Browsing by Subject "Lawyers"

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    But I'm a Creator/Inventor/Coding, Not a Lawyer: What to Know about Intellectual Property Law, Contracts and More
    (2016-10-21) Hook, Sara Anne; Faklaris, Cori
    What you don’t know can hurt you. This mini-session will offer tips to minimize the chance of being taken advantage of in the workplace or when sharing or creating work with others. Topics include contracts, licensing and intellectual property law (patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and branding), along with special issues related to freelancing and hackathons. Learn how to use the law to protect yourself, your work and your reputation and avoid infringing on the rights of others. Because the law related to technology is changing so fast, even a more seasoned professional will find the session to be helpful. Participants will gain confidence in and knowledge of how to deal with situations involving legal issues. They will know what to look for when asked to sign a variety of documents covering their creative work. They will also be able to discern when to contact a lawyer and what kinds of credentials to look for when selecting a lawyer.
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    Ethical Practices for Civil Litigation
    (2016-06-23) Hook, Sara Anne
    Do you know the most effective way to apply the Rules of Civil Procedure to get the best outcome for your client? Are you up to date with the latest changes? This practical course uses the experience of veteran civil litigation attorneys to build your own skills. From commencing an action to enforcing a judgment, you'll learn which procedural rules can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Stay a step ahead of your opponent with detailed knowledge of service of process, discovery and motions. Get insights into the rules judges enforce to the letter and which they let slide. No matter which side of the claim your client is on, our faculty will prepare you to master civil procedure.
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    Flock of Legals Designing an Interactive Website to Create a Community for Lawyers
    (2015-03-27) Pachhapurkar, Shilpa; Hook, Sara Anne
    Our research identified an unserved niche within the legal technology marketplace. We observed that there was no comprehensive system for lawyers to connect with each other externally in a secure environment that would help them build a professional network of colleagues across the U.S. and even around the world. Our interactive website is intended to provide a LinkedIn-style community specifically for lawyers and is not for access by the general public. The tools within our community, tentatively titled Flock of Legals (but changed to Gaggle on the Gavel to avoid trademark issues), are totally within the lawyer’s discretion as to how much of the system he or she wants to use, such as referrals, calendars and tracking of continuing legal education seminars and other events, who he or she wants to connect with and how much information will be shared with external colleagues about cases, career opportunities or research interests. Gaggle on the Gavel (formerly Flock of Legals) will also include visualizations that will show trends in the law with respect the kinds of cases being filed and other issues and statistics that lawyers would be interested in and that would help with strategic planning for law firms.
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    Flock of Legals: Designing an Interactive Website to Create a Community for Lawyers [original name changed to avoid trademark issues]
    (2015-04-17) Pachhapurkar, Shilpa; Hook, Sara Anne
    Our research identified an unserved niche within the legal technology marketplace. We observed that there was no comprehensive system for lawyers to connect with each other externally in a secure environment that would help them build a professional network of colleagues across the U.S. and even around the world. Our interactive website is intended to provide a LinkedIn-style community specifically for lawyers and is not for access by the general public. Our poster will feature a demonstration of the current iteration of the Gaggle on the Gavel website, including our logo, as well as provide diagrams of the interaction flow within the website and the results of a focus group we conducted on our efforts to design an online community for lawyers.
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    Flock of Legals: Designing an Interactive Website to Create a Community for Lawyers
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2015-04-17) Pachhapurkar, Shilpa; Hook, Sara Anne
    In many ways, law is behind other industries and professions in its implementation of technology. Fortunately, a number of legal technology entrepreneurs and academics are designing systems that will make the study and practice of law more efficient and less expensive and new players are coming into the marketplace to challenge long-standing monopoly-like situations such as have been enjoyed by traditional legal research companies like LexisNexis and Westlaw.1-3 There are now comprehensive practice management systems as well as more targeted software for internal law firm processes like time-keeping and billing.4 Websites allow potential clients to locate and connect with lawyers and for lawyers to promote their services to the public.5 However, our research identified an unserved niche within the legal technology marketplace. We observed that there was no comprehensive system for lawyers to connect with each other externally in a secure environment that would help them build a professional network of colleagues across the U.S. and even around the world. Our interactive website is intended to provide a LinkedIn-style community specifically for lawyers and is not for access by the general public. The tools within our community, called Flock of Legals, are totally within the lawyer’s discretion as to how much of the system he or she wants to use, such as referrals, calendars and tracking of continuing legal education seminars and other events, who he or she wants to connect with and how much information will be shared with external colleagues about cases, career opportunities or research interests. Flock of Legals will also include visualizations that will show trends in the law with respect the kinds of cases being filed and other issues and statistics that lawyers would be interested in and that would help with strategic planning for law firms. Our poster will feature a demonstration of the current iteration of the Flock of Legals website, including our logo, as well as provide diagrams of the interaction flow within the website and the results of a focus group we conducted on our efforts to design an online community for lawyers.
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    Gaggle on the Gavel: Designing an Interactive Website to Create a Community for Lawyers [poster]
    (2015-04-17) Pachhapurkar, Shilpa; Hook, Sara Anne
    Our research identified an unserved niche within the legal technology marketplace. We observed that there was no comprehensive system for lawyers to connect with each other externally in a secure environment that would help them build a professional network of colleagues across the U.S. and even around the world. Our interactive website is intended to provide a LinkedIn-style community specifically for lawyers and is not for access by the general public. Our poster will feature a demonstration of the current iteration of the Gaggle on the Gavel website, including our logo, as well as provide diagrams of the interaction flow within the website and the results of a focus group we conducted on our efforts to design an online community for lawyers.
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    Gaggle on the Gavel: Designing an Interactive Website to Create a Community of Lawyers
    (2016-07) Hook, Sara Anne; Pachhapurkar, Shilpa
    Law is behind other industries and professions in its implementation of technolo-gy that could make the practice of law and the delivery of legal services more ef-fective and satisfying. Although there has been considerable development in le-gal technology over the past few years, research identified the need for an interac-tive LinkedIn-style online community for lawyers to communicate other lawyers. Such a community would be particularly beneficial for solo practitioners, lawyers in small firms and lawyers in rural communities and would also provide a con-venient way to connect with lawyers for referrals and recommendations, for spe-cialized expertise and to develop contacts in different geographic locations. Ten-tatively titled Gaggle on the Gavel is an attempt to create such a community that would gather a number of attractive features and functionality under one umbrella and be compliant with the rules of professional conduct with respect to client con-fidentiality, security, advertising and solicitation. A system has been designed, prototyped and revised based on feedback from a focus group of lawyers.
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    Legal and Ethical Implications of Social Media
    (2016-05-03) Hook, Sara Anne
    Social media technologies continue to evolve at an increasingly rapid rate and have now replaced email as the preferred method of communication for many. Because of the Rules of Professional Conduct and other doctrines, lawyers need to be especially careful in using social media for client communication, marketing and other law firm functions, as well as handling social media as evidence. And it doesn't stop there: not only might incorrect use of social media end up as a breach of ethical rules, but it also has the potential to communicate a lack of professionalism to the community and damage a case or a client.