Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

In 2020, the Arizona Supreme Court established its Alternative Business Structure (ABS) program which allows nonlawyers to have an economic interest or decision making authority in a law firm. Being in an ABS system would allow them to have greater control and legally get a share of the firm profits as opposed to performance bonuses.

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Paralegal Coffee Talk

MAY 28, 2021

Law Firm Deregulation Programs Pick Up Speed in both Arizona and Utah? The post Law Firm Deregulation Programs Pick Up Speed in Both Arizona and Utah! Click here to read article! appeared first on.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The post Legal Reforms In Utah & Arizona Made Law Better So Obviously No One Is Following Their Lead appeared first on Above the Law. We know access to justice gaps exist, what are we doing about it?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. Lund, past-president of the Utah State Bar, for my LawNext podcast.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

* Nevada rejects NCBE test to forge new attorney licensing regime front-loading requirements during law school so "law graduates could be cleared to practice within weeks of completing their studies." [ Reuters ] * Judge settles suit with law firm that threatened to release nude photos. [

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Above The Law

AUGUST 22, 2024

Bloomberg Law News ] * Ninth Circuit muses that state's anti-Trans law might actually be discriminatory. Law360 ] * Major law firm merger yields major dividends. American Lawyer ] * Utah State football coach is suing. appeared first on Above the Law. Maybe soon it won't be every late night commercial.

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LawSites

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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Above The Law

MAY 28, 2021

* A paralegal who was fired from her law firm job for feeding zoo animals in a viral video has found a new job. CBS News ] * A court has reportedly dismissed a lawsuit filed by spectators who were allegedly banned from Utah Jazz games after a verbal altercation with a professional basketball player.

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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 who can do the work).

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Prescriptive law is just what the doctor ordered: Utah has lower rate of crashes after setting a more restrictive blood alcohol limit. [ A new Frontier: word of a big airline merger dropped and law firms are jumping at their cut. Had us worried there for a bit. [ USA Today].

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LawSites

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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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2023

Also last year, the Utah State Bar honored Sudbury with its 2022 Distinguished Service Award and, in 2019, Utah Business Magazine named her its 2019 Woman of the Year. In 2019, she led the successful effort that resulted in the unanimous passage of Utah’s Clean Slate law, which made Utah only the second U.S.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Michele Pistone , professor of law, Villanova University. Justice Deno Himonas , Utah Supreme Court. Law Department (Friday, Nov. Law Firm (Monday, Nov. Lauren Sturdivant , founder, Rising Tide Law. Ben Carter , senior litigation and advocacy counsel, Kentucky Equal Justice Center. Court (Tuesday, Nov.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Current restrictions on how lawyers structure their businesses stand in the way of meaningful access to justice for many Americans, so states should follow the lead of Utah and Florida and test out innovative law firm business models through regulatory sandboxes, says Zachariah DeMeola at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System. (..)

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LawSites

APRIL 27, 2022

Last week, Filevine , the Utah-based case management company, raised $108 million in a Series D funding round. Before starting Filevine, Anderson was a founding partner at a western-states law firm focused on personal injury, mass torts and employment class-actions.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Arizona and Utah recently began allowing nonlawyers to establish or become part owners of law firms, raising the question of whether lawyers admitted in jurisdictions.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 4, 2025

At least 27 law firms and businesses may be leaving a Utah program that permits nontraditional legal services providers to operate in the state, including…

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LawSites

JULY 29, 2021

started Hello Divorce in 2017 as part of her law firm and spun it off in 2018 as a platform for do-it-yourself divorces. To date, Hello Divorce has expanded into three states, Colorado, Texas and Utah. If the law firm then checks and finds a conflict, the consumer’s fee is refunded. divorces filed each year.

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LegalReader

JULY 29, 2022

Every day there are more and more home buyers looking for a great place to live, and contractors are the people who make it happen.

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LawSites

JULY 10, 2023

In what is clearly a major milestone for Milestones , a legal tech company whose product provides law firm clients with automatic updates on their cases, it has closed a $2.1 Leading the seed round in the Lehi, Utah, company are three investors: Y Combinator , Ludlow Ventures and Soma Capital.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If you could provide advice to law firm leaders right now, what would it be??. AMM : Every law firm leader faces opportunities and challenges unique to their firm, and they must rely on their own trusted advisors for how best to navigate those opportunities and challenges. Learning to Lead.

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LawSites

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. Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services regulation that that allowed non-traditional legal services providers.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. Lund, past-president of the Utah State Bar, for my LawNext podcast.

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ALPS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Matt is an associate professor in the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Utah. And just to follow up, so it was the Utah state bar that actually commissioned for you to do the research, is that right? BREE: Yeah. Matt, you started to intersect with the legal community. BREE: Yeah.

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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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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

MARCH 6, 2023

Moderated by the aforementioned Jayne Reardon, the idea was to stage a fictional committee meeting to debate changes similar to those adopted in Utah and Arizona. The second day keynote session was a mock public hearing on proposals to amend Professional Conduct Rules 5.4

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LawSites

MAY 14, 2021

We have a guest panelist sitting in with us today; Jeffrey Brandt , editor of the PinHawk Law Technology Daily Digest and chief information officer at the law firm Jackson Kelly. Utah Sandbox OKs Two Programs Enabling Non-Lawyers To Give Legal Advice On Medical Debt. Cybersecurity fails: Jones Day and Colonial Pipeline.

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LawSites

MAY 26, 2021

Yesterday, NetDocuments , the leading cloud-based document management systems used by law firms and corporate legal departments, announced that global private equity firm Warburg Pincus had acquired the stake in the company previously owned by PE firm Clearlake Capital Group. How many employees do you have?

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LawSites

JULY 20, 2022

SixFifty , the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , is today launching a tool to help companies comply with the patchwork of data privacy laws in the United States by automating the creation of customized compliance documents.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Michele Pistone , professor of law, Villanova University. Justice Deno Himonas , Utah Supreme Court. Law Department (Friday, Nov. Law Firm (Monday, Nov. Lauren Sturdivant , founder, Rising Tide Law. Ben Carter , senior litigation and advocacy counsel, Kentucky Equal Justice Center. Court (Tuesday, Nov.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As we continue to emerge from the pandemic, I asked Newton how he sizes up the legal profession today and what he sees as the impact of the pandemic on the practice of law. Many law firms emerged from the pandemic better and stronger than before, he said. Legal Trends Report. Remaining Client Centered.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Nota , the online business banking platform designed specifically for solo and small law firms. They submitted their op-ed to the American Bar Association’s Center for Innovation , which agreed to publish it in the Center’s biannual innovation trends report, slated to be released Aug.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Attendees included early-stage startups, veteran CEOs, major investors, law firm chairs, corporate general counsel, and others. Law firm leaders could attend without fear of being hounded by vendors. It brought together individuals from across the spectrum of those who are helping to drive innovation in legal.

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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.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Johns, and we would come here for family things,” says Latham, who was raised in the Mormon Church and studied law at Brigham Young University in Utah. He had been working at a law firm in Phoenix but wanted to spend more time in the courtroom. “My wife’s mom is from St. So after they moved to St.

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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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