Always a trendsetter, IKEA can now claim the moniker of “first mover” quite literally. according to NextBigFuture.com, IKEA has designed seven autonomous workspaces on wheels to explore how self-driving vehicles might “operate as extensions of our cafes, homes, and offices,” and make retail products and services more readily accessible to consumers. For lawyers,
For the past seven years, I’ve blogged about the legal services crisis in rural America. Yet despite creative solutions and a plethora of new programs, demand for lawyers in rural parts remains acute.
Unfortunately, for the time being, pure tech solutions like online document providers aren’t likely to be effective. According to a recent Pew
Seven years ago, I penned a post, How NOT to Blog at the now defunct Nolo Legal Marketing Blawg . Clearly, my influence is very limited because the offenses that I cited – from undated posts, lack of attribution, reliance on unpaid crowd-sourced content to make a buck and posts without links – remain common
Author: Thomson Reuters
What separates very successful from unsuccessful law firms is merely 200 hours per year. Consider the findings of the Thomson Reuters State of U.S. Small Law Firms 2017 Study which reveals that to achieve 1,800 billable hours a year:
As the Small Business Administration recognizes, cash flow is the lifeblood of a business and critical to its growth. Yet ethics regulations requiring lawyers to deposit advance payments into trust accounts and subsequently release it in dribs and drabs as work is performed only serve to exacerbate cash flow issues for solos and smalls
For most companies in the business world, Take Your Child To Work Day comes but once a year. But at Freedom Law P.C., a small woman-owned law firm in Eastpointe, Michigan, employees can take their new babies to work until they’re six months old, reports Corp Magazine. The Infant-at-Work program — which is
Converting legal services into products like self-help books and videos, assessment tools, apps or chatbots invariably raises the same perennial issues for lawyers. Some lawyers obsess about the ethics of commoditization such as whether a product sold nationally might place a lawyer in violation of unauthorized practice of law (UPL) prohibitions or give rise to
Never eat lunch alone, say master networkers like Keith Ferrazi. But in today’s hectic world, getting together for lunch is easier said than done. Still, a lawyer’s got to eat, right?
Enter an elegant solution to this common problem: eatNgage.com , a platform that lets you set up a virtual meeting, demo or webinar
Let’s face it, marketing a solo or small law firm isn’t always candy canes and unicorns. Face to face meetings or calls can lead to rejection or apologetic sorry-I-don’t-have-any-cases-to-refer-right-now while digital marketing efforts like blogging or social media or a spendy SEO campaign often result in crickets rather than clients. Marketing studies show that it
Today marks the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and a time for starting fresh. We don’t make resolutions as we do for the secular new year, but instead, do something more important as we free ourselves of the weight of our mistakes and imperfections from the past year so that we