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NYSBA/ACCTM National Championship ($10K Prize) Alternative Dispute Resolution Law Student Writing Competition
December 11, 2016
The Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators are proud to announce the inauguration of the NYSBA/ACCTM National Championship Alternative Dispute Resolution Law Student Writing Competition. A $10,000 cash prize will be awarded to the winning submittal as judged by the Editorial Board of the ACCTM American Journal of Mediation along with select Fellows of the College and members of the NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section. Winning...
December 11, 2016
The Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators are proud to announce the inauguration of the NYSBA/ACCTM National Championship Alternative Dispute Resolution Law Student Writing Competition. A $10,000 cash prize will be awarded to the winning submittal as judged by the Editorial Board of the ACCTM American Journal of Mediation along with select Fellows of the College and members of the NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section. Winning...
Networking Opportunity for Empirical Researchers on Legal Education
December 9, 2016
Working with support from the National Science Foundation and the American Bar Foundation, our planning committee seeks to develop an active network of social scientists and legal academics doing empirical work on legal education. We hope to connect social scientists who are studying law schools using multiple disciplinary methods and perspectives. With global connections in law growing, we also hope to foster a comparative perspective in this area of study. By working in communication with...
December 9, 2016
Working with support from the National Science Foundation and the American Bar Foundation, our planning committee seeks to develop an active network of social scientists and legal academics doing empirical work on legal education. We hope to connect social scientists who are studying law schools using multiple disciplinary methods and perspectives. With global connections in law growing, we also hope to foster a comparative perspective in this area of study. By working in communication with...
IPO Funds Continue To Fuel Massive Growth At Publicly Listed U.K. Law Firm
December 8, 2016
The U.K.’s first publicly listed law firm continues to power ahead, with Gateley announcing that its revenue increased 19 percent and its pre-tax profit soared 44 percent in the first half of the current fiscal year. The firm has been on a sustained expansion drive since raising $45 million in an initial public offering in June 2015, which valued the firm at more than $150 million. Gateley launched a new office in Reading, a large town to the west of London that it says is of growing importance...
December 8, 2016
The U.K.’s first publicly listed law firm continues to power ahead, with Gateley announcing that its revenue increased 19 percent and its pre-tax profit soared 44 percent in the first half of the current fiscal year. The firm has been on a sustained expansion drive since raising $45 million in an initial public offering in June 2015, which valued the firm at more than $150 million. Gateley launched a new office in Reading, a large town to the west of London that it says is of growing importance...
Nextlaw Labs Invests in On Demand Legal Company ‘Hire an Esquire’
December 4, 2016
Nextlaw Labs, the legal tech innovation platform of global law firm Dentons, has expanded its portfolio today with an investment...
December 4, 2016
Nextlaw Labs, the legal tech innovation platform of global law firm Dentons, has expanded its portfolio today with an investment...
LinkedIn Engagement on the Rise for Lawyers
December 3, 2016
The amount of engagement on LinkedIn is on the rise. More comments and likes on posts, more requests to connect and more messages exchanged between connections. This is all good for lawyers. LinkedIn’s been a “safer” and more “understandable” social network for lawyers and law firms than Facebook and Twitter. Rather than trying to figure out offline who to meet and how to meet them, lawyers are meeting people and building relationships from their desktop or iPhone.
December 3, 2016
The amount of engagement on LinkedIn is on the rise. More comments and likes on posts, more requests to connect and more messages exchanged between connections. This is all good for lawyers. LinkedIn’s been a “safer” and more “understandable” social network for lawyers and law firms than Facebook and Twitter. Rather than trying to figure out offline who to meet and how to meet them, lawyers are meeting people and building relationships from their desktop or iPhone.
Israel: Legal Tech in the Start-up Nation
November 20, 2016
That is part of the reason why the inevitable change is coming strongly to Israel now. In a competitive market like the Israeli...
November 20, 2016
That is part of the reason why the inevitable change is coming strongly to Israel now. In a competitive market like the Israeli...
Has Lawyer Blogging Plateaued? ABA Tech Survey Suggests So
November 19, 2016
The number of law firms with blogs has plateaued, neither growing nor dropping for four years straight, according to the 2016 Legal Technology Survey Report recently published by the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center. The survey found that 26 percent of firms have blogs. That number has remained effectively unchanged for 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013. The larger the firm, the more likely it is to have a blog. Among firms of 500 or more attorneys, 60 percent have blogs,...
November 19, 2016
The number of law firms with blogs has plateaued, neither growing nor dropping for four years straight, according to the 2016 Legal Technology Survey Report recently published by the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center. The survey found that 26 percent of firms have blogs. That number has remained effectively unchanged for 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013. The larger the firm, the more likely it is to have a blog. Among firms of 500 or more attorneys, 60 percent have blogs,...
Advice for Legal Tech Start-ups from Seedcamp’s Tom Wilson
November 19, 2016
‘Law firms’ desire for risk is very, very low. So the sales cycle [for legal tech companies] is slow. This makes it harder for VCs to keep investing,’ Wilson explains. He points out that investors want to see considerable improvement every 12 months. But, as anyone in the legal market can attest to, selling to law firms can often take 18 months or more to move from discussions to an actual contract. Moreover, because the tech here is so new, law firms will need to trial it and a trial does...
November 19, 2016
‘Law firms’ desire for risk is very, very low. So the sales cycle [for legal tech companies] is slow. This makes it harder for VCs to keep investing,’ Wilson explains. He points out that investors want to see considerable improvement every 12 months. But, as anyone in the legal market can attest to, selling to law firms can often take 18 months or more to move from discussions to an actual contract. Moreover, because the tech here is so new, law firms will need to trial it and a trial does...
Former White & Case London Head + PE Fund Create Legal Tech Angel Network
November 18, 2016
A new angel investment network, Hamilton Ramsay, largely comprising former partners of major law firms, including from White & Case, is launching in the UK to help grow legal tech start-ups with seed capital and mentoring. The angel investment group has been co-developed by Freddie Bellhouse, a former associate at Kirkland & Ellis and founder of the Fordhouse Equity fund, which invests exclusively in small businesses based in the UK. The goal will be to support a new wave of legal...
November 18, 2016
A new angel investment network, Hamilton Ramsay, largely comprising former partners of major law firms, including from White & Case, is launching in the UK to help grow legal tech start-ups with seed capital and mentoring. The angel investment group has been co-developed by Freddie Bellhouse, a former associate at Kirkland & Ellis and founder of the Fordhouse Equity fund, which invests exclusively in small businesses based in the UK. The goal will be to support a new wave of legal...
What Texas Lawyers Should Know From the Clio Trends Report
November 18, 2016
Many were surprised to learn at the Clio Cloud Conference in September that of the 150,000 actively using the cloud-based law practice management software, lawyers were only billing 28 percent of their available work hours. The folks at Clio broke down the findings of its full 2016 Legal Trends Report—which outlines several industry metrics for billing rates, hours billed, fee structures, and more—and focused on Texas attorneys, specifically. Here’s some of what they found: The average...
November 18, 2016
Many were surprised to learn at the Clio Cloud Conference in September that of the 150,000 actively using the cloud-based law practice management software, lawyers were only billing 28 percent of their available work hours. The folks at Clio broke down the findings of its full 2016 Legal Trends Report—which outlines several industry metrics for billing rates, hours billed, fee structures, and more—and focused on Texas attorneys, specifically. Here’s some of what they found: The average...
