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Top Law Firm Website Design Trends for 2023

Attorney at Work

How can your website remain relevant and stand out from the competition? Karin Conroy points to the biggest law firm website design trends of the year. The post Top Law Firm Website Design Trends for 2023 appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Lawmatics Recognized in Legal Tech Publishing’s Practice Management Buyer’s Guide 2023

Lawmatics

We’re thrilled to share that Lawmatics has once again been recognized by Legal Tech Publishing and Above the Law! Our CRM platform has been listed in their Practice Management Buyer’s Guide for 2023. With several new features since we were featured in last year’s guide – from conflict checking to sending emails from your outbox – Lawmatics is proud to offer Legal Tech readers a comprehensive all-in-one CRM and automation platform.

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11 legal operations interview questions and tips to land the job

Simple Legal

According to the Association of Corporate Counsel, the number of corporate legal departments with at least one legal ops professional tripled between 2015 to 2022. As more companies realize the value that legal operations brings to the legal team and overall business, more job opportunities will continue opening up in the field. This is great news for anyone considering a legal ops career or current professionals looking to change companies.

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Big Law Still Isn’t Big Enough for Women Who Want to Make It Big

My Shingle

Six and a half years after arguing that women’s success in legal doesn’t matter if they don’t work at Biglaw, Vivia Chen is back with this interview with Beth Wilkinson, who left biglaw at Paul Hastings back in 2016 to launch her own firm. Reading the interview, you can tell that Chen still doesn’t get… The post Big Law Still Isn’t Big Enough for Women Who Want to Make It Big appeared first on My Shingle.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Legal Industry: Interview with AI Expert Paul Roetzer

Attorney at Work

Nothing But the Ruth | You worked your butt off and the client refuses to pay. Should you hire a collections attorney? The post Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Legal Industry: Interview with AI Expert Paul Roetzer appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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What Does It Mean to Be a Woman in Law? Lawmatics Customers Answer

Lawmatics

According to the American Bar Association's 2022 Profile of the Legal Profession, just 38% of lawyers and 30% of judges in the United States are women. While that portion has been climbing steadily over decades, law is still a male-dominated industry. That's why we wanted to take Women's History Month as an opportunity to ask our female-identifying customers what being a woman in law means to them.

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Boost Your Law Firm’s Success with a Comprehensive Financial Dashboard

CaseFox

As a law firm, tracking your finances is crucial to ensure your success and profitability. However, it can be challenging to keep track of all the financial data and metrics that matter. That’s where a law firm financial dashboard helps. A financial dashboard is a visual representation of key financial data that enables you to monitor and analyze your financial performance quickly.

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Turning Rate Increase Discussions Into Opportunities

Attorney at Work

Sally Schmidt | Tips for managing pricing conversations to deepen your relationships. The post Turning Rate Increase Discussions Into Opportunities appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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March 2023 Feature Release

Lawmatics

Put down your brackets and check out the Lawmatics version of March Madness with this roster of exciting new features! Create From Within We are thrilled to announce our new “Create from Within” functionality! This revolutionary feature will allow you to create templates such as Emails, File Requests, Forms, etc. on the fly from within an Automation, a Matter’s Profile, or anywhere else these assets are used.

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AI Is Changing the Legal Industry

InHouseBlog

Changing the legal industry is typically something that takes decades or more of time. But the proliferation of AI tools in daily life and business settings is set to change all that. Many were concerned about job-stealing robots years ago , but it has taken some time for AI to evolve into more useful and practical tools that even the most ardent Luddite lawyer could understand and use on a day-to-day basis.

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.

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Navigating the Legal Maze: Key Considerations When Hiring a Lawyer

CaseFox

According to a survey by Thomson Reuters, 23% of clients who hired a lawyer in the past two years reported being dissatisfied with their legal services. The National Law Journal also reported that in a recent year, more than 4,500 legal malpractice claims were filed in the United States, with an average payout of $342,000 per claim. Hiring a lawyer is an important decision that should not be taken lightly.

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Five Things to Know About Working with a Coach

Attorney at Work

Jamie Spannhake | Whatever you’ve been hoping to change or improve, it’s important to know what to expect from a coaching relationship. The post Five Things to Know About Working with a Coach appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Patent Prosecution Tip: File Your Continuation and Divisional Applications Prior to or With Payment of the Issue Fee

IP Watchdog

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sent out an email alert on March 16, 2023 about its transition to eGrants for patents. This change to electronic patent grants as opposed to paper patents is in accord with the USPTO’s continued changes to an all-electronic and no paper system. Prior changes have included all-electronic office actions, and of course the USPTO’s EFS-Web system, in which filings are made electronically with the USPTO.

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Judicial Notice: Four Must-Know Rules

Evidence at Trial

Back in 1995, the LA Times ran an article about O.J. Simpson's defense team's "assault on the [Los Angeles Police] department's ability to use sophisticated science to solve crimes." One its expert witnesses walked the jury through powerful demonstrative evidence detailing DNA contamination in its crime lab. Beyond the Simpson case, the article quoted a defense attorney who said the witness' testimony "will provide ammunition for years to come for lawyers defending poor clients who don't have th

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Evolving Legal Tech: Is Artificial Intelligence(AI) The Right Approach?

CaseFox

Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality is surfing in the steepest waves in the global tech industry. Where AI is breaking the ground rules, Mixed Reality is designing the grounds of its own. This leaves humans in a frightening side of the future where the robots will take over essential human roles. Who knows ten years down the line you may witness robots performing medical operations, or fight wars with soldiers shoulder to shoulder.

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It’s Time to Address and Eliminate Generational Friction in Your Law Firm

Attorney at Work

Wendy Merrill | The easiest way to break down the management styles and needs of Boomers, Xers and Millennials is through this thirst analogy. The post It’s Time to Address and Eliminate Generational Friction in Your Law Firm appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Establishing the Impact of Standard-Documentation on SEP Validity

IP Watchdog

Standard-documentation from online sources maintained by standard setting organizations (SSOs) is usually an important source of relevant prior art. Such prior art can include technical specifications, technical reports, change requests, liasioning statements, work item descriptions, study documents, recommendations and RFCs. However, accessing this documentation available in SSO websites is often not easy.

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Hanzo Brings Data Intelligence To Enterprise Legal Teams With Spotlight+

Hanzo Blog

Hanzo Spotlight+ brings AI-powered data enrichment to early case assessment to reduce risk and more efficiently identify critical data for investigations within collaboration applications.

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From Consultation to Judgment: What to Expect in a Personal Injury Claim

CaseFox

Suffering a personal injury can be a difficult and stressful experience. In addition to the physical pain and emotional distress, you may also face financial challenges such as medical bills, lost wages, and other expenses. If your injury was caused by the negligence of another party, you may be able to file a personal injury claim to seek compensation for your losses.

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Efficient Process Serving is Made Easy With the MyCase + Proof Integration

MyCase

Serving legal documents is a daily practice in many law firms. The problem is, running a law firm is often hectic, and ensuring all documents are served in an efficient and timely manner while maintaining compliance with shifting legal regulations can get overwhelming. When legal documents are not processed and served properly or on time, it can have dire consequences for your cases, your clients, and your firm.

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UK Court Hands Down Key FRAND Ruling in InterDigital v. Lenovo

IP Watchdog

Lenovo has been ordered to pay InterDigital a lump sum of $138.7 million for a global FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) license covering sales of cellular devices from 2007 to December 31, 2023, in the second full FRAND trial to be decided by the UK courts, following the landmark Unwired Planet case. (Interdigital Technology Corporation & Ors v Lenovo Group Ltd (FRAND Judgment - Public Version) [2023] EWHC 539 (Pat).

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Common mistakes people make after a DUI arrest

DAPHNE ALABAMA CRIMINAL DEFENSE BLOG

A casual night out with friends can become a life-changing experience, particularly if you are pulled over for driving under the influence. Regardless of your condition, you are likely not at your best when the siren blares and the lights flash in your rear window. Careful steps Remember: everything you say or do is being documented. The smallest mistake can have the most severe of consequences.

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The Real Cost of Not Hiring a Car Accident Attorney: Why You Need Legal Representation

CaseFox

In 2020, a total of 35,766 fatal motor vehicle accidents occurred on U.S. roadways. These crashes resulted in a total of 38,824 deaths. Only 39% received sufficient claims to suffice their emotional and financial damage. Car accidents are a common occurrence, and unfortunately, they can cause serious injuries and property damage. If you have been involved in a car accident, you may be wondering whether you need to hire a car accident attorney.

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How to Run Your Law Firm So It Doesn’t Run You – Sam Mollaei – S6E28

Legally Speaking

You will probably need to find out how to secure a client after you’ve thrown up your cap. But what if it’ll take a month, several months, or worse a year to hire you? This week we’re super excited to be chatting with Sam Mollaei. Sam Mollaei, Esq. finished his Juris Doctor at Southern Western Law School after completing his Bachelor of Arts at the University of California and his study abroad in Tel Aviv.

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Justices Seek Abitron Parties’ Help in Articulating Bounds of Extraterritorial Application of Lanham Act

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc., which asks the Court to consider whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erred in applying the Lanham Act extraterritorially to Abitron’s foreign sales, “including purely foreign sales that never reached the United States or confused U.S. consumers.

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The Future of Fashion and the Law (TGIR Ep. 194)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

In a special episode of The Geek in Review podcast, we wanted to play a recent episode of the Future Ready Business (FRB) Podcast. FRB is a podcast that Greg Lambert produces and is hosted by ⁠ Jackson Walker ⁠ attorneys Art Cavazos and Erin Camp and is focused on how new ideas, regulations, laws, and overall societal changes affect the way businesses operate.

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Are Lawyers & Law Firms Really Technology Averse?

CaseFox

Last weekend one of our clients, Daniel, came to our office for a coffee discussion and to review our legal billing software. While discussing, he questioned me saying, “why lawyers don’t get along with tech updates and legal automation?” And unlike him most of us have a thought that lawyers are technology averse and don’t align with legal tech automation.

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GIPC Letter to Senators Pushes Back on ‘False Narrative’ Exaggerating Public Role in Private Drug Development

IP Watchdog

On March 22, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) sent a letter addressed to Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), respectively the Chair and Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, regarding a Health Committee hearing held that same day on the pricing of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.

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The Final Word: Who Weighed in After the Second Extension of USPTO’s Robust and Reliable Patents RFC

IP Watchdog

In early March, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published the final batch of comments for its “Request for Comments on USPTO Initiatives to Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights.” In total, the USPTO received 227 comments, after extending the deadlines for submissions twice. There were some concerns that the repeated extensions of the submission deadline created uncertainty.

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Other Barks & Bites for Friday, March 24: Non-DOCX Fee Delayed Further; SCOTUS Petition Says Hirshfeld’s Review of PTAB Decision Violated Federal Vacancies Reform Act; Moderna CEO Grilled by Senate Committee over COVID Vaccine Price Hike

IP Watchdog

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases related to trademark law; the USPTO has delayed the planned Non-DOCX filing surcharge fee again; Moderna CEO faces Senate HELP Committee; the Indian Patent Office denies Johnson & Johnson a patent extension for a tuberculosis drug; and one of The Isley Brothers files a trademark lawsuit against his brother.

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This Week in Washington IP: Balancing the First Amendment and Trademark Law, Preserving Biopharmaceutical Innovation, and Evaluating AI-Generated Art

IP Watchdog

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will question the CEO of Moderna about the company’s potential price hike of the COVID vaccine. In the House, the Committee on Foreign Affairs will hear from Secretary of State Antony Blinken on competition with China. Elsewhere, the Hudson Institute is holding an event one day before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case that could have big implications for trademark law.

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U.S. Taxpayers Should Not Be Paying for Private Patent Infringement

IP Watchdog

For well over a year, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and some members of Congress have engaged in a campaign to urge the Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to break patents on pharmaceuticals to lower drug prices by invoking a century-old statute, Title 28 of the U.S. Code 1498. This is their “game plan”: HHS should contract with generic drug companies willfully to infringe pharmaceutical patents, thereby requiring any damages to be paid from public funds.

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GIPC Report Shows Negative Impacts of Drug Pricing Controls on Patient Access to Treatments

IP Watchdog

Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) published a Patient Access Report profiling the many ways in which drug pricing controls, often enacted in the name of ensuring widespread access to low-cost medicines, actually result in less access to innovative medicines that are more widely available in free markets. The GIPC’s report comes at a time during which the Biden Administration has taken recent action on drug pricing provisions included in the Inflation Re

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Bayh-Dole Opponents Slam-Dunked Once Again

IP Watchdog

Perhaps after their favorite theory was blown apart again, as it has been every time it’s been trotted out over the past 20 years, the critics of the Bayh-Dole Act learned a painful lesson. Their carefully constructed thesis that the law contains a hidden provision allowing the government to set prices on successfully commercialized products has been summarily rejected by every Democratic or Republican Administration which has considered it.