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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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DECEMBER 28, 2021

Louisiana, on the other hand, is more restrictive, requiring lawyers to include the file number of their state-reviewed ads. Since then, plaintiff’s PI lawyers have leaned into this low-risk, armchair model of client development and lead generators have flourished. For-profit lawyer referral services. The ABA Model Rules.

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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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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. ” Listen: I interviewed Himonas and John R. .”

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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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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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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.” Essentially, by this definition, a person who is not licensed to practice law may not offer attorney services or get paid for them. What is UPL?

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

But, that’s all just an initial volley in the coming clash between small law firms and legal service providers. Where ABS ends up being allowed, attorney and non-attorney business owners can work together and share revenue.

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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. Last year, Rasa was selected as the 2022 Access to Justice winner at the American Legal Technology Awards. state to automate the criminal record expungement process for misdemeanor offenses.

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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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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. She also sees that as an important component of legal education. “If

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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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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

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

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. ” Listen: I interviewed Himonas and John R. .”

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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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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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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 1, 2023

Should Rules of Professional Conduct be relaxed to address the growing access to justice problem and other challenges affecting legal services delivery in our state? This already has happened in Arizona and Utah. Come and take part in the debate!

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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. From there is a link to their courthelp web page ( [link] ) that "can help you when you don't have a lawyer". Several of these services include guided forms as part of the eFiling process.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

My Pocket Lawyer , a platform that uses gen AI to provide accessible high-quality legal information online, emerged from stealth last month with the goal of fundamentally changing the legal industry by aligning economic incentives for lawyers and consumers to improve access to justice.

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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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ALPS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This week on the Path to Well-Being in Law podcast, Bree and Chris continue their mission to highlight people doing important work in the space of lawyer well-being by welcoming Heidi Alexander. CHRIS NEWBOLD: Hello and welcome to episode seven of the National Taskforce on Lawyer Well-Being podcast series, The Path to Well-Being in Law.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Axiom , one of the longest-running alternative legal services providers, today joins the ranks of licensed legal services providers as it opens Axiom Advice & Counsel LLC (AA&C), a law firm in Arizona, where it plans to provide corporate legal services to businesses.

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