by LawToolBox | Oct 21, 2022 | Company News
Los Angeles County Superior Court's Personal Injury Hub Courtrooms are Closing by Jessica Myers, Esq. Los Angeles County Superior Court’s will gradually close the Personal Injury (PI) Hub courtrooms and return PI cases to the local district courts where the incident occurred. The number of PI Hub courts will be reduced, reclassified as Independent Calendar (IC) courts, until all the PI Hub courtrooms are effectively closed. This process will occur in a phased transition and will become effective on October 10th.• Unless otherwise ordered, all pending cases remain where they are assigned.• All newly filed PI cases, as defined in Los Angeles County Local Rules, rule 2.3, shall be filed in IC courtrooms in the judicial district where the incident arose.• All newly filed PI cases assigned to the Central District shall be assigned to a Personal Injury Hub court unless the case type is one of the following:2401 Product Liability (not asbestos or toxic/environmental)2402 Product Liability — Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (Civil Code, 9 sections 1790-1795.8) (Lemon Law)2305 Elder/Dependent Adult Abuse and Claims Against Skilled Nursing Facility2306 Intentional Conduct -Sexual Abuse Case (in any form)2308 Landlord -Tenant Habitability (e.g., bed bugs, mold, etc.)4501 Medical Malpractice -Physicians & Surgeons4502 Other Professional Health Care Malpractice These cases will be assigned to Independent Calendar Courts which will handle such cases for all purposes, including trial.The Superior Court of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles (Superior Court, Los Angeles County), hereby suspends the following Los Angeles County Court Rules pending the adoption of revisions that reflect the changes in the filing of Personal Injury (PI) cases filed on or after...
by LawToolBox | Aug 15, 2022 | Company News
LawToolBox Announces it is SALI Compliant! by Sherry Metzger, Esq. In March, The Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry Alliance (SALI) announced the release of Legal Matter Specification Standard 2.0 (LMSS 2.0). Damien Riehl, Vice President for Litigation Workflow and Analytics Content for FastCase, “led an effort to migrate the LMSS to a graph database (RDF/OWL),” stated the press release. SALI improves industry efficiency by creating a common language, or “tagging” system, which increases the interoperability of end-users such as law firms, clients, and legal service providers. With the release of LMSS 2.0, “[t]he taxonomy has expanded more than six-fold to almost 10,000 categories (essentially tags) that the legal market uses to describe its services in detail, and in a way that is comparable across organizations,” stated the press release. Additionally, the release stated that a “significant portion of the expanded set of descriptors relate to litigation, including causes of action, document types, phases, and more, enabling robust definition and categorization of a wide variety of key aspects of disputes.” (You can learn more about SALI and read the entire March press release here www.sali.org). What does it mean for LawToolBox to be SALI compliant? “If you incorporate one [SALI] tag, you are SALI compliant,” explained Riehl on Episode 171 of the LawNext Podcast. (You can listen to the episode here: LawNext: Ep 171: Damien Riehl on the SALI Alliance and Setting Data Standards for the Legal Industry (libsyn.com)). Host Bob Ambrogi, a legal innovation thought-leader, spotlighted SALI in his interview of Riehl on the podcast that showcases innovators and entrepreneurs in the legal industry. “Sali labels enable us to...
by LawToolBox | Jun 22, 2022 | Company News
Expanded Availability of Judges' Rules in LawToolBox Matters By Jessica Myers, Esq. LawToolBox is expanding the availability of Judges’ Rules as part of our effort to continue improving our comprehensive database of rule sets. We have integrated the Judges’ Rules so they seamlessly overlap with the original civil rule-set making it easier to reference both rule-sets at the same time, in turn, maximizing our client’s time. For law firms practicing in California we offer the following Judges’ Rules rule-sets: US Federal – CA USDC Central (Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha) US Federal – CA USDC Central (Judge David O. Carter) US Federal – CA USDC Central (Judge R. Gary Klausner) US Federal – CA USDC Central (Judge Alka Sagar) US Federal – CA USDC Central (Judge James V. Selna) US Federal – CA USDC Central (Judge George H. Wu) US Federal – CA USDC Northern (Judge Edward M. Chen) CA State – Superior Court – Civil (Judge Richard Y. Lee: Orange) We look forward to the continuing expansion of our database to ensure that we are delivering the best rule-set content to our clients, and appreciate any feedback our clients have as to judge’s rules they would like us to put in our queue. Facebook-f Twitter...
by LawToolBox | May 25, 2022 | Company News
LawToolBox Templates for Microsoft Teams Brings All of the Tools you Need to Manage Matters into One Team By Jack Grow (Redmond, WA – May 25, 2022) On the main stage at the Microsoft Build conference, LawToolBox COO Carol-Lynn Grow was interviewed by Microsoft Teams CVP Bhrighu Sareen. Over 50,000 attendees got a glimpse of the new LawToolBox feature that templatizes Microsoft Teams. With one-click, LawToolBox turns Microsoft Teams into an umbrella platform pre-configured with all the Microsoft and third-party apps you use to manage your legal matters! It is a game changer. Read the full press release here. First, your law firm administrator sets up preferences for your organization and preconfigures the channels that will get auto provisioned for each practice area. Then, when someone in your firm sets up a matter and selects one of the practice areas you have defined, each channel will be automatically provisioned with any Microsoft or 3d party app you want as tabs. Do you use NetDocuments? Adobe Sign? Want to use Microsoft Planner? LawToolBox will automatically add them as tabs to any channel in a Team created by our solution. LawToolBox further amplifies Microsoft Teams with other tools to manage matters, including: – Login to LawToolBox using SSO to protect your confidential data behind Microsoft firewall – Check-in with the LawToolBox chat bot every morning for quick access to your Outlook calendar, upcoming deadlines, LawToolBox matters, or your recently used files – Create a Microsoft Team for your matter from Outlook – When creating a Microsoft Team use channel and tab templates specific to a practice area – Jump from a LawToolBox matter in Outlook to the associated Microsoft Team – Manage...
by LawToolBox | May 23, 2022 | Company News
Presenting LawToolBox to 50,000+ People at Microsoft Build By Aaron Berg We’re thrilled to share an exciting development with Microsoft and LawToolBox.Carol-Lynn Grow, LawToolBox COO, was invited to be interviewed by Bhrighu Sareen, CVP Microsoft Teams, on main stage at Microsoft’s annual “Build” conference. Microsoft is expecting 50,000 attendees!Microsoft Build Into Focus: Build collaborative apps to thrive in the modern workplaceWhen: May 25, 2022, 1:45 – 2:30 pm PDTRegister for Free HereIt’s a 45 minute session and LawToolBox is featured during the last 15 minutes which will include a sneak peak product demo. We’ll be making big announcements and are excited for you to join us! Facebook-f Twitter...
by LawToolBox | Mar 7, 2022 | Company News
Big Changes Affecting the United States District Court for the District of Montana Effective March 1, 2022 By Sherry Metzger, Esq. Significant local rule changes became effective March 1, 2022, in the United States District Court for the District of Montana. Though many changes were the result of formatting and renumbering, some contained substantial wording, and others affect trigger dates and deadlines. The most substantive changes are to Rules 7.1 and 54.1 (See, Rules 7.1 and 54.1). Rule 7.1 motions deadlines and trigger dates are amended. Rule 7.1(d)(B) responses to motions to dismiss, for judgment on the pleadings, or for summary judgment are no longer measured from the time the motion is filed. Now the deadline runs from the date the motion was entered in the docket. While Rule 7.1(d)(B)(ii) governs responses to dispositive motions, Rule 7.1(d)(B)(ii) governs responses to all other motions. The length of time to file responses in these rules is unchanged. The deadline to file responses to dispositive motions is 21 days after the motion was entered in the docket, and the deadline to file responses to all other motions is 14 days after the motion was entered in the docket. Rule 7.1(C) allows the moving party to file a reply within 14 days after the response was entered in the docket. The other major changes are found in Rule 54.1. Many formatting and language revisions to this rule warrant a review, however, the major change to the order taxing costs is that there will no longer be a hearing on the matter. Now, if no objections are filed, the clerk will approve the...
