Rewind five months ago to the early days of the pandemic, when courts shut down, work moved home and you were content to turn your kids over to ten hours of screen time each day because you thought it would be temporary. Back then, you had big plans: to add a new practice area, to
As one of the few bloggers covering the solo and small law firm space, I try to stay current on what’s new in the legal tech world. So after learning just a few days ago that a class action for overbilling was filed two years ago against Ruby Receptionists,an answering service popular with lawyers,
Back in March, when the coronavirus over took the country, shuttering courts and sending lawyers packing from their office to remote work, virtual conferences and webinars began popping up all over the place. In fact, you couldn’t spend a second on social media without being bombarded with a notification of a free webinar on COVID-19
To paraphrase an old Yiddush saying, men and women plan, pandemic laughs.
Take a look at some of completely unexpected winners…and losers recently anointed by the pandemic:
If you haven’t read it elsewhere, MyShingle along with a few other lawyer mom owners is planning a virtual summit to celebrate and empower lawyer|mom|firm owners. We’re planning some AMAZING and diverse keynote speakers, panels on all the legal issues related to going virtual to how moms are balancing school, kids and work for their
Back in the day –almost twenty years ago — when I spent more time with my daughters in the span of a day than I do in a week now that they’re grown, one of our favorite car-song anthems was This One’s for the Girls by Martina McBride. It’s a peppy song that celebrates
A couple of months before the pandemic hit, tidy-up evangelist Marie Kondo released a new book, Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life , which applies Kondo’s decluttering principles to the workplace context. As this article describes, Kondo advises readers to decide what to keep and what to cull by asking themselves a particular object
In one fell swoop, COVID-19 put an end to salad bars, hot-food buffets and other types of self-serve operations that have become popularized in takeout restaurants and grocery stores over the past decade. And even as establishments reopen, self-serve buffets may be thing of the past because it’s nearly impossible to control the spread of
Have you ever considered a new practice area or business model for your law firm but weren’t sure whether it had legs? If you’re looking for a quick way to figure out the NBT, you might try the “rule of three” – which is how Chris Wilson, founder of Lululemon knew that a company
Just wanted to share that the Power Pacts recording is available here now! I’m still working on supplemental materials which will hopefully be available in another week.