Just month from today, on October 28th, 2016, Above the Law will host its second annual Academy for Private Practice (“APP”), a full-day conference offering practical solutions and expert insight on meeting the challenges of starting and optimizing a small law firm practice.
The conference programming combines panel discussions and breakout sessions on subjects ranging
At last month’s TBD Conference, I wound up in a break out session with Kentucky criminal defense attorney, Brad Clark. Not only did Brad open his own law practice a few months before, but at the same time, he launched the Unconvicted app that helps the firm quickly gather information from users to determine
Most lawyers are familiar with, and skeptical about offering mini legal services packages – which is really just a fancy name for unbundling . In other words, in contrast to a full service experience, from advice about a particular corporate entity or estate plan to drafting the plan, filing it with the Secretary or Probate
You know the saying, “ask and ye shall receive?” It really works! In yesterday’s post Study Finds Solo Lawyers Bill Only Two Hours A Day, I questioned the results of a “Legal Trends Study” announced at the recent Clio Cloud Conference that showed that solos use only a tiny fraction of the workday for
Earlier this week at the Clio Cloud Conference, company co-founder Jack Newton announced the creation of the first Clio Legal Trends Report, the first such report based on data generated by Clio’s users. Although the full report won’t be ready for release until next month, as a teaser, Jack shared a couple of juicy factoids
Back in 2009, I blogged about how joining a nonprofit board could help solos break into a new practice area, gain new skills or build business contacts . Apparently, big law firms see the value of nonprofit boards for their associates, because they’re signing on with CariClub , a new website that connects law firm
Last week, Apple’s long-expected announcement of the iPhone 7 was accompanied by an unexpected development: the elimination of headphone jacks , now replaced by wireless Air Pods to the tune of $159 per set.
Not surprisingly, Apple’s move produced polarized reactions. On the one side, are critics such as the Verge’s Nilay Patel, who termed
Looking for an entree into a new practice area, or a way to segue out of solo practice to something new? Forget CLEs or LLMs and consider micro-credentials or “nano degrees” instead.
Never heard of micro-credentialing? Basically, it’s certification training on very specific skills , ranging from web development, social innovation, data analytics,
Six years ago, the ABA released Formal Opinion 10-457, which discusses the ethical obligations that lawyers must address in considering the content and features of their websites. Though undoubtedly late to the party — by 2010, many state regulators had already issued their own ethics rulings on websites — the ABA offered authoritative and
A recent Pew Study reports that in spite of the increase over the past five years in the number of Americans who read ebooks (28%, up from 17%) and audio books (14% up from 11%), in 2016, a full 65 percent continue to read print books – 38% exclusively, with an additional 28 percent reading