Please tell me this article, Three Online Tools Making It Easier to Leave Biglaw and Start Your Own Practice by ATL columnist Zach Abramowitz is either sponsored content for the technologies profiled — or a joke. Because as I’ll discuss after the jump, the tech tools featured by Abramowitz –Casetext legal research, LawGeex contract
Let’s face it, lawyers get a bad rap. We’re constantly berated for clueless marketing and making our websites and marketing materials all about us, instead of about our clients problems. Yet lawyers aren’t the only ones to blame; many legal tech companies are equally culpable. Yet when I googled “clueless legal tech” companies,
A panel of security experts moderated by Above the Law’s David Lat at ABA Tech Show 2016 offered lots of solid, practical advice on what lawyers can do to ensure confidentiality of communications with clients. Tips included using FaceTime or iphone-to-iphone texting – both of which are encrypted and surprisingly secure, encrypting emails, avoiding Dropbox
Call New Jersey solo attorney Mark Rinaldi one lucky fellow. Rinaldi narrowly escaped a legal malpractice claim after the New Jersey Appellate Division absolved him of liability for failing to file a timely personal injury suit for a former client who called the office to retain Rinaldi’s service and spoke with a secretary who gathered
Something borrowed, something blue may be aspirational for brides wear, but not for legal tech. Yet sadly, all too many applications these days are characterized by borrowed ideas (the next Uber!!) and make users blue either because they run afoul of ethics rules, don’t work, or solve problems lawyers don’t have .
So what
We don’t do it often, but today, MyShingle is offering this sponsored post by Smokeball. The sponsored post met our stringent criterion. First, I had an opportunity to view Smokeball product demos at the site, and try it out myself at a demo by Smokeball’s very hands-on VP, Chelsey Lambert. What’s neat about
As readers may notice, My Shingle has gotten a bit of a facelift — as it has over time – morphing from how we looked ten years ago to two weeks ago to the present. Ultimately, technology rather than design sensibility forced my hand: when Google announced last spring that it would take account of
As I’ve described before, I consider myself a practical technologist – I choose tech tools based on cost and what they can do to help me right now rather than paying top dollar for the latest-and-greatest gadgets that may not work for my practice. Likewise, I track technology on a “need to know” basis –
For the next generation of clients, texting, particularly through mobile apps like Facebook’s messenger app or Snap Chat – is fast replacing email or phone calls as the preferred mode of communication,
according to a Pew Research Center Study released last month. Based on interviews with over 1900 adults, Pew’s research team found that 36%
When I couldn’t get a response from a medical provider after I’d written a lengthy complaint more than two months earlier, I did what any disgruntled consumer would do: I took it to Twitter. Cognizant of the possibility of a defamation claim ( been there, done that ) not to mention loss of my family’s