President Barack Obama on Wednesday granted the clemency petitions of 61 federal prisoners, reducing their sentences and providing for them to be freed later this year.
Wearing an ankle monitor is less restrictive than being detained by U.S. authorities. However, even less restrictive alternatives are available to use on Central American immigrant families fleeing extraordinary violence…
An app that takes dictation. A talking doll that’s a goldmine for cyberhackers. A service that preserves social media posts for posterity (or more likely, litigation).
It’s not easy telling an entire state full of colleagues and superiors that they need to move on from a business model that has served their industry for centuries. But…
FaceTime is actually a pretty secure way to communicate. The FBI can access the camera on your laptop without you knowing about it. And lawyers should think twice before storing…
Cindy Cohn was always a compelling choice to give the keynote speech at ABA Techshow. The Electronic Frontier Foundation executive director has been involved in numerous high-profile court…
Fred Rooney loved his first job out of law school—but he couldn’t afford to keep it. His salary at Lehigh Valley Legal Services put his family of four under the…
Is online dispute resolution the wave of the future? Or is it a niche area that will always have applications in certain areas, but won’t be going mainstream anytime soon?
Happy lawyers. That’s what vendors at the 30th anniversary of ABA Techshow tried to support with their products by way of cute–and sometimes truly cuddly–giveaways.
ABA Techshow panelist Martin Tully, a partner at Akerman in Chicago, opened his St. Patrick’s Day afternoon panel with a promise to keep it brief, noting that “we…
With large firms on one side and legal service providers on the other, the new reality for many small firms is that they face a difficult competitive landscape. But they…
The legal industry has never been more competitive. Forward-thinking lawyers and firms, however, can get ahead financially by embracing nontraditional ways of billing, budgeting and collecting.
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