I did not attend ReinventLaw, but would have liked to. With four matters pending in various stages at the D.C. Circuit and my daughters in the height of school activities, traveling cross country even for a day wasn’t in the cards this time. So I settled for tracking the conference via the #reinventlaw hashtag
Future of Law Friday: Marketing With Menus
Buying legal services can be confusing. Sometimes – in cases where work is unpredictable, or facts are unknown, opaque information may be acceptable. But for work that is commodity in nature or more predictable, there’s no reason not to make prices available to consumers – if not on your website, then at least in materials
Could co-learning offer a rescue line for offline (live) CLE
Earlier this week, Scott Greenfield asked whether live CLE can survive in a largely online, virtual world? After all, live CLE costs more to produce (room rental and potential travel costs for a speaker) and may attract fewer attendees because a live event doesn’t have the same flexibility as a watch-it-anywhere webinar. Yet, as
Future of Law Friday: API Your Law Practice for Future Growth and Collaboration
A week or two ago, I observed that many lawyers are opting to use a combination of platforms for storage, practice management, client portals and other law office functions rather than settling on a single general solution. The rise of API’s, or application programming interfaces that enable different systems to communicate seamlessly have been driving
Sponsored and branded legal briefs: Appealing or appalling?
If you’re a regular reader, you know that I’ve often griped about 21st century advancements like attorney bidding sites or listing sites not because I’m trying to defend lawyers’ turf, but rather, because I’m skeptical as to whether these sites really expand access to law in a meaningful way. As I’ve written here, many
Doing work that you love in your law practice when it doesn’t pay the bills.
Starting and running your own law firm allows you the autonomy to pick and choose the kinds of cases you want to handle. But what happens when there’s no apparent market for the work that you love or where a market exists but the work isn’t financially viable?
A lack of market refers to a
Logos on Spec, Revisited
More than three years ago, I wrote one of my most popular and widely-circulated blog posts, Would You Work on Spec? Why Should Your Logo Designer. My post listed several disadvantages to design contest sites like 99Designs (potentially poor quality submissions and possibility of stolen work), but mainly, I griped that it was hypocritical
Could 3-D Printing offer a new dimension for law firm business and marketing?
At a time when law firms are replacing conventional printers with scanners to facilitate a move to a paperless practice and the cloud, three-dimensional printers might seem like a step backwards. To the contrary, though, they’re rapidly becoming mainstream as the costs of 3D printing are declining faster than anyone could have predicted with home-based
Techno-powered Ethical Oversight for Lawyers – What Do You Think?
Last month, Docracy , a slick form-sharing platform launched a Terms of Service (TOS) tracker that monitors the TOS at over 900 social media sites. Docracy’s new tool (which you can subscribe via RSS feed ) is indispensable whether you’re a lawyer reliant on sites like Facebook or Twitter to market your practice or who
The Age of the Poly-platformy
Once upon a time, a law firm committed to a practice management system for life. Whether TimeMatters, Amicus, Abacus, Needles or a paper-based numerical filing system set up by a law firm secretary, most firms opted for a single system, invested heavily in consultants to customize as needed and continued using the system for the