There’s an article by Donna Seyle in Law Practice Today that provides a comprehensive round-up of various platforms for client portals and practice management. As the long list of products suggests, they’re all the rage – though as Marc Lauritsen notes in the concluding paragraph, large firms have long offered extranets to clients. What’s new
MyShingle Is Proud to Be Part of the 18 Percent
Solos comprise at least 60 percent of practicing lawyers, yet that’s not always apparent from mainstream legal publications which focus largely on the accomplishments of and matters relevant to large firm practice. Slowly, however, blogs are chipping away at the legal caste system that by giving solos a powerful megaphone to influence the law and
Lawyers & Video: Interview With Gerry Oginski
Why Lawyers Should Use Video from Carolyn Elefant on Vimeo.
Are you interested in learning more about how lawyers can use video? Sure, I could have written a post on the subject, but I figured that the better approach was for the medium to fit the message. So I taped a Skype
Update on Video
Here’s a round up post on my Legal Marketing Blawg posts on video.
Using Skype for a Marketing Competitive Edge (March 21, 2011).
Online Video Now First Stop for Consumers (March 29, 2011)
Create a Free Search Story Video for Your Website(APril 12, 2010)
Why Lawyers Should Incorporate Video into an Online Marketing Strategy
UPDATE: Can You Spell I Went Overboard? Try I-L-T-S-O
Update [May 3, 2011 – I’ve made a few more cuts to the post]
Update [April 17, 2011]: Last Friday, I posted the entry below, which was critical of the newly formed International Legal Technical Standards Organization and its proposed tech standards. There, I argued that the proposed standards as overkill, and the entire effort
Always On
A few days ago, I called a colleague at a mid-sized energy firm who’s known for a particular niche. As we chatted, I remarked how it was odd that we’d never run into each other at industry conferences to which she responded that she rarely does facetime these days. Doesn’t need to. My guess is
Book Review: Virtual Law Practice: A Useful Guide for Virtually Any Kind of Law Practice
Libraries may be nearly obsolete, but somehow we can’t rid ourselves of Melvil Dewey’s fetish for classifying books. We cabin books into narrow, topical silos – the business book, the practice management book, the substantive law treatise – and gravitate to those directly related to our interests, while ignoring the others.
If I didn’t blog
Guest Blogging, Part II
You know the saying that bad facts make bad law. That’s what came to mind when I read Jay Fleischman’s response to my original post, Just Say No to User Generated Content. Whereas I’d argued that providing user-generated content to others is exploitative, Jay responds that there are benefits to be had by guest
Bespoke or Be-Gone: Lessons from the E-discovery trenches
Make way for John Henry, Round 2 . Just as the steam-engine rolled over John Henry, recent advancements in e-discovery technology similarly enable machines to accomplish the work formerly performed by a team of 500 lawyers, reports the New York Times. Moreover, not only do computers perform e-discovery less expensively, but also with a
Just Say No To Free Use of Your User-Generated Content
Conventional, 21st century wisdom says that content wants to be free. That content isn’t worth paying for. That “exposure” in exchange for content is sufficient reward.
Funny thing is that those who try to sell you this line don’t have content. And not only do they want yours free, but they want to profit off