San-Francisco based solo appellate lawyer Andrew Dhuey is a legal sensation, with his clever introduction to a motion to dismiss a suit to enforce a monkey’s copyright interest in her selfies dominating headlines at law blogs and traditional media. But to quote from Dhuey’s widely-published brief, “it should not be happening.”
You see, Dhuey does
When legal futurists warn of how technology spells the “end of lawyers,” they invoke travel agents as Exhibit A. “Who uses travel agencies, when you can just go online and find deals?” they ask. “And,” another futurist may add, the deals that consumers can find on their own are better than what an agents can
When this column, Are You Ready to Start Your Own Law Firm by The Law Whisperer Julie Brush came through my aggregator, I had to refresh the feed several times just to make certain that the article’s actual date was October 2015, and not October 1995. Because the advice is so dated, so disproven and
Recently, two prominent legal consultants, Pam Woldow and Kenneth Grady took lawyers to task for sitting on their hands, resolutely unyielding in the face of widespread innovation that could benefit clients. And while I’ll be the first to admit that many lawyers aren’t early adopters and suffer from serious lock step monster syndrome,
Stephanie Kimbro, once a solo practitioner herself, recently wrote of her decision to take a step back from both legal practice and legal reforming for a while, referencing a TED Talk on The Value of Taking a Year Off. Not that I needed any persuading – since after two decades in the same law