The ABA’s annual Legal Technology Survey Report, which analyzes survey responses from 512 attorneys in private practice across various firm sizes, found that 13% of lawyers say that AI is mainstream in the legal profession, compared to 4% in 2023. However, nearly half of the lawyers surveyed (45%) think it will become mainstream within the next three years.
The 2024 Clio Legal Trends Report, which is an annual evaluation of the industry based on data from tens of thousands of Clio users and survey responses from more than 1,000 legal professionals and over 1,000 consumers in the U.S. general population, identifies challenges for attorneys and opportunities to grow, streamline, and increase their momentum.
Small law firms are more optimistic about positive growth in the upcoming year than they were in 2021, according to the 2022 Report on the State of U.S. Small Law Firms from Thomson Reuters. Nearly 60% of lawyers expect growth over the next 12 months in revenues per lawyer, billable hours, and profits per lawyer compared to 51% in 2021.
The ABA released its annual snapshot of the legal profession last month. The profile explores trends in 11 subject areas — including demographics, law schools, the judiciary, technology, and the pandemic. The report is based on a survey of more than 4,000 ABA members last fall and a follow-up survey of nearly 1,400 senior lawyers in March.
Staggering new data reveals just how differently workplace stressors and the pandemic have affected legal professionals.
Forty percent of counties and county-equivalents in the U.S. have less than one lawyer per 1,000 residents, according to the American Bar Association’s 2020 Profile of the Legal Profession. The second edition of the profile also reported continuing racial equity and law school debt challenges, which have the potential to be exacerbated by COVID-19. The […]
The state of the civil litigation system has long been lamented by lawyers and laymen alike. How does Illinois’ civil litigation system rank? Not well, apparently. A recent study ranked Illinois’ justice system 48th out of the 50 states—a ranking Governor Bruce Rauner recently blasted as evidence of the state’s “abusive environment for lawsuits.” Everyone […]
Another Women’s History Month has passed with little fanfare and no significant milestones to celebrate. Certainly not when it comes to the gender pay gap. In March, in honor of Women’s History Month, the Census Bureau released new wage data. Once again, among full-time, year-round civilian workers across all occupations, women were reported as earning […]
The legal profession may reach gender parity by 2026, the 2024 ABA Profile of the Legal Profession predicts. The report has dubbed the years 2016 – 2026 as the “Decade of the Female Lawyer” and predicted that the legal profession will soon shift to a female majority.
A recent survey of the public by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) “provides some cautious optimism” about improving public confidence in state courts across the U.S.
For the first time since 2019, public confidence in state courts increased slightly, according to the State of the State Courts study, which was conducted for the NCSC by GBAO Strategies.
