LawSites

JANUARY 3, 2022

I had the great privilege to be a guest on the year-end edition of Talk Justice , the podcast produced by the Legal Services Corporation and hosted by Jason Tashea, a member of LSC’s Emerging Leaders Council. We discuss the major developments in 2021 for access to justice, civil legal aid, legal technology and regulatory reform.

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The Barrister

MARCH 11, 2025

Those finding were based from the Class of 2018 Study of Law School Employment & Satisfaction report; the information was collected from 1,477 graduates of ABA-accredited law schools in the United States between September and December 2021. St Francis School of Law (2021), [link] (last visited Feb 27, 2025). Harvard Law Review.

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LawSites

JULY 9, 2021

Santa Clara University School of Law graduated its first Tech Edge JD cohort in May 2021. The Tech Edge JD is an innovation in law school education that attempts to change the return on investment in legal education by providing graduates with essential legal, technology, and business skills required of tech lawyers in Silicon Valley.

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LawSites

MARCH 24, 2022

18, 2021 , effective Jan. See comments [18] and [19] of Rule 1.6. See my Tech Competence page where I track the states that have adopted this duty.]. The Hawai‘i Supreme Court adopted the revision by order dated Aug. The order also amended Rule 5.3, Emphasis added.). In the decade since, 40 states have adopted some version of this duty.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“The demand that emerged in 2020 and 2021 for GC to shift from their core responsibilities to strategic leaders across health and safety, technology adoption, employee development, diversity and other key initiatives served as a crash course in endurance training,” the report concludes. Free registration is available here. .

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

It’s the newest in a line of digital tools–starting with the Internet and Wikipedia–that students might use to cheat in legal education. Also remember that ChatGPT isn’t good at citation and doesn’t have any information in it from after 2021 yet. But we think this is a bit of an overreaction.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2020 and 2021, your firm may have had to make quite a lot of changes quickly to meet the new remote normal. Those who shifted to hybrid or online systems in 2020 and 2021 should refine their systems to get to their next level. Catherine Sanders Reach: First, Review What’s Working and What Is Not.

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

If you know someone who embodies this spirit of innovation and dedication, we urge you to nominate them for the Alli Gerkman Legal Visionary Award. Let’s recognize those who are actively shaping a more effective and inclusive legal system.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So just as you said, we have had three cohorts now of fellows since we started the fellowship in 2021. But so let me ask you, how do you how do you see the role of legal education evolving, to better prepare future lawyers for addressing issues of Equity and justice? Adonica Black 2:44 Absolutely.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JULY 3, 2023

This is particularly useful given that my initial training only encompasses knowledge until September 2021. Transitioning to the topic of generative AI within the legal industry. This may call for law schools and Legal Education providers to add these subjects to their curriculum.

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ELTA

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Dear friends of ELTA, before we all pass out from eggnog, let’s recap the year 2021 and have a glimpse into 2022. What have we achieved in 2021? New chapters Our network of ambassadors – conduits between local legal tech communities and ELTA – is what makes our association strong and efficient.

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LawNext podcast

MAY 17, 2021

former computer programmer and litigator, she is now associate dean of technology and innovation and professor of law at North Carolina Central University School of Law, where her research focuses on legal pedagogy, the use of technology in legal education, and law and technology.

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LawSites

AUGUST 16, 2022

.” Founded in 1992, Micron provides a suite of talent management software specifically designed for law firms and corporate legal departments. CE Manager, for managing and tracking continuing legal education and continuing professional development compliance. Its products include: LawCruit, an applicant tracking system.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 20, 2023

hours of MHSA CLE credit) Ending Harassment, Bullying, and Incivility in the Legal Workplace (1.0 hours of PR CLE credit) Rebalance the Scales: Implicit Bias, Diversity, and the Legal Profession (1.0 Illinois attorneys with last names beginning N–Z: have you completed your CLE hours ahead of the June 30 deadline?

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 26, 2023

research in late 2021 with a survey to judges in eight states with JPE programs. The convening brought together judges, JPE coordinators, JPE commissioners, attorneys, legal educators, court users, and other interested stakeholders to discuss the past and future of judicial performance evaluation. IAALS kicked off its JPE 2.0

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2022

She funded her legal education through the scholarships and appearance fees she earned as Miss. She developed the brought innovation to Illinois lawyers through the Commission’s annual The Future Is Now: Legal Services conference. At Harvard Law School, from which she graduated in 2007, she won a Boykin C.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“The demand that emerged in 2020 and 2021 for GC to shift from their core responsibilities to strategic leaders across health and safety, technology adoption, employee development, diversity and other key initiatives served as a crash course in endurance training,” the report concludes. Free registration is available here. .

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LawNext podcast

AUGUST 23, 2021

In this special LawNext episode in conjunction with GPSolo , five of those contributors come together to share and discuss their views on reregulation: Zachariah DeMeola , director of legal education and the legal profession at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2024

Caryn was named “Most Innovative Changemaker” at the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific 2022, “Innovator of the Year” at the Australian Law Awards 2022 and “Innovator of the Year” at the Partner of the Year Awards 2021. She also is a College of Law Practice Management (COLMP) Fellow.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

Tune in to learn more about Roger’s efforts to use a comic book to teach copyright laws and how it is helping to transform legal education. It was 2021 very deep into the pandemic. And in 2021, things kind of started getting a bit better. So in 2021, I tried to illustrate my story with 3d and self portraits.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With dozens of long-running legal navigator programs across the U.S., and as demonstrated by the efforts in Alaska, legal navigators are well positioned to upskill into more legal service capacity through UPL reform. with a useful framework for customizing their legal training to fit the needs of the communities they serve.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 29, 2023

One of the most telling stories about Monica is her role in ALM’s coverage of 9/11, the full details of which I wrote about in a 2021 post. She discontinued it in 2013, and then revived it in 2016 — with me as her cohost. I was in Manhattan that day, where I was editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal. One of Monica’s photos from 9/11.

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Discovery Advocate

MARCH 13, 2023

The court granted the plaintiff’s motion for sanctions under Federal Rules 26(g) and 37, which included monetary sanctions and requiring the defense counsel to attend “at least eight hours of continuing legal education (CLE) on ESI.” It justified the large sum based, in part, on the fact that while the defendants “knew what went wrong.

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Centerbase

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A 2021 McKinsey study found that more than half of employers are experiencing lower-than-normal employee retention rates. In November 2021 alone, roughly 4.5 Women were 26% of all partners in 2021, but only slightly more than 4% were women of color. Economic forces have led to a buyer’s market. million U.S.

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Clio

MAY 11, 2023

Whether you’re a law student or a recent graduate just starting out (perhaps also handling the costs of your legal education ), understanding the scope of potential first year lawyer salaries can give you realistic expectations for how much you can earn. But what is the average salary for a first year lawyer in the US right now?

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 12, 2023

During the annual Clio Cloud Conference , a legal education and innovation event that was recently held in Nashville, Brian Banks , an NFL player who was wrongfully accused of a crime as a teenager, urged attorneys to think of themselves as agents of justice and creators of fairness. And, of the 9.2

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Lawmatics

MAY 4, 2023

Based on numerous annual reports regarding the state of the legal industry, associate turnover has been a top pain point for attorneys in the past few years. Here is a sampling: A 2021 McKinsey study found that more than 50 percent of employers face lower-than-average employee retention rates. In November 2021, approximately 4.5

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

I think we’ve all heard about hallucinations, and that it can be very confident in the way it gives answers even when the raw that the currency of some of these base models, for example, even GPT four, which was announced just a couple of weeks ago, the data that was used for training, that model cuts off at September of 2021.

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Lawmatics

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Some legal technology trends in 2023 include: 1 Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) ODR platforms enable lawyers to resolve disputes online without in-person meetings or court appearances to save time and money. Are Lawyers Likely to be Replaced by AI? No, not according to projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 27, 2023

030545 ] (2021) – finding that a lawyer violated the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct when he directed gender-based slurs towards a female lawyer during a deposition. Rinella , 677 N.E. 2d 909 (1997) – finding that a lawyer’s sexual activity with clients constituted professional misconduct; and In re Charles Andrew Cohn , [M.R.030545

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Dennis Kennedy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The 2021 training cut-off for GPT large language models should be taken into account. I address that by using techniques like specifying that a person be an expert in the principles and approaches set out in the works of someone whose works are before 2021. In the case of ChatGPT, how do we deal with the current 2021 training cut-off?

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 3, 2023

This is particularly useful given that my initial training only encompasses knowledge until September 2021. Transitioning to the topic of generative AI within the legal industry. This may call for law schools and Legal Education providers to add these subjects to their curriculum.

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So just as you said, we have had three cohorts now of fellows since we started the fellowship in 2021. But so let me ask you, how do you how do you see the role of legal education evolving, to better prepare future lawyers for addressing issues of Equity and justice? Adonica Black 2:44 Absolutely.

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The 2021 training cut-off for GPT large language models should be taken into account. I address that by using techniques like specifying that a person be an expert in the principles and approaches set out in the works of someone whose works are before 2021. In the case of ChatGPT, how do we deal with the current 2021 training cut-off?

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 7, 2023

Tune in to learn more about Roger’s efforts to use a comic book to teach copyright laws and how it is helping to transform legal education. It was 2021 very deep into the pandemic. And in 2021, things kind of started getting a bit better. So in 2021, I tried to illustrate my story with 3d and self portraits.

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 13, 2023

I think we’ve all heard about hallucinations, and that it can be very confident in the way it gives answers even when the raw that the currency of some of these base models, for example, even GPT four, which was announced just a couple of weeks ago, the data that was used for training, that model cuts off at September of 2021.

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Lawmatics

APRIL 11, 2023

The 2021 Legal Trends Report found that 73% of firms accepted online payments. According to the 2021 Legal Trends Report , 81 percent of all legal consumers would prefer to pay their legal fees on a payment plan. Educational Expenses Legal education doesn’t end with law school or passing the bar.

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