Above The Law

MARCH 19, 2025

Ehrhardt suggested using clear engagement agreements and billing policies to manage expectations upfront. She outlines a few strategies below: Strategies to Improve Client Communication Engagement Agreements: Clearly define the scope of work, fee structures, and how trust account funds will be used.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 5, 2022

There are the easy elements in your overhead: rent, phone, copier rental, research subscriptions, case management software, marketing. The owner does the sales call, the receptionist sends out the fee agreement, and the paralegal or office manager gets the new client set up in the practice management system.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

AUGUST 31, 2024

In order to pave the road for launching this option in your law firm, you’d need to tweak your payment clause in your fee agreement, to reflect your new process; if you’re taking credit or debit cards, you can add an authorization form, incorporated by reference in to your engagement agreement.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

0021 for non-subscription streams , up from the current $.0018. For subscription streams, the fee increases to $.0026 As detailed below, both the per-performance and annual minimum fees will be increasing for both commercial and nonprofit webcasters. The per-performance royalty increases to $.0021 0026 per performance from $.0023.

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LawSites

JANUARY 24, 2024

Both features are available to Practical Law customers in the United States who have the dynamic tool set subscription, which is PL’s premiere subscription level. They will be available to customers in other countries later this year. It can draw from PL content, SEC documents, or a customer’s own internal documents.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 26, 2021

And, when it comes to adding new clients, MyCase makes it a simple process to get virtual pen to virtual paper on an engagement agreement with its built-in esignature tool. MyCase Payments also supports payment plans and subscription billing. Users can send out esignature requests from templates, including to multiple signers.

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Strictly Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The most commonly included sections of a PPM are (i) a description of the issuer, (ii) a description of the terms of the offering, (iii) certain risk factors and disclosures, (iv) a subscription agreement and investor questionnaire, and (iv) a summary of any material agreements. corporate documents and stockholders agreements).

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MyCase

JUNE 30, 2022

Buying Amazon Prime (or a Netflix subscription) is pretty cheap. Engagement Agreement. The terminus point of any law firm intake system is the signing of a fee agreement by a client. Wait, hold up: I mean, an engagement agreement. Pricing Information. While that may cost $15/month, a lawyer’s time may cost $15/ minute.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This means that if you need a custom template for, say, a certain type of lease agreement, you can use Practical Guidance to create one and pull it directly into your system. It incorporates Lexis Practical Guidance a proprietary legal AI tool that provides practice notes, contract templates, and other data-driven guidance to subscribers.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 7, 2025

Flat-Fee & Subscription Models: More firms are offering predictable pricing, like flat fees or fixed retainers, instead of unpredictable hourly rates. Firms that provide upfront cost estimates and detailed invoices that remove confusion build stronger client relationships. within 24-48 hours).

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A unanimous Second Circuit panel backed a lower court's decision to dismiss Teri Woods Publishing's copyright and contract claims against Audible and other audiobook distributors on Wednesday, holding that the parties' licensing agreement allowed them to distribute the publisher's works through their subscription-based streaming services.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 20, 2023

VerifAI is a standalone product that requires no other SpotDraft subscription. For example, you could add the guideline, “The term of the agreement should be a maximum of one year,” and VerifAI would look for and redline any variations from that. It works out-of-the-box, with no training required for users.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 2, 2021

Zoom Terms of Service Agreement. This may limit legal recourse against Zoom due to Zoom’s draconian terms of service agreement. Zoom’s “as-is” terms of service agreement absolves Zoom of responsibility for content, loss of content, loss due to access problems, and lost deleted content.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 1, 2021

In fact, 71 percent of Axon’s revenue in 2019 was from subscription bundles like their “officer safety plan” which offers unlimited cloud storage, tagging software and body cameras, among other surveillance items. Axon sells BWC and DEMS together as a “system,” marketed as a convenient way to buy all of the necessary surveillance equipment.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Should subscription finance lenders give borrowing base credit for investors that signed their subscription agreements using electronic signatures? While there are some exceptions.

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LawSites

JUNE 27, 2023

While those document analysis tools have been focused on the litigation side of legal practice, LexisNexis is today unveiling a document analysis tool designed for transactional attorneys, to help them research, negotiate and close transactional agreements. Future releases will add other transaction types.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Consider our hypothetical: When a corporate in-house lawyer needs to produce an everyday agreement (e.g., an NDA or a simple license agreement) or a routine court filing (e.g., a pro hac vice motion), they now face two radically different options.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Pittsburgh Steelers’ stadium operator was sued in Ohio federal court after allegedly breaching a three-year agreement with a secondary market-meat provider. But in 2021 and 2022, the stadium allegedly breached that agreement, by allowing vendors to bypass the exclusivity arrangement.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 30, 2021

She is the author of the ABA book “Trust Accounting in One Hour for Lawyers,” co-author of “ Paperless in One Hour for Lawyers , ” and a contributing author to “Flying Solo: A Survival Guide” and the Oregon State Bar “Fee Agreement Compendium.” . LIVE Zoom transcription requires the Business subscription at $20 a month.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 23, 2021

For subscription webcasting, SoundExchange proposes that the rates increase from $.0024 First, it provides ad-supported streams meant to introduce listeners to Google’s music services in the hope that these listeners will eventually upgrade to a subscription interactive service. 0016 for subscription services.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 26, 2021

2] In April 2021, Justice Perram awarded Apple a temporary three-month stay of proceedings on the basis of an exclusive foreign choice of court agreement in favour of the courts of the Northern District of California. 1 Exclusive Choice of Foreign Court Agreements in Australia. 3 Apple’s App Developer Agreement.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Services that allow this kind of on-demand listening, including many of the so-called "subscription services" where you can effectively order up the music that you want to hear, must directly negotiate with the copyright holders for the rights to use the music that they play.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The Board also set default rates for broadcasters who are streaming, but who had not opted into the NAB SoundExchange settlement agreement entered into in 2009. The rates for broadcasters are identical to those that apply to broadcasters who did opt into that agreement: 2011 - $.0017 0017 per performance. 0020 per performance.

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MyCase

MAY 20, 2021

Signing the fee agreement? is the CEO of Red Cave Law Firm Consulting , which offers subscription-based law firm business management consulting services for law firms, bar associations and corporations. Ask yourself: What does that process look like? Who gets those notifications? What do they do next? An initial consultation meeting?

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Strictly Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Usually, your counsel will prepare the Form on your behalf, but in order for them to do that, you’ll need to tell them about the subscription as soon as it happens. Use the unsubscribe link in those emails to opt out at any time. Processing…. You're on the list.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

” # # # SOURCE: Settlement Agreement [link] (subscription required).

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The FCC opened a settlement window through January 28, 2022 for parties to submit technical amendments or work with others in their MX group to enter into settlement agreements or otherwise resolve conflicts. The rates were subject to cost-of-living increases – and the rise in the cost-of-living index triggered the increase for 2022.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2009

The Webcasting Settlement Act (which we summarized here ) gives webcasters until February 15 to reach an agreement as to rates that would become an alternative to the rates that the CRB established. At the same time, the CRB noticed the start of a proceeding for the royalty for " new subscription services."

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NewmanFerraraLLP

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” # # # SOURCE: Arizona Attorney General Press Release (re settlement) Settlement Agreement Complaint [link] ( subscription required). but it likely won’t be the last.”

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NewmanFerraraLLP

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” # # # SOURCE: Arizona Attorney General Press Release (re settlement) Settlement Agreement Complaint [link] ( subscription required). but it likely won’t be the last.”

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, if a client is reviewing a DocuSign agreement to hire your law firm, the font should be easy to read on all screen types—especially mobile. We offer affordable monthly and yearly subscriptions. Below are a few serif and sans serif font options that work well for legal documents. Serif Fonts .

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 29, 2021

The court determined that these efforts, among others, amounted to “reasonable means of maintaining the secrecy of the disputed information,” and that Le Tote also established that such information – including the “detailed resources needed to operate a fashion rental subscription business” – has “economic value.”.

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LawSites

APRIL 9, 2024

’ Do you have to go through all the agreements? A hallmark of the service from the start has been fixed-price subscriptions that cover everything in its research database. .” No, you could have a chatbot that sits in that deal room and can answer context-specific questions about the deal.” ”

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It was founded last year by Brian Liu , one of the original founders of LegalZoom and its chairman until 2018; Arya Firoozmand , a cofounder together with Liu of BizCounsel , a platform that provides subscription lawyers for small businesses; and Curt Brown , who was also a cofounder of BizCounsel.

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LawVu

MAY 8, 2025

No matter which workflows youre tackling, youll benefit from: Centralized information: With legal projects, matters, invoices, agreements, documents and knowledge, invoices and interactions with outside counsel in one place, you can say goodbye to endless email searches and inefficient communications.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 22, 2022

Defendant was the insurance agent who assisted in obtaining these bonds, and in conjunction with getting the bonds, plaintiff, plaintiff’s husband, plaintiff’s step-son, and the business were required to sign an indemnity agreement. Plaintiff’s husband signed the indemnity agreement without reading it or having an attorney review it.

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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

Here’s another use: the subscription law firm. Regular readers of the blog have seen me talk about subscription law firms, but for all of you who haven’t read my voluminous babbling on that brilliant topic , here goes. We also wrote about how much money is on the table for lawyers who want to switch to a subscription offering).

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