For a long time, I’ve wanted to come up with the definitive blog post on what constitutes unauthorized practice of law. I figured that if I could develop a clear set of principles, then I could create an online tool to help solos and smalls evaluate if a particular scenario constituted practice of law and
In recent months, many lawyers and firms have started to embrace artificial intelligence, recognizing that it won’t displace all lawyers but instead, free them up to do higher value bespoke work that requires creativity and judgment. But believe it or not, AI and other technologies can actually help create jobs for lawyers by helping to
For those who regularly follow my blog, you may have noticed
that it’s been a long, long time since I’ve written critically about legal
technology trends. Several reasons for that. For starters, whether it’s
because I’m a woman or write about the solo and small firm space or actually
practice law or don’t tow the
For the past two days, I was thrilled to have my older
daughter home for a brief 48-hour layover between an overseas trip and her
return to her job up in Boston. Unfortunately, she brought with her a vicious
cough and sinus infection that pretty much grounded her after her arrival. When
it became apparent
If you’ve visited MyShingle before, you’re most likely
familiar with our wildly popular profiles
of lawyers focused on the 40
Practice Areas That Didn’t Exist 15 Years Ago. Several of these new areas
took off in 2018, in particular cannabis which spawned all sorts of new
regulatory and legal issues as described here
and
One of the most interesting statistics to come out of Clio’s 2018 Legal Trends Report concerns the amount of time that lawyers spend managing their trust accounts. According to Clio’s report, lawyers spend around an hour day on the byzantine task to trust account management. And although the Clio number seems high on its face,
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
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
Alexa, please hire me a lawyer.
Yes, I realize that asking an AI-assistant to find a lawyer sounds far-fetched — like something out of a bad sci-fi movie. But Marketing in the Age of Alexa , a thoughtful, must-read article by Niraj Dawar in this month’s issue of the Harvard Business Review will persuade you