Practice Technologies, Inc. recently announced that SmartRules™, the Company's online practice guide for attorneys with a national litigation practice, has added analysis of significant new state and federal court rules to SmartRules.com. This supplements the proprietary SmartRules Practice Guides available to subscribers.
"Many of our customers had been asking for a clearinghouse of recent court rules changes," said Adam Long, Editorial Director of SmartRules. "We send out a monthly email newsletter with news about rules changes in state and federal courts across the country, and now we are posting this same content on our site, free of charge."
Rules changes are organized chronologically by jurisdiction, and may be accessed free of charge at www.smartrules.com.
The emergence national litigator is a fairly recent phenomenon, fueled in part by societal trends toward specialization and legal business models that have fostered the creation of larger and more geographically dispersed firms. Historically, attorneys tended to build their practices around their geographic circumstances. This influenced their practice development in two ways: first, it tended to foster generalists, rather than attorneys who honed in on a very specific area of the law. Second, it spawned generations of attorneys whose generalist practice focused on a particular city. In the 1980s, the business model of larger firms began to shift. Firms began to dramatically expand in size and scope, either opening offices in new cities or acquiring/merging firms in target locations. Such tremendous regional expansion came at a time when the society at large was embracing specialization on an ever-grander scale. One was no longer a golf pro; he/she was a short-game specialist. One was no longer a litigator; one was an IP litigator or construction litigator. Thanks to specialization, attorneys have been compelled to expand the geographic scope of their coverage to meet client requests for on-demand expertise.
And thus came the rise of the national litigator...and the increasing headache of locating court rules for jurisdictions that the attorney may barely have heard of, let alone visited or practiced in.
SmartRules is the first online practice guide for the national litigator and the national litigation practice. It gives detailed, step-by-step instructions for handling procedures in state and federal courts throughout the country. Users simply select the court where a case is pending, and the document that they need to file, and SmartRules will tell the user everything they need to know to comply with all applicable rules and requirements, including all relevant local rules.
Established in 2000 and based in Venice, California, Practice Technologies, Inc. is a company of lawyers and legal technologists who deliver software and content-based systems to the legal community. The company’s flagship product, the RealPractice Suite, includes RealPractice Private Access™ Real Practice Public Access™ and SmartRules™. Practice Technologies’ major law firm clients include Allen Matkins; Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan; Baker Botts; Blank Rome; Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger; Chapman & Cutler; Duane Morris; Fenwick & West; Hunton & Williams; Irell & Manella; Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Littler Mendelson; Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; Moses & Singer; Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker; Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus; Thelen Reid & Priest; and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. For more information, visit www.practicetechnologies.com.
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