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Justia Adds Lawyer Ratings and Reviews To Its Lawyer Lawyer Directory
May 5, 2018
The legal research and information site Justia this week added peer-based lawyer ratings and reviews as part of the Justia Lawyer Directory. The new Justia Lawyer Rating and Reviews is based solely on attorney-to-attorney reviews and is intended to provide clients with valuable insights from peers and colleagues personally familiar with the lawyers’ work, Justia says. Ratings are displayed as a badge on attorney profiles in the directory. Attorneys may also display the badge on their websites...
May 5, 2018
The legal research and information site Justia this week added peer-based lawyer ratings and reviews as part of the Justia Lawyer Directory. The new Justia Lawyer Rating and Reviews is based solely on attorney-to-attorney reviews and is intended to provide clients with valuable insights from peers and colleagues personally familiar with the lawyers’ work, Justia says. Ratings are displayed as a badge on attorney profiles in the directory. Attorneys may also display the badge on their websites...
The Person Who Most Disrupted Law This Decade
May 5, 2018
If Avvo had done nothing more than introduce lawyer ratings to consumers, it would have been disruptive. But it did a lot more. I am going to go out on a limb and put forth this proposition: No one individual has been more directly responsible for disrupting the legal industry over the past decade than Mark Britton. As he exits as CEO of Avvo, he leaves the legal world a different place than it was when he founded the company in 2007. His idea — that lawyers should be rated on a scale of one to 10 to help...
May 5, 2018
If Avvo had done nothing more than introduce lawyer ratings to consumers, it would have been disruptive. But it did a lot more. I am going to go out on a limb and put forth this proposition: No one individual has been more directly responsible for disrupting the legal industry over the past decade than Mark Britton. As he exits as CEO of Avvo, he leaves the legal world a different place than it was when he founded the company in 2007. His idea — that lawyers should be rated on a scale of one to 10 to help...
Study Finds Texas Lawyers Satisfied With Careers
May 4, 2018
A new survey study by Milan Markovic and Gabriel Plicket finds that Texas lawyers generally remain fairly satisfied after...
May 4, 2018
A new survey study by Milan Markovic and Gabriel Plicket finds that Texas lawyers generally remain fairly satisfied after...
Lawyer Is America’s Loneliest Profesion
April 29, 2018
In a breakdown of loneliness and social support rates by profession, legal practice was the loneliest kind of work, followed by engineering and science. This is perhaps not surprising, given the known high prevalence of depression among lawyers. At the other end of the spectrum were occupations involving high degrees of social interaction: social work, marketing, and sales. ... The solitude of the ivory tower seems to be a real phenomenon, as well. Graduate degree holders in our sample reported...
April 29, 2018
In a breakdown of loneliness and social support rates by profession, legal practice was the loneliest kind of work, followed by engineering and science. This is perhaps not surprising, given the known high prevalence of depression among lawyers. At the other end of the spectrum were occupations involving high degrees of social interaction: social work, marketing, and sales. ... The solitude of the ivory tower seems to be a real phenomenon, as well. Graduate degree holders in our sample reported...
Keet, Heavin, & Sparrow on the Psychological Cost of Civil Litigation
April 25, 2018
Michaela Keet, Heather D. Heavin and Shawna Sparrow (University of Saskatchewan College of Law, University of Saskatchewan...
April 25, 2018
Michaela Keet, Heather D. Heavin and Shawna Sparrow (University of Saskatchewan College of Law, University of Saskatchewan...
Using Decision Tree Technology in Clinical Legal Education
April 21, 2018
This is a new article by Professor Timothy Tarvin (Arkansas) called Combating Professional Error in Bankruptcy Analysis...
April 21, 2018
This is a new article by Professor Timothy Tarvin (Arkansas) called Combating Professional Error in Bankruptcy Analysis...
Effective Paperwork in Mediation
April 18, 2018
So, while the papers produced for mediation are not usually the first opportunity each party has to see how the dispute is approached by others, those papers, and in particular the position papers, are hugely important and becoming more so – especially given the trend for commercial parties to have less contact time as they spend little time together in joint and more time apart in caucus on mediation day. Paper can therefore sometimes be the primary way in which parties communicate the entirety...
April 18, 2018
So, while the papers produced for mediation are not usually the first opportunity each party has to see how the dispute is approached by others, those papers, and in particular the position papers, are hugely important and becoming more so – especially given the trend for commercial parties to have less contact time as they spend little time together in joint and more time apart in caucus on mediation day. Paper can therefore sometimes be the primary way in which parties communicate the entirety...
We’re Teaching Grit the Wrong Way
April 15, 2018
This is an article worth reading in the Chronicle of Higher Ed by David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern...
April 15, 2018
This is an article worth reading in the Chronicle of Higher Ed by David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern...
Law School Applicants From Top Colleges Decreased 7% In 2017, Down 45% Since 2008
April 15, 2018
Back in 2013, I was the first person to notice students graduating from the top universities in the country were avoiding law school in droves. ... Graduating students from the top universities in the country applying to law schools dropped 6.7% from 2016 to 2017. Since 2008, applicants are down a staggering 44.9%. More graduates from Columbia (4.9%), Stanford (4.6%), and Princeton (2.7%) applied to law school in 2017 compared to 2016; Duke (16.1%), Brown (15.6%), and Penn (12.4%) experienced...
April 15, 2018
Back in 2013, I was the first person to notice students graduating from the top universities in the country were avoiding law school in droves. ... Graduating students from the top universities in the country applying to law schools dropped 6.7% from 2016 to 2017. Since 2008, applicants are down a staggering 44.9%. More graduates from Columbia (4.9%), Stanford (4.6%), and Princeton (2.7%) applied to law school in 2017 compared to 2016; Duke (16.1%), Brown (15.6%), and Penn (12.4%) experienced...
Syllabus Surgery: Integrating Arbitration and Mediation into Modern Curricula
April 14, 2018
The contributors to this excellent symposium on the Future of Legal Education have proposed large-scale changes to the ways that law schools are organized and the ways that law schools teach. My suggestion is more humble: Schools must do a better job of reflecting the dramatically heightened place of arbitration and mediation in modern legal practice. Arbitration and mediation have traditionally been viewed as elective courses. Sometimes they are lumped together into a single course, called something...
April 14, 2018
The contributors to this excellent symposium on the Future of Legal Education have proposed large-scale changes to the ways that law schools are organized and the ways that law schools teach. My suggestion is more humble: Schools must do a better job of reflecting the dramatically heightened place of arbitration and mediation in modern legal practice. Arbitration and mediation have traditionally been viewed as elective courses. Sometimes they are lumped together into a single course, called something...
