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California’s Proposed Ethics Rules Are Setting The Stage For Legal Technology
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The task force noted that “…trained non-lawyers, or certain forms of technology, may be able to provide accurate legal advice in faster, cheaper, and more innovative ways than lawyers can.” A revision like this would include the need for limited...
Read MoreJohnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572 Million in Opioid Litigation
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For years, the number of people becoming addicted to opioid-based pharmaceuticals has rapidly increased. People who are chronic users of opioid drugs can experience severe side effects and are at a greater risk of overdose related death. The...
Read MoreOffload the Workload: How Outsourcing Can Increase Profitability
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Law firm profitability is not exactly languishing. Many law firms, especially larger ones, are making very comfortable margins. But law firms are rather like whales: if they stop moving, they sink.
Read MoreAmbiguity of Emojis Can Complicate Legal Cases
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More and more, emojis are being used in electronic communications. It’s no surprise, then, that they are also showing up more often in court. But while a picture can be worth a thousand words, which words? There is as yet no standard dictionary...
Read MoreSupreme Court Limits Individual Arbitration Agreement Enforcement
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When an employee signs an individual arbitration agreement, they agree to go through arbitration as opposed to filing a lawsuit if a legal issue arises in the workplace. As one can imagine, these agreements are regularly the subject of debate when...
Read MoreTCPA Case May Affect Regulatory Guidance Deference
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An upcoming Supreme Court decision may determine if agency interpretive guidance of regulations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act controls on issues before district courts, or whether those courts can independently interpret the act...
Read MoreALSPs Best Business Practices
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Law firms have complicated relationships with alternative legal service providers. In some cases, the ALSPs are serious competitors. In other cases, ALSPs help law firms to improve and expand law firm services to their clients. Let’s talk about...
Read MoreProposed Changes to Rule 30(b)(6) are Met with Criticism
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Rule 30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which pertains to taking oral depositions during litigation, is currently under review.
Read MoreAlternative Legal Service Providers and the Law Firm: Friend or Foe? It Depends.
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In 2017, Thomson Reuters, Georgetown Law Center for the Study of the Legal Profession and the University of Oxford Said Business School partnered in a study on Alternative Legal Services Providers (ALSPs). They reported that 51% of law firms and...
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