Today, we speak with Professor Shanin Specter about liability waivers and whether they are a viable legal strategy or simply a deterrence tactic. Professor Specter has been teaching at UC Hastings Law since 2017 and is a founding partner of Kline…
Read MoreHere’s one that gets a big meta. Back in November 2017, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi spoke at about a lawyer’s ethical duty to be technologically competent. The talk prompted the school to explore ways it could help students improve their…
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There’s a common misbelief we have about how to approach our workday: in order to be productive, we constantly have to be in a state of stress. But it turns out that in many ways that belief is backwards. When we’re able to identify the root of…
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The Legaltech Week panel of journalists is back for a look at the week’s top stories in legal technology and innovation. Among the topics this week are a new legal research service from LexisNexis, concerns about self-driving cars and crime, another…
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Today, we speak with Professor Karen Musalo about changes to the U.S. asylum system since the pandemic hit. Professor Musalo is the founding director of the UC Hastings Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, and the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic….
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On this episode of Legaltech Week, we invite the audience to put their questions to our panel of legaltech journalists. Among the questions we answer: How best to pitch us with a story, what’s our favorite type of story, how to break into legal…
Read MoreIn 2015, the husband-and-wife team of and founded , a service that matches consumers with vetted lawyers at affordable prices. Last November, the couple stepped aside from the business to pursue other interests. In their time running the company,…
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As partners in life and business, we spend a lot of time together. We’re used to it. But the pandemic, with its shelter in place orders and office closures, has forced a lot of couples to spend more time together than ever before. We wanted to learn…
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Today, we speak with Professor Abe Cable about how UC Hastings Law had to suddenly adapt to the pandemic and the implications for Fall 2020 and beyond. Professor Cable is the Faculty Director of Online Legal Education at UC Hastings Law. This past…
Read MoreSociologist is one of the world’s leading scholars on access to justice. Professor at the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University, she is also a at the American Bar Foundation, where she founded and leads the…
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