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Do You Have the Foundational Technology Skills to Be Successful in Your Paralegal Career?

Paralegal Bootcamp

Owning a laptop computer and Instagram account might help combat boredom—but doesn’t necessarily translate to technical proficiency in a legal setting. Digital native doesn’t always mean tech-savvy. In fact, the assumption itself is somewhat false. Sure, younger generations are practically born with a mobile device in their hand. They are constantly “caught up” in the goings-on of their entire high school class; they can rattle off no fewer than five relevant hashtags for any given topic; they c

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A Role Of Paralegal In Family Law

LDA PRO

Family law offices are hectic places to work, with tight deadlines and emotionally disturbed clients. A family law paralegal Roseville is responsible for numerous tasks, from the first intake to the final hearing. Petition preparation, discovery, motion practice, client communication, witness location, and investigation are all part of a family law paralegal’s day-to-day duties.

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Is the Window for System Change Closing?

The Crime Report

When I was in high school, my father was robbed and beaten, leaving him with a traumatic brain injury that changed all of our lives. While he struggled to regain his physical ability to talk, walk and heal from his injuries, we all struggled economically and emotionally as we cared for him. We got no support from a system that is supposed to serve victims and survivors of crime.

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Grow Your Law Firm With These 5 Attorney Billing Software Tips

Attorney at Work

For law firms, streamlined, effective legal billing software is incredibly important. Enter modern legal billing software. It ensures that your firm’s legal billing processes are efficient and accurate by reducing the steps needed to invoice clients and accept online payments. Read on to learn about the most common billing problems law firms face, and how to help your law firm overcome them.

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6 Contract Data Analytics Tools To Boost Contract Oversight

Analyzing contract trends with manual contract management is like sifting through a pile of papers in a dimly lit room, trying to find clues manually. Advanced CLM software’s contract data analytics, on the other hand, is like having an AI-based, intelligent magnifying glass that not only highlights key clues but also connects the dots for you. With innovative, AI-powered contract data analytics, you can solve the mystery of trends faster and with greater accuracy, making informed decisions base

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UN rights chief warns of human rights catastrophe in Myanmar

JURIST

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned Thursday that urgent action is needed to prevent a human rights catastrophe in Myanmar. The UN Human Rights Office issued a new report documenting serious human rights and international humanitarian law violations. This includes violations of the rights of life, liberty and security of person; freedom of expression; and freedom of peaceful assembly.

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Confronting Femicide in America

The Crime Report

Despite FBI statistics on nationwide homicides revealing that every year a vast proportion of women killed in the US are killed by current or former intimate partners, these crimes receive little domestic attention, reports The Guardian. The Centers on Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that homicide is the fourth leading cause of death for girls and women one to 19 years old, and the fifth leading cause of death for women 20 to 44.

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OK, Zoomer: Zoom Tools and Tips to Improve Your Video Meetings

Attorney at Work

These Zoom tools improve your Zoomiverse by streamlining call scheduling, automating video enhancement, and transcribing meetings. When the pandemic closed offices and forced working from home, we were instantly turned into “Zoomers” without little to no instruction. The technology let us connect and kept businesses afloat — but often while looking and sounding bad in less-than-productive meetings.

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EU Parliament legal affairs committee adopts Digital Services Act recommendations

JURIST

Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) adopted Thursday the committee’s recommendations on the Digital Services Act. This act comes amongst concerns about user privacy and free speech online. The Digital Services Act imposes stricter regulations for online internet intermediaries and digital platforms. The rules are aimed to better protect consumers and establish transparency for online platforms.

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What does it take to retain female lawyers in criminal justice? ABA task force has some ideas

ABA Journal

More job flexibility and mental health support are among the solutions that could help lead to improvements in the hiring, retention and promotion of female…

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The Tech-Savvy Paralegals Playbook: How To Leverage AI

Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

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COVID Spurs ‘Scourge’ of Organized Crime: Report

The Crime Report

The majority of people worldwide live in countries with high levels of organized crime, a crisis made worse by COVID-19, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC). Transnational organized crime is an underlying driver of many major geopolitical challenges, including conflict, political instability and forced migration.

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Writing as a Side Hustle: 3 Lawyers Who Have Made Publishing a Secondary Income

Attorney at Work

Many lawyers dream of pursuing writing as a side hustle. As these three lawyers show, there’s more than one way to make it work. . Gone are the days when a law firm might only have a secondary income from a related business, such as a title company. Now, law firms and lawyers are moonlighting as business development consultants, app developers, coaches of all kinds, continuing education providers, and fiction and nonfiction authors.

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Vanuatu seeks ICJ advisory opinion on climate rights

JURIST

The South Pacific Ocean nation Vanuatu announced Saturday its intention to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the rights of present and future generations to be protected from the adverse consequences of climate change. Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Saturday, Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Bob Loughman warned that the climate crisis is “ increasingly eluding the control of individual national governments.” Loughman said it was time for a g

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Want to help Haitian immigrants? ABA is looking to train pro bono volunteers

ABA Journal

The ABA is offering a new opportunity to members who want to help immigrants who have fled Haiti because of ongoing political strife and devastating…

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Excellence in Trial: A Strategic Guide for Modern Paralegals

Modern trial practice has evolved beyond basic organization. With technology reshaping courtrooms and attorneys expecting more than ever, paralegals need to elevate their capabilities while mastering the fundamentals of trial excellence. This comprehensive guide from Steno, built from author Joe Stephens' real-world experience as both a practicing attorney and law professor, provides a blueprint for delivering exceptional trial support in today's complex legal environment.

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Federal Judge Up And Leaves Courtroom Mid-Hearing

Above The Law

Well, that's one way to express how you feel about the argument.

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Seven Ways You May Be Sabotaging Your Business Development Efforts

Attorney at Work

In initial meetings with lawyers, I like to have them tell me what they’ve done in marketing and business development — what has worked and what hasn’t and what they are trying to accomplish. I’ll never forget my first coaching meeting with one junior partner. When I asked her for her business development goals, her response was simple: “I just want to stop shooting myself in the foot.”.

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California governor signs bills to ease housing shortage

JURIST

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a number of bills on Tuesday to ease the state’s housing shortage. These bills, combined with four signed earlier in September, form a 31-bill housing agenda to address housing costs, homelessness, and climate change. Newsom’s administration has already attempted to tackle these issues, even investing $22 billion to create more than 84,000 affordable homes, “including over 44,000 new housing units and treatment beds for people exiting hom

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131 federal judges oversaw cases involving companies in which they or their families owned stock

ABA Journal

A Wall Street Journal investigation has found that 131 federal judges oversaw 685 court cases in the last decade involving companies in which they or…

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Transform Your E-Learning: Download the Ultimate Localization Use Case!

Uncover the secret to breaking language barriers and expanding your e-learning reach! This powerful use case reveals how Cesco Linguistic Services transformed 19 training modules for the Colorado Department of Early Childhood into culturally relevant courses in Arabic and Spanish—delivered on time and exceeding expectations. Learn how to localize your content seamlessly, avoid costly pitfalls, and connect with diverse audiences like never before.

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Stopping Gun Violence, One Youth at a Time

The Crime Report

Salinas, Cal., has seen a drop in annual shootings since launching the Ceasefire program. Photo by Julie Reynolds Martinez./The Imprint. In the agricultural swath of coastal California known as the Salinas Valley, for decades, youth violence has topped the area’s list of most pressing problems. A dozen years ago, the region led the state in youth homicides per capita.

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How to Stop ‘Rough-Drafting’ and Learn to Speak with Precision During Presentations

Attorney at Work

Why is it that so many lawyer presentations suffer from “hanging fragmentitis”? Here’s how to stop yourself from constantly editing, restarting and revising out loud. When we speak, why do we so often fail to finish our sentences? Linguists must know the answer to this question, but I am at a loss. All I’m sure of is this: Lawyers find it difficult — often impossible — to finish sentences.

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Federal appeals court rules Los Angeles not required to provide housing to homeless population

JURIST

A federal appeals court in Los Angeles overturned the decision to house homeless people living on the streets of Skid Row in a controversial ruling on Thursday. The judgment means that Los Angeles County will not be legally required to house homeless people in Skid Row. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously decided Thursday that the decision of Judge David Carter, who oversaw the case in April 2020 , failed to follow legal requirements.

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Once-incarcerated lawyer poet is among winners of MacArthur ‘genius grants’

ABA Journal

A lawyer and poet once imprisoned for a carjacking committed at age 16 is among 25 people who won the MacArthur Foundation fellowships, commonly known…

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Uncovering The Hidden Connections: A Patent Family Survival Guide

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

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‘Cure Violence’ Programs Credited with Decline in Atlanta, Milwaukee Shootings

The Crime Report

The Annie E. Casey Foundation reports that in communities within Atlanta and Milwaukee where Cure Violence , an international gun violence-prevention model was implemented, shootings fell by as much as 73 percent , the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE) reports. . The foundation’s recently released report, “Improving Community Safety Through Public Health Strategies: Lessons from Atlanta and Milwaukee,” spotlights Cure Violence approaches underway in the two cities. .

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LawPay’s New ClientCredit Option Allows Clients to ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’

LawSites

Recent headlines in the financial press are replete with stories about the new boom in buy now, pay later financing for retail purchases, with many retailers, including Walmart, the nation’s largest, now offering these point-of-sale loans. Now, the electronic payments company LawPay is bringing buy now, pay later financing to the legal industry.

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Ninth Circuit decertifies class in Qualcomm antitrust suit

JURIST

On Wednesday, Qualcomm, a widely-used cell phone chip manufacturer, won its bid to decertify an antitrust class against it. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that the trial court in the District of Northern California erred in certifying the class and remanded the case to reconsider certification of the class and to examine the case under FTC v.

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Manage your firm’s phone system from anywhere with VoIP

ABA Journal

As we head into the fall and face continued uncertainty, it makes sense to take steps to build resiliency into your law firm to ensure…

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AI for Paralegals: Everything You Need to Know (and How to Use It Safely)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.