I’m very excited about attending the Clio Cloud Conference 2013 in Chicago on September 23-24, 2013. I love Chicago, of course, but I’m also excited about the panel of speakers that Clio has lined up – along with the relief of being able to attend a conference without having to come up with a presentation
Virtual Firms on the Decline – Why??
According to the 2013 ABA Legal Technology Survey, virtual law practices are on the decline , reports Bob Ambrogi at his Law Sites Blog. The decrease isn’t particularly significant; the number of lawyers who describe their practice as virtual declined from 7 to 5 percent between 2012 and 2013, while the number of lawyers
Does Your Law Firm Have a Compliance Program – and How Ethics Rules Discourage Them
Although many law firms advise corporate clients on compliance, few firms have compliance programs in place observe Compliance strategists Donna Boehme and Joseph Murphy in this terrific piece, Inconvenient Truths About Law Firm Compliance. That law firms are subject to ethics rules is no excuse, contend Boehme and Murphy. Legal ethics rules didn’t deter
Future Fridays: Who Will Be Legal Ethics’ Carl Malamud?
Looks like ABA Legal Rebel, Carl Malamud, leader of the “free law movement” is at it again. This time, reports the Washington Post, Malamud has been busy posting building codes that govern at his website, PublicResource.org. Trouble is, the building codes — enacted by state and local law — incorporate industry-developed
Bruce Cameron’s Book, Becoming a Rural Lawyer and the Benefits of Small Town Practice
Just as a weekend in the country provides a respite from the hustle and bustle of city life, so too, Bruce Cameron’s book Becoming A Rural Lawyer, is a breath of fresh air from the heaps of impersonal and jargon-filled formulaic guides, blogs and books on starting or marketing a law practice. Though wonderfully
Ed Poll’s Life After Law – A Wonderful Journey
My friend Ed Poll has written dozens of books and hundreds of articles. Life After Law: What Will You Do with the Next 6000 Days is, in my view, one of the best yet. Ed deals with the question that solos and smalls must eventually face: how do you know when it’s time to go
Is SimpleLegal A Step Forward or Back on the Way to the Future of Legal Billing?
TechCrunch reports that there’s a new law technology on the block: SimpleLegal, a company that employs a machine learning to read, understand and ultimately reduce legal bills. As TechCrunch describes:
All a customer has to do is ask their law firm to copy SimpleLegal on each invoice, and then the magic starts to happen.
What’s Your Client’s View in the Client Portal?
A few months ago at the Iron Tech Competition at Georgetown Law School, one of the judges asked one of the teams one the best questions I’ve ever heard and have been pondering since:
What does the system look like from the client’s side?
Yet do you have any idea of how that “client portal”
Goodbye Ross Kodner, A Big Force for Small Firms
Via Bob Ambrogi, I learned the very sad news of the passing of legal technology pioneer and Micro Law founder Ross Kodner, who tragically died yesterday as the result of a heart attack at the age of 52. Ross leaves behind enormous shoes to fill in the solo and small law firm community.
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Calling Out the Rainmakers
Scott Greenfield’s first to blog about news of a RICO by a Michigan law firm, Seikaly & Stewart against Stephen Fairley and The Rainmaker Institute. The firm alleges that the Institute created a “bogus Internet marketing program, supposedly designed for small law firms and sole practitioners” and duped firms (in this case, to the