The Estrin Report

JANUARY 28, 2021

o North Coast of California. North Carolina Piedmont area. ? Southeast coastal North Carolina. o Limited ceiling – you very likely never will be the boss of a law firm if you do not have a law degree. o Northwest Colorado. o Central New Hampshire. o Hawaii/Kauai. Central Kentucky. ?

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

During the past two years, the pace of tech adoption quickened as firms moved to automate their practices for remote work and virtual practice. We wondered what tools or initiatives small firms might open their wallets for this coming year. I encourage firms to take the time to review all their security protocols.

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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. A lawyer in rural North Carolina shared that his law firm was one of two in a 40-mile radius. The growth rate of law firms is flat. There are 1.3

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 14, 2022

TOLEDO, OH—As reports show talent wars are threatening law firms, Shumaker has attracted and hired a dozen new attorneys to join its teams in Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.

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Law 360

AUGUST 6, 2024

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP has opposed a bid by a Lloyd's of London syndicate to unseal the law firm's complaint seeking $1 million of coverage for a November 2022 data breach, telling the North Carolina Business Court that Lloyd's has chosen to "mock and insult their own customer" while exposing confidential information in its filing to the (..)

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LawSites

AUGUST 4, 2022

states mandate technology training as part of a lawyer’s continuing education requirement, Florida and North Carolina. Only two other U.S.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

2023) involves a set of thirteen different professional models whose images were allegedly used without their permission to advertise for the Capital Cabaret, a strip club halfway between Raleigh & Durham, North Carolina. The Casas Law Firm). RPS Holdings LLC , 5:21-cv-00416 (E.D.N.C. 11, 2012) quoted in Electra v.

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Rocket Matter

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In a recent episode of the Lawyerist podcast, our own Joyce Brafford, a North Carolina attorney with over a decade of experience in the legal tech industry spoke with Zack Glaser, the Legal Tech Advisor at Lawyerist.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Recognizing that, Legal Aid of North Carolina , a program that provides free legal services to low-income people through the state, last year became the first legal services program in the United States to launch an Innovation Lab , devoted to identifying and implementing new solutions for bridging the justice gap.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

He founded BobaGuard in 2019, which offers a turnkey suite for solo lawyers and small to medium law firms that include a security suite customized just for them. Working remotely placed a strain on home networks as we tried to connect to law firm networks securely. She was Co-Chair of the 2020 ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Alabama State Bar Formal Opinion 2008-03 – Lawyers’ Trust Account Obligations With Regard to Retainers and Set Fees State Bar of Arizona Ethics Opinion 10-03 – Fees; Fee Agreement; Non-Refundable Fees; Flat Fees State Bar of Georgia Formal Advisory Opinion No. 91-2 & Formal Advisory Opinion No.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G. Dawson , associate dean of technology and innovation and professor of law at North Carolina Central University School of Law. Also among the top 15 were two episodes relating to enhancing diversity in law.

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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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Attorney at Work

APRIL 15, 2022

She worked at one of the largest international corporate law firms in Asia before opening her own virtual practice. Catherine Sanders Reach (@catherinereach) is Director of the Center for Practice Management for the North Carolina Bar Association, providing practice technology and management assistance.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 27, 2021

Microsoft Teams is intuitive, easy to use, and organically increases law firm collaboration. Catherine Sanders Reach (@catherinereach) is Director of the Center for Practice Management for the North Carolina Bar Association, providing practice technology and management assistance.

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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.

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LegalTalkNetwork

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Business of Law: How a counterintuitive profit-first model can increase profits, save time, and improve business relationships. One obstacle for law firm owners to overcome is learning that while one primary reason for a practice is to help people, the business’s objective is to serve the business owner.

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Intelligize Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the other hand, as the law firm Barnes & Thornburg LLP pointed out in a memo, the results could have been much worse for the private fund sector: The SEC watered down some of the changes it originally proposed 18 months ago; others were cut out of the final version entirely.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G. Dawson , associate dean of technology and innovation and professor of law at North Carolina Central University School of Law. Also among the top 15 were two episodes relating to enhancing diversity in law.

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MyCase

MARCH 10, 2023

Accidentally commingling or misusing those funds can have very serious consequences for lawyers, so maintaining IOLTA account compliance is top of mind for many law firms. Unfortunately, most law schools don’t spend enough time going into the practical ways this is done.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Way back in 2015, I wrote here about Intake123, which at the time was one of only a handful of products designed to help smaller law firms manage the intake of leads and new clients. From there, the firm can begin to generate the initial filings, finance statements, disclosures and other required documents.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 4, 2020

In addition, we heard from Clio co-founder Jack Newton how it’s possible for today’s law firm clients to walk away unsatisfied despite getting the result they wanted. Stay tuned to hear the three main ways law firms are responding to those mandates.

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SimplyLawJobs

JUNE 10, 2021

As an award-winning legal data consulting firm within the fintech and legaltech sector, I was particularly excited to have this opportunity with D2LT. As I said at the outset, I didn’t take the traditional route of university, to LPC paid for by a law firm, to a training contract.

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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.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The lawsuits at the center of the dispute before the court on Monday were filed in 2014 against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina by a group called Students for Fair Admissions. Representing SFFA in the North Carolina case, lawyer Patrick Strawbridge told the justices that “racial classifications are wrong.”

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Updated: A North Carolina personal injury lawyer who was shot and killed by a client Monday died while trying to save others, the managing partner…

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

A partner at Beaver Courie Sternlicht Hearp & Broadfoot law firm confirmed that his firm is representing Tyson, stressing that the charges are coming from an individual and not law enforcement, and appeared a week after the incident.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Share Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and skilled advocate who argued 24 cases at the Supreme Court, died on Wednesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In 1997, he joined O’Melveny & Myers and founded the firm’s appellate practice. North Carolina Governor. So many owe so much to him.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Our public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, represents her. Alaska, Montana and North Carolina, for example, do not require law enforcement agencies to collect or report information related to civil forfeiture. The case highlights three problems with the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2024

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If police and prosecutors succeed, Texas law will let them keep 100 percent of the proceeds for themselves without ever filing criminal charges against anyone. Rather than accept the violation of his rights, Woods is fighting back with representation from the Institute for Justice , our public interest law firm. An Airport Stop.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , 21-248. The case addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to intervene to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , 21-248. Stay safe !

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2022

the University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. The Law Firm Antiracism Alliance makes similar arguments. Share Nearly 100 amicus briefs were filed in Students for Fair Admissions v. Thirty-three briefs support SFFA and 60 briefs support the universities. Eleven deans of U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , 21-248 , addressing the ability of North Carolina legislators to intervene to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. The court also granted review in the only new relist from two weeks ago, Berger v.

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Above The Law

MARCH 14, 2025

From unexpected courtroom experiences to the role of technology in modern law practice, Edward shares his journey from family law to the largest personal injury firm in North Carolina. Discover the highs and lows of lawyering and learn why finding your fit can make all the difference in work-life balance.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Bloomberg Law News ] * George W. Bush judge declines to shut down NC Supreme Court’s probe of its only Black justice for saying the North Carolina court system isn't particularly diverse, which seems like more a statement of fact than a controversial claim. appeared first on Above the Law.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2022

It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). However, weeks after the election, journalists discovered that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the dossier made to a research firm, Fusion GPS, as “legal fees” among the $5.6

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