Like many of my lawyer colleagues with college-aged students, I’ve been tracking the college admissions scandal with interest, particularly the involvement of Gordon Caplan , co-chair at Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher who paid $75,000 to bribe the proctor of an ACT exam to boost his daughter’s chances of admission to a top school. Quite honestly,
So here are some more interesting marketing statistics: it can take as many as eight customer interactions (or touches) to get a face to face meeting with a potential customer and in fact, 80 percent of sales are made between the 6th and 12th customer touch. As a lawyer, you may be wondering how
Updated October 3rd, 2022
In the increasingly crowded online space, solo and small firms can have difficulty being found. SEO and pay-per-click schemes are frequently pricey often lures clients focused only on cost or who were already declined by other law firms. Blogging can increase visibility and attract a more educated breed of clients but
Today, we feature two Mom-Owned Law Firm Profiles where we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. First up is Michelle Cohen Levy owner of the Law Office of Michelle Cohen Levy PA in Fort Lauderdale Florida. Although Michelle started her firm after three and a half years working as
Our second Mom Owned Profile is Sierra Butler, owner of Butler Elder Law, serving clients throughout Bradenton, Sarasota and Venice, Florida. Sierra’s career has taken her from a clerkship and big law associate position in Boston, Massachusetts back to her home state of Florida where she worked for an elder law firm and
We’re thrilled to be running another round of Mom-Owned Law Firm Profiles where we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. Today, welcome Chelsie Lamie, owner of Law Office of Chelsie M. Lamie, P. A., a small firm in Safety Harbor, Florida. After several years working in the insurance
As the saying goes, everything old is new again. Look
around: Vintage clothing is nearly always in fashion. Community
supported agriculture and buying produce local and direct from farms as
folks did back in the day is on the rise. And
now it seems,house-calls
for doctors are making a comeback, enabled by the same technology
What stories would you share with the world if your time on
earth was limited?
Tragically, that wasn’t a hypothetical question for former
biglaw attorney, wife and mom Julie
Yip-Williams who was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer back in the
summer of 2013 and passed away in March 2018. Upon learning of her diagnosis,
As regular readers of my website are aware, I’ve long been
concerned about the impact of expensive court transcripts on access to justice.
So I was excited to learn about Verbit, a company that has
leveraged AI to expedite the time, and reduce the costs of producing a
transcript. Here’s our e-interview with Tom
Last week, the American Bar Foundation released a Survey of Legal Tech for Non-Lawyers, authored by MacArthur Fellow, Professor Rebecca Sandefur. Sandefur’s exhaustive study identified 322 technology tools for non-lawyers that offer assistance with a range of criminal and civil problems. As shown on the chart, most of the tools serve one of