Typically around Labor Day, the major media will produce stories about the plight of the working class. This is the year that the working class of employed, under-employed and unemployed newly minted lawyers reached the attention of the major, non-legal,…
Archive for the ‘Current Affairs’ Category
Providing Legal Services to the "Masses" in the 21st Century, Part Three: A View from the Legal Academy
15
Aug
Marsha Mansfield and Louise G. Trube (both U of Wisconsin Law School) open their recent article, New Roles to Solve Old Problems: Lawyering for Ordinary People in Today’s Context [SSRN] (New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 2,…
Providing Routine Legal Services to the "Masses" in the 21st Century, Part Two: A Prescription for Allowing Main Street-Based Services Provided by Licensed Legal Assistance Practitioners
10
Aug
“The county’s public law library can help you because … .” Usually the sentence ends with “court forms” when spoken by local court employee or “information” when spoken by a legal services staffer whose office cannot provide the services requested….
A Quick Follow-Up to Broken Vendor Business Models: SWAG for Complaints!
10
Aug
I don’t tweat but if I did I would follow up Law Firm Libraries Approaching a “Network-style Meltdown” in Conducting Business with Vendors with a tweat about Greg Lambert’s Dear Vendors – Upgrade Your Data… Not Your SWAG on 3…
Providing Routine Legal Services to the "Masses" in the 21st Century, Part One: Internet-Based Legal Document Prep Services
09
Aug
Does LegalZoom’s business practices violate Missouri law which bars non-lawyers from preparing legal documents? Been wondering when we would see this issue presented in court. Now that Missouri federal judge Nanette K. Laughrey has set a trial date, August 22,…
Law Firm Libraries Approaching a "Network-style Meltdown" in Conducting Business with Vendors
08
Aug
“Vendors, your vendor business model is broken” for institutional buyers in the only market segment that matters to our major, very expensive and very tradition-bound vendors in terms of huge guaranteed revenue streams (law firms and corporate accounts). Once taken…
In The News: Jobs, Books, Babies, Stupid Lawsits, Cable Porn, and Data Caps
01
Aug
Things I’ve read in the news lately: The dismal market for law school graduates may be the public sector’s gain, if this story out of Virginia is to be believed. Cash strapped public sector offices are hiring unpaid summer interns….
