Earlier this week at the Clio Cloud Conference, company co-founder Jack Newton announced the creation of the first Clio Legal Trends Report, the first such report based on data generated by Clio’s users. Although the full report won’t be ready for release until next month, as a teaser, Jack shared a couple of juicy factoids
Back in 2009, I blogged about how joining a nonprofit board could help solos break into a new practice area, gain new skills or build business contacts . Apparently, big law firms see the value of nonprofit boards for their associates, because they’re signing on with CariClub , a new website that connects law firm
Last week, Apple’s long-expected announcement of the iPhone 7 was accompanied by an unexpected development: the elimination of headphone jacks , now replaced by wireless Air Pods to the tune of $159 per set.
Not surprisingly, Apple’s move produced polarized reactions. On the one side, are critics such as the Verge’s Nilay Patel, who termed
Looking for an entree into a new practice area, or a way to segue out of solo practice to something new? Forget CLEs or LLMs and consider micro-credentials or “nano degrees” instead.
Never heard of micro-credentialing? Basically, it’s certification training on very specific skills , ranging from web development, social innovation, data analytics,
Six years ago, the ABA released Formal Opinion 10-457, which discusses the ethical obligations that lawyers must address in considering the content and features of their websites. Though undoubtedly late to the party — by 2010, many state regulators had already issued their own ethics rulings on websites — the ABA offered authoritative and
A recent Pew Study reports that in spite of the increase over the past five years in the number of Americans who read ebooks (28%, up from 17%) and audio books (14% up from 11%), in 2016, a full 65 percent continue to read print books – 38% exclusively, with an additional 28 percent reading
What if people really understood the documents they were signing? That was the challenge that South African lawyer Robert de Rooy set out to address with the Comic Contract that he developed for one of his clients, Clemengold Mandarin fruit supplier. As described here and here, the Comic Contract uses visualization, with the parties
Let’s say that you’re an attorney, duly licensed and happily practicing law in Colorado. One evening, your wife mentions that her parents in Minnesota are having a tough time resolving a dispute with a creditor, and asks if you could intercede on their behalf. Now, you’re well aware of the pitfalls of working for family
These days, the legal profession is obsessed with the future of law. Burning questions — like”Will robots will replace lawyers?” or ”Can big data can predict case outcomes?” or ”Are we ever going to even come close to ensuring access to justice?” — occupy thought leaders and academics and
Though sales of medical and dental practices are fairly common, as are buy-ins (such as a biglaw attorney purchasing a partnership stake in a firm), many state regulators prohibited lawyers from selling a law practice. In 1990, the quick-moving (ha!) ABA finally moved itself to action , with the adoption of Model Rule 1.17 that