LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

He will also oversee the company’s alternative business structure initiatives in the UK and as part of the Utah regulatory sandbox, seek ABS designation in Arizona, and play a key role in executing Rocket Lawyer’s plans to use artificial intelligence to accelerate lawyer productivity.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A Utah theme park has sued Taylor Swift over who owns the trademark for “Evermore,” Taylor’s latest album. The post Music Monday: Taylor Swift and a Utah Theme Park Battle in Court Over the Name ‘Evermore’ appeared first on THE HOLLYWOOD LAWYER.

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

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LawSites

JULY 27, 2022

During a question-and-answer session following her speech, I asked her about the stalled efforts to bring about reform in California and what the Supreme Court could do to move the issue forward, particularly in light of the leading roles taken by the supreme courts of Arizona and Utah to bring about reforms in those states.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 25, 2022

million lawyers in the United States. Nationwide, there are approximately four lawyers for every 1,000 residents, but the number doesn’t reflect the reality. Most lawyers work in urban areas, while many rural areas of the country have few or no lawyers. have less than one lawyer per 1,000 residents. .”

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 19, 2021

According to Black’s Law Dictionary, UPL is “the practice of law by a person, typically a non-lawyer, who has not been licensed or admitted to practice law in a given jurisdiction.” Have a planned response, such as “I am not a lawyer, so I can’t answer that. What is UPL? Representing a Client.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 21, 2020

New ACLU lawyer is accused of firing gun at ex-wife’s car A newly hired lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah was arrested…

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Above The Law

APRIL 9, 2025

First and foremost, lawyers and law students are in an absolute tizzy over the state of the T14. Lawyer/Judge Assessment: 12.5% Now, for the rest of the law schools in the Top 50, where there are seven ties (noticing a trend within these rankings yet?).

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Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

Around that time, courts in some states, including California and Utah, set up task forces to study amending their professional ethics rules to address the access to justice problem. The report claims that this is partially attributable due to the existing ethics rules.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Arizona has recently stricken the rule barring non-lawyer ownership in law firms from its professional ethics code. Utah is creating a sandbox environment to explore the same option. It’s only a matter of time before the traditional lawyer monopoly is broken. But, the chance to continue in that mode of operation has passed.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

Lawyers have always been protected against other business owners infiltrating their territory by the existence of ethics rules ba nn ing lawyers from sharing fees with non-lawyers, effectively barring business partnerships between lawyers and non-lawyers.

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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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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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Patently O

MAY 25, 2021

In other contexts, courts have found this can create a conflict between the targeted lawyer and client. 3d 1063 (2014), after a bitter and long custody dispute in which both the husband and his lawyer took ridiculous positions, the trial court imposed $55,000 in sanctions jointly against husband and his lawyer. 881, 332 P.3d

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Above The Law

AUGUST 22, 2024

American Lawyer ] * Utah State football coach is suing. Maybe soon it won't be every late night commercial. Reuters ] * Gone fishin' -- permanently. [ ABA Journal ] * Oath Keepers attorney pleads guilty. [ Bloomberg Law News ] * Ninth Circuit muses that state's anti-Trans law might actually be discriminatory. Sorta the anti-Dewey.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 22, 2023

September 1, 2023: TILA Disclosures re Index Rates; California Garnishment ; Minnesota Debt Collection December 1, 2023: Bankruptcy December 31, 2023: Utah Data Privacy Musings by Diane Consumer legal protections are rare. Arizona Bankruptcy Lawyer. Drain, P.A.,

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Above The Law

MAY 28, 2021

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. * A paralegal who was fired from her law firm job for feeding zoo animals in a viral video has found a new job. Business Insider ].

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Politico ] * 49 percent of lawyers are satisfied with work-life balance meaning 51 percent of lawyers are deluded liars. [ National Review ] * Meanwhile, diplomats are pointing to Israel's response as already in breach of international law. LegalCheek ] * Opioid special master protected by judicial "what are you, on crack?"

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

(Chad Flanders, Baltimore Sun) Resolving Carpenter ‘s third-party paradox (Michael Dreeben, Elizabeth Hadley, Conor O’Shea, & Johanna Seale, Just Security) Oklahoma man executed after Supreme Court denies new lawyer more time (Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service) Utah woman hopes to challenge firearms restrictions for felons at (..)

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Pretrial conferences are required for divorcing parties before they can schedule a trial date.

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Above The Law

MARCH 27, 2023

Courthouse News Service ] * "Utah governor: Social media law limiting minors' access not 'foolproof.'" Because rather than regulate legal education to graduate lawyers who can practice immediately or require a comprehensive exam for any interested potential practitioner, we have BOTH. Maybe we were all onto something.

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LegalReader

MARCH 18, 2022

Will your case turn into a lawsuit? Probably not. Trucking companies tend to avoid bad publicity and they won’t want to be dragged into a long legal battle.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 20, 2025

The duo aims to educate lawyers on how technology can be used to improve services, interactions with clients, and overall workflow. Green Filing has filed more than 28 million documents for over 200,000 filers across California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nevada, Utah, Virginia, and Texas.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 3, 2022

Utah is one of a small number of states that use the no-fault insurance scheme.

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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2023

Noella Sudbury became interested in the issue of criminal records expungement soon after law school, while working as a criminal defense lawyer. 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.

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LawSites

AUGUST 12, 2021

Rogers College of Law in 2018, has expanded its operations to form a collaboration with the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, making it the first cross-discipline, cross-institution, cross-jurisdiction legal innovation lab in the United States. Teaching Business Skills ‘A No-Brainer’.

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ALPS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In terms of being the original co-chair on the national task force on lawyer well-being, Bree has just invested countless hours to give back to the profession through this work and Bree, we’re just so fortunate to have you and to continue to have your leadership of this movement. And I know a bunch of lawyers. MATT: Sure.

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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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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Attorney at Work’s new “You at Work Spotlight” series focuses on traditional and emerging career paths for lawyers and business professionals. Murdock was elected Managing Partner at Stinson LLP , an AmLaw 200 firm with 450 lawyers in 12 offices nationwide. As I did so, I developed relationships with lawyers throughout our firm.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Among the most divisive issues facing the legal profession today is that of revising the rules that regulate law practice – and more specifically the questions of whether to liberalize the rules to allow those who are not licensed lawyers to own law practices or to engage in the practice of law. Now, Stanford Law School’s Deborah L.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Do lawyers return to the office or not? I asked her if Utah and Arizona were the first dominoes that would set off a chain reaction of other states following suit. Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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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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Law 360

JANUARY 3, 2025

Attorneys from Venable LLP and Parsons Behle & Latimer have been hit with a disqualification bid in Utah federal court in a shareholder dispute involving AmeriMark Group AG, with the defendants arguing the lawyers are representing both the suing shareholder and the AmeriMark subsidiary at the heart of the dispute, causing a conflict of interest.

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LegalReader

JULY 7, 2022

If you apply for a job and you are rejected although you meet all the criteria, you may ask yourself whether it was an act of discrimination.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Catapulted by the leadership of original National Task Force on Lawyer-Well Being member Chief Justice Donald W. Hello and welcome to episode six of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being Podcast Series. Lemons and his colleague Justice William C. Episode Transcript: Chris Newbold: . The Path to Well-Being in Law. Absolutely.

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