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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

Just 28 years old, he had won accolades as an entrepreneur, first starting California Legal Pros, a company that marketed various legal services to both consumers and lawyers, then QuickLegal, a service that provided on-demand legal advice to consumers, and then QuickLegal Practice Management, a cloud practice management platform for lawyers.

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Natural Disasters & Legal Ramifications

The Barrister

And just as physical damage can persist after a disaster hits, so can the legal issues. This is where legal advice and resources provided by volunteer attorneys are crucial. iStock Civil legal issues after a natural disaster can be broken up into a timeline comprised of short-term, medium-term, and long-term. P75 S7 1977.

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Software Substitutes for Lawyers

The Law Product Makers blog

Marc Andreessen quipped in 2011: “Software is eating the world”. The legal profession is not immune from this development. In a large sense, law is information or as Bill Palin, the young lawyer who won the ABA’s Legal Hackathon at last year’s ABA Annual Meeting , says, “law is code”. Law has a high information component.

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Ethical Considerations for Flat Fee Billing

Attorney at Work

The information provided in this post does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice; instead, all information, content and materials are for general informational purposes only. 91-2 & Formal Advisory Opinion No. 91-2 & Formal Advisory Opinion No. Laws, rules, regulations, and opinions vary by jurisdiction.

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At A Turning Point for the Law Firm Docketing Profession, A Conversation with Three of its Trailblazers

LawSites

Back in 2011, Chris Gierymski, director of docketing at DLA Piper in Chicago, reached out to a lot of different people through various email distribution groups. We don’t provide legal advice, even if we’re lawyers. So let’s start at the beginning: How did it get started? OLENICH: It’s an interesting story.

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10 Best Lead Generation Services for Lawyers

Clio

Nolo Review for Lawyers Nolo started off as an independent source for free legal information and do-it-yourself legal guides over 40 years ago. It was acquired in 2011 by Internet Brands and made part of the Martindale Legal Marketing Network.

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The Legal Singularity and the Future of Legal Research – Benjamin Alarie and Abdi Aidid (TGIR Ep. 193)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

In 2011, I was associate dean of the faculty here at the University of Toronto, it was in the context of leading review of the curriculum, the first year curriculum that I got really interested in thinking about the future of legal education. And, and as an academic, my focus is tax law. I’m maybe butchering that quote a little bit.