Three years ago, I created this Solo Tech Survey to get a sense of the types of technology that today’s solos and smalls use. Despite the survey’s daunting size, I received nearly 50 replies, and published the data here.
I’d really like to update the survey and use the additional results to discern some
Over my years of blogging, I’ve devoted extensive coverage to the home v. office debate. I’ve acknowledged that for some practices, regions or personalities a home office won’t do and I’ve also suggested that many solos and smalls likely rent office space, at least some of the time, if it were more affordable. At
A few months back, I offered a variety of ways that lawyers can do work they love even when it doesn’t pay the bills. So I was delighted to come across this Forbes piece on the Boston-based firm, Dhar Law.
Founded by two brothers, Vilas and Vikas Dhar, the firm’s original mission was to focus
Editor’s note: see updates at the end of the post
Last week, the ABA Task Force issued a Draft Report and Recommendations on the Future of Legal Education . Among other things, the Task Force recommended the concept of limited licensing of non-lawyers who could directly serve clients as well as development of educational programs
Will non-lawyer ownership of law firms become a reality in the United States? That’s the question raised by Riverview Law’s Andy Dawes’ presentation on alternative legal business models and non-lawyer owned firms at the Clio User conference and summarized at length by Sam Glover at Lawyerist.
Although the non-lawyer ownership question has enormous implications
User conferences are all the rage with Silicon Valley start ups. Salesforce’s Dreamforce user conferences are legendary profitable affairs, but lots of other tech companies host them as well to bring together an ecosystem of users.
More recently, the user conference has entered the legal tech sphere. Avvo has been sponsoring road shows and
A few months back, I tried, unsuccessfully to host a webinar on launching a 21st Century Law Practice. I have finally re-recorded the presentation and converted it into a FREE program available at Udemy.com. The course is divided into 6 modules which range between 20 and 35 minutes each. What I like best about
Be careful what you wish for. Lawyers have long argued that law is a business, not a profession – and if these recent events are any indication, lawyers may have gotten their wish. Only turns out, the real world has even less tolerance for deceptive marketing practice than ye old bar association.
Gregory Turza, a
I’ve never been fully happy with the MyShingle logo – though I’ve never been quite sure of how to fix it so I just left it alone. But I decided it was time for a change. After all, let’s fact it, the .com logo is so last decade — no one ever refers to Facebook
Exactly fourteen years ago tonight, at 11 p.m. on the eve of the birth of my second daughter (a planned induction since I was overdue), I waddled from my house to the just-opened all-night CVS four blocks away to buy a disposable camera for the big day. Back then, smartphones with reasonable photo capability hadn’t