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One of the few silver linings of the 2008 financial crisis was that many lawyers were shocked into budget consciousness. Seemingly overnight, lawyers became willing to reassess old assumptions. Maybe they could live without personal copies of treatises. Maybe they would try online resources that they had resisted. The crisis has passed but the changed legal market place remains. Law firms that want to invest in new technologies must subsidize those investments with lean budget practices that continuously reassess all ongoing costs. No product is a “slam dunk” for annual renewal in 2019 without some “due diligence.”

Here are some tips to help your “harvest” saving which can be reinvested in “nextgen” resources.

Focus on ROI. Products such as Research Monitor and Onelog can provide invaluable insights into the number of lawyers who actually use web-based products.  Products are often maintained based on  “anecdotal” statements suggesting that a product is “used by everyone.” Tracking actual product usage may tell a very different story.  Actual product utilization is a more reliable basis for renewal and cancellation decisions. Usage data can also be a powerful lever in negotiations with vendors.

Centralize Procurement With the Experts. The IT team has the expertise to evaluate software and understand network compliance and security issues. Research/KM teams have content and licensing expertise to assess digital resources. An inventory of all resources is a first step toward eliminating redundant products and creating cost accountability system.

Communicate with Practice Groups and Business Units. Provide practice group leaders with a spreadsheet listing the resources that are purchased for the benefit of that practice group. Engage their assistance in eliminating products which have declined in use or which are duplicative.

Work with Business Unit Stakeholders. News and business data is utilized by both lawyers and administrative units. For example, conflicts, research, and marketing teams all need access to business data, but a firm could end up with three different largely redundant products. Assess the workflow and content needs of each team and identify the best product that will meet the needs of all.

Establish Budget Policies and Systems for Approval. Is partner approval required for purchases charged to practice groups? If yes, is there an approval cap? Are there some cost thresholds that need to be approved by the executive director or management committee? Are there any resources such as deskbooks and court rules which any lawyer can request without approval? Having a written policy which explains how to request a new resource and who needs to approve purchases enables lawyers to support budget best practices and policies.

Thwarting Rogue Purchasers. In any organization, there are personalities that routinely find ways to avoid the rules. The Accounting Department can be a powerful ally in frustrating the “rogue” purchasers who try to circumvent the approval and review process by trying to get reimbursement for their unauthorized  purchases. Accounting personnel will be happy to assist in your budget compliance initiatives.

Right Size Your Licenses. If your practice groups have shrunk since the last renewal of a license — look at the “material change” clause in your license — you may be able to cancel products which are no longer needed or shrink licenses which have more seats than you now need.

Avoid Automatic Renewals. Many licenses will auto-renew unless the vendor receives a written notice 30, 60, or even 90 days prior to renewal.  There are contract management products which offer an automatic “tickler system” that alerts contract stakeholders of key dates for contract cancellation and renewal. A simple spreadsheet which lists all license renewal dates and notice of termination deadlines can be used to proactively track and cancel under-performing products.

Replace Print with Digital. Digital resources get a “bad rap” for being costlier than print. Digital resources may be more expensive but they are also offer “virtual library access” available to all lawyers, at any time, from any location with internet access. The true cost of print resources needs to include the costs of maintenance including staff to manage print, upkeep costs such as loose-leaf filing, and space for library storage. The total cost of print often compares unfavorably with the digital alternatives.

Be Proactive — Know the Market. One of the best ways to manage costs is to maintain an expert understanding of emerging products. Proactively seek out products which are less expensive or better than existing products. Engage practice groups in the ongoing evaluation of new products with a view to eliminating inferior legacy products. Use your knowledge of the market in product negotiations with existing vendors.

When the Hot Rainmaker Departs… The Bitcoin Guru came and went — and she may be leaving  suite of high-ticket specialty resources that no one else wants. Have a system for tracking all resources purchased for specific individuals and cancel their legacy resources when you receive the lawyer departure notice. Practice groups are transient too, and niche practice groups are the worst. What will you do with all those equine law resources? Cancel ASAP.

When in Doubt — Cancel. The most telling way to determine the value of a resource is to terminate the license and see if anyone notices. More than once in my career, that expensive product which a lawyer insisted they “used every day” was gone more than a year before the lawyer noticed.

How can you harvest your budget savings? Budget management is an ongoing process which can get easier and more efficient with smart centralization, the collection of ROI data, and effective communication with practice groups and business units. Budgets in most firms remain flat, therefore effective saving strategies may offer the best way to fund the procurement of  “next gen” products which offer AI and analytics features and functionality.

Jean O’Grady is a knowledge strategist/librarian/lawyer with over 30 years’ experience leading the transformation of research and knowledge services in Am Law 100 law firms. She is the author of the Dewey B Strategic blog, which monitors the evolving landscape of technologies and companies that are transforming the business and practice of law.

When we first covered the bird loose in the Harvard Law School library, we predicted a social media career wasn’t far behind. It turns out, the bird was already working on its 15 minutes of internet fame with a Twitter account detailing the trials and tribulations of living in the Harvard library.

The account, @langdellbird, has 168 followers but is only following one account. That would be the account for Remy the Cat, the neighborhood feline who wanders Harvard and has his own box at the circulation desk. Obviously that’s one account he needs to keep an eye on.

The account’s bio lays out the bird’s whole raison d’etre: “Level 3 Nuisance Bird in Langdell Library. Currently trapped but only Came in 2 cause chaos and get STUDENTS to FEED ME FOOD.” Generally speaking, the feed tracks the many ups and downs of being a modern, working-class bird in a stuffy Ivy League setting:

But the tenor of the tweets turns when the bird realizes “the man” is out to get him:

And don’t get him started on this whole effort to turn the screws on his food supply.

Will they ever catch this bird? Sounds like they’ve got some tricks up their sleeves:

Don’t do it, bird!

Earlier: There’s A Bird Loose Inside Harvard Law School… Time To Call Cat Lawyer!

Council approved the signing of the deals on October 7, 2019, with government coming in as the guarantor. The Harare City Council will cede land as collateral.

The CHRA Water Dialogue Summit sought to interrogate the rationale and justification for water loans while at the same time seeking to proffer solutions in terms of transparency and accountability in the handling of loans by council.

Harare Mayor, Herbert Gomba concurred during the Water Dialogue Summit that there is need for greater transparency and accountability and pledged to work with stakeholders in ensuring the loans are put to good use.

His submissions came following questions from participants on the mechanisms that had been put in place to ensure transparency and accountability on the handling of the loans.

“We are looking at the issue of transparency seriously. I will discuss with senior council officials on the need to set up an independent body that assesses the use of the money. The structure of the body should be comprised of people with a desire to serve our people.

“We will discuss with stakeholders such as the Combined Harare Residents Association on the composition of that body which we want to be as independent as possible. I can give you assurance that we are going to set up that independent body in line with our efforts to promote transparency and accountability,” said Mayor Gomba.

CHRA Director, Loreen Mupasiri applauded the Mayor’s submissions and highlighted that council’s budget statement for 2020 should however be clear on what is being covered by the water loans so as to avoid ‘double dipping whereby you budget for things that are already covered under the loans’.

She however bemoaned the fact that the centralization of council’s tendering system in the Office of the President limits residents’ powers to monitor the use of the loans and hold authorities to account.

“The Minister of Finance is the guarantor and must not be hands on in terms of administration of the loans. Procurement by local authorities must be removed from the Office of the President especially in line with these loans. Council must be hands on in terms of administration of the loans so that we can hold them accountable. So we are saying that roles and responsibilities in terms of management of these loans must be very clear,” said Mupasiri.

Community Water Alliance Coordinator, Timothy Chitambure said consultations with the public before council acquires loans are very critical.

“There should be procedures that should be followed and these procedures should outline how the money is going to be used. There should be a debt management strategy but we haven’t see, the one for the City of Harare but we have seen them borrowing.

Council’s debt policy should be written down and they should look for stakeholders who make their input and we haven’t seen that at the City of Harare,” said Chitambure

He bemoaned that there was so much secrecy surrounding previous loans acquired by council but however applauded Mayor Gomba for his open door policy with residents.

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It’s November 1, and Thanksgiving is just a couple of weeks away, which means that bonus season is right around the corner. Wouldn’t it be nice if your law firm gave you a little something extra to be thankful for this year? We sure think it would be! As a little reminder — as if you really needed one — this is what last year’s Cravath bonuses looked like:

Class of 2018 — $15,000 (pro-rated)
Class of 2017 — $15,000
Class of 2016 — $25,000
Class of 2015 — $50,000
Class of 2014 — $65,000
Class of 2013 — $80,000
Class of 2012 — $90,000
Class of 2011 — $100,000
Class of 2010 — $100,000

For those of you who are wondering when your bank accounts will be a little more flush, here’s a list of the dates when year-end market bonuses hit Biglaw since 2006, the very first year Above the Law started publishing bonus news. Take a look:

With visions of bonus dollars dancing in your heads, it’s time to check in on how people are doing with their billable hours. There are just about eight weeks to go in 2019, and this year, as with every year, hitting your target is very, very important. Some firms might make bank-busting payments that will generate sweet headlines, but not all associates will hit the hours mark necessary for the top payment.

Still, with about two months to go, there’s plenty of time to get on your hours. Now that holiday season is on the horizon, attorneys may start poking around for an extra discrete assignment or two — after all, some hours here and there could mean a world of difference.

So how are people doing? Take our poll, and get a sense of how many hours your peers are on pace to hit in 2019. While you’re at it, let us know when you think this year’s bonuses will drop, and whether they’ll be higher or lower than last year’s bonuses.

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With dramatic shifts in the legal market, law firms, in-house legal departments, and alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) are increasingly turning to freelance lawyers and paralegals to build their workforce. In turn, lawyers and paralegals may find their careers increasingly including contract and freelance work.

This new world can feel overwhelming with a new legal marketplace concept popping up every month. To add to the confusion, some of these marketplaces are focused on helping consumer clients locate attorneys in violation of fee-sharing rules while others offer only independent contractor services which can cause penalties for improper worker classification and wage-and-hour claims.

Here’s a breakdown of the four basic legal staffing concepts on the market to help candidates and clients sort through this new landscape, ensure compliance, and pick the concept that works best for their law practice or career,

Staffing Solutions

1. Brick & Mortar Staffing Agencies: Traditional and “new law” concept staffing firms can help with direct and contract hiring services. These provide full payroll and employment compliance as well as professional liability insurance specific to staffing that adds an extra layer of protection for hirers and contractors. Further, the ABA model rules adopted by the majority of jurisdictions permit staffing services as not in violation of fee sharing. The downside is, brick and mortar agency processes tend to be less transparent and more manual, time-consuming, and expensive than online options. Candidates may find recruiters who are tasked with executing these manual processes and staffing many roles simultaneously are not responsive and hirers may not like the friction and time required to interface with a recruiter to access and communicate with candidates.

Benefits:

• Dedicated recruiters
• In compliance with Model Rules of Professional Conduct
• Payroll and employment compliance services
• Temp and direct-hire options
• Ability to meet a wide range of staffing needs, including specialized and non-attorney roles

Limitations:

• Fees tend to be higher than modern staffing solutions
• Non-transparent fee structures that may vary from project to project (or candidate to candidate)
• Some can find it clunky and time-consuming to go through a recruiter to connect with and communicate with candidates
• New Law staffing agency concepts that focus on attorneys with Fortune 500 and Am Law backgrounds can have rigid hour and length requirements requiring hirers to commit to 20-40 hours on a multi-month basis

2. Boutique Freelance “Platforms”: These services often call themselves marketplaces or platforms. They generally contain a marketing website through which a point person is contacted, much like an agency. These concepts offer independent contractor services without payroll and professional liability insurance. While they lack the services and compliance of agencies, often the fees are lower and more transparent and they also tend to offer more experienced and specialized attorneys.

Benefits:

• Ability to connect with attorneys for a project basis
• License and identity verification
• High-touch, manual experience for the tech-adverse
• Fees generally lower for 1099 work than traditional agency concepts
• Focus on more experienced, specialized attorneys

Limitations:

• No payroll or employment compliance services
• No paralegals or junior or entry-level resources
• No professional liability insurance as provided by a staffing agency
• High-touch, manual experience that results in longer turnaround time
• Just as with a traditional agency, it can be clunky and time-consuming to go through a recruiter to connect with and communicate with candidates

3. Lawyer Marketplaces: These marketplaces allow attorneys and hirers to search for and connect with one another without the friction and time of going through a recruiter. Most do a basic bar license verification. These primarily offer 1099 independent contractor services and many disclaim responsibility as a staffing agency and related employment compliance responsibilities and guarantees of contractors. Also, to be compliant with model rules as a non-agency “marketplace,” the attorney should technically be working in a clerk or “paraprofessional” capacity.

Benefits:

• Ability to connect with attorneys to provide assistance with legal writing and drafting projects
• Direct access and communication with candidates
• Basic license and identity verification

Limitations:

• No payroll or employment compliance services
• Limited vetting and screening of candidates
• Many have smaller pools of attorneys and track records
• No professional liability insurance as provided by a staffing agency
• Most specifically disclaim they are a staffing agency and the related responsibilities and there are little if any guarantees provided on contractors or payment to contractors
• As a marketplace and non-staffing service — attorneys must work as paraprofessionals to stay compliant with Model Rules of Professional Conduct
• Questionable compliance with Model Rules of Professional Conduct for those offering services to the general public
• With some, a project has to be flat rate which can cause a lack of flexibility for hirers and can cause scope creep for contractors after they’ve agreed to a defined price

4. Data-Driven, On-Demand, Online Legal Staffing Agency: This model combines technology-driven, on-demand convenience with all of the benefits of a staffing agency. It provides thorough vetting, payroll, employment, and professional responsibility compliance benefits along with professional liability coverage. This is the only concept to use established research on Psychometrics (aka “Moneyball for legal hiring”) to predict candidate performance and fit for a role. Currently, Hire an Esquire is the only online concept to provide the services of an agency and on-demand convenience of a technology platform and the only online or offline agency to provide a soft-skill analysis.

Benefits:

• Instant matches upon job posting (72 percent of jobs are filled as a result of these instant matches)
• The largest online network of legal professionals, including over 2 percent of the U.S. attorney population
• A wide variety of jobs for candidates as well as job recommendations and notifications when a role fits their skillset
• License and identity verification
• Thorough candidate vetting that includes soft skill analysis based on established Psychometrics on predicting workplace performance
• Candidate selection enabled via easy via proprietary Job Fit scores based on “Moneyball” for legal hiring from proven research
• Vetting of clients to ensure clients are staffing service clients in compliance with the Model Rules of Professional Conduct
• Direct access to and communication with candidates
• Full payroll and employment compliance services
• W2, 1099, and direct hire options available
• A wide range of contractors, from highly skilled senior attorneys to mid-level associates, junior attorneys, document reviewers, and paralegals
• Compliant with Model Rules of Professional Conduct
• Transparent hourly or flat fees available

Limitations:

• Must have a supervising attorney on staff and be a law firm, in-house legal department, or legal services company

And, we’ve put together this chart to give you a side-by-side comparison:

Happy staffing!

Lady Justice Law School, we hardly knew ye.

Just three years after the unaccredited law school opened in Bakersfield, Calif., it’s shutting down.

The school recently told the State Bar it would submit a letter by Halloween surrendering its registration.

It wasn’t a good sign when Lady Justice told students in August that classes would be suspended just before they were set to begin. The students “were not informed of a date when classes would resume,” the bar said.

The students had not yet paid for tuition, and at least one of them has already transferred, the agency said. The bar said there were up to 10 students attending.

The school’s part-time JD program cost $400 a month and would take four years to complete, according to its website.

“The purpose of Lady Justice Law School is to provide an affordable, quality education for working adults who might not have had the opportunity to fulfill their legal education dreams,” the website said.

The only other law school in the region is Kern County College of Law, which is state-accredited. The Bakersfield branch of Monterey College of Law opened in recent years.

“We have already received inquiries from former Lady Justice students who are willing to start over in order to be enrolled in an accredited program,” said Kern County College of Law Dean Mitch Winick.

Voicemails left for Lady Justice Law School were not returned.

Lady Justice’s planned closure comes a little more than a year after it received State Bar approval to move to a different location in Bakersfield.

The new location was expected to generate cost savings that could be invested in Lady Justice’s educational program. A bar staff memo said the new location was also more convenient for students because it was just blocks from Kern County Superior Court.

Overall, the state’s nearly 20 unaccredited schools have drawn scrutiny from the media and the State Bar due to low bar exam passage rates and high student attrition.

The bar has sought in recent years to advance a plan to force the state’s unaccredited law schools to obtain accreditation or gradually shut down, but the agency has said there is resistance in the Legislature.

A top bar official said earlier this year that the agency may try to move their plan forward again after examining additional bar exam passage information.

The unaccredited institutions are not the only law schools in California that are struggling.

News emerged this week that the University of La Verne is considering closing its law school due to financial concerns and fears the American Bar Association-accredited institution may not be able to comply with a stricter ABA bar passage standard.

ABA-accredited Whittier Law School in Orange County is in the process of shutting down. ABA-accredited Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego is trying to fight off the loss of its ABA accreditation, a potential death knell, and previously lost the ability to accept students’ GI Bill benefits for a time .

In addition, ABA-accredited Western State College of Law fended off potential closure this spring.

Lyle Moran is a freelance writer in San Diego who handles both journalism and content writing projects. He previously reported for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, San Diego Daily Transcript, Associated Press, and Lowell Sun. He can be reached at lmoransun@gmail.com and found on Twitter @lylemoran.

Yesterday may have been Halloween, but that doesn’t mean Kim Kardashian has forgotten about her law school dreams — not even for the day. That’s because in honor of the holiday, Kim dressed up as everyone’s favorite law student, none other than Elle Woods.

Of course, because it is Kim Kardashian and there’s nothing that’s worth doing that’s not worth overdoing, she does more than just dress up as the Legally Blonde heroine. That’d be too easy. No, she did more than just throw on a costume — she recreated the entire Elle Woods video essay that she used to apply to Harvard Law School. You really have to check it out.

Reese Witherspoon, the original Elle Woods, appreciated Kardashian’s efforts as well:

As many people are aware, in addition to being a beauty product mogul and reality TV star, Kim Kardashian has recently set her sights on becoming a lawyer, like her father, the infamous O.J. Simpson attorney, Robert Kardashian. Though she isn’t actually in law school (not having a bachelor’s degree makes that tough), she is studying via apprenticeship to be a lawyer with plans to take the bar exam in 2022. And of course, because it is Kim, she’s taken to social media to document the process.

She shared a criminal law issue spotter that cast Justin Bieber as a criminal mastermind, complained about the fact that law student life sucks, explained that she neglected her Keeping Up With the Kardashians livetweeting duties to keep up with torts homework, and she bailed on summer holiday festivities as she continued with her contracts homework. She even has a favorite law professor — University of Washington contracts professor Steve Calandrillo — that she’s shouted out on Insta.

Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, and host of The Jabot podcast. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).

Several stupid lawsuits have been brought against social media companies. Some feature actual lawyers (but mostly from the same law firms) helping clients throw money away on allegations that Twitter and Facebook are at least indirectly responsible for terrorist attacks.

Others also use real lawyers, but lawyers willing to misread precedent to declare large social media platforms “public squares” and advance some very questionable arguments about First Amendment violations.

Then there’s everyone else: the kind of people who think being temporarily suspended from a platform is a billion dollar Constitutional violation. (h/t Eric Goldman)

In this lawsuit, Adrian Rangel alleges his brief suspension violated the Constitution harder than it’s ever been violated before. Rangel’s Twitter account is no longer suspended and it’s not because he emerged victorious from this lawsuit. It has already been tossed by the federal court.

Rangel’s short-lived lawsuit [PDF] asked for $1 billion in damages for his brief suspension, which he alleges violated his First Amendment right to yell “HANG THEM ALL” in a crowded platform. While we can agree Rangel’s heated response to “topics from the mundane to the comical” probably should not have resulted in a suspension, we can also agree Twitter’s moderation call did none of the following:

Plaintiff contends that by suspending Plaintiff’s account religiouserpico Defendants Twitter Foundation and Vijaya Gadde violated Adrian Rangel’s constitutional rights to ( (1) freedom of speech, (2) freedom of expression, (3) freedom of religion, (4) freedom of assembly, (5) freedom against unlawful seizure, (6) due process, (7) substantive due process and (8) equal protection of the United States Constitution.

This despite Rangel’s claim on his own Twitter feed that he is a “CONSTITUTIONALIST.”

Rangel logically points out his “HANG THEM ALL” tweet was not a threat. It targeted no one and was a hyperbolic expression of Rangel’s general exasperation with the status quo. (I’m construing his complaint liberally. Rangel doesn’t actually reference the tweet his responded to, but judging the rest of the complaint, it probably had something to do with liberal politicians.)

Now, while you might be familiar with misguided assertions that moderation by private platforms violates First Amendment rights (including freedom of assembly), you’re probably unaware that account suspensions also violate religious rights.

Before the Defendants suspended Plaintiff’s account, Plaintiff used Twitter to proclaim his religious beliefs to the public of being a Born Again King James Bible Only Christian. Plaintiff included the being Born Again King James Bible Only Christian in his Twitter profile. ln addition, Plaintiff followed and was followed by a number of people on Twitter – one group being people of like-minded religious beliefs.

Tangentially, Plaintiff contends that President Donald J Trump was nothing short of miraculously elected by God into the Presidency; most specifically because of Donald Trump’s victory in light of the tremendous media, political and social resistance to his election to the Presidency of the United States. Plaintiff used Twitter to support what Plaintiff contends is Donald J Trump’s nothing short of miraculous election to the Presidency. As such, Plaintiff’s religious beliefs are intertwined with Plaintiff’s support of Donald J Trump as President of the United States of America.

Recourse options are limited for those who feel their cult-like admiration of elected leaders has been harmed by moderation efforts. “Limited” as in “zero.” There are no options available to someone who has managed to “intertwine” their belief in God with their worship of a president.

Going from that surprising tangent, Rangel alleges the appeals process provided by Twitter doesn’t approach the standards of due process provided by the Constitution. Of course they don’t. They never will. Only the government has this obligation, much like the government’s monopoly on First Amendment rights violations. The same goes for the Equal Protection clause, which is invoked in Rangel’s lawsuit to make a perfectly valid point.

Plaintiff further contends that Defendants Twitter Foundation and Vijaya Gadde have illegally embarked upon an illegal circumvention of the United States Constitution in attempting to impose on United States citizens the legal cultures of foreign countries i.e. India, China, Russia, Germany, United Kingdom etc. Many of these foreign countries were once or still are considered third world countries because of their former or present totalitarian subjugation or colonizing regimes.

Unfortunately, valid points aren’t the same thing as cognizable claims and the court has no jurisdiction or duty to prevent Twitter from aligning moderation efforts with foreign laws. I agree with Rangel that Twitter should not be humoring authoritarian regimes by complying with removal notices and/or suspending accounts, but a billion dollar lawsuit claiming a private company violated Constitutional rights isn’t the place to make this argument.

Since there’s no moving forward with the case, there will be no discussion of Section 230 immunity, which would have seen this case dismissed if Twitter (a “California nonprofit,” according to the plaintiff) had needed to file a response. Love it or hate it, social media platforms can moderate as they please without violating Constitutional rights. Understanding this simple concept would save a lot of people time and money.

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