If you are a small firm lawyer looking to enhance your understanding of legal technology or improve
your legal tech skills, which conferences are worth your time and money?
Not exact matches
Tips focus on ways to improve your
legal writing and research
skills, strategies for practice management, and the latest tools to up your
tech game.
I believe if the
legal establishment starts this discussion, we will also begin to strengthen our competitive advantage in the areas we are strongest (ethics, conflict of interest, law reform, etc.) and not make the mistake of playing the Future game according to the rules set by others with different
skill sets (business consulting firms, accounting and pure
tech sector, to name a few).
Unfortunately, while the idea of a
legal tech audit is great and this one does test critical
skills, the software for the testing is less than ideal.
That said, the
Legal Tech Audit should be considered an office productivity software skills audit, rather than a legal technology a
Legal Tech Audit should be considered an office productivity software
skills audit, rather than a
legal technology a
legal technology audit.
Though, others like the company Legalswipe, for example, see
legal tech as a good opportunity for attorneys to develop professionally and acquire new
skills.
Another reason for liking this Chinese
legal tech company is its mission statement, which reads: «All of our AI lawyers are a synergistic composition of artificial intelligence, big data and professional lawyers and specialists who have garnered decades of wisdom and human experiences, as well as technology management
skills.
At High
Tech Intellectual Property
Legal Blog, California lawyer Judith Szepesi takes the position that these endorsements do not violate Model Rule 7.1 because they are not statements by the lawyer about his or her own
skills.
Dana Denis - Smith is the founder and CEO of
legal business, Obelisk Support, a
tech - enable business that matches work to thirteen hundred highly
skilled lawyers that want to work flexibly around their family commitments.
Interestingly, the same students rated the quality of practical
skills training over course cost, and also want more
legal tech training — suggesting that ULaw's new LPC replacement masters courses are well pitched.
All very well saying you are a
tech - focused law firm, but there are few genuine
legal tech lawyers, and far fewer firms with consistently high
skill levels.
It serves its purpose of creating an ecosystem where
tech and
legal professionals work together by providing support to the legaltech entrepreneurs to make their projects come true, promoting open innovation in law firms and institutions, organizing training sessions and workshops to foster
tech and law
skills, and researching and evangilazing on the benefits of
legal innovation among companies, citizens and institutions.
That is having depth and expertise specialist
legal knowledge and also general breadth in
legal and non
legal skills (such as
tech know how) so you can work more collaboratively and holistically.
Leverage your
tech skills into a
legal job A recent graduate gives a firsthand account of how he's adapting to his employers» technology on the job and adding value by volunteering to lead its social media efforts.
Tim Baran, a former law firm library director and CLE consultant, has taken his
legal tech and marketing
skills to...
i.e. the (ABA Standard and Rules), then the
legal profession runs the risk of creating a future caste system of law grads that have
tech and interdisciplinary
skills and those that don't.
Joan continues to make herself available to LawHelpNY, even while becoming certified as a FINRA arbitrator, taking on paid
tech projects, serving on the town's Wetlands and Conservation Commission and the community's Board of Directors as the representative for the youth programs, volunteering at her children's school, training for the New York City Marathon, and searching for the
legal position that will be a good match for her
skills and her commitment to remaining available to her family.
At the intersection of access to justice and innovation, the ATJ
Tech Fellows program catalyzes a combination of knowledge, attitude,
skills and actions to prepare future lawyers with the
skills to harness technology and
legal innovation to tackle the full breadth of problems facing our civil justice system.
The ATJ
Tech Fellows program bridges the access to justice gap by equipping tomorrow's lawyers with the
skills to leverage innovation and technology to more effectively meet the
legal needs of low - income Americans.
That which we lack to transform our lagging profession into one that is better aligned with and more valuable to our clients isn't
legal expertise, it's business, finance,
tech, talent, leadership, compliance and risk management
skills.
There is one thing though that has become clear — there is a place in the
legal services world for
tech skills like Joan's.
The brute - force, labor intensive
legal delivery model is being replaced by a digitized one where repetitive tasks are automated; products are replacing many services; delivery cycles are compressed; costs are reduced and / or proportionate to supply and demand; and lawyers are deployed to perform tasks that require differentiated judgment,
skills, or knowledge and / or working from more efficient, lower - cost
tech - enabled delivery models.
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