The ABA Journal has put together a list of the 25 greatest legal shows of all time. Who is #1? Click on the following link to find out!
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/the_25_greatest_legal_tv_shows/
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Ultimate Twitter Challenge: $25,000 for 25,000 followers
The ABA ran a story last week about Bill Marler, a personal injury attorney from Seattle, who offered to donate $25,000 to a charity if he receives 25,000 followers on his Twitter site.
The entire article can be found here:
http://www.abajournal.com/news/lawyer_offers_to_give_25k_to_charity_if_he_gets_25k_twitter_followers
Another article covered the increasing use of Twitter by attorneys:
http://www.abajournal.com/news/twitter_becoming_incredibly_mainstream_for_lawyers/
The WBA Blog's only remaining questions is whether anyone in the WBA ready to up the ante and offer $50,000 for 50,000 followers?
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The entire article can be found here:
http://www.abajournal.com/news/lawyer_offers_to_give_25k_to_charity_if_he_gets_25k_twitter_followers
Another article covered the increasing use of Twitter by attorneys:
http://www.abajournal.com/news/twitter_becoming_incredibly_mainstream_for_lawyers/
The WBA Blog's only remaining questions is whether anyone in the WBA ready to up the ante and offer $50,000 for 50,000 followers?
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ABA Journal: How Law Practice Will Become Like Off-the-Rack Suits
The following article was authored by Debra Cassens Weiss and reprinted from the March 2, 2009 online site of the ABA.
Law practice in the future will involve the mechanization of legal tasks into standard systems, creating job losses for lawyers who don't evolve, Richard Susskind argues in his new book The End of Lawyers?
Today law practice is like a custom-made suit—it is crafted to an individual client’s needs. But in the future, Susskind argues, standard legal tasks will be performed by software or done in a lower cost manner—they will be commodities like off-the-rack suits, explains a book review in The Lawyers Weekly.
Complex legal issues will be broken down into individual tasks, and lawyers will identify the best way to perform them. One this is accomplished, Susskind argues, these tasks may be handled by paralegals, by lower cost law firms or specialized overseas companies.
In this evolution, the “dominant species” of lawyer will be legal knowledge engineers who organize complex legal content and processes that will need to be analyzed and distilled into standard practice and computer systems, according to the book review.
“Adapt or die,” the review says. “That’s the stark option Susskind offers lawyers. The coming seismic shift in legal services will result in the demise of many law firms, the extinction of many legal fields, and will force many lawyers to scramble to find new lines of work.”
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Law practice in the future will involve the mechanization of legal tasks into standard systems, creating job losses for lawyers who don't evolve, Richard Susskind argues in his new book The End of Lawyers?
Today law practice is like a custom-made suit—it is crafted to an individual client’s needs. But in the future, Susskind argues, standard legal tasks will be performed by software or done in a lower cost manner—they will be commodities like off-the-rack suits, explains a book review in The Lawyers Weekly.
Complex legal issues will be broken down into individual tasks, and lawyers will identify the best way to perform them. One this is accomplished, Susskind argues, these tasks may be handled by paralegals, by lower cost law firms or specialized overseas companies.
In this evolution, the “dominant species” of lawyer will be legal knowledge engineers who organize complex legal content and processes that will need to be analyzed and distilled into standard practice and computer systems, according to the book review.
“Adapt or die,” the review says. “That’s the stark option Susskind offers lawyers. The coming seismic shift in legal services will result in the demise of many law firms, the extinction of many legal fields, and will force many lawyers to scramble to find new lines of work.”
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