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Block Billing: Why To Avoid It + Tips To Bill More Efficiently

MyCase

Block billing is a legal billing practice in which multiple tasks are grouped together under a single time entry instead of itemizing each task individually. For example, instead of listing separate times for reviewing case law, drafting a motion, and attending a client deposition, they are all combined into one block of hours.

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Navigating Tribal Law Research: A Short Guide for Washington Attorneys

WA Bar News

STEPHEN In law school, you probably learned how to find both state and federal law in your legal research and writing classes. But did you know that there is an important third source of law? It’s Tribal law. The first link from a government webpage is for the Tulalip Tribes’ Legal Reservation Attorney.

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Everything You Should Know About AI Legal Tech

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It can also help with legal research, finding relevant case laws or statutes quickly without endless hours of manual searching. Natural Language Processing (NLP) Natural language processing is what helps AI tools make sense of human language, even the complex and technical terms often used in legal documents.

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15 Top Tools for Lawyers To Help Grow Their Law Firms

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For example, a tool like LawPays payment solution is designed specifically for law firms and ensures compliance with trust accounting requirements, provides secure payments, and allows you to see real-time updates and tracking. In addition, the right payment provider will save time, reduce effort, and mitigate compliance risks all at once.

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Fake AI-Generated Cases Make It Past Divorce Judge

Practice of Law

But even when things get fraught and desperate in family court, we’ll just point out the obvious: using AI to make up case law in your favor is not the answer, folks. The Divorce Case That Started It All The underlying case, Shahid v. The order was consequently “void on its face” due to reliance on non-existent law.

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Legal Research Startup Midpage Passes Threshold As It Achieves ‘Full’ Case Coverage and Readies Citator Launch

Law Sites

Legal research startup Midpage has reached a critical threshold in its commercialization, its founder believes, as it achieves full data coverage of key U.S. case law and prepares to launch its own citator in the coming weeks.

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Westlaw Precision: Next-Generation Legal Research With a Human Touch

Attorney at Work

Thomson Reuters has launched Westlaw Precision, its most dramatic update to the Westlaw research platform since Westlaw Edge in 2018. For this new version, Westlaw tackled the underlying issues that slow down legal research — namely lack of precision in search results, which leads to extra hours reviewing cases that aren’t relevant.