In just five days, Memorial Day weekend will herald the official start of summer – though recent events may have already put a damper on your plans. For example, with a ban on laptops in airport cabins still up in the air (pun intended), you may be fretting about how you can take that long-planned
Solo and small firm lawyers are notorious for never taking vacations. Some can’t afford the cost, others believe that they can’t afford the time away from the office and some are, quite simply, workaholics. That said, here are a couple of ways for solos and smalls to enjoy the coming summer a little more without
As I observed in PART I of this post, for decades, legal research — even with later innovations – has been flat and one-dimensional, mimicking the way that lawyers once hunted for cases in hard copy case reporters and digests. But the latest version of Casetext transforms the legal research experience into something at once
In a recent tweet, Ed Walters, one of the founders of Fastcase remarked:
To gain an understanding of how we got here, and why this time around, we’re finally seeing real innovation in legal research, you think back to the early ‘90s when the first websites came online. Not only were websites hideously ugly
The final lawyer-to-legal-tech entry in our What’s Next Solo? lineup is Chad Bruton, CEO of CuroLegal. Although Chad had ten years of biglaw legal experience under his belt by the time he turned solo, as a still-newer attorney, he enjoyed the benefits of the technology advances like virtual law offices and distributed firms which he
If you’ve been around the blogosphere as long as I have, you can’t help but recognize Ernie Svenson (or “Ernie the Attorney” as he is belovedly known in blogging circles.) Ernie must have been one of the very first law bloggers, launching his eponymous blog on a product now so old that I’m not sure
A couple of weeks back, I stumbled across a company called Gust Launch – billed as a one-stop shop for high-growth start-ups. For $199/month (or $239/month if billed annually), Gust Launch provides startups with ongoing legal, financial, accounting and back-end services dispensed through one convenient cloud-based platform.
Somewhat like Clio, the practice management system
I’m very excited about this week’s What’s Next Solo, From Lawyer to Legal Tech feature about my co-author and friend, Nicole Black of MyCase. Niki and I met online 12 years as part of the early generation of law bloggers, and two of just a handful of female bloggers in that crowd. Nicole is a
On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, the Women Owned Law Firms (WOL), is holding its D.C. launch at the Fastcase office in Washington D.C.
Register here now!
This event is for women-owned law firms -but that’s not all. We’re seeking women currently at big law, or who have left the practice to raise a family but
A few months back when I first contemplated a two week trip overseas, I accepted that I’d have to put in some work-time in exchange for a prolonged holiday. Even so, I envisioned waking up a few hours sipping a cafe con leche on the balcony and watching the sunrise, while tapping out a blog