Why Law Firms Don't Keep Up With a Changing Marketplace

The legal marketplace has changed dramatically over the last decade: the Great Recession halted the legal boom of the mid-aughts, putting a renewed focus on value and efficiency in BigLaw, while the rise of online legal services has undercut business...

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Getting Money From Deadbeat Clients

It's the eternal struggle for solos. We've all been there. You render services, and you don't enforce the strict terms of the agreement. The client can't recharge her retainer because her transmission blew out, she had a family emergency --...

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Developments in Family Law in the Post-Nuclear Family Age

Our definition of family has changed greatly since Eve was fashioned from Adam's rib, Athena sprung fully-formed from her father's head, or Oedipus gouged out his eyes -- even since Ward and June Cleaver settled down together. Just last...

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5 Top Tips for Lawyers Who Want to Take a Summer Vacation

The long July 4th weekend just passed, and if you were able to take our nation's birthday off, you might be thinking to yourself this Tuesday that a three-day weekend just isn't long enough. We agree. After all, your...

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These Small Law Firms Already Practice Inside U.S. Walmarts

It's been a while since news came out that Canadian lawyers were offering legal services out of Walmarts. It was only a matter of time before Walmarts in the States began offering space for lawyers. As it turns out, this...

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Updated: Legal informatics conference calendar

The legal informatics conference calendar has been updated as of 4 July 2016.

Valentino Spataro’s enhanced version of the calendar is available at http://www.gloxa.it/rr/

Thanks to all who contributed.

If you know of other legal informatics conferences that are not on the calendar, but should be, please feel free to tell us in the comments to this post.

Filed under: Calls for papers, Calls for participation, Conference Announcements, Uncategorized Tagged: Legal informatics conferences

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3 Easy Tricks to Work Faster in Your Law Practice

There's never enough time. If this is something you find yourself repeating again and again, you're not alone. Some studies that suggest that this feeling of "too much to do, too little time to do it" might actually be an...

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