{"id":84107,"date":"2022-11-20T19:53:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T00:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=84107"},"modified":"2022-11-20T20:06:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T01:06:25","slug":"2022-winners-of-the-legaltech-breakthrough-awards-several-other-legal-related-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/11\/20\/2022-winners-of-the-legaltech-breakthrough-awards-several-other-legal-related-items\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Winners of the LegalTech Breakthrough Awards + several other legal-related items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/legaltechbreakthrough.com\/2022-winners\/\" target=\"_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Winners of the LegalTech Breakthrough Awards<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; from legaltechbreakthrough.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Categories include:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Case Management<\/li>\n<li>Client Relations<\/li>\n<li>Data &amp; Analytics<\/li>\n<li>Documentation<\/li>\n<li>Legal Education<\/li>\n<li>Practice Management<\/li>\n<li>Legal Entity Management<\/li>\n<li>Legal Research<\/li>\n<li>Online Dispute Resolution<\/li>\n<li>Contract Management<\/li>\n<li>eDiscovery<\/li>\n<li>Marketplaces<\/li>\n<li>RegTech<\/li>\n<li>Leadership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skift.com\/blog\/soaring-travel-costs-put-lawyers-back-on-zoom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Soaring Travel Costs Put Lawyers Back on Zoom<\/a> &#8211;<\/strong>&#8211; from kift.com Matthew Parsons<br \/>\n<em>Rising airfares and travel costs are prompting legal professionals involved in dispute resolutions to return to video conferencing.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natlawreview.com\/article\/global-dispute-resolution-future-virtual-legal-proceedings-shaped-soaring-travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Global Dispute Resolution: The Future of Virtual Legal Proceedings Is Shaped by Soaring Travel Costs<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from matlawreview.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>With the cost of international air travel rising sharply, remote hearings are a practical alternative to in-person proceedings. International travel is expensive, and the virtual option means that it is no longer necessary to count travel as a \u201ccost of doing business\u201d when pursuing an international dispute. The widespread use of technology in global dispute resolution proceedings gives attorneys and their clients the option to participate remotely, which is a compelling cost saver for all parties.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/2022\/11\/most-debt-lawsuits-get-decided-without-a-fight-michigan-leaders-want-to-change-the-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Most debt lawsuits get decided without a fight. Michigan leaders want to change the rules. <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from mlive.com by Matthew Miller<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nMost of the 1.9 million debt collection cases filed in Michigan\u2019s district courts over the past decade or so never went to trial. Usually, the defendants don\u2019t show up to court, and debt collectors win by default, according to data compiled by the Michigan Justice for All Commission. In most cases, the courts end up garnishing defendants\u2019 wages, income tax returns or other assets, sometimes on the basis of complaints that include little more than the name of the creditor, an account number and the balance due.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"SYKAM22W4VDPLJKUNFGGD4Z3AA\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>And both debt lawsuits and garnishment are more common for people living in primarily Black neighborhoods, regardless of their income.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"MV7ME6KX3FF2DKOIPR34CJYOTU\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Members of the Commission say Michigan\u2019s rules around debt collection lawsuits don\u2019t do enough to protect regular people, who sometimes don\u2019t find out they\u2019ve been sued until they see money coming out of their paychecks.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"ZREMTOTNTJEMDF2QJ3X6SRBUP4\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>They say those rules need to change.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/world-first-virtual-legal-clinic-190900368.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>World-first virtual legal clinic opens for business across BC, aiming to increase affordability, diversity and reach of legal professionals<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from finance.yahoo.com by Access Pro Bono<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">An early participant in the Law Society of BC\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsociety.bc.ca\/our-initiatives\/innovation-sandbox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:Innovation Sandbox\" data-rapid_p=\"8\" data-v9y=\"1\">Innovation Sandbox<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">, the Clinic offers the in-person and virtual help of 25 articling students located in 15 different BC communities \u2014from Tofino to Cranbrook\u2014 with the support of 15 supervising lawyers, four staff and dozens of local mentors. Together, they provide fixed-fee services in a wide range of areas covering everyday legal problems.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 Winners of the LegalTech Breakthrough Awards\u00a0&#8212; from legaltechbreakthrough.com Categories include: Case Management Client Relations Data &amp; Analytics Documentation Legal Education Practice Management Legal Entity Management Legal Research Online Dispute Resolution Contract Management eDiscovery Marketplaces RegTech Leadership Also see: Soaring Travel Costs Put Lawyers Back on Zoom &#8211;&#8211; from kift.com Matthew Parsons Rising airfares and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,832,435,356,473,298,180,825,74,837,833,830,285,449,385,201,321,367,189,846,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-access-to-justice","category-analytics","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-canada","category-data-related-items","category-innovation","category-law-schools","category-leadership","category-legal-operations","category-legal-reform","category-legal-technologies","category-legislation-legislatures","category-marketplaces","category-michigan","category-policy","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-videoconferencing","category-virtual-courts-law-firms","category-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84112,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84107\/revisions\/84112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}