Trendspotting 2011 
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: February 14, 2011
Tags: Trends
Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present our annual exercise in crystal-balling and tea-leaf parsing, our Trendspotting issue.
We identified five different areas of interest – The Marketplace, Law Practice, The Courts, Technology and Case Law. Each day last week, one of our editors took a topic and, in a piece published on our website, flagged [...]
Trendspotting: Developments and stories we’ll be watching in 2010 
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: February 8, 2010
Tags: Trends
Every year we dust off the crystal ball and swirl the tea leaves, seeking to predict what a new year will hold for lawyers and legal profession in Virginia. Starting on page 6, we provide a list of 25 developments, stories or events that we’ll be watching and writing about in the coming year. [...]
Legal trends to watch in 2010: Law firm technology 
By dmc-admin
Published: February 5, 2010
Tags: Trends
“Trendspotting” week concludes today with a look at legal technology, from where to next with social media to new devices that may lead lawyers to juggle several different devices at one time.
THE PAPERLESS OFFICE. “Going green” is becoming more than just a buzz phrase in 2010. And law firms are making the switch to [...]
Legal trends to watch in 2010: Looking to the case law 
By Deborah Elkins
Published: February 4, 2010
Tags: Trends
Trendspotting week continues at Virginia Lawyers Weekly, and for today’s installment, we look to the case law for developments to watch.
POKING HOLES IN ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS. Lawyers are having some luck with the “waiver” strategy. Under this theory, a party who wants to compel arbitration has come too far into the courthouse to back out now. [...]
Legal Trends to watch in 2010: Changes in law practice 
By Alan Cooper
Published: February 3, 2010
Tags: Trends
Our presentation of Trends 2010 continues with a discussion of changes in law practice or in how lawyers will be approaching their work in the coming year. Among the developments we will be following are:
E-filing in state courts. It probably won’t happen in most state courts this year, next year or the year after, but [...]
Legal trends to watch in 2010: The Marketplace 
By Paul Fletcher
Published: February 2, 2010
Tags: Trends
Every year we dust off the crystal ball and swirl the tea leaves, seeking to predict what a new year will hold for lawyers and legal profession in Virginia. And this year is no different, except we’re doing something a bit new.
For each of the next five days, one of our editors will offer [...]






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