Not surprisingly, most lawyers would rather handle one $30,000 case than 30 one-thousand dollar matters or 60 five-hundred dollar matters. Managing thirty, or worse – 60 – different matters can involve significant transaction costs even when a firm is highly automated.
On the other hand, when you’re starting out or if business is slow, a
Please tell me this article, Three Online Tools Making It Easier to Leave Biglaw and Start Your Own Practice by ATL columnist Zach Abramowitz is either sponsored content for the technologies profiled — or a joke. Because as I’ll discuss after the jump, the tech tools featured by Abramowitz –Casetext legal research, LawGeex contract
After five years and three different courts, solo Ekaterina Schoenefeld’s challenge to the constitutionality of Jud. Law 470 has come to an unfortunate conclusion. A decision by the Second Circuit ruled that the Jud. Law 470 – which requires non-resident, New York-barred lawyers to maintain a bonafide office in the state while resident lawyers
Nearly forty years after lawyer advertising was legalized, has it run its course? Maybe so, suggests this this article at Content Standard, which observes that:
Somewhere between the “Mad Men”-esque glamour of the 1960s and today, advertising lost its shine. Both in the TV world and beyond, advertising is often associated with something
Updated September 6, 2022
Note: Since this post was originally published, some states have FINALLY revised their ethics rules to allow more flexibility to deposit an advance payment of flat fees to an operating account. Take a look at this recent roundup. Nevertheless, cases like this one are useful in giving insight into regulators’
Once upon a time in the legal profession, networking with more experienced colleagues was one of the quickest and most dependable ways to generate new business referrals. Generally, that hasn’t changed.
What has changed, however, is many firms’ willingness to refer certain matters. For example, many law firms have relaxed conflicts rules to enable them
My respected colleague and legal tech pioneer Richard Granat fears that hundreds of new entrants to legal services markets may be at risk if subject to some of the proposed regulation outlined in an issues paper released last month by the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Service, and available online here.
Let’s face it, lawyers get a bad rap. We’re constantly berated for clueless marketing and making our websites and marketing materials all about us, instead of about our clients problems. Yet lawyers aren’t the only ones to blame; many legal tech companies are equally culpable. Yet when I googled “clueless legal tech” companies,
Over the years, I’ve posted quite a bit about non-traditional office space options like co-working , on demand space and even hybrid vacation/work space. Although any one of these alternatives are suitable for lawyers, none of them are designed exclusively for lawyers.
But increasingly, co-working spaces for lawyers have been cropping up all over
Every so often, I’ll get an email or call from a relatively new solo asking whether to follow up with a prospective client who they spoke with by phone or had a consult. These lawyers expressed discomfort not so much because of fear of rejection, but rather, they did not wish to appear overbearing or