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How to Solve Unmet Legal Needs and Restore Public Trust – A Justice Blueprint

Colin S. Levy

Renee Knake Jefferson is the author of the book Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis (NYU Press 2024) and founder of the Legal Ethics Roundup weekly newsletter. She holds the endowed Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics and is a Professor of Law at the University of Houston. Regulatory Reforms.

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How Attorneys Can Use Legal Data for Strategic Law Firm Positioning

Attorney at Work

Using legal data for strategic law firm planning is no longer reserved for BigLaw. A great example of how firms can use short-term trends to shore up their practices and prepare for downturns comes from the dramatic decline in bankruptcy cases filed in 2020.

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Driving law firm efficiency: Proven productivity tips

Legal Tech Monitor

Bankruptcy matters had the highest WIP (10.9) The report also included data on hours billed per case by practice area in 2022, along with data on the number of online court date reminders sent in 2022 for a variety of different practice areas.

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FTX Sues Bankman-Fried and Ex-Executives in Bid to Recoup Alleged Fraudulent Transfers

Legal Tech Monitor

The adversary proceeding in Delaware bankruptcy court accused the founder and others of “abus[ing] their control over the FTX Group to commit one of the largest financial frauds in history.”

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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

On the other hand, Abdi Aidid practiced as a commercial litigator in New York before becoming the Vice President of Legal Research at Blue J. He led the team of lawyers and research analysts and helped develop AI-informed predictive tools, which predict how future courts are likely to rule on new legal situations.

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Passive Timekeeping Can Earn A Lawyer An Extra $22K A Year, MyCase Data Analysis Shows

Legal Tech Monitor

It found that the practice areas with the highest WIP rates are bankruptcy, immigration and personal injury, while those with the lowest are employment and traffic. The final productivity benchmark the report examined was the number of court date reminders sent to clients.

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FOIAengine: Requests Pointed to SBF’s Shaky World Long Before FTX Imploded

Legal Tech Monitor

Most recently, on March 2, the new managers at FTX told the Delaware bankruptcy court they had identified a deficit of $8.9 federal appeals court. The cases are largely filed in Delaware bankruptcy court, but actions have been filed in state and federal courts nationwide.