Although I owe my career to legal technology (after all, it enabled me to continue to practice law while staying home with my girls ), truth is, the nuts and bolts and latest and greatest don’t interest me unless I can find a way to employ those tools to help my clients. In other words,
Fed up with his law firms’ inefficient and costly practices, serial-entrepreneur Justin Kan decided to take matters into his own hands. Now, Kan isn’t a lawyer, so he couldn’t start his own law firm. And given the size of his companies, my guess is that DIY wasn’t an option. But what Kan could do is
Today’s headlines are rife with plenty of tech topics that could conceivably form a niche practice. From sci-fi sounding topics — like internet of things , wearable tech , bitcoin and crypto-currency , micro-chip implants on employees — to changes in existing trends such as a rise in Hispanic-owned businesses to newer and less costly
Correction (8/9/2017) – I’ve been informed that Law Charge, previously mentioned in this post, does not pay for endorsements and so I have removed any reference to that from this post.
Skimming through my aggregator, I came across a ludicrous article entitled Five Ways to Be Secretly Productive At a Meeting . Suggested activities included
These days, the legal industry is obsessed with data . In my view, that’s a positive trend. Access to large amounts of information outside of any single lawyer’s experience yields trends that enable us to better assess our clients’ likelihood of success. Data also gives clients a more objective view of what they can expect
Niche law practices are nothing new. This blog contains dozens of posts that either describe an interesting and emerging niche practice or profile lawyers with unique niches. My blog doesn’t hold a monopoly on niche law either; for years, my blogging colleague Chuck Newtown tracked interesting niches, and there’s even a recent book, One
Some law firms make history, others write their own history. At least, that’s what I gathered from this Humphrey Keenlyside’s article in Bloomberg, discussing the apparent tradition of large law firms producing an auto-biography of a sort, tracing a firm’s history from its humble beginnings to its current powerhouse status. Kennlyside writes that law firm
Remember Ravel – that cool legal research system that was ever so generously scanning every book in the Harvard Law Library to make it all available online at no cost? In yesterday’s big legal news, LEXIS announced that it had acquired Ravel, and will incorporate Ravel’s offerings – both its free Harvard caselaw file and
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
In my line of work , I’m accustomed to clients – generally a group of neighbors or a community association – taking up a collection or hosting a gala to fund my fees. But in the past week, two potentially new sources for funding legal fees came across my radar: Facebook’s introduction of Personal Fundraisers