The trend is
happening in legal firms too.
Not exact matches
They are
in - touch with what is
happening in the various communities, and they know what works and what doesn't work
in the
legal marketing world to deliver more profitable cases to your
firm.
Our experts have their fingers on the pulse of what is
happening in the local communities, and they know how to effectively utilize FindLaw's market - leading integrated
legal web development tools to help law
firms expand their digital footprint.
McClead stated to the audience that the
legal industry is partaking
in its own version of the Napster event, adding «We have a choice to restructure our
firms, rebuild our processes or the industry can do nothing, maintaining the status quo and see what
happens.»
4) There were also comments on the challenges that some
legal research associates fear they will face
in making partner at their
firms (although there were at least two recent examples of this
happening in Toronto).
«We want our talented associates to pursue their
legal careers at Ropes & Gray, and we're putting the energy and commitment of the
firm behind doing whatever we can to make that
happen,» said Levy
in a statement announcing the program.
Regardless of which side of the debate you
happen to support, putting a law
firm within a WalMart has helped to illuminate the key role that location and the physical environment of lawyers» workplaces play
in perceptions about the
legal service itself.
If you want to look to where real change is going to
happen in terms of the structure and performance of
legal departments and law firms in the next five years, consider the work being done at the Corporate Legal Operations Consor
legal departments and law
firms in the next five years, consider the work being done at the Corporate
Legal Operations Consor
Legal Operations Consortium.
But, what is
happening internally
in legal departments and law
firms to try and plan for how this demographic change is going to affect the way
legal services are delivered?
For all the talk about alternatives to the billable hour, this recent article entitled «Eight law
firms to share $ 30 million
in Delta bankruptcy
legal fees» demonstrates why that's never going to
happen.
Our attorney, Steven J. Moore, founded our
firm to be a place where people
in trouble could go for sound
legal advice and thoroughly experienced representation from a Louisiana attorney who truly cares about what
happens to our clients.
While it may become a bit overwhelming digesting all that's
happening —
legal tech startups, law
firms partnering with technology service providers, new and advanced technologies like machine - learning, AI and blockchain, the vast majority of those
in legal services are still operating under traditional methods.
Smith truly believed that
legal aid organizations needed to look like any other law
firm, and that
in order for that to
happen, it needed to be made up of male lawyers.
I would bet you that the total cost of the higher costs of
legal services brought about by cartelization plus the costs of dealing with giant
firm financial defalcations would dwarf the total cost of the small
firm misappropriations that
happen in our non-ABS world.
Confidential advice: if you have any concerns about what's
happening in your
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A tie - up would unite the two biggest brands
in the
legal insurance market, and
in revenue terms constitute the largest union ever executed between two UK law
firms (the deal that created Clifford Chance
happened at a time when magic circle
firms were about as big as Howard Kennedy).
That's easy if you
happen to work at, say, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, the
firm representing Lehman Brothers
in the largest bankruptcy case
in U.S. history, and stand to generate millions
in legal fees.
* Over the past 10 years, overall costs to U.S. companies rose 20 % while
legal costs rose 75 %, with U.S. law
firms actually increasing hourly billing rates during the 2009 great recession and 90 % of law
firm respondents saying they would increase rates
in 2010 (which did indeed
happen).
Lots of
legal tech is
happening in small and large law
firms all over the world, too, as law
firms come up with technological solutions to their own problems.
In our July 30, 2016 and September 15, 2016 posts, we informed our readers that the Ninth Circuit had certified certain accounting / clawback issues relating to what happens to post-depature legal work continued by departing partners after a law firm has dissolved, issues occurring in Heller Ehrman LLP v. Davis Wright Tremaine LL
In our July 30, 2016 and September 15, 2016 posts, we informed our readers that the Ninth Circuit had certified certain accounting / clawback issues relating to what
happens to post-depature
legal work continued by departing partners after a law
firm has dissolved, issues occurring
in Heller Ehrman LLP v. Davis Wright Tremaine LL
in Heller Ehrman LLP v. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.
Michele shares her insights and research into what is
happening in the field of
legal innovation, her thoughts on law
firm incubators, access to justice and what students are considering now
in their careers.
While no one denies the tremendous growth
in the use of smart phones, there are some
in the
legal sector who have recommended that law
firms should pass on the trend of creating apps, relying either completely on mobile - compatible web sites or just waiting to see what
happens.
There's 255 million documents
in the Fastcase and Docket Alarm databases, and so, we have a ton of information about judges or law
firms or clients, and so armed with the kind of whole
legal database of judicial opinions and statutes, all of the motions and pleadings from the Docket Alarm database and then all of the metadata about filings
in PACER, what the pace of things were, when they
happened.
in your personal development and knowledge about what's
happening in the
legal industry;
in the collective knowledge of your
firm;
in your professional network and meet new people during the many networking opportunities at Lexpo.
The trend
in Web - enabled
legal applications seems to be one of growth, not decline, and is likely to
happen even
in large
firms where the Web browser becomes the interface for internal and external applications.
It was on that basis that they contended it was important that the retainer only commenced on 26 or 27 February, since it was only a short period of time before the claimant advised that the defendant could go to another
firm because she might be eligible for
legal aid — that
happened in March 2003.
Clients are driving the disaggregation of
legal services — this is
happening with law
firms and alternative service providers, but also even with individual lawyers being staffed
in teams by their clients.
Nishit Desai, who
happens to be at the same time a member of the Board of Advisors to the Indian bitcoin startup Zebpay, which organized the conference, gave a talk about the results of recent research by his law
firm, stating that «Bitcoin is
legal in India».