Legal Trends - Law & Technology in the Legal Industry

Search Results

Managing By Agreement

A Challenging Time for Organizations The capacity of technology is far greater than what most of us need. Regulation is way behind trying to catch up to the reality of actual practice. This is true with technology, the internet, patents, biotechnology, finance, utilities, mergers etc., etc., etc....! Many people are...

Read More Article

Professionalism: On Becoming a Resolutionary

The following article is adapted from "Getting to Resolution: Turning Conflict into Collaboration" recently named one of the 30 Best Business Books of 1998. It suggests a new paradigm for the legal profession - a calling noble in its tradition, but troubled it it's current identity, and high level of...

Read More Article

The Power of Agreement

Crafting effective agreements is an elegant way of arriving at a shared vision, either as the final step of resolving conflict, or at the beginning of a new project, transaction or relationship. When you think about "agreements," you probably think of difficult negotiations, and long legal documents. Your focus goes...

Read More Article

From a Small Group of American Lawyers to an International Movement

The Rule of Law and Access to Justice; Core Values of ABA Leadership Last year, ABA Immediate Past President,William Neukom, led the world’s largest professional association in spearheading the World Justice Project, a multidisciplinary social justice initiative, to design and employ four universally defined principles of the Rule of Law,...

Read More Article

Law Library Benchmarks, 2008-2009 Edition Released

Research and Marketing has announced the release of the 2008-2009 Edition of Law Library Benchmarks, available for purchase at their website link below. Key topics covered include: Summary Of Main Findings Chapter One: Introduction and Demographics Chapter Two: Physical Space of the Library Chapter Three: Staff Chapter Four: Budget Chapter...

Read More Article

Jonna Spilbor on Flying Solo: Lessons on Starting Your Own Practice

Jonna Spilbor, an attorney and legal analyst on "Kelly’s Court", airing daily on the Fox News Channel, host of a call-in radio show Thursdays on WPDH FM, and a frequent guest commentator on MSNBC, Court-TV and other television news networks, where she has covered many of the nation's high-profile criminal...

Read More Article

Trend Toward Pro Bono Partnerships in Large Law Firms Continues

The trend toward establishment of pro bono departments in national law firms continues. Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal brings in Benjamin Weinberg, former Chief of the Public Interest Division of the Illinois Attorney General's Office as its second Pro Bono partner. Mr. Weinberg is interviewed for The AmLaw Daily. Follow the...

Read More Article

Gregory Gallopoulos discusses Holistic Mentoring

Effective mentoring and good lawyering: nearly always the latter follows the first. The passing of knowledge to new generations is why phrases like "standing on the backs of giants" exists, as Gregory Gallopoulos so aptly describes in his article, "How Holistic Mentoring Benefits Lawyers". He says that holistic mentoring is...

Read More Article

Munger, Tolles & Olsen Ranked No. 1 Law Firm, Largely Due To Pro Bono Commitment

Los Angeles law firm, Munger, Tolles & Olsen was judged by American Lawyer Magazine to be the number one law firm in the nation. Unseating New York firm Debevoise & Plimpton, which held the position for the last four years running, American Lawyer cited Munger, Tolles dedication and commitment to...

Read More Article

Restorative Justice and Prison Reform in Britian

An article reported in Religous Intelligence this month said that Britian's Angelican Bishop of Liverpool backed calls for a commission to examine prison services. The former chief inspector of prisons said that investigation was urgently needed. In a call for support, the Bishop of Prisons, Rt. Rev. James Jones made...

Read More Article

Lessons from Red Hook Community Justice Centre, NYC

Centre for Court Innovation leaders Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox published an article in the July 23 issue of The Guardian, about The Red Hook Community Justice Centre, an experimental program sponsored by the New York court system and spearheaded by the CCI think tank leaders. The article discusses the...

Read More Article

Miller-McCune on Problem Solving Courts

Miller-McCune.com, the online community of the Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, which harnesses current academic research with real-time reporting to address pressing social concerns, addresses the success of problem-solving courts in its long article entitled "Succor. Succor in the Court. There’s a problem with problem-solving courts: Taxpayers...

Read More Article

USA Today: Alternative Courts Gain Ground

Earlier last month, USA Today reported on Problem Solving Courts and the impact their programs are having on recidivism for drug and mental health related non-violent crime. The Center for Court Innovation reports more than 2,000 drug courts in the United States. Read USA Today's Article in full at the...

Read More Article

Ghana: Lecture on Democracy, Security, and The Rule of Law – 2008 Busia Foundation Lecture Series

On July 14, 2008 At the 2008 Busia Foundation Annual Lectures, New Patriotic Party Presidential Candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo delivered a lecture on democracy, security, and the rule of law in Accra. Devoted to Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, the lectures address issues facing Ghana, including democracy; rights & duties,...

Read More Article

Rivers Of Truth And Reconciliation – Nigerian Social Justice

An impassioned article on truth and reconciliation in Nigeria's River State area, where violence, attributable to social corrosion, is rampant, writer Emmanuel Onwubiko discusses the Justice Kayode Eso-led Truth and Reconciliation Commission in light of philosophies governing our times. Read more at the Leadership Nigeria site below. Tracing the causes...

Read More Article