How Data Analytics Could Bring Home Appellate Victories
How would you proceed in this hypothetical case?
Lex Machina Has Achieved Another Great Win For Legal Analytics With The Introduction Of Appellate Analytics
Tackling appeals has historically been difficult and time-consuming for attorneys, and now Lex Machina has the technology to hone in on key aspects of appeals documents and pull out accurate information to help your case.
How LexisNexis State Net Uses Gen AI To Tame Gov’t Data
Its new features transform how you can track and analyze the more than 200,000 bills, regulations, and other measures set to be introduced this year.
A New (To Me, Anyway) Business Development Idea
An incredibly unique idea that might just convince in-house counsel to hire your firm in the future.
Preserving A Chance To Win
Proper preservation practice is an important component of a winning patent litigation approach.
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How The Law Office Of Stephen L. Thomas Jr. Reclaimed Valuable Hours And Strengthened Client Care With 8am
Founded in 2017, the Baltimore-based Law Office of Stephen L. Thomas Jr. unified case management, communication, and payments with 8am—saving 10–20 hours a week for clients, trials, and growth.
Movin’ On Up: After 10 Years of Practicing Law, I Filed My First Court Of Appeals Brief
The experience elicited feelings of excitement, trepidation, and fatigue.
Morning Docket: 02.01.16
* Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz has pledged to "spend whatever political capital is necessary" to create the most conservative Supreme Court in our country's history. Uh-oh! Voters better elect him, or else we'll be "one justice away from ... unlimited abortion on demand." [ThinkProgress] * A shakeup at the top? More than 20 Schiff Hardin partners -- including the firm's former managing partner, practice group leaders, and an executive committee member -- are leaving to start their own firm thanks to an apparent leadership dispute. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg] * On the seventh anniversary of his signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, President Obama took action to address the gender pay gap. Companies with 100 employees or more must now include salary info on their annual EEO reports. [New York Times] * Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's legal team filed the first of what's sure to be many appeals: They've asked the First Circuit to overturn his conviction and death sentence, as well as an order that he pay more than $101M to his victims. [Reuters] * For some reason, people are highly opposed to the ABA's proposal to lift its ban on law students receiving pay for their credit-bearing externship positions. Yes, let's continue to make indebted students pay for their experiential learning opportunities. [ABA Journal]
Beyond Biglaw: Handicapping An Appeal
As with anything else in law, practice and preparation usually lead to positive results.
Choosing Between Trial And Appellate Work
Should you pursue a trial or appellate career? Follow your heart.
How Legisway Helps In-House Teams Manage All Legal Matters In One Trusted Place
Operate with AI driven insights, legal intake, unified content and modular scalability to transform efficiency and clarity.
Appellate Practices: Big, Small, And Dangerous
Good appellate practices are good, but bad appellate practices aren't just bad -- they're dangerous....
Wheels Of Justice Move Too Slowly For State That’s Really Excited To Kill Prisoners
Which state has been executing prisoners before courts have finished reviewing their appeals?
From the Career Files: The Perfect Federal Clerkship – The Inside Scoop
Sunny Choi of Ms. JD interviews a judicial clerkship veteran with some helpful advice for law students who need guidance through the clerkship application process.
Foxy Knoxy Appeal — Come on Italy, It’s Done. Get Over It.
Italian Supreme Court to hear whether or not Foxy Knoxy gets retried.
Benchslap of the Day: Kozinski & Co. Overturn a Murder Conviction
Can you believe the egregious Brady violations in this case? The Ninth Circuit barely could, it seems....