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Automating your firm’s documents is a snap with document assembly software

Since last March, I’ve been revisiting some of my past columns on legal software with an eye toward providing lawyers with the latest updates on the legal software that their firms will most likely rely on when working remotely.


A conversation about food insecurity, pursuing charitable endeavors in the legal industry

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Tyrone Thomas, a vice president and deputy general counsel at Invenergy and the founder of Conversation for Six, a nonprofit organization focused on expanding ongoing discussions about food insecurity.


Police reform and homeland security: Some policy recommendations to close the racial justice gap

Last summer, in response to the killing of George Floyd and other victims of police brutality and amid a public health crisis and economic collapse, Americans saw an overdue reckoning with racial injustice. Around the country, large swaths of peaceful multigenerational, multiracial demonstrators marched to demand social justice and racial equity.


Top tips for lawyers to boost their online reputations

In today’s online-centric world, lawyers often get just one click and one page of search engine results to make their cases to prospective clients. It’s the first and maybe only opportunity to showcase their credibility to clients in an increasingly competitive market.


Judge Jed Rakoff discusses new book about how to fix a broken legal system

Jed Rakoff tells me that he has “the world’s greatest job.” Lucky for him, he can have it for life.


HBO Max’s 'Perry Mason' and the benefits of practicing law as a second career

As I’ve often remarked, I love getting emails and calls from my readers—well, most of the time. Recently, I received a hateful message from another author criticizing my column regarding the CBS series All Rise.


How to know when it's time to send a client packing

A learned colleague in my office, Henry, used to say, “The biggest problem in the practice of law is getting clients. The second biggest is dealing with them.”


7 key areas of legislative and policy successes by the ABA in the 116th Congress

The first session of the 116th Congress started in 2019 with a politically divided government and the longest federal government shutdown in history. It ended with the impeachment of the president by the Democratic-led House of Representatives. The second session started in 2020 with the Republican-led Senate acquittal of the…


Chemerinsky: SCOTUS hands down a rare civil rights victory on qualified immunity

Per curiam decisions handed down without briefing and oral argument generally do not get much attention, so it is understandable that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling about qualified immunity in Taylor v. Riojas might have been overlooked, even by civil rights lawyers.


How to restore trust for a profession in transition

There is a temptation to part company with the challenges and disappointments of 2020 and move full speed ahead into 2021 without looking back. As lawyers, however, we should not forget what we learned from the past year. Rather, we need to make some serious New Year’s resolutions. In 2020,…


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