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Five Legal Technology Trends of Note From the TechnoLawyer Top Products Awards of 2021

Attorney at Work

It’s challenging to obtain a damaging admission during a deposition, but social media feeds and chat threads contain more admissions than a Taylor Swift confessional. Legal Research Tools That Find the Previously Unfindable. With the delete key a tap away, it’s vital to defensibly collect this evidence while you can.

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Essential Steps for Effective Trial Preparation

Jonathan Leach LLC

A good lawyer will create a case theory based on the case’s evidence and legal principles and present it clearly and concisely. Conduct Comprehensive Legal Research Research relevant laws, precedents, and legal principles for your case to ensure your arguments are grounded in solid legal foundations.

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Alternate Pathways: Your Questions Answered

WA Bar News

Via Orders entered on March 15, the Washington Supreme Court took the following actions pursuant to its inherent power over admission to practice law: Adopted the NextGen Bar Exam, with first administration to be in July 2026. See Sidebar No. SIDEBAR No. Watch for continuing coverage in future issues of Bar News.

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Infusing Ever More Value Into the License Fee

WA Bar News

That translates into escalating service needs, such as 80 percent more bar-exam disability accommodation requests, 7 percent more admissions applications, and 19 percent more requests for license status changes per year than in 2018, just to name a few. And its the tip of the iceberg. Complexity of work.

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Paralegal vs Lawyer: Who, What, How?

CaseFox

Paralegal VS Lawyer Job Responsibilities : Paralegals are legal assistants that usually work under the supervision of lawyers. Whereas lawyers are professionals that have a license to provide legal services and advice to clients. They can also start their own legal practice if they wish to.

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Legal ChatGPT: Tips, Prompts, and Use Cases

MyCase

Performing legal research and discovery. ChatGPT legal research can summarize cases, laws, deposition transcripts, or pleadings filed with the court. Because AI hallucinations are common, any ChatGPT legal research should be carefully reviewed and fact-checked. Transcribing voice and video recordings.

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Will AI Replace Paralegals and Legal Assistants?

MyCase

Paralegals Paralegals spend the bulk of their time on legal or case-related tasks, such as: Conducting legal research and discovery: Paralegals access databases and books to identify and document regulations and precedents that apply to a specific case. Their work frees up lawyers to focus on case strategy.