Legal trends to watch in 2010: The Marketplace

What will be the hot practice areas in ’13?

By Dolan Media Newswires
Published: November 29, 2012
Tags: Banks & Banking, Employment, Health Care Law, Intellectual Property, Trends

While a stagnant economy means a tough job market for many lawyers, legal staffing experts predict that attorneys with specialized skills will continue to find themselves in high demand in 2013. It’s a “specialist economy” for the legal profession, said Charles Volkert, executive director at staffing agency Robert Half Legal. “Even though there are significant [...]

Twelve for ’12: A look at the stories we’ll be watching in the coming year

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: Bankruptcy, Employment, Fairfax County Circuit Court, General Assembly, Hernandez, Judgeships, Justice William C. Mims, Legal Marketing, Million-Dollar Settlements, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Social Media, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Technology, Trends

For our annual Trends issue this year, we have identified a dozen different issues or points of departure that we’ll be watching in the coming year. Twelve for ’12, we call it. Here’s the list: STRESS ON THE COURTS Read the lead story in this issue if you want a preview of coming attractions in [...]

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, [...]

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. The [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]