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Making It Work for Working Moms (and Dads): How law firms can support new parents

There are few events in life more pivotal and significant than becoming a parent, especially for the first time. Yet even in today’s era of post-COVID-19 extravagant employee wellness initiatives that focus on mental health, many employers fail to recognize the importance of providing their workforce with the one benefit that will enhance both employee retention and job satisfaction: a robust parental leave policy.


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Navigating the future of knowledge and know-how with generative AI

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Kelly Lake, the CEO and executive director for CEB: Continuing Education of the Bar, a California-focused provider of legal research and continuation legal education.


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Streamlining Legal Billing: An overview of online payment-processing tools

Updated: This article is the third in a series that explores legal tools for law firms to increase profitability. Previously, we discussed time-tracking software for lawyers and legal billing software.


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Long-lost trial transcript answers many questions about 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson and baseball's 'Black Sox Scandal'

The book opens with a tantalizing revelation: Until this year, fewer than 10 living people have seen the long-lost trial transcript that’s been a matter of public record for a century. It’s from Joe Jackson v. Chicago American League Baseball Club, a two-plus-week trial held in Milwaukee in early 1924.


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Screen Rant: True-crime cable shows can be long on repetition and short on authoritative sources

Recently, I wrote a blog post about 65 artificial intelligence-powered automatic license plate reader cameras in the Oklahoma City area. I try not to be a conspiracy theorist, but it’s hard to think these cameras are solely used to track and observe vehicles instead of the people driving them.


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Chemerinsky: Big cases in administrative law, gun rights and social media are scheduled for October term

We are in the midst of dramatic changes in many areas of constitutional law. Thirty years ago, I wrote the first edition of a constitutional law casebook. I have just completed the seventh edition, and never has so much changed from the prior edition or since I began writing the book.


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Need for Speed: Can the wheels of justice turn quicker?

“How long will this take?” An often-asked question clients pose to their lawyers. (The most often is, “How much will this cost me?”) In the legal world, unfortunately, it generally takes too long to get matters resolved.


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Increasing Contractual Insight: AI's role in contract lifecycle management

It seems that not a day goes by without a new generative artificial intelligence, or GAI, software announcement in the legal technology space. The rate of advancement has been rapid, and new GAI large language model products are being developed incredibly quickly. No matter your practice areas or firm size, there is undoubtedly a generative AI tool in development that has the potential to significantly streamline your daily workflow.


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'I see legal finance moving into ubiquity,' says litigation funding company co-COO

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with David Perla, the co-chief operating officer at Burford Capital, a litigation funding company and a leading provider of legal finance.


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4 ways to grow your new law firm without overextending yourself

Branching off on your own to run a law firm is a thrilling experience. On one hand, it can be liberating to leave an established firm to create your own brand. On the other hand, knowing that everything rests on your shoulders can be overwhelming in the early stages of establishing your business. Whether you started a firm because you wanted a better work-life balance or because you were tired of working for someone else, every firm leader eventually asks themselves: “What can I do to grow my firm and bring in more clients?”


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