Lawmatics

APRIL 24, 2025

Running a law firm means managing a lot of moving parts from new inquiries and consultations to signed agreements and onboarding, let alone billable work. The more your pipeline grows, the more important it becomes to have systems that keep everything moving smoothly and nothing falling through the cracks. Thats where automation steps in not just to save time, but to help you build a more scalable, conversion-ready intake process.

Law Sites

APRIL 23, 2025

An overwhelming 87% of professionals in midsized law firms view investing in cutting-edge technology as critical for their firm’s future, with expectations for AI’s value growing significantly, according to the 2025 US Midsize Law Firm Priorities Report, released today by law practice management company Actionstep. The report, which surveyed 264 U.S.

Technology

Percipient

APRIL 10, 2025

Legal work comes with a lot of moving partscontracts, approvals, compliance checks, and more emails than you can count. If your team is constantly chasing documents or dealing with slow processes, its time to make things easier. Workflow automation software helps cut out the busywork so you can focus on what actually matters. Legal professionals dont have time to waste on manual tasks that could run themselves.

Technology

Attorney at Work

APRIL 3, 2025

Wayne Hassay | No-nonsense insight on how legal service plans work and how they deliver for solo and small law firms. The post Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Legal Practice: How Lawyers Can Leverage Legal Service Plans appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

Legal Services

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Join this session to get a fresh look at how AI tools can help you work smarter, faster, and more effectively! Attorney and law professor Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk you through the complete journey of a legal case—from the first client meeting through the final outcome—while showing you how artificial intelligence can transform your daily work at each important step.

Case Management

The Barrister

APRIL 24, 2025

The Charleston School of Law has had the privilege of cultivating close connections with multiple branches of the U.S. military, including the United States Coast Guard, Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. These partnerships have opened doors for students to participate in meaningful externships, internships, and pro bono opportunities within military legal settings.

Legal Research

Insurance Journal

APRIL 21, 2025

Cyber crime syndicates that run multi-billion-dollar scam operations across Southeast Asia are still expanding despite recent law enforcement crackdowns, building links from Ireland to Mexico and reaching a potentially irreversible global spillover, the United Nations warned.

Law Sites

APRIL 2, 2025

When I speak with leaders at large law firms, the conversation often turns to the unique challenges they face in todays complex legal landscape. These firms, managing massive litigation portfolios and handling intricate, high-stakes cases, are under increasing pressure to deliver faster results while maintaining exceptional quality and meeting stringent security and compliance standards.

Litigation

Percipient

APRIL 30, 2025

Youve got a stack of contracts to review, deadlines looming, and a dozen other tasks waiting for your attention. Scrolling through pages of legal text and making sure everything lines up takes timetoo much time. Plus, mistakes arent an option, but neither is spending all day on contract reviews. There is one saving grace: AI-powered contract review tools.

Legal Services

Attorney at Work

APRIL 22, 2025

Ask the Experts at 2Civility.org: How should I balance priorities when everything for everyone seems to be a top priority? The post Time Management Methods for Lawyers and the Duty of Diligence: Prioritizing with Purpose appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

Technology

The Barrister

APRIL 1, 2025

I. A Life or Death Debate: Understanding Capital Punishment in America. The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, has been a contentious issue in the United States for centuries. Its roots trace back to colonial times, reflecting a complex history intertwined with societal values, legal precedents, and ethical conundrums. Throughout the years, the application and perception of the death penalty have evolved, influenced by various social reform movements, legal challenges, and politica

Legal Precedent

Advertiser: Trellis

Finance teams find Trellis to be particularly effective in conducting comprehensive due diligence on both individuals and businesses. With our court data solution, financial experts can access critical litigation insights, making it an invaluable resource for informed decision-making in the financial sector.

Litigation

Insurance Journal

APRIL 15, 2025

Europe experienced the hottest year on record in 2024, as climate change combined with a strong El Nio to generate a series of extreme weather events and force glaciers into retreat.

IP Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2025

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Wednesday announced a new working group dedicated to broadening the Offices efforts to mitigate common threats to the U.S. patent system. The group has been dubbed the Patent Fraud Detection and Mitigation Working Group and it represents the agencys continued commitment to limit improper activity in patent applications and reexamination proceedings at USPTO and reduce patent application pendency, according to todays press release.

Law Sites

APRIL 23, 2025

Eve, an AI platform for plaintiffs’ law firms, is today introducing an AI Reasoning Mode that it says can perform complex legal analysis through sophisticated step-by-step reasoning capabilities, on a par with a senior-level lawyer.

Percipient

APRIL 25, 2025

Redlining is one of those parts of contract review thats easy to overlookuntil it causes a problem. Whether youre fixing a date or overhauling an entire section, every edit matters. Doing it right helps both parties reach a deal faster, with less back-and-forth and fewer surprises later. Thats why knowing how to redline a contract properly is such a key skill.

Legal Services

Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

Technology

Attorney at Work

APRIL 28, 2025

Camille Stell | Silence sends a message. So does courageous, principled resistance. Here are steps every lawyer can use to speak up and push back. The post Speaking Truth to Power: The Biglaw Response to Executive Orders and the Emerging Resistance appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

RPC Strategies

APRIL 7, 2025

In the latest episode of The Marketing Phoenix Podcast, host Melissa “Rogo” Rogozinski tackles one of the most overlooked but critical aspects of any growth marketing strategy: how to create brand awareness that actually works. For legal tech companies, law firms, and B2B service providers, brand awareness goes far beyond name recognition. It’s about cultivating trust, creating emotional resonance, and staying top-of-mind throughout a long and complex buyer’s journey.

Insurance Journal

APRIL 29, 2025

Six weeks after Tampa-based Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance Co. filed a libel suit against a whistleblower claims adjuster, the adjuster’s lawyer has pushed back, arguing that the suit is an attempt to silence those who question insurers’ damage estimates.

Insurance

IP Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2025

Today, former U.S. Patent and Trademark Director Andrei Iancu delivered a keynote address to open the Intellectual Property Awareness Summit (IPAS) 2025 being held at Dolby Labs in San Francisco, CA. Iancus comments excoriated recent calls to weaken U.S. intellectual property laws for the purpose of devaluing American intellectual property (IP), a political viewpoint that he said cedes economic and technological dominance to foreign rivals like China.

Technology

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

Litigation

Law Sites

APRIL 1, 2025

As I reported yesterday in an exclusive at this blog, two leading international legal transformation organizations, the Digital Legal Exchange (DLEx) and the Liquid Legal Institute (LLI), have joined forces in a strategic union that brings together more than 1,500 members representing more than 140 multinational corporations, organizations, institutions and agencies across more than 20 […]

Percipient

APRIL 15, 2025

Handling contracts manually is a headachelost documents, endless email threads, and approvals that take way too long. If your team is stuck chasing signatures and fixing errors, its time to rethink your process and apply contract workflow automation. Automated contract management workflows take the stress out of contract handling by keeping everything organized, moving, and error-free.

Technology

SW&L Attorneys Blog

APRIL 23, 2025

With all of the news lately surrounding allegations of financial exploitation involving vulnerable adults, it’s more important than ever to be on the lookout for this type of abuse among our loved ones. Often subtle and difficult to detect, financial exploitation can happen to anyone — but older adults and individuals with cognitive or physical challenges are being targeted at an alarming rate.

Finance and Banking

Legally Speaking

APRIL 20, 2025

Can artificial intelligence revolutionise justice while ensuring ethical integrity? This week, Im joined Professor Katie Atkinson, a trailblazer in AI and law with over 20 years of research and a member of the European Commissions AI advisory board.

Legal Services

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

Technology

Insurance Journal

APRIL 10, 2025

A new bill introduced in California aims to increase transparency and accountability in California’s insurance market by bolstering consumer privacy protections and establishing a privacy rights framework for insurance licensees and their third-party service providers.

Insurance

IP Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2025

On April 11, 2025, Twitter (now X) co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted, Delete All IP Laws. Senior Advisor to the President Elon Musk retweeted, I agree. Commentators have already called the exchange destructive, especially in light of an all-of-government call to reduce anticompetitive regulations (of which, some consider those pesky IP rights to be one).

Technology

Law Sites

APRIL 21, 2025

Three months after announcing its acquisition of Screens, Agiloft has completed the integration of the AI-powered contract review and no-code playbook technology into its contract lifecycle management platform, the company says.

Technology

Percipient

APRIL 15, 2025

Managing contracts shouldnt be a constant struggle. Yet, for many teams, long email threads, version confusion, and slow approvals make it harder than it needs to be. When multiple people need to review and finalize an agreement, keeping everything organized can feel impossible. Collaboration-focused contract software changes that. By bringing edits, approvals, and tracking into a single system, teams can move contracts forward without the usual delays or miscommunication.

Discovery

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Get ready to master the art and science of trial preparation organization that top attorneys rely on in this exclusive webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk through proven systems for creating comprehensive trial notebooks and binders that transform scattered case materials into a powerful command center. Learning Objectives: Strategic Organization 📊 Learn the essential sections every trial notebook needs and how to structure them for maximum clarity and acce

Trial Notebook

SW&L Attorneys Blog

APRIL 27, 2025

Interference With Contract Bruce and Diana entered into a written contract. Bruce agreed to manufacture high-tech gadgets and sell those to Diana. Diana, in turn, used her international connections to market the gadgets and sell them on the open market. The contract included several terms, including the wholesale price Diana was willing to pay Bruce for his gadgets.

Manufacturing

Legally Speaking

APRIL 13, 2025

What if the law could hold social media giants accountable? This week, Im joined by Yair Cohen, the social media lawyer and founder of Cohen Davis Solicitors, who spent 25 years fighting online abuse and harassment.

Technology

Insurance Journal

APRIL 30, 2025

The UK should spare flood defense programs from budget cuts to be announced in June, as the country is already woefully unprepared for worsening disasters linked to climate change, a government adviser has said.

IP Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2025

In March 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a service mark owner with all of its physical assets located along the Pacific coast could maintain a suit for service mark infringement against a company using a similar mark, on the same services, whose physical assets were all located along the Atlantic coast. It based its ruling on the fact that both companies effectively competed nationally, and had solicited and landed customers in each others territory.

Litigation

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

The difference between a paralegal and an exceptional paralegal isn't just competence—it's the bold initiative to anticipate needs, master hidden firm dynamics, and transform challenges into opportunities that showcase your indispensable value. Join this webinar with attorney Joe Stephens to get an insider's perspective into how you can become a strategic asset to your practice!

Technology