This Tuesday at 11 am PT /2 pm ET, Clio, a leading cloud-based practice management company, will be offering a provocative webinar on Legal Artificial Intelligence. The legal media has hyped this issue with the help of some lawyers
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Changes in Composition of the LSAT Profiles of Matriculants and Law Schools Between 2010 and 2015
By Jerry Organ
In late December 2014, I posted a blog analyzing how the distribution of matriculants across LSAT categories had changed since 2010 based on the LSAC’s National Decision Profiles and on law school 50th percentile LSATs and 25th percentile LSATs…
Building the Legal Startup
If I were in northern California tomorrow evening, I would be headed to Stanford Law to attend this interesting program:Building the Legal Start-upJanuary 12 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm 5:00 – 9:00pmRoom 290, Stanford Law SchoolThe event is…
Conditional Scholarship Programs: Comparing 2014-15 with 2011-12
By Jerry Organ
A few years ago, the Council for the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar approved revisions to Standard 509, requiring that law schools post a chart identifying the number of conditional scholarships given to incoming first years…
Updating the Transfer Market Analysis for 2015
By Jerry Organ
Family Tree of Some of the Great NYC Law Firms
“Income at KPMG legal up 53 per cent”
That is the headline this morning from the Global Legal Post, a publication that compiles legal news from around the world. The context is the UK, where changes in legal regulations now permit nonlawyers to own and control legal…
Less Talk of Disruption, More Talk of Creation
There is a natural tendency in people to lament what is familiar and good but now fading away. We are in one of these cycles in law, largely because law firms and law schools are no longer on the familiar…
Constitutional Pilpul (Or The Second Amendment and Why I Despair of Reason)
By Jeff Lipshaw
Lawyers’ Contribution to Organizational Behavior
My good friend Bruce MacEwen of Adam Smith Esq. recently ran across a training manual providing instructions on proper behavior within organizations. Bruce thought that some of the advice appeared to be very similar to how law firms make decisions.…