Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When Janelle came to us, she was running her busy litigation practice off an 18-page to-do list she kept on a yellow pad on her desk. You can streamline how you work, eliminate bottlenecks, and deliver your legal services better, faster and more cost-effectively, and that will directly improve your profitability. Frayed edges.

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Above The Law

MARCH 31, 2025

While many focus on legal representation, its easy to overlook how foundational processes like service of process contribute to the problem. The Birth Of Legal Innovation Erics journey into legal tech wasnt planned. For pro se litigants, its often a bewildering and insurmountable hurdle. Its a win-win, he said.

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LawSites

MARCH 12, 2024

Proxiio Global Solutions , an India-based provider of litigation and corporate legal services for law firms and in-house legal departments, is today officially launching in the United States. Leading U.S.

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Cenza

JANUARY 27, 2023

It took years to shape into a formal industry and to be christened Alternative Legal Service Providers. This fact was further reiterated by Thomson Reuters’ Alternative Legal Service Providers 2021 Report, which unveiled that nearly 79% of law firms and over 71% of corporate law departments are leveraging the services of ALSPs.

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Cenza

AUGUST 25, 2021

Therefore, legal service providers have been contending to streamline their processes and systems with the aid of technology. An effort to maximize the value delivered by technology and enable business growth has resulted in the genesis of Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs). Tracing the ALSPs’ growth path.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

The Lincoln Legal Papers Project identified over 5,600 cases and nearly 100,000 documents related to Lincoln’s law practice. The paper trail revealed scores of cases involving debt collection, business partnerships, estate settlements, divorce and real estate litigation. All this, and he did it without a computer! Greater efficiency.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. “MK claims to advertise its services online, but it does not provide those services online. .”

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 12, 2021

From the client’s perspective, deciding who the right lawyer is for the job will become obvious. Lawyer Thought Leadership: Narrow Your Focus. In the context of legal services, this means you don’t have to be the smartest lawyer to be successful. Awareness and trust are the building blocks of business development.

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Above The Law

APRIL 2, 2025

At one point, early in the generative AI era, I wondered if developing this technology to essentially take over first-pass review and hand senior lawyers who view computers much like the Supreme Court views voting rights access to interrogate discovery materials might deal a devastating blow to the alternative legal service provider sector.

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LawSites

MAY 12, 2021

Two non-profit pilot programs won approval this week under Utah’s regulatory sandbox to provide non-lawyer legal assistance to individuals with medical debt. In Utah, nearly 22,000 lawyers are filed each year against people experiencing medical debt, which is a third of all debt-collection cases filed in the state, Butler said.

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CARET Legal

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The continuous evolution of legal technology is not just a trend; it’s a fundamental shift in how legal services are delivered, managed, and experienced. This centralization minimizes the risk of errors, improves data accuracy, and allows lawyers to focus more on high-value tasks like client counseling and case strategy.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

The ABA Task Force on Legal Needs Arising out of the 2020 Pandemic identified practice areas experiencing rapid growth in demand since 2020, including family law, insurance, data privacy, cybersecurity, labor and health law. Related: “8 Legal Practice Areas Growing in 2021 and Beyond” Document automation levels up.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Project management tools can help lawyers with ongoing, chaotic, unpredictable workflows. Those predictions have fallen flat across the legal sector. Instead, in the past decade, the popularity of legal project management has grown exponentially. Still, it is important to take stock of the demand for new legal technologies.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 16, 2021

Even under the best of circumstances, clients working with lawyers on a contingency basis may not be have to pay fees upfront, but also may not be able to pay their bills while they wait for their case to make its way through the legal system. Luckily, changes in litigation finance may be changing the terms of engagement.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

As lawyers from firms and corporations saw opportunities in changing their work and lifestyles during the pandemic, the pool of contract talent has grown. Pandemic burnout caused lawyers to pause and reassess their priorities, and many concluded that contract work could be a sustainable solution for their work-life balance goals.

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The Legal Ease

JANUARY 5, 2022

Litigation Technology and E-discovery. As I discuss in the article , I think this is a missed opportunity, especially since client portals make communicating with clients efficient and keeps client communications in one place (not to mention, often more secure than the way lawyers and clients are currently using email).  

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2023

Candidate | Università degli Studi di Verona] The Summer School on Transnational Litigation has been organized since 2019 within the Ravenna Program on Cross-Border Disputes by the University of Bologna, Department of Juridical Sciences – Ravenna Campus (Italy), under the direction of Prof. [This post has been prepared by Ms.

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Open Law Lab

JANUARY 8, 2021

We can break down two main research questions about measuring the quality of justice in different types of court formats: Do litigants in virtual vs. in-person hearings have more Procedural Justice? They didn’t make as full use of the law or legal services to protect themselves. Find the article here: [link].

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In our forthcoming Spring 2025 publication, Fighting the Hypothetical: Why Law Firms Should Rethink the Billable Hour in the Generative AI Era, [1] we hypothesize that Generative AI (GenAI) technology will change forever how legal services are delivered and will force law firms to re-engineer their legacy economic model.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 12, 2023

A criminal lawyer's role is to provide legal services and defense for those accused of corruption, crime, or defendants in litigation.

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InHouseBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In a sign of the speed at which AI is permeating the practice of law, a Magic Circle law firm with offices around the globe is now providing its lawyers with access to AI tools to speed the delivery of legal services. Should lawyers fear ChatGPT and other AI tools?

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Attorney General Merrick Garland has re-established the Office for Access to Justice, a Justice Department office that aims to expand services for people who can’t afford lawyers and is part of his broader plan to expand legal services in the federal government for low-income Americans, reports Bloomberg News.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 27, 2021

Even under the best of circumstances, clients working with lawyers on a contingency basis may not be have to pay fees upfront, but also may not be able to pay their bills while they wait for their case to make its way through the legal system. Luckily, changes in litigation finance may be changing the terms of engagement.

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MyCase

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Heres a quick overview of the top law firm directories in 2025, highlighting their unique features, pricing structures, and availability of free lawyer directory listings. Designed for firms of all sizes, it combines advanced law firm marketing services with practical tools to support lawyers throughout their careers.

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LawSites

APRIL 11, 2024

Let’s revisit five of the most momentous legal tech fails of the last 10 years. It launched in 2017 to great fanfare, promising to “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of both a law firm and a technology company. Following my report, QuickLegal quickly shut down. Gavelytics. million in funding.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 16, 2021

There are service providers such as process servers, stenographers, virtual receptionists, interpreters, document creators, and more that are all valuable for the discovery process in litigation, and all those services are now easily accessible through direct marketplace technology. About the Author.

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LawSites

MAY 30, 2023

In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. Its lawyers will not appear in court. ” Leading the firm as managing partner is Andrew R.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

Lawyers have always billed clients the same way: by the hour. While that option is good for law firms (hello: uncapped billings), clients often chafe at the model, because $— x however many hours the lawyer decides to work is a little bit more of an investment than, say, a Netflix subscription.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of paralegals and legal assistants is projected to grow 12 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations. Paralegals and legal assistants held about 345,600 jobs in 2020. ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION? Federal Government 5%. Finance and Insurance 3%.

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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. Prior to becoming a judge, he was in private practice, focused on complex civil litigation. 29 letter to Utah Gov.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Where legal innovation in 2020 was characterized by acceleration and adaptation, in 2021 it was slowed by a sense of malaise – malaise driven by uncertainty. Do lawyers return to the office or not? Do legal conferences return live or not? Yes, in 2020, the legal industry accelerated its adoption of technology.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 27, 2022

After the pandemic ushered in remote work, lawyers who serve as outside counsel to Silicon Valley tech companies quickly forged new ways of working with their in-house counterparts. But now that economic headwinds have arrived, it’s more important than ever for outside counsel to nurture those relationships and provide top service.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 17, 2024

Clients are well-informed and have a multitude of legal service options, creating a competitive environment that puts significant pressure on law firms to offer both competitive rates and top-quality service. Lawyers can share documents, discuss cases, and collaborate on tasks with coworkers and clients, all within the platform.

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MyCase

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Every year I write a post that highlights the mobile lawyering statistics from the latest ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. Not surprisingly, the number of lawyers working remotely has increased year over year as attorneys became more comfortable using the technologies that permitted them to work from anywhere.

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LawSites

JANUARY 10, 2024

In a marriage of pro bono platforms, Paladin , a company whose platform connects lawyers with opportunities to provide free legal help, has acquired Pro Bono Manager , a product developed by Pro Bono Net to enable large law firms to manage and measure their pro bono programs. LawHelp.org, a network of statewide legal portals.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

That makes the Technology Initiative Grants awarded annually by the Legal Services Corporation all the more significant, as they are among the few funding sources specifically targeting such technology. Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut will use a $150,593 grant to create a cloud-based pro bono portal.

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InHouseBlog

AUGUST 15, 2023

There are many opportunities to work on climate as a lawyer, no matter your employer, expertise, or seniority. Join Offit Kurman for a complimentary CLE webinar with climate-focused lawyers and recruiters as we explore how to do more work that matters. Presented by the Planetary Lawyer Project and Offit Kurman, P.A.

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