8 Must Have Legal Innovations
The American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on the Future of Legal Services released an Issues Paper on November 3, 2014, which solicited public comment. In December I submitted my comments, which...
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Welcome UWT students to the Innovate Law Challenge. This post follows my presentation in Professor Hampson’s classes, American Legal System and Law in Society. This post is a forum for the students in...
View ArticleStill Want to Attend Law School?
If you still want to attend law school after having looked at the infographics posted here and here, watched my videos, and read my posts, take a look at this infographic: The Time is NOW to Get into...
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The British are Coming: ABS in the US?
Recently, the ABA Journal published an article entitled, Does the UK Know Something We Don’t About Alternative Business Structures? In 2007 the UK passed the Legal Services Act, which allowed for ABS...
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American Legal Profession in Crisis
If you have not yet read James Moliterno’s 2013 book, The American Legal Profession in Crisis: Resistance and Response to Change, I recommend you do so. Moliterno provides a chronological history of...
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The Corporatization of Law
In 2007, Australia’s Slater & Gordon was the first law firm to go public. Jonathan Molot, a law professor at Georgetown and a co-founder and CIO of Burford Capital, argues that this should become...
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The Access to Justice Myth
Within the Washington State Bar Association, some have argued that ABSs (alternative business structures) will decrease the cost of legal services and thereby increase access to justice. Indeed, access...
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Law School, Law Firms, and the Titanic
It is easy to find books and articles that highlight the problems within the legal industry. What is rare is to find something that instead of just pointing out the problems, actually offers solutions....
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Legal Aid Generates 11% Economic Gain
In March of 2015, the Tennessee Bar Association released a report entitled, Economic Impact of Civil Legal Aid Organizations in Tennessee. The report documents the financial value of legal aid. “The...
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WA Civil Legal Needs Study Gets Updated
I have written previously about the 2003 Civil Legal Needs Study. The study was updated in 2014 and the Civil Legal Needs Study Update was released in June 2015. This is a statewide survey of...
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