As more and more legal professionals do their work from home and on the road, the high overhead and inflexibility of traditional office models become less and less appealing.
Enter the virtual law firm: an alternative practice model that opens up new possibilities for law firms and their clients.
On LawSites Resources, this week’s…

For lawyers looking to build their books of business, there is gold to be found in the biographies of corporate counsel. A shared law school or employment connection from the past can mean a foot in the door today.
Lawyers’ ability to find and act on those connections just got a significant boost with today’s…

Ninety-two percent of law firms worldwide say they were completely or somewhat prepared for full-scale remote work at the pandemic’s onset, a survey released this morning finds.
Even so, most firms plan to increase their budgets for technology and process software and adopt more cloud-based technologies, the survey reports.
Published for the fourth consecutive year…

Two non-profit pilot programs won approval this week under Utah’s regulatory sandbox to provide non-lawyer legal assistance to individuals with medical debt.
These are only the second and third non-profit projects to be approved to participate in the sandbox and the first in the nation to empower non-lawyers go give limited-scope legal advice about medical…

The pandemic has made it more essential than ever before for law firms to accept electronic payments. Clients who now pay everything else online have no appetite for lawyers who require paper payments. Plus, law firms that accept e-payments get paid faster and increase their collections, studies suggest.
Against this backdrop, the practice management…

Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court acted on the recommendations of a task force that had called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, all with…

Our regular Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable is today at 3 p.m. ET. Join us as our panelist of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation.
We were off last week, so we have two weeks to catch up on. Here are some of the stories we’re planning to discuss:

• Clio

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The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the first three entities to be licensed as alternative business structures, enabling businesses owned by non-lawyers to deliver legal services under the liberalized licensing rules the court approved last August.
On March 17, 2021, the court entered orders approving two ABS entities:

• Trajan Estate, LLC, a legal

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Are you a startup founder wondering what type of business entity to create? Or maybe you have a question about the best structure to raise seed capital.
The answers to these and many other questions can be found in a digital hub launched yesterday by the Emerging Companies Practice of the Palo Alto-based law firm…

In e-discovery and investigations, time is often of the essence. While artificial intelligence can reduce the overall time of a project, it can also present a speed bump at the start, in part because of the need to train the AI algorithm, and in part because the legal team may lack the AI-related knowledge or…

Not surprisingly, the pandemic drove greater use of electronic payments across all industries, with the volume of electronic payments up 11.2 % in the first quarter of 2021 over the prior year.
Law firms were no exception to this trend, as they realized that the old way of collecting payments via paper checks was impacting…

This week, David Lat, who founded the blog Above the Law in 2006, and who earlier, in 2004, started the anonymous blog Underneath Their Robes, and who left blogging two years ago to take a job as a legal recruiter, is returning to writing as a full-time livelihood.
But this time, Lat will not be…

Nominations open today for the second annual American Legal Technology Awards, a competition launched last year to honor exceptional achievements in legal technology.
Awards will be given in eight categories: access to justice, court, enterprise, individual, technology, law department, law firm, and startup.
Deadline for nominations is Aug. 31, 2021. Self-nominations are welcome. Finalists…