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Emerging Areas of Legal Practice: How Technology Has an Impact

Martindale-Avvo

When theres a palpable shift in society, industry, or the economy, practicing lawyers feel the effects. Thats true as advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and the activities of big tech firms raise concerns about intellectual property rights and data privacy. Whatever the outcome, its added work for lawyers.

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Leveraging AI to Enhance Your Legal Blog: How ChatGPT Can Help Lawyers Develop a Business Development Niche

Kevin O'Keefe

The single biggest impediment to blog success for lawyers is failing to focus on a niche. Niche blogs become must reads for an audience, enable a lawyer to build a reputation (often where no other lawyer is playing) and enable relationships to flourish, often for work outside the niche. The tighter the niche the better.

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The Highest-growth Legal Practice Areas in 2024 and Beyond

Clio

These growth areas don’t only affect new lawyers who are interested in transitioning to these eight fields. They also impact more experienced lawyers whose current area of practice overlaps with these emerging areas of practice. For example, employment lawyers need to stay up to date on regulatory changes and laws related to labor law.

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Pandemic-Related Legal Ethics Opinions: A Compendium

LawSites

The pandemic has raised a number of ethical issues for lawyers and resulted in the issuance of several ethics opinions addressing those issues. In addition, lawyers working remotely must consider the security and confidentiality of their procedures and systems. New York County Lawyers Association Formal Opinion 754-2020 (Aug.

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2024 Law Firm Data Security Guide: How to Keep Your Law Firm Secure

Clio

Law firm data security should be a top priority for any practice, and here’s why: Clients trust you with their most confidential information. Since clients entrust lawyers with so much of their sensitive data, law firms make prime targets for cybercrime. You don’t want your law firm to become part of that statistic.

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Best law books: the ultimate reading list for legal professionals

Simple Legal

Indiana University’s Law School Survey of Student Engagement found that students spend an average of 18.6 hours a week reading for class, and the American Bar Association notes that typical lawyers spend 17% of their workday on legal research.

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50 Legal Guides to Help Americans Understand Their Rights

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Many of these consequences involve the division of money and property. The Divorce center describes how various assets may be divided , from real estate and businesses to intellectual property. They may want to work with a lawyer to maximize their chance of success. armed forces.