Our second Mom Owned Profile is Sierra Butler, owner of Butler Elder Law, serving clients throughout Bradenton, Sarasota and Venice, Florida. Sierra’s career has taken her from a clerkship and big law associate position in Boston, Massachusetts back to her home state of Florida where she worked for an elder law firm and
We’re thrilled to be running another round of Mom-Owned Law Firm Profiles where we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. Today, welcome Chelsie Lamie, owner of Law Office of Chelsie M. Lamie, P. A., a small firm in Safety Harbor, Florida. After several years working in the insurance
As the saying goes, everything old is new again. Look
around: Vintage clothing is nearly always in fashion. Community
supported agriculture and buying produce local and direct from farms as
folks did back in the day is on the rise. And
now it seems,house-calls
for doctors are making a comeback, enabled by the same technology
What stories would you share with the world if your time on
earth was limited?
Tragically, that wasn’t a hypothetical question for former
biglaw attorney, wife and mom Julie
Yip-Williams who was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer back in the
summer of 2013 and passed away in March 2018. Upon learning of her diagnosis,
As regular readers of my website are aware, I’ve long been
concerned about the impact of expensive court transcripts on access to justice.
So I was excited to learn about Verbit, a company that has
leveraged AI to expedite the time, and reduce the costs of producing a
transcript. Here’s our e-interview with Tom
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
As I
wrote a few year’s back, there’s
been a surge in co-working spaces for lawyers – a trend that my colleague
Nicole Black predicts
will continue. But lawyers need not limit themselves to lawyer-specific
co-working spaces – which are not yet available in all cities. And in fact, as one large law firm found,
establishing
In recent months, many lawyers and firms have started to embrace artificial intelligence, recognizing that it won’t displace all lawyers but instead, free them up to do higher value bespoke work that requires creativity and judgment. But believe it or not, AI and other technologies can actually help create jobs for lawyers by helping to
Today, we’re honored to host a guest post from Dina Eisenberg, a lawyer turned Outsourcing Strategist and founder of OutsourceEasier.com . Dina’s varied background includes legal practice, consulting to Fortune 500 ranked companies as well as being a guest lecturer at Harvard University Law School. Today, Dina helps lawyers who are doing well but overworked
For those who regularly follow my blog, you may have noticed
that it’s been a long, long time since I’ve written critically about legal
technology trends. Several reasons for that. For starters, whether it’s
because I’m a woman or write about the solo and small firm space or actually
practice law or don’t tow the