Ever since 2010 when Nicole Black and I published the book Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier, social media for lawyers in some ways has become a victim of its own success.
What I mean is that once lawyers began to recognize that social media could help attract clients, they glommed on to
Yesterday, the ABA Journal reported that the pay gap between male and female partners at big law continues to widen. According to the article, in 2010, female partners earned 24 percent less than their male counterparts whereas in 2018, female partners earned 35 percent less. Why am I not surprised?
Some attribute male/female pay
Back in March, when the coronavirus over took the country, shuttering courts and sending lawyers packing from their office to remote work, virtual conferences and webinars began popping up all over the place. In fact, you couldn’t spend a second on social media without being bombarded with a notification of a free webinar on COVID-19
A week or two before her high school graduation, my older daughter decided to go vegan. To accommodate my daughter’s new eating regime, our family celebrated her graduation at a vegan restaurant which served up entrees like lasagna and chicken parmigiana by substituting nutritional yeast and soy proteins for cheese, eggs and meat. Yet despite
My longtime blogging colleague and co-defendant Eric Turkewitz recently expressed some hope that the corona virus crisis would serve as a catalyst for needed reforms to New York’s antiquated judicial system. As Turkewitz wrote long ago in 2008, in-person motions practice, status calls and waiting time wastes $10 million in time for a single court
On the dawn of a new decade in the legal profession, I
should be excited about the future. As Bob Ambrogi optimistically
writes, there is much to celebrate from a surge in startups, the
upending of the WEXIS duopoly, and a push towards regulatory reforms to allow
for outside ownership of law firms. Social
Yesterday, the ABA released a report entitled Walking
Out the Door: The Facts, Figures and Future of Experienced Women Lawyers in
Private Practice. Focused on the perspective of women with 15 years
or more experience in the nation’s 350 largest firms, the report seeks to
answer the question “why do experienced women lawyers leave
In a world where lawyers are being displaced by technology, data scientists and policy experts, law schools are searching for ways to train lawyers to make them more relevant in today’s world. After all, law schools’ survival depends on placing students in jobs, so they need to teach them skills to make them marketable. Hence,the
Yesterday, law practice management company Clio released its popular and widely read 2019
Clio Trends Report. The Clio Report is unique because in contrast to traditional
surveys which rely on responses from humans, Clio culls through millions of
pieces of anonymized user data generated through its platform to identify
trends related to solo and
Here are the comments that I filed in response to the California Task Force’s Proposals on Access to Justice Through Innovation of Legal Services. I took the time because it’s so important for solo and small firm lawyers to weigh in – there are enormous opportunities here. Speaking on behalf of the MyShingle constituency,