Tag: Law Practice Management

July 18, 2016

O’Melveny & Myers is No. 1 for overall qualify of life in rankings based on a survey of more than 18,000 associates by Vault.com. Paul Hastings, previously in the top position, fell to No. 5, Above the Lawreports. The rankings […]

July 15, 2016

Lawyers using artificial intelligence technology have an ethical obligation to spot mistakes and recognize anomalies. But how can the public be protected when using the technology for legal services? The answer is regulation of artificial intelligence in legal services, according […]

July 7, 2016

A federal appeals court has ruled that using a former assistant’s password to access information from a previous employer is hacking that is banned by the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]

June 23, 2016

Technology companies such as Facebook and Microsoft are hiring law students as summer interns in their legal departments, though the positions aren’t a path to jobs straight out of law school. Pay for the internships ranges from nothing to $7,500 […]

June 23, 2016

North Carolina lawmakers have passed a bill that amends the state’s definition of law practice to permit websites that offer interactive legal documents. House Bill 436 (PDF) won unanimous approval last week, ending a long-running dispute with LegalZoom, WRAL reports. […]

June 22, 2016

When Evan Kaine, a personal injury attorney in Atlanta read a story in the May 2016 issue of the ABA Journal about Axess Law opening up offices in Wal-Mart in Canada, he remembered reading a line about whether these firms […]

June 16, 2016

A smartphone-application-based business that helps individuals fight tickets has been acquired by a law firm with an unusual emphasis on technology. Fixed, which had faced pushback on a number of fronts—including claims of intruding into the law-practice arena, even though […]

May 2, 2016

The timing seemed prescient. One day after the ABA adopted a hotly contested resolution to guide states in their regulation of nontraditional legal service providers, Avvo rolled out Avvo Legal Services, offering fixed-fee, limited-scope legal services through a network of […]