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Arizona’s Alternative Business Structure Program Improved Access To Justice For Tort Victims And Possibly Large Companies

Above The Law

According to the 2019 Task Force on the Delivery of Legal Services report which recommended the creation of the ABS program, there is a decline in the representation of individuals in the people law sector. Specifically the lack of legal services for low-income individuals and rural communities.

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What’s New in Law Firm Ownership?

Attorney at Work

It is a realistic prediction that we’ll live in a world where thousands of estate planning lawyers work for Fidelity, and hedge funds run the most significant plaintiff tort outfits. Millions remain inadequately fed and housed, and there don’t seem to be nearly as many structural barriers in those areas as there are in the legal profession.

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Mixed Messages from the ABA, As It ‘Reaffirms’ Rule Against Nonlawyer Ownership while also Encouraging Innovation

LawSites

Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services regulation that that allowed non-traditional legal services providers. Two years ago, Arizona became the first state to completely eliminate the prohibition. Other states continue to study the issue.

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CRM Best Practices for Law Firms: Engaging and Retaining Clients

CosmoLex

In turn, this will improve your firm’s reputation as a client-centered, legal service provider and garner you more word-of-mouth recommendations, online reviews, and social media comments. Your legal CRM should also fully integrate with other tools that you use in your law firm, particularly your legal practice management software.

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How to Get Work as a Paralegal

SimplyLawJobs

This covers all the basic areas of academic law including, English Legal System, Contract Law, Law of Tort and a choice of another legal topic. How to Begin Your Career in the Legal Industry. The legal industry is growing, and individuals seeking legal services are ready to pay handsomely to get top-notch services.

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The Benefits of Boutique Law Firms

MyCase

Litigation : This may include a range of both civil and criminal litigation cases, such as personal injury tort claims, divorce and family law cases, contract disputes, and so on. . Legal Services . Biglaw firms are designed to offer a wide range of legal services in order to gain more clientele.

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A Major Amendment to Provisions on Foreign-Related Civil Procedures Is Planned in China

Conflict of Laws

The amendment draft provides proceedings may be brought before the courts “where the contract is signed or performed, the subject matter of the action is located, the defendant has any distrainable property, the tort or harmful event occurred, or the defendant has any representative office” (Art. 276, para. 276, para.