Attorneys are flocking to volunteer for bar association programs that help with probate, child custody, guardianship, victim compensation or trust matters.
Competition among law practice management software providers is heating up while law firms are looking to make their operations more efficient. Firms must assess how LPM software integrates with other tech and fits their plans for cloud computing, mobile and social applications, and the use of big data and artificial intelligence—even blockchain.
Across the country, judges are creating embarrassing headlines when they are accused of abusive behavior toward lawyers and litigants.
Recent law school graduates and attorneys with hiring responsibilities say that there are few tech jobs for new lawyers, largely because the profession isn’t ready for this new cadre of tech-savvy grads.
To afford law school, Kyle Ingram borrowed $120,000. Saddled with this significant loan balance at age 27, he sought debt forgiveness through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Mary Beth and John Tinker remain as engaged and committed to young people’s free-expression rights as they were more than 50 years ago when they were suspended from their middle and high schools in Des Moines, Iowa, for wearing black peace armbands.
When the U.S. Department of Education changed its interpretation of Public Service Loan Forgiveness regulation, it did not adhere to notice standards mandated under the Administrative Procedure Act, and those changes were arbitrary and capricious, a federal court found Friday.
The ABA’s legal education council has delayed a decision on whether to implement a stricter bar passage standard for accredited law schools, prolonging a yearslong debate of the hot-button issue.
Two legal education groups have asked that the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar increase transparency and collaboration in its decision-making.
The use of facial recognition scanning, already a given in law enforcement, is spreading deeply into the U.S. private sector. And business-to-business research firms predict the facial recognition industry will grow.
