LawSites

MAY 21, 2021

At a time when many are predicting a tsunami of eviction cases resulting from the pandemic, the organization Pro Bono Net , in collaboration with several legal aid organizations, has launched TenantHelpNY.org , an online resource designed to help tenants in New York understand their housing rights.

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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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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 27, 2024

Understanding these different roles can help you make well-informed decisions about your future, opening up new and exciting opportunities outside the traditional legal framework. However, his legal journey, filled with unique experiences and unexpected turns, has led him to a career he loves.

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ALPS

MARCH 2, 2022

No policy is ever going to hit the New York Times bestseller list. Here is a short list of a few things I wish more lawyers understood about malpractice insurance, all driven by common questions we hear year after year. Don’t malpractice policies cover me for everything I do as a lawyer? Actually, no.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The pandemic has raised a number of ethical issues for lawyers and resulted in the issuance of several ethics opinions addressing those issues. In addition, lawyers working remotely must consider the security and confidentiality of their procedures and systems. New York County Lawyers Association Formal Opinion 754-2020 (Aug.

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ALPS

JUNE 8, 2023

In February of 2023, the front page of the New York Times reported on a bizarre exchange between technology writer, Kevin Roose, and a chatbot he was working with, named Sydney. In fact, AI and specific resources such as ChatGPT can have great value for lawyers and their clients, if used properly and under proper supervision.

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Above The Law

MAY 28, 2025

To avoid the looming threat of an executive order stripping it of federal contracts and security clearances, the firm struck a deal: $100 million in vaguely defined pro bono legal services for causes that both the firm and Trump support. It was not ever intending to become Legal Aid for individual veterans with axes to grind.

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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

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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The Estrin Report

AUGUST 24, 2023

Aside from the lawyers associated with the disbanding Daugherty Lordan LLP who are actively seeking new positions, legal recruiters in the market suggest that attorneys from Lewis Brisbois are also actively exploring alternative opportunities to distance themselves from the situation. It’s just this domino effect.”

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LawSites

MAY 3, 2022

Paladin , a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to manage their pro bono programs and opportunities, has raised $8 million in Series A funding, which it plans to use to further develop its product and expand its market internationally. .

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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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MyCase

AUGUST 8, 2022

SaaS for Lawyers. If you’ve ever used tools like Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or MyCase legal practice management software, you’re familiar with SaaS—software as a service. SaaS is modernizing the legal industry in two ways: by making law firms more efficient and creating career opportunities for lawyers worldwide.

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LawSites

JUNE 2, 2021

Later that year, ParkerGale brought in a new chief executive officer, Tom Obermaier , who had most recently been CEO of Regulatory DataCorp, a reg tech firm serving the global financial community, and who began his career as lawyer at Skadden. SurePoint’s customers are primarily midsized U.S. Aiming for Explosive Growth.

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MyCase

AUGUST 8, 2022

SaaS for Lawyers. If you’ve ever used tools like Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or MyCase legal practice management software, you’re familiar with SaaS—software as a service. SaaS is modernizing the legal industry in two ways: by making law firms more efficient and creating career opportunities for lawyers worldwide.

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InHouseBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2023

LHH’s guide also indicates that the legal sector may be one of the first to be impacted by the advent of AI technology and tools that will change the delivery of legal services: “Researchers at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University concluded that legal services is the industry most exposed to AI*, (..)

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the blur of activity that was last week, I attended two legal tech conferences, plus an adjacent legal technology summit. After starting the week in New York at the glitzy celebration of big law tech that is Legalweek , and ending it in Charlotte, N.C., The justice gap extends well beyond low-income Americans.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Of course, out of necessity, most midsize law firms adapted and implemented technologies that allowed lawyers and law firm staff to work from home. The transition has major implications going forward for firm overhead costs, productivity, delivery of legal services, and technology investments. during 2020.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Of course, out of necessity, most midsize law firms adapted and implemented technologies that allowed lawyers and law firm staff to work from home. The transition has major implications going forward for firm overhead costs, productivity, delivery of legal services, and technology investments. during 2020.

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LawSites

AUGUST 3, 2023

Readers may remember the controversy that erupted then over the company DoNotPay , which billed itself as the world’s first robot lawyer, and its founder Joshua Browder. First, it is no secret that the issue of regulatory reform remains controversial among lawyers generally and most certainly within the ABA.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The Clio Cloud Conference is always the occasion for the law practice management company to announce new and enhanced products, and today’s kick-off of this year’s event was no different, with CEO Jack Newton unveiling what he described to me as the most important product release since Clio’s debut 13 years ago. Clio Drive.

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LawSites

JULY 29, 2021

Other investors included Jack Newton , cofounder and CEO of law practice management company Clio ; Lightbank ; Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures ; Gaingels , a network of LGBT investors; Lisa Stone , WestRiver Group managing director and former founder and CEO of BlogHer; and EquityESQ, led by San Diego lawyer and investor Ed Diab.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dashboard Legal. Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. Our new software helps lawyers organize their inboxes, track documents and deadlines, and collaborate with colleagues. Built by lawyers for lawyers. Think of it as the “rideshare app” for legal services.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 30, 2023

The New York State Bar Association regularly publishes answers to ethics questions it receives from lawyers. To view the full text of the analysis, please click here: OPINION 1245

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LawSites

APRIL 14, 2022

If the client qualifies for pro bono assistance, the LinGo team will match the person with a pro bono lawyer through Paladin to facilitate the work directly. These include: Succession to Service in Colorado, connecting volunteer lawyers to their communities through local legal services organizations to help residents obtain legal help.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Guides on resources and legal information and a pointer to Montana Law Help legal services ( [link] ) are also available. New York State Unified Court System has put information regarding their Covid-19 pandemic procedures front and center in December, 2021 when we did this compilation ( [link] ).

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Law 360

AUGUST 2, 2021

AT&T can't stop a former Baker Botts LLP lawyer and two ex-Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys from working on a $450 million patent case against it just because they provided it legal services years before the disputed patent was ever crafted, a New York federal court heard.

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Law 360

JUNE 30, 2021

AT&T on Tuesday asked a New York federal court to disqualify a former Baker Botts attorney and two former Akin Gump attorneys from representing a company that hit the telecom giant with a $450 million patent infringement suit, arguing that the lawyers previously provided extensive legal services for AT&T.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 29, 2022

The ABA reports that 60 percent of lawyers use cloud applications. The seismic shift toward a virtual workplace has presented a new question: does a law practice need a physical location? Some people try to save money on legal services by using websites such as LegalZoom or LegalShield. Reduced Overhead Costs .

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Traction: We have three paying mid-sized customers and have pilot negotiations underway with Microsoft’s and Facebook’s in-house legal departments. Headquarters: New York, N.Y. How we’re unique: While other products are descriptive in nature, we are building the first truly prescriptive set of legal analytics products.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 7, 2018

Winning team of Denver’s chapter of the Global Legal Hackathon, hosted at Legal Talk Network’s headquarters, offers explanations and reviews of online legal contracts and terms in plain language. For more information on the winning team, listen to Legal Talk Network’s episode of On The Road , recorded after they won.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dashboard Legal. Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. Our new software helps lawyers organize their inboxes, track documents and deadlines, and collaborate with colleagues. Built by lawyers for lawyers. Think of it as the “rideshare app” for legal services.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Paladin , a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to streamline and manage their pro bono programs and opportunities, is expanding from the United States to the United Kingdom.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 11, 2025

Providing prospective clients with free educational materials can boost your reputation and help those in need find the right legal services. Before integrating new tools into your workflows, take the time to identify the risks associated with adopting legal technology. They used ChatGPT to create a legal brief.

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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

Watching the 2013 presentations about disruption of legal services might not be very shocking, because the format, the presentation, and the topics have become so widely adopted that they seem like they have always been around. Today we take for granted that legal services must be reformed, or they will be disrupted.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 1, 2022

Dashboard Legal. Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. Our new software helps lawyers organize their inboxes, track documents and deadlines, and collaborate with colleagues. Dashboard Legal turns the inbox into a project management platform. and 30% from the U.K.

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MyCase

JUNE 5, 2024

By automating routine and time-consuming tasks, AI liberates legal professionals from the drudgery of rote work, allowing them to concentrate on the more strategic aspects of their practice. This shift is not just about saving time or cutting costs; it’s about enhancing the precision and effectiveness of legal services.

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