The fast-growing world of legal technology has now lead to another, inevitable listing – the best law school (in the US at least) that can prepare lawyers for the future of law. As law technology expands across all areas of law practice and also helps bridge the justice gap with new applications, so too is
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Neil Watson* While lawyers are notoriously risk-averse, a number of legal entrepreneurs and non-lawyer entrepreneurs like Mark Cuban are changing the face of the law. Cuban announced this week that he would make an undisclosed investment in an ‘access to justice’ company called Paladin, partnering with legal giant Dentons, the world’s largest law firm by
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Florham Park, N.J. — October 29, 2018 – The law firm of Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. today introduced aninteractive, web-based 50 state survey of senior and vulnerable investor laws. This tool provides a solution for financial services firms and their legal, compliance and supervisory personnel with questions about the mosaic of state laws governing (1) who may
John Bowie – The burden of the billable hour for lawyers has been something that is increasingly being shrugged off by new-age law firms intent upon finding ‘a new way’, such as London’s new legal boutique Trowers & Hamlins. Based in the trendy Atrium in Camden’s markets, the four lawyer firm arose from the disenchantment
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Thompson Coburn – The Internet has clearly changed how we think about facts and truth, as the Stormy Daniels versus President Donald Trump case illustrates. Libel is the tort that covers false and highly damaging statements about one’s reputation. Key issues in libel law, like falsity, and what constitutes a highly damaging statement, are based
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Pribanic & Pribanic – It would be great if business owners could focus on nothing more than their day to day duties of creating great products and services, finding customers, and closing deals. Of course, that isn’t the way business works, and much of what you will do as a business owner or manager comes
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Hinshaw & Culbertson – Risk Management Question: October is cyber security awareness month. What steps are you taking to avoid common Internet scams? The Issue: Hackers and their exploits are growing more sophisticated by the day. Avoiding their scams is becoming even more difficult. In 2017, 1.4 billion user names and passwords were accessed on the dark
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Choosing a great law firm to work for involves a variety of considerations: culture, pay, work-life balance – all the usual. But smoothies? Really? For Sacramento firm Downey Brand, a firm with over 150 employees, the firm’s managing partner Scott Shapiro said “random smoothies” were one of the main reasons the firm won the Best
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This article is part of a new book from ARC Group and written by former law partner Patricia Gillette as part of the book “Beyond Bias: Unleashing the Potential of Women in Law.” Patricia Gillette – Whatever we are doing in law firms to increase gender diversity in positions of economic and institutional power is
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From: PersuasiveLitigator – Holland + Hart “Should I Stay, or Should I Go,” ask The Clash. There’s a basic tendency to see our decisions in a binary fashion: There are two choices, and choosing one excludes the other. But for those seeking to understand and improve human decision-making, there are reasons to believe that this is not
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