Small firms have never been better positioned to threaten big law and you can thank the cloud.
Consider Roeder Smith Jadin, a Minneapolis-based firm focusing on litigation, real estate, construction, insurance, and community association issues. In just three years, they have quadrupled their size thanks to making their office virtual.
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With increased focus on the growing role of data science and data analytics in the future of law, I decided that it was high time to learn what all the fuss is about. Initially, I considered taking a course on data analytics geared for lawyers, but shockingly, I couldn’t find much, with the exception of
ALM Columnist Vivia Chen’s recent rant on the latest “Best Law Firms for Women” lists starts out promisingly enough as Chen questions why the lists reward law firms for effort, rather than result. As Chen points out, many of the law firms on the four different lists focus on child-friendly policies like part time availability
As Seth Godin observes, marketers usually sell pleasure. Think about some of the most popular legal marketing programs. They teach you how to take your law practice to seven figures, or how to run a six-figure practice in a seven-hour workweek and so on. The programs sound great. Some of these programs have worked
Believe it or not, the pop-up stores are a $50 million dollar industry according to Small Biz Trends . Moreover, as the infographic shows, there are more ways to run a pop-up business than just by opening a kiosk in a mall. Many pop up businesses are taking place within vacant spaces or existing stores.
Although I owe my career to legal technology (after all, it enabled me to continue to practice law while staying home with my girls ), truth is, the nuts and bolts and latest and greatest don’t interest me unless I can find a way to employ those tools to help my clients. In other words,
Fed up with his law firms’ inefficient and costly practices, serial-entrepreneur Justin Kan decided to take matters into his own hands. Now, Kan isn’t a lawyer, so he couldn’t start his own law firm. And given the size of his companies, my guess is that DIY wasn’t an option. But what Kan could do is
Most of today’s clients have grown accustomed to a frictionless customer experience long before they ever step foot over our office threshold or log in to an online client portal. Most likely, within hours of their first encounter with a lawyer, today’s client has tapped the screen on their phone to summon a car from
The last days went down just as I imagined. Packed up the rented Jeep Cherokee and drove up to Massachusetts alone, a half hour behind my daughters who navigated the Prius that they’ll have with them at college. Unpacked my younger daughter – the freshman – then walked around campus while she took care of
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Did you know up to 40% of time in a small law firm is spent on non billable, administrative work? That means you are basically working for free after 2 p.m. According to the 2016 State of U.S. Small Law Firms Study, 69% of small law firms report spending too much
