Figuring out how much to charge isn’t just a conundrum for lawyers, it’s common to most small businesses. For example, how many times have you as a lawyer, asked yourself or a colleague the same questions posed in this New York Times story, Businesses Go Creative on Pricing, Applying Technology.
Many business owners struggle
As you know, I’ve written about the pros and cons of the new generation of online platforms that seek to match lawyers with small business clients. See here and here. The founders of one of these new companies, PrioriLegal.com, Basha Frost Rubin and Mirra Levitt will be in Washington D.C. and I’ll be hosting
Just a day after I served up some Food for Thought on law practice trends, I stumbled across another food-oriented trend right here in my own backyard: the rise of fast and casual dining. As described in the article, fast and casual restaurants fall into “that category in between McDonald’s and Applebee’s, with an
I am excited to announce the creation of the MyShingleCommingle – a meet-up group bringing together solo, small and alternative law practices (i.e., the new business models) with the legal technology companies that are developing the tools and platforms empowering law practices. In many ways, we are natural allies: we are essentially startups doing business
Three years ago, I created this Solo Tech Survey to get a sense of the types of technology that today’s solos and smalls use. Despite the survey’s daunting size, I received nearly 50 replies, and published the data here.
I’d really like to update the survey and use the additional results to discern some
A few months back, I tried, unsuccessfully to host a webinar on launching a 21st Century Law Practice. I have finally re-recorded the presentation and converted it into a FREE program available at Udemy.com. The course is divided into 6 modules which range between 20 and 35 minutes each. What I like best about
I’m very excited about attending the Clio Cloud Conference 2013 in Chicago on September 23-24, 2013. I love Chicago, of course, but I’m also excited about the panel of speakers that Clio has lined up – along with the relief of being able to attend a conference without having to come up with a presentation
Just as a weekend in the country provides a respite from the hustle and bustle of city life, so too, Bruce Cameron’s book Becoming A Rural Lawyer, is a breath of fresh air from the heaps of impersonal and jargon-filled formulaic guides, blogs and books on starting or marketing a law practice. Though wonderfully
TechCrunch reports that there’s a new law technology on the block: SimpleLegal, a company that employs a machine learning to read, understand and ultimately reduce legal bills. As TechCrunch describes:
All a customer has to do is ask their law firm to copy SimpleLegal on each invoice, and then the magic starts to happen.
Via Bob Ambrogi, I learned the very sad news of the passing of legal technology pioneer and Micro Law founder Ross Kodner, who tragically died yesterday as the result of a heart attack at the age of 52. Ross leaves behind enormous shoes to fill in the solo and small law firm community.
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