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Lawyer and journalist covering legal tech and innovation at LawSitesBlog.com and AboveTheLaw.com and through the podcast LawNext.
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Is Avvo's fixed-cost service a fee-sharing violation?

Is Avvo's fixed-cost service a fee-sharing violation?

ABA Journal — The timing seemed prescient. One day after the ABA adopted a hotly contested resolution to guide states in their regulation of nontraditional legal service providers, Avvo rolled out Avvo Legal Services, offering fixed-fee, limited-scope legal services through a network of attorneys in 18 of the nation's most populous states. Launched Feb.
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Who says you need a law degree to practice law?

Who says you need a law degree to practice law?

Washington Post — Robert Ambrogi is a lawyer and writer in Massachusetts. Michelle Cummings never went to law school. Her formal college education ended in 1998, with a paralegal studies degree from Highline Community College in Des Moines, Wash. But this summer, Cummings could start taking on legal clients who need help filing for divorce or child custody.
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Washington state moves around UPL, using legal technicians to help close the justice gap

Washington state moves around UPL, using legal technicians to help close the justice gap

ABA Journal — Michelle Cummings looks forward to this spring, when she expects to take on her first law client. By then, the Auburn, Washington, resident will have completed her studies and taken the state licensing examination. Provided she passes, she will begin practicing right away.
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Visual law services are worth a thousand words--and big money

Visual law services are worth a thousand words--and big money

ABA Journal — Daniel Lewis was midway through his second year at Stanford Law School when he became convinced there was a better way to do legal research. The thought came to him while doing work for a nonprofit in 2011. He was trying to understand where his issue fit within a broad group of cases his research had found.
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Latest legal victory has LegalZoom poised for growth

Latest legal victory has LegalZoom poised for growth

ABA Journal — In recent years, LegalZoom has faced lawsuits in eight states seeking to shut it down for violating state laws barring the unauthorized practice of law. But with a notable recent victory in South Carolina, and having fended off all but one of the other lawsuits, LegalZoom is anything but shutting down.
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Latest legal victory has LegalZoom poised for growth

Latest legal victory has LegalZoom poised for growth

ABA Journal — In recent years, LegalZoom has faced lawsuits in eight states seeking to shut it down for violating state laws barring the unauthorized practice of law. But with a notable recent victory in South Carolina, and having fended off all but one of the other lawsuits, LegalZoom is anything but shutting down.
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Handy new ScanSnap iX100 mobile scanner works anywhere, with any device

Handy new ScanSnap iX100 mobile scanner works anywhere, with any device

ABA Journal — In-Depth Reporting Handy new ScanSnap iX100 mobile scanner works... "Unleashed" is a word the folks at Fujitsu use to describe scanning with their new mobile scanner, the ScanSnap iX100. While I usually balk at using words fed to me by a product's manufacturer, this one happens to be just right.
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3 new products to help with client intake

3 new products to help with client intake

ABA Journal — Given how routinely lawyers perform client intake, the dearth of products that exist to help with it is surprising. That changed earlier this year when, within a few months, three products debuted for enabling client intake online: Lexicata, Intake123 and Rocket Matter Intake. Each allows creation of custom electronic forms that prospective clients can fill out.
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An Acrobat alternative, at a third of the price

An Acrobat alternative, at a third of the price

2015 Blawg 100 Hall of Fame — No law practice these days should be without professional-strength Portable Document Format software. For electronically filing a brief, redacting sensitive documents, preparing a production set for discovery or managing a paperless office, PDFs are part of lawyers' stock-in-trade. The gold standard for PDF software has always been Adobe Acrobat Pro.
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