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Why Are Mediation Skills Essential for Modern Lawyers?

Destination Articles Blog

A significant shift from courtroom litigation to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods like mediation is underway. Lets explore why mediation is increasingly preferred over litigation and how this shift impacts the legal field. Mediation has clear benefits, such as cost-effectiveness and time efficiency, drive this shift.

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10 AI-Assisted Legal Tech Vendors Delivering Reliable Productivity to Law Firms

RPC Strategies

eDiscovery Assistant Keeping up with the growing body of e-discovery caselaw, court rules, and checklists becomes easy with what eDiscovery Assistant calls its “knowledge-center.” Steno Litigation expenses can often stress small and medium-sized law firms.

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July/Aug. 2024 > Discipline & Other Notices

WA Bar News

THESE NOTICES OF THE IMPOSITION OF DISCIPLINARY SANCTIONS AND ACTIONS are published pursuant to Rule 3.5(c) c) of the Washington Supreme Court Rules for Enforcement of Lawyer Conduct. The lawyer’s conduct violated the following Rules of Professional Conduct: 1.3 Expediting Litigation), 3.3 Diligence), 1.4

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Reckoning: The Duty to Correct Under RPC 3.3

WA Bar News

Fucile In the course of a case, litigators typically make all sorts of statements to courts on the facts and the law. 1 In other situations, however, litigators make specific representations of fact or law based on personal knowledge. 2 Some are in briefs, while others are made in open court. 2d 601, 613-14, 98 P.3d

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Washington’s New Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act: Explanation, Application, and Aspiration

WA Bar News

Washington’s UFLAA is designed to offer parties in family law cases—such as divorce, child custody, and child support disputes—a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to traditional litigation. Such cases might involve business valuations, complex financial matters, complicated trusts, elder care issues, and real estate disputes.

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Toppling the Barriers to Success for Asian American Female Litigators

WA Bar News

Unfortunately, litigators who do not fit the stereotypical idea of what an oral advocate should look like must fight harder to establish credibility because, as legal scholar and Columbia Law School Professor Kimberl Crenshaw writes, what is understood as objective or neutral is often the embodiment of a white middle-class world view.