Dive Brief: Building affordable housing for graduate students is becoming increasingly important for universities — but inflation, interest rates and other challenges are likely to constrain projects in the short term, according to a July report from Moody’s. Institutions have looked to fill the need through partnerships with private developers, analysts with the ratings agency…
Credit card payments are a standard payment method for many merchants and service providers. But as the legal industry joins in, and with many law firms now accepting credit payments from their clients, one important consideration remains: fees for credit card processing. Credit card processing fees can eat into the profits of a business more…
Free legal research tools used to be a dream. High-quality legal research is a necessity for all law firms—after all, finding the right precedent or statute could give you the edge to win your case. In the past, paid research platforms were the only choice. We accepted legal research tools as a costly-but-necessary expense for…
Billing is critical to the success of your law firm. And yet law firm billing, including billing clients and chasing down payments, can be one of the most repetitive, dreaded, and time-consuming parts of any lawyer’s day. According to the 2023 Legal Trends Report, lawyers record less than three billable hours per day on average,…
Biglaw Firm Makes Big Change To Normalized WFH Policy: Dear loyal employees, get bent. Oh No, Words Have Consequences!: Dancing like no one is watching is one thing, but tweeting? Not when you’re a lawyer. Are You Sure You Aren’t Violating Any Civil Rights?: Judge finds it necessary to check in with the prosecution. Buying…
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to Am Law’s 2024 Texas 100, which firm has the biggest Texas headcount? Hint: This firm has 460 attorneys in the Lone Star State — up 8.5% — and their biggest Texas office is located in Dallas. See the answer on the…
(Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) Last month, current British Prime Minister Keir Starmer won the role in a landslide victory. Starmer quickly canceled his predecessor’s, Rishi Sunak, planned mass deportations of “illegal immigrants.” Then the tragic Southport stabbing, which left three children dead, happened and fake rumors (easily debunked) calling the assailant an asylum-seeker or…
You are done with juggling multiple spreadsheets just to track your restricted funds. You are finished with manual approval processes for expenses. You’ve made the decision to switch to a modern fund accounting system. You’ve found the perfect partner. Now comes the part where all the planning and research pays off: implementation. To do a…
2023 is seen by some as the time when the Wild Wild West of the AI frontiers reigned. If that’s the case, then we can look to 2024 and beyond as the time when a new sheriff came to town: the EU AI Act. The excitement and frenzy that came from OpenAI’s ChatGPT was soon…
Google’s big antitrust loss is arguably the biggest antitrust development since the Microsoft case a quarter century ago. As much as the opinion shakes up the world of search, it might end up having bigger implications for the nascent artificial intelligence industry if it disrupts Google’s access to all the juicy user data it can…