In a digital age, solo and small firm lawyers can largely accomplish what they need to online. If you need help with getting discovery out or drafting a summary judgment brief, you can find project lawyers through sites like Law Clerk or Hire an Esquire. Most case filling and organization can be handled by
According to this recent
post by Bob Ambrogi, Michigan is poised to potentially join 36 other states in adopting some version of ABA
Model Rule 1.1 (Comment 8) which
instructs lawyers to “keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice
including the benefits and risks associated with the technology relevant to the
lawyer’s
Last week, the American Bar Foundation released a Survey of Legal Tech for Non-Lawyers, authored by MacArthur Fellow, Professor Rebecca Sandefur. Sandefur’s exhaustive study identified 322 technology tools for non-lawyers that offer assistance with a range of criminal and civil problems. As shown on the chart, most of the tools serve one of
Many lawyers spend many, many, MANY dollars on SEO only to be disappointed with the results. The reason? SEO may lead prospective clients to your website, but it won’t make them convert. Once prospective clients come to your virtual doorstep, the onus is on you or your website to convert them.
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Back in the day, better, faster and cheaper was unattainable for most lawyers. If clients wanted the job done quickly, they could expect to pay a premium while sacrificing quality. Meanwhile, clients paying bargain basement prices would get what they paid for: substandard quality delivered in an untimely manner.
Today, not only has tech
If you’ve ever presented at a CLE or conference, you know the drill. Spend hours working on a slide deck and presentation, then a half-day attending the event – or maybe even more if you need to travel out of town. Meanwhile, many of the CLE presentations aren’t recorded or made publicly available so but
Editor’s Note – Everything we wrote about Briefcatch in this post remains accurate, but now Briefcatch is available for Mac – so watch our unboxing here –
Last month, I sat through a demo of BriefCatch, a new Word add-on developed by lawyer and legal writing expert, Ross Guberman, who is profiled here.
Have you ever had to research a broad topic like whether a search is lawful under the Fourth Amendment or whether an employee is an independent contractor? Although this kind of research question seems as if it would be simple to answer in twenty seconds, figuring out the black letter law on these kinds of
According to Bob Ambrogi, 31 states have now adopted the ethical duty of technology competence. Yet ironically, many of the same states that have adopted the duty of technology competence are home to bar associations that aren’t setting a very good example for members. Here’s what I mean.
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What a difference a decade makes.
Ten years ago, I had the honor of speaking at ABA Tech Show for the first time. Back then, cloud-based tools like Basecamp, Google Docs, Zoho and wikis were just coming on my radar as a means to connect with and communicate with clients but law-specific practice management platforms