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- Title
Managing Time and Productivity During COVID and Beyond.
- Authors
Dhlr, Rocky
- Abstract
While this article is intended Lawyers at large and midsize law firms are likely familiar with the practice of assigning research and writing to junior lawyers in their offices. They help lawyers make the best possible impressions on courts, judges, and opposing lawyers with their written work product. Lawyers must merely select the solution best suited to the particular circumstance, meaning that it is conceivable for a law office to hire a contract lawyer but still have outside vendors for particular functions. The court described the briefing lawyer "as an attorney acting under [the Texas lawyer's] supervision" and the paralegal as someone "working under the immediate supervision of [the briefing attorney] and the ultimate superintendence of [the Texas lawyer]."7 The key consideration in the court's decision to approve of the fee request was that the Texas lawyer was not acting as "an automaton" through which the briefing attorney could provide legal advice without proper admission into the host court.8 The court further held that no ethical violation or unauthorized practice of law took place because the briefing lawyer and third-party paralegal provided brief-writing and paralegal services to the Texas lawyer, as opposed to providing direct representation to the client.
- Subjects
DEPOSITIONS; ELECTRONIC filing of court documents; OFFSHORE outsourcing; COVID-19; LEGAL liability
- Publication
Brief, 2021, Vol 50, Issue 4, p64
- ISSN
0273-0995
- Publication type
Article