Mark Cohen, CEO of Legal Mosaic, recently wrote an article for Forbes, “Covid-19 and the Reformation of Legal Culture.” In the article, Cohen asks a question of the legal industry:
“How can we create a more humane culture that prioritizes well-being, elevates decency, and restores the service component to our workforce…
How will the coronavirus crisis impact the legal profession over the longer term? I offer my thoughts in my column this week at Above the Law.
Read: 7 Ways The Pandemic Will Forever Change Law Practice.…
When Am Law 200 law firm Baker Donelson decided to implement the legal workflow application BigHand Now, it planned to roll it out gradually in stages, starting with its headquarters in Nashville.
Then came the coronavirus crisis.
As it became clear to the firm that the pandemic would require its attorneys and staff…
In a watershed ruling for public access to primary legal materials, the Supreme Court today held that the state of Georgia cannot claim a copyright in the annotations contained in its official legislative code.
The opinion in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. is a victory for Carl Malamud and his organization Public.Resource.Org, which had…
As chair of the Specialty Treatment Courts in Jefferson Parish, La., Judge Scott U. Schlegel manages what may be one of the most advanced courts in the country for delivering justice online, and he does it almost entirely with off-the-shelf software he cobbled together himself.
Even before the coronavirus crisis caused courts to shut down, Judge…
David Curle, a lawyer who is well known for his writing and analysis on legal technology, has joined the machine-learning contract-analysis company Kira Systems as legal content and research lead.
Since 2013, Curle has been director, enterprise content, technology and innovation, at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, where he has provided research and…
The Utah Supreme Court on Friday proposed the most-sweeping reforms of the regulation of legal services in a generation and said it will fast-track approval of non-traditional legal-help programs that target problems spawned by the Covid-19 crisis.
The proposed changes, posted for a 90-day period of public comment, would amend Utah’s Rules of…
Last month, I reported that Stanford University has cancelled the face-to-face version of this year’s CodeX FutureLaw Conference, which had been scheduled for April 9 and would have been the conference’s eighth year, as well as the 15th anniversary of CodeX.
But as I noted then, Roland Vogl, executive director of CodeX, the Stanford Center…
Earlier this week, for my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV, I interviewed Jordan Furlong, legal analyst and futurist and author of The Law21 Blog.
A former journalist, Furlong has for the last decade established himself as a leading analyst of the global legal market and forecaster of its future development.
At his…
Docketwise, a case management platform for immigration attorneys, said today that it is opening its application programming interface to the public in order to encourage the interoperability of the many innovative immigration technologies on the market.
“With thousands of immigration lawyers and paralegals logging into Docketwise every day, we have the unique ability to…
As part of its continuing virtual roundtable series for technology leaders, the public relations agency Plat4orm is presenting a program tomorrow, Earning the Legal Media’s Attention in Times of Crisis.
I will be one of the panelists, along with Zach Warren, editor-in-chief of Legaltech News. Here is Plat4orm’s description of the program:…
Litera’s business continuity series dives into the unprecedented challenges we are all facing and looks at how technology can help provide what law firms need to continue serving their clients, even while their teams are working remotely, unable to travel or meet face-to-face with clients, and otherwise disrupted from their regular routines. You can find…
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