Since launching my LawNext podcast in 2018, I am honored to have been able to interview many of the leading innovators and entrepreneurs in the legal field, from my very first guest, Nicole Bradick, just six months after she had founded the legal tech development company Theory and Principle, to this week’s guest,
Join us today live at 3 ET for our regular Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, where our panel of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.
We have a guest panelist sitting in with us today; Jeffrey Brandt, editor of the PinHawk Law Technology Daily Digest and chief information
As more and more legal professionals do their work from home and on the road, the high overhead and inflexibility of traditional office models become less and less appealing.
Enter the virtual law firm: an alternative practice model that opens up new possibilities for law firms and their clients.
On LawSites Resources, this week’s
Ninety-two percent of law firms worldwide say they were completely or somewhat prepared for full-scale remote work at the pandemic’s onset, a survey released this morning finds.
Even so, most firms plan to increase their budgets for technology and process software and adopt more cloud-based technologies, the survey reports.
Published for the fourth consecutive year
For lawyers looking to build their books of business, there is gold to be found in the biographies of corporate counsel. A shared law school or employment connection from the past can mean a foot in the door today.
Lawyers’ ability to find and act on those connections just got a significant boost with today’s
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.
These are only the second and third non-profit projects to be approved to participate in the sandbox and the first in the nation to empower non-lawyers go give limited-scope legal advice about medical
The pandemic has made it more essential than ever before for law firms to accept electronic payments. Clients who now pay everything else online have no appetite for lawyers who require paper payments. Plus, law firms that accept e-payments get paid faster and increase their collections, studies suggest.
Against this backdrop, the practice management
Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court acted on the recommendations of a task force that had called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, all with
Our regular Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable is today at 3 p.m. ET. Join us as our panelist of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.
We were off last week, so we have two weeks to catch up on. Here are some of the stories we’re planning to discuss:
The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the first three entities to be licensed as alternative business structures, enabling businesses owned by non-lawyers to deliver legal services under the liberalized licensing rules the court approved last August.
On March 17, 2021, the court entered orders approving two ABS entities:
In e-discovery and investigations, time is often of the essence. While artificial intelligence can reduce the overall time of a project, it can also present a speed bump at the start, in part because of the need to train the AI algorithm, and in part because the legal team may lack the AI-related knowledge or
