Described by attendees as the «must
do legal conference of the year», LawFest, New Zealand's premier legal innovation and technology event, attracted over 250 legal professionals from across the country, revealing a heightened appetite for change in how legal services are delivered.
Not exact matches
«It is not a stable source of value, and it doesn't constitute
legal tender,» she told reporters at her last press
conference as leader of the central bank.
While the law doesn't mention vice chairs, the Senate Republican
conference is leaning on its
legal memo released Saturday that says the spending is up to the temporary president of the Senate, in this case John Flanagan.
Senate Republicans on Monday leaned heavily on the
legal opinion of the
conference's top counsel who released a 4 - page
legal opinion on Saturday night concluding the arrangement didn't violate the law.
«This is my answer no matter how many times you tell me: There was a
legal opinion by David Lewis, our
legal counsel, saying it was proper to
do,» he said when asked if the
conference was seeking an independent
legal opinion.
«Everything we've
done from the beginning is
legal and appropriate,» the mayor told reporters during an impromptu press
conference over the summer.
While the general public is mainly inclined to live tweet television programs (don't get me started), the practice is increasingly being applied at
conferences, debates,
legal proceedings and all manner of other events at which potentially compelling tweet content is continually generated.
«I'm confident of the fact that we handled everything legally and ethically; that we
did the things I wish more people would
do in public service, we sought guidance from an ethics board,» de Blasio said at an unrelated Queens press
conference, adding that he sought
legal advice from lawyers and opinions from the Conflicts of Interest Board.
But the proposal
does include millions of dollar set aside for immigrant
legal defense, a measure sought by the Independent Democratic
Conference.
The Independent Democratic
Conference is happy to put its record of accomplishments — a $ 15 minimum wage, a $ 10 million dollar immigrant
legal defense fund and the strongest paid family leave program in the nation — against the
do nothing Working Families Party,» she said.
That means the public still
does not know how much Senate President Malcolm Smith (D - Queens) makes with his title insurance company, Great Abstract Title Co., or how much Senate Democratic
Conference Leader John Sampson (D - Brooklyn), Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and other lawyer - legislators make from their
legal practices.
He has delivered keynote addresses at
conferences that have little to
do with the
legal world, including a Regional Plan Association convention attended by many of the city's political and business elite.
The ASPCA, the National
Conference of Legislatures and the Animal
Legal and Historical Web Center at the Michigan State University College of Law didn't immediately know Wednesday of any state that has gone as far as the New York proposal.
EULAs and Terms of Service: what works and what doesn't Interactive Entertainment
Legal Forum, October 2011 (London, UK) A beginner's guide to intellectual property in games Digital Spark
conference, August 2011 (Edinburgh, UK)
A few hours later, Hawaii State representative Chris Lee announced via a press
conference that the pineapple US state will pursue
legal action against AAA games that behave in the way EA
did, calling Battlefront II a «Star Wars - themed casino».
E&E
Legal sponsored (PDF) a session at the 2017 Conservative Political Action
Conference (CPAC) titled «Fake Climate News Camouflaging an Anti-Capitalist Agenda — and What President Trump Plans To
Do About It.»
If you are a «legitimate»
legal blogger and would like to request a
conference pass, you may
do so by contacting Jill Windwer, vice president of digital products and Law.com,
[email protected].
Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, alluded to this in his speech at the
Legal Wales
Conference 2014 on 10 October: «The academics debate whether it is conceivable that Parliament would enact a law which was so contrary to principle that the courts would ignore it — eg a law which prevents citizens from challenging any decision of a government department in the courts... I profoundly hope that it is an issue which never has to be tested, not least because, if it
does, something will already have gone very wrong with our system of government.»
We don't usually see those kinds of sessions at
legal - related
conferences.
At last week's Pacific
Legal Technology
Conference, I
did a presentation on cloud computing and SaaS (Software as a Service) with Catherine Sanders Reach.
They
do not need to rent a
conference room to fit your 30 person
legal team, but if you want 3 or so lawyers in with you, and you can afford paying each $ 250 - $ 500 per hour, then have at it.
For lawyers, judges and law students, don't forget the Canadian Bar Association's LPAC (
Legal Profession Assistance
Conference) was also created to help you and your family with personal, emotional, health and lifestyle issues.
We just had one on called «Disruptive Innovation in the Market for
Legal Services» which actually where there were something like 1280 tweets from the
conference to show the connection between the digital and the in person; we're actually
doing one on Friday on global pro-bono.
This seemingly singleminded focus by the
conference organizers certainly didn't help and arguably served to drown out discussions of more dynamic and evolving
legal technology topics.
Perhaps you went to a
legal conference and met a potential client who didn't convert.
On the
conference agenda is a session called, «What You Can Get Away With:
Legal Tips, from copyright to Apple v.
Does,» where Law.com Content Director Jennifer Collins will moderate an audience discussion with Lauren Gelman, associate director for Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, and Wendy Seltzer, an attorney and special projects coordinator with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Doing things differently was top of mind at the
conference, where lawyers, startups and
legal tech enthusiasts came together to talk about how technology is changing the
legal industry.
Other than client interviews and
conferences,
do firm attorneys furnish
legal services from the advertised location?
Most of the interviews are with folks who fall somewhere under the West or Thomson Reuters corporate umbrella, but West
did get a number of predictions from
legal technology journalists during the
conference:
As we
did last year for both the New York and West Coast versions of the trade show and
conference, we'll be highlighting reports from Law Technology News and Law.com's
Legal Technology editors, in addition to collecting blog posts and tweets about the show from around the Web.
It all had to
do with her post, Bridges Not Walls, in which she summarized a speech she gave yesterday to the
Legal Sales and Service Organization's RainDance
conference.
But ultimately, if any leader were to devote today's press
conference to what my government would pledge to
do about access to
legal services, it would not shift one constituency.
We'll be liveblogging the 27th annual event with reports from the show floor and around the blawgosphere as we suss out the latest trends in
legal technology, and decide what to
do with another
conference bag full of glowing pens, yo - yos, stress balls, and pith helmets.
It is now the must
do New Zealand
legal conference of the year, as more
legal professionals look to learn more about -LSB-...]
Just came back from a
legal conference and 80 % of the attorneys in the room
did not have a blog nor
did they have any idea where they ranked online (much less for what keywords).
Don't follow in the auto industry's footsteps: A post on The Am Law Daily includes a summary of the Leading
Legal Innovation
conference organized by the Southern California Innovation Project at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, which asked whether law firms, by failing to innovate, might be headed down the same path as the Big 3 automakers.
So I think we've
done a great job of bringing some of the energy of a Silicon Valley
conference to the
legal sphere and really focusing on innovation, what's next for
legal, and getting a bunch of like - minded lawyers and support staff and thought leaders into a room together with the Clio team to think about what the future of practice management and what the future of the practice of law looks like, is my favorite part of the
conference.
The CBAFutureschat is a warm - up event for a CBA
Legal Conference panel on Aug. 15 titled All About Legal Innovations, where speakers Blase and McFarlane will share innovations in legal service delivery around the world, and invite participants to do their own blue - sky thinking about innovations in the Canadian legal marketp
Legal Conference panel on Aug. 15 titled All About
Legal Innovations, where speakers Blase and McFarlane will share innovations in legal service delivery around the world, and invite participants to do their own blue - sky thinking about innovations in the Canadian legal marketp
Legal Innovations, where speakers Blase and McFarlane will share innovations in
legal service delivery around the world, and invite participants to do their own blue - sky thinking about innovations in the Canadian legal marketp
legal service delivery around the world, and invite participants to
do their own blue - sky thinking about innovations in the Canadian
legal marketp
legal marketplace.
Ruth Carter: From the outside, my work looks pretty traditional right now, in that I work at a firm and I
do transactional work and litigation, I'm also an adjunct professor to Arizona State University's law school, and I speak at a variety of
conferences on
legal issues.
But their proposal has been met with pushback from the National
Conference of Bar Examiners, which doesn't believe that
legal research lends itself to a bar exam format.
This reminded me of an annual
legal conference that doesn't get talked about much outside of Manitoba, the Isaac Pitblado Lectures.
«However just because it's
legal to use a hands - free kit, it doesn't necessarily means it's always safe to
do so, and it certainly shouldn't be used to have long
conference calls or to proactively make lots of calls on a long journey,» he said.
If a keynote is supposed to be «a prevailing tone or central theme, typically one set or introduced at the start of a
conference,» then what are the TECHSHOW keynotes, which aren't at the beginning of the
conference and have little or nothing to
do with
legal technology?
I don't know how many times I heard the phrase, «This is so different than any
legal conference I've seen.»
Some
legal technology
conferences do not permit vendors to appear as speakers.
The
legal profession needs to support pioneers who make the effort to provide empowering tools for lawyers — which is what I am
doing with this blog, and our
conferences.
Although in my paper I also provided a brief overview of
legal project management and what various law firms were
doing about it, the focus of my talk was instead on the third part of my paper on whether there was a role for law librarians in project management (this being a
conference whose attendees were largely law librarians).
Therefore, don't be afraid to venture out to
legal conferences as law student.
While state supreme courts (usually after consultation with the ABA via the
Conference of Chief Justices and with state and local bar associations) often adopt the ABA's Model Rules and while they often delegate disciplinary authority to a state bar association, there is no
legal requirement that they
do either, and they may at any time stop
doing so, and
You don't have a team of people watching for
legal updates or attending
conferences and bringing back their knowledge to share with the rest of the team.