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Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms

LawSites

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 the goal of enhancing access to justice.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 8, 2021

LLRX

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness.

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5 key metrics to track | Getting to inbox zero | A ’70s-era kidnapping | Crisis lawyering, a niche practice

Legal Talk Network

When exploring different ways to improve a practice, work habits, whatever really, a common piece of advice is to look at the data. But what does that mean? Which data points? What metrics matter? Legal marketing experts Gyi Tsakalakis and Conrad Saam narrow the field for lawyers who are either hands-on marketers or working with teams and vendors. Their latest Lunch Hour Legal Marketing episode covers the top 5 (really 10) metrics that matter most and least.

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DIY eDiscovery: Taking Control & Saving Money

NSLT

DIY eDiscovery: Taking Control & Saving Money You can’t do ediscovery if you don’t have some basic tools for reviewing, tagging, collecting, and producing electronic evidence.

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Survey: 92% Of Firms Say They Were Prepared For Full-Scale Remote Work

LawSites

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 by Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms, the Business of Law and Legal Technology Survey

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We spent six years scouring billions of links, and found the web is both expanding and shrinking

LLRX

More than a quarter of a century since its first commercial use, the growth of the online world is now slowing down in some key categories. A multi-year research project analyzing global trends in online diversity and dominance conducted by Paul X. McCarthy and Marian-Andrei Rizoiu reveals a dramatic consolidation of attention towards a shrinking (but increasingly dominant) group of online organizations.

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Ep 122: Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms

LawNext podcast

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 the goal of enhancing access to justice, On today’s episode of LawNext, we are joined by Arizona Supreme Court Vice Chief Justice Ann A.

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Exclusive: Bill4Time Launches Fully Integrated Electronic Payments

LawSites

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 platform Bill4Time is today unveiling built-in electronic payments, enabling a law firm’s clients to view invoices online and make full or pa

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Utah Sandbox OKs Two Programs Enabling Non-Lawyers To Give Legal Advice On Medical Debt

LawSites

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 debt, according to Stacy Butler , director of the Innovation for Justice Program at the University of Arizona James E.

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A ‘Next-Generation’ Product for Researching Corporate Counsel

LawSites

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 release by Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory of a major upgrade and enhancement of its Corporate Counsel Profiler.

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Featured Resource: How To Build A Virtual Law Firm (And Why You Should)

LawSites

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 featured resource, How To Build A Virtual Law Firm (And Why You Should) , is a complimentary, on-demand webinar, produced by Clio , that covers how to start and

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Legaltech Week Live: Today’s Topics – And A Special Guest Panelist

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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 officer at the law firm Jackson Kelly.

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Spots Coming Available To Sponsor LawNext Podcast

LawSites

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, Arizona Supreme Court Vice Chief Justice Ann A.

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Excel - VLOOKUP

NSLT

Excel - VLOOKUP: When and how to use it Learn how to use the VLOOKUP function to find data in a large spreadsheet, and on other worksheets in a large workbook. These videos explain each of the VLOOKUP arguments, and mistakes to avoid.

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Excel - VLOOKUP

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Excel - VLOOKUP: When and how to use it Learn how to use the VLOOKUP function to find data in a large spreadsheet, and on other worksheets in a large workbook. These videos explain each of the VLOOKUP arguments, and mistakes to avoid.

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