Editor’s Note: It’s not often that I’ll invite a marketer or SEO consultant to post at my blog because I’ll get nothing but bland content or a listicle full of backlinks to leverage my blog’s traffic. But when I came across an article by Luke Ciciliano, I was intrigued by some of his trend predictions,
It’s been nearly six years since the ABA Ethics 20/20 Commission green-lighted pay per click (PPC) as an ethically compliant marketing tool and since then, it’s been a popular mainstay of many practices. But is pay per click still effective?
An article by Luke Ciciliano at SEO For Lawyers suggests not. Although Ciciliano comes at
When I ponder the future of solos, I fear most not for the newer solos who know too little, but rather, older solos who know too much. If you don’t know what I mean, spend a few minutes on any bar association list serve, or attend a practice panel at a solo bar event where
What are older lawyers to do when their time expires at big law due to stringent mandatory retirement deadlines? Some may decide to stop practicing law entirely – but for those who aren’t yet ready to leave to the courtroom, solo practice offers a second chance for a second act.
Consider for example, Lawrence Abner
Last week, Apple’s long-expected announcement of the iPhone 7 was accompanied by an unexpected development: the elimination of headphone jacks , now replaced by wireless Air Pods to the tune of $159 per set.
Not surprisingly, Apple’s move produced polarized reactions. On the one side, are critics such as the Verge’s Nilay Patel, who termed
Six years ago, the ABA released Formal Opinion 10-457, which discusses the ethical obligations that lawyers must address in considering the content and features of their websites. Though undoubtedly late to the party — by 2010, many state regulators had already issued their own ethics rulings on websites — the ABA offered authoritative and
A recent Pew Study reports that in spite of the increase over the past five years in the number of Americans who read ebooks (28%, up from 17%) and audio books (14% up from 11%), in 2016, a full 65 percent continue to read print books – 38% exclusively, with an additional 28 percent reading
What if people really understood the documents they were signing? That was the challenge that South African lawyer Robert de Rooy set out to address with the Comic Contract that he developed for one of his clients, Clemengold Mandarin fruit supplier. As described here and here, the Comic Contract uses visualization, with the parties
These days, the legal profession is obsessed with the future of law. Burning questions — like”Will robots will replace lawyers?” or ”Can big data can predict case outcomes?” or ”Are we ever going to even come close to ensuring access to justice?” — occupy thought leaders and academics and
Just like oil and water, lawyers and legal technologists don’t mix well. Too many lawyers remain dismissive of self-help and online solutions even if that’s all a client can afford, smugly chuckling to themselves – “hey, that’s more business for me when I have to straighten out the mess they’ve made.” On the other side