The Legal Up blog

Many legal professionals face the frustration of working at a firm that will not embrace technology. If you’re feeling stuck at a firm that insists on doing things manually, you’re not alone.

Paralegals like you are, without a doubt, the unsung heroes of the legal profession.

While working remotely is a dream come true for many legal professionals, it comes with some challenges. One of those challenges is maintaining effective remote law firm communication.

I want to be clear from the outset: This isn’t an article about landing your first big case as a recent law school grad. That’s fodder for a whole different article; perhaps a book.

The concepts of neurodiversity and neurodivergence are gradually taking hold in our society as ways to describe different types of mental functioning. Instead of referring to individuals as having mental or behavioral deficits or disorders, we can now think of them more holistically and ...

I may be naïve, but I like to think a lot of people choose careers in the law because they want to have a positive impact on the world.

Like it or not, America is perhaps more politically divided today than in any other time in history. That alone sets the stage for extremely uncomfortable workplace discussions.

Tech competency is fast becoming a prerequisite for success in the legal profession. Digital technology is continually evolving and transforming our modern world, and the law is not immune to this trend.

Law firms often seem to operate as rigid hierarchies where anyone below the rank of partner feels they have little influence.

If you’ve worked in and around the legal industry for any length of time, you’ve at least heard of UPL, the “Unauthorized Practice of Law.”