draft ready in no time. Law school counts.

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Legal Writing Launch

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Whether you are drafting an ironclad contract or a persuasive brief, mastering legal writing can set you apart in your practice. We will also delve into the best practices for effective legal drafting. For instance, when drafting a legal memo, start by clearly stating the issue, followed by the rule or law applicable to the issue.

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Above The Law

APRIL 23, 2025

The chair of the State Bars Committee of Bar Examiners, Alex Chan, pushed back against that prospect, explaining, the professors are suggesting that we used AI to draft all of the multiple choice questions, as opposed to using AI to vet them.”

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 18, 2023

Are you a paralegal Who’s wondering if you should go to law school? Should I take my paralegal career to the next level and go to law school? Now I’m not the right person to answer that question because the only time that I contemplated going to law school was when I was in a job that I didn’t like.

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ABA Journal

APRIL 24, 2024

A professor at the William & Mary Law School was acting as a “friendly gentile” when he helped draft contracts to purchase unused leavened foodstuffs…

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JURIST

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. There is an ease of language which persists in the laws drafted around the world.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MAY 28, 2019

Most lawyers just draft a job description (or have someone else do it), and that’s that. But, even if you aren’t, or it’s not, posting job descriptions through local colleges, universities and law schools is a great way to get vetted candidates. or the next time: - Build a candidate profile. Choose wisely.

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Legal Writing Launch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This blog covers the following topics: The Importance of Legal Writing Skills Effective Legal Writing Tips and Techniques Top Legal Writing Strategies for Success How to Improve Your Legal Writing Legal Writing Courses and Training Options Legal writing skills are foundational to the practice of law. Why is this?

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

For example, if you are an associate at a firm writing the draft of a brief, the partner will typically want to see everything that you’ve written and double-check your work. How do you see this technology changing the way legal writing is taught in law schools?

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LawSites

JULY 9, 2021

In this guest post, Laura Lee Norris , director of the program, and Mark Michels , lecturer in law, describe the program and how it prepares students for careers as tech lawyers in Silicon Valley. Santa Clara University School of Law graduated its first Tech Edge JD cohort in May 2021.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 13, 2021

They probably didn’t go to law school, and definitely haven’t spent years focusing on any area of law for 40-plus hours a week. In a draft for a post, I used the word “thus” or “hence,” and she sent it back, telling me to change it because it was a word she never uses. Sometimes the revision may be something stylistic.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You only learn how to be a professional and a very basic understanding of legal research and some drafting. It will not enable you to be a paralegal without proper training and experience. Here are some Paralegal Resume Drafting Tips. Noor worked as a marketing assistant and funding coordinator for several different law firms.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

But from a school’s perspective, they really need to stress the importance of a perfectly-written resume, an updated LinkedIn profile, online and in-person (when possible) networking, and applying for the right position for you. Here are some paralegal job search advice we’ve published in other articles: Resume Drafting Tips.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 20, 2022

They went to law school for three years where this was ingrained. They said it was because we didn’t get them the drafts on time. Why didn’t we know what time to get them the drafts? Two options are even better. Options to solve the problem and a plan to carry out your solution. We did know.

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