The Legal Up blog

When clients hire a lawyer, they expect you to know your way around the legal landscape. Nonetheless, there are numerous factors outside of your legal expertise that can lead clients to question (or downright distrust) your competence.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in the legal industry. Legal AI tools are more common than ever, and generative AI has stayed in the legal tech headlines since the 2022 debut of ChapGPT.

For hundreds of legal professionals, using the Florida e-Portal is a part of their workplace routine. If you’re one of those folks, you probably have a standard process you use to get things done.

Without a doubt, the pandemic accelerated the use of technologies within the legal industry that had been languishing beforehand. Virtual courtrooms are among the best examples of this.

You already added all your case information in your practice management system. What if your eFiling portal was smart enough to fetch that information and fill in those fields for you?

While artificial intelligence (AI) has certainly caused major changes in the legal industry, one big question remains — will an AI tool be able to completely perform the work of a human attorney? In other words, is the AI lawyer a realistic concept that we will see in our lifetimes?

For paralegals, working efficiently and accurately in high-pressure situations is not an option; it’s a job requirement. Fortunately, it’s easier than ever for paralegals to meet this standard with automation tools and tricks.

Faced with the decision to work from an office or allow team members to work from anywhere, thousands of law firms have ended up with something in the middle.

One of the interesting revelations in InfoTrack’s recently-released report, Attorney competence and the client experience, is that a client’s perception of a lawyer’s competence is correlated with their perception of the lawyer’s technology competence.

For law firms focused on serving legal papers efficiently and quickly, working with local servers who they know and trust is often the best way. By building a close relationship, both firm and serving agency can develop an understanding of each other’s needs and best practices.