If you had asked me in law school what area of law I hoped to practice, the answer would not have been E-Discovery. Frankly, I had no idea E-Discovery attorneys existed or awareness that E-Discovery ...

A substantial portion of today's legal practice is conducted digitally and on-line. Attorneys generate, collect, store and use an abundance of client confidential information, personally identifiable ...

This past December, the New York Court of Appeals, under the leadership of then-Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, issued an order amending the rules for admission to the New York bar to require applicants ...

The long-offered and frequently invoked justification for the bar exam is that the public must be protected from legal incompetence. That is a legitimate, worthy, and necessary concern. Incompetent ...

In the last month, COVID-19 has forced more than 10 million Americans to file for unemployment. In the coming weeks, law students will join the surge, as employers begin to postpone employment start ...

Claudia Bunch Dallas walked into an Alachua County courtroom one recent morning, ready to listen as several people once again debated her mental state. At issue was whether she was competent to stand ...

A months-long waiting list for court-ordered competency evaluations in South Dakota threatens to violate the constitutional rights of defendants. A coalition of groups led by the American Civil ...

Having a plentiful number of clients in a law firm is vital. To attract new clients, law firms must have a successful marketing plan. It is also crucial to make as many clients as possible happy to ...

Should individuals with persistent and serious mental illness, who commit minor crimes, be treated as criminals in our court system, or can we treat their mental illness in a more humane way and offer ...