ABA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

A Massachusetts businessman has filed a $300 million racketeering lawsuit against Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner alleging that the law firms failed to inform him…

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Above The Law

APRIL 29, 2025

The session was standing room only and from the questions and line of people waiting to talk to Kim afterward it was apparent that both law firms and law schools are starting to realize what they dont know and are hungry to learn more about nonlegal options for J.D.s. Nowhere was this more apparent than at a session on J.D.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Practical Clio Duo Automation for Your Law Firm Jonathan Watson One of the biggest splashes at this year’s ClioCon was the launch of Clio Duo , an AI-powered assistant to enhance your practice management software. Jonathan Watson is the Chief Technology Officer at Clio.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Initial research supporting this project was conducted by the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance, and the searchable online site now available was created in partnership with the Smart Surfaces Coalition, National League of Cities, and American Public Health Association. As of today, data in the tracker is drawn from the nine U.S.

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LawSites

JULY 27, 2023

Minister , general counsel for Evisort , an AI-driven contract lifecycle management company that was founded out of Harvard Law School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. senator from Massachusetts. Nota , the online business banking platform designed specifically for solo and small law firms.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 30, 2022

Attorney at Work’s new “Women in Law” series honors Women’s History Month with a focus on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. Massachusetts. Columbia University School of Law. This week: the Boston Globe Media Partners’ Heather Stevenson. Deputy General Counsel.

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 22, 2024

While many believe that the in-house world is green pastures, others recognize the daily challenges that in-house practice entails and that can make work-life even harder than in law firm life. “The legal profession is suffering. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be working.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Synopsis: This opinion addresses a law firm’s ethical obligations when most of its lawyer and nonlawyer staff work remotely. Synopsis: The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct permit virtual practice, which is technologically enabled law practice beyond the traditional brick-and mortar law firm. and 5.3).

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Law 360

JUNE 3, 2024

Massachusetts state court judges rejected a law firm's effort to fight malpractice claims by pointing the finger at a Rhode Island judge, and ruled that an online booking platform can boot the owner of Bali vacation villas from its site, among other under-the-radar decisions handed down in May.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

AltFee Elevator Pitch: AltFee revolutionizes law firm pricing by offering a foundation for alternative fee structures. This system empowers firms to precisely assess and assign value to projects, vital in a landscape where AI/efficiency gains drastically shorten task timelines. We have small and midsize law firm customers.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 27, 2021

Microsoft Teams is intuitive, easy to use, and organically increases law firm collaboration. Alexander (@heidialexander) is Massachusetts’ first director of the Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being, helping lawyers achieve a healthy and productive balance of work, personal life and health.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Other states that mention flat fees in their rules include California, Florida and Massachusetts. Colorado has even published a sample flat-fee agreement here. The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal. All billing structures have pros and cons.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2023

Casetext said it has tested Co-Counsel extensively over the past six months, including through private beta testing with a dozen major law firms and roughly 150 law firms of all sizes. In my day job, I am a lobbyist representing the newspaper industry in Massachusetts.

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LegalTalkNetwork

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Earnings within the private sector can also vary due to factors such as the size and reputation of the firm and the nature of the work. Working independently or being employed by a large law firm can also significantly impact these earnings, as well as other variables, such as the region and types of cases handled.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 4, 2024

Gavin Alexander Gavin Alexander is a founding member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s standing committee on lawyer well-being and serves as the director of wellness at Jackson Lewis P.C., Being part of the solution & ensuring that your law firm is inclusive. No, no, no, that’s not it.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

As shocked as we all were, we also were journalists, scrambling to find out everything we could about the lawyers and law firms who might be among the victims. David now lives not far from me in Massachusetts. Throughout the day, the editors and reporters at the NLJ and throughout ALM were consumed with covering the story.

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Rocket Matter

JANUARY 16, 2024

Offering credit card payments helps your law firm get paid faster and increases client convenience. But that convenience can come with a price tag. These rules may change with the emergence of new legislation or court cases. Some states prohibit surcharging entirely: Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico.

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Chugh LLP

MAY 27, 2022

The suit was filed in the federal district court for the District of Massachusetts by the American Immigration Council and the law firm Gibbs Houston Pauw. The plaintiff’s attorneys also highlighted that these potential citizens will not be eligible to vote in the upcoming November 2022 election due to these processing delays.

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CARET Legal

OCTOBER 16, 2024

50-Minute Hour: A 50-minute credit hour means that a 60-minute session will usually provide 1.2 credit hours.

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LawSites

JUNE 4, 2021

As law firms begin to reopen offices, a committee of Massachusetts’ highest court today issued a statement recommending that they permanently adopt flexible working options as their standard, rather than as the exception.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By: Paul Gugliuzza is a Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law, Jordana R. Goodman is an Assistant Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and an innovator in residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Rachel Rebouché is the Dean and the Peter J. legal system.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2023

Now, in a further expansion, Law.com Radar has added coverage of more than 100 state courts in California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas, with plans to quickly add more state courts over the coming weeks and months.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Based on the responses, it is interesting to note that almost 50% of the respondents who worked in a traditional office space leased/owned exclusively by the law firm did not return to that setting. Of course, that begs the question of “…what is occupying the space owned/leased by the firm?” in Framingham, Massachusetts.

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MyCase

AUGUST 12, 2022

Legal record management is a vital aspect of any law firm. Though legal record keeping is part of daily practice for law firms, it is often disorganized. Before the digital era, law firms relied solely on paper filing systems for all legal records storage. Digital vs. paper legal records management .

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LexBlog

AUGUST 9, 2019

Massachusetts. “It’s All Here, Make It Yours; The Spirit of America” Massachusetts holds some of the most prestigious and affluent firms in the nation. Massachusetts also has a rich history and many people who visit end up falling in love with its beautiful beaches and cozy charm.

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LawSites

APRIL 6, 2022

LEAP Legal Software , an international provider of cloud-based practice management software for smaller law firms, has acquired WealthCounsel , a leading provider of software, training and support for estate planning lawyers, and its related company ElderCounsel. It currently has users in 38 U.S. For just the U.S.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic compelled the shift to work-from-home for businesses that could do so, like law firms. Charla Bizios Stevens, Chair, Employment Law Practice Group ( McLane Middleton, New Hampshire and Massachusetts), has not taken an in-person deposition since March. was fantasy no longer.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 27, 2020

On Monday, July 27, the Sabin Center filed comments with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in support of the proposed Vineyard Wind energy facility offshore Massachusetts on behalf of the group Win with South Fork Wind (“Win with Wind”).

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ALPS

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It’s the story of an Asian American woman and her law colleagues as they compete in the culture of a prestigious global law firm. The book is taught in colleges and law schools and first-year seminars and ethics courses, and is used by law firms and companies in dialogues about DEI. At the time, Inc.

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LawSites

MARCH 8, 2023

. – Dan Lear and Bob Ambrogi, series editors Dan Lear, Head of Marketing and Partnerships at Gravity Legal Dan Lear is head of marketing and partnerships at Gravity Legal, an electronic payments and money management firm built specifically for lawyers and law firms. He is based in Seattle, Wash. First, I joined Twitter.

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LawSites

MARCH 9, 2023

Chas is a member of the California and Massachusetts bars and is qualified as a solicitor in the UK. I consider myself fortunate to have been part of ReInvent Law and deeply appreciate the friendships and professional relationships I can trace back to that day almost 10 years ago.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Alan Klevan (alan@klevanlawfirm.com) is the principal of The Law Offices of Alan J. in Framingham, Massachusetts. He concentrates his practice in the fields of workers’ compensation law, automobile tort law, and general negligence law. Klevan, P.C.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

He works currently at TrueLaw, which helps law firms use AI to improve their operations and services. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law. And finally, over the course of the 350-plus years represented in the dataset, the law has often been horribly, disgustingly wrong.

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ALPS

MAY 3, 2022

We at the institute have the incredible benefit of having service from representative from Massachusetts. So, I look to the state of Massachusetts because, frankly, a lot of what I personally have been able to learn and do came from patterning after a lot of what they did. One is a huge amount of respect for law schools.

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ALPS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This week on the Path to Well-Being in Law podcast, Bree and Chris continue their mission to highlight people doing important work in the space of lawyer well-being by welcoming Heidi Alexander. Heidi is Massachusetts’ first director of Supreme Judicial Court, standing committee on Lawyer Well-Being. Alexan…: Yeah.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

After Prince, the musician, died an engineer who had unreleased recordings hired a Massachusetts firm who advised the engineer that he was a joint author of the recordings and jointly owned copyright in them, and so could distribute the recordings subject to paying Prince’s estate a share of royalties. Massachusetts, see S.J.C.

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SquirePattonBoggs

MAY 25, 2022

Rachel Bloomekatz is currently a solo practitioner at Bloomekatz Law, LLC , a law firm that she founded in 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. from UCLA School of Law and her A.B., Guy Cole Jr. Judge Cole announced in December his intention to take senior status. . She received her J.D. magna cum laude , from Harvard University. .

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