Online payments great way to boost law firm revenue. Especially when waiting around for paper checks and bank deposits. Data from the 2019 State of the Legal Market shows client demand has been stagnant for last 10 years, since the Great Recession.
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Immigration lawyers are sleeping a little better these days, yes, but I can’t say that our days of anxiety are over quite yet. We are constantly scratching our heads about where our clients fit into new policies. One of the latest conundrums revolves around whether a client is impacted by one of the myriad of bans currently on the books.
President Joe Biden kept his promise and reversed the Trump administration’s infamous Muslim Ban immediately upon taking office, making it possible for immigrants from seven Muslim countries to resume their immigration journeys after four years of being shut out of the United States. But that was only one of several bans that emerged in the past few years, particularly during 2020. People have been banned from obtaining new temporary or permanent visas (green cards). The bans are visa- as well as country-specific. Essentially, COVID-19 gave Trump what Congress wouldn’t limited immigration.
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The annual ABA TECHSHOW was the last major event I participated in before the world locked down. Right before leaving Chicago in 2020, we all knew that COVID would wreak havoc on the country, but assumed that the combination of a global forewarning and the contact tracing and isolation protocols that successfully stifled the H1N1 outbreak would largely shield the country from devastation. We hadn’t counted on the option that no one in government was going to bother with any of that. There’s a lesson in there about never setting your expectations too high I suppose.
In any event, the world did undergo an extended crisis and the past year saw the legal technology space hypercharged as technoskeptic attorneys had to throw themselves fully into the legal tech world.
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As the oldest millennials turn 40 this year and more of them become law firm partners we’re once again taking our annual look at this generation of lawyers.
In partnership with our friends at Major Lindsey & Africa, we want to particularly delve into the dynamics of how millennials continue to affect legal industry culture.
Starting today, we are running a series of quick surveys intended to capture the viewpoint of younger lawyers and help determine what differentiates them from both their (non-attorney) generational peers and their older colleagues.
Today’s survey concerns the workplace priorities of millennials, covering topics as varied as diversity and inclusion, mentorship, and work-life balance.
March 11, 2021 at 2:02 PM
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Sarah T. Hughes. (Photo via Archives Department/State Bar of Texas)
March is Women’s History Month. Despite the disheartening news that women and people of color continue to advance incrementally in the profession (and that’s politely putting lipstick on a pig), there have always been women lawyers and judges fighting challenging odds to make a difference. Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and then Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, and most recently, Amy Coney Barrett. Four women out of nine presently sitting on the Court. Until 30 years ago there were none. And witness Vice President Kamala Harris, a woman lawyer and a BIPOC.