Help Update the Solo Tech Survey!

Three years ago, I created this Solo Tech Survey to get a sense of the types of technology that today’s solos and smalls use. Despite the survey’s daunting size, I received nearly 50 replies, and published the data here. I’d really like to update the survey and use the additional results to discern some real…

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Solos Who Start From Home Aren’t Home Alone

Over my years of blogging, I’ve devoted extensive coverage to the home v. office debate. I’ve acknowledged that for some practices, regions or personalities a home office won’t do and I’ve also suggested that many solos and smalls likely rent office space, at least some of the time, if it were more affordable. At the…

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The Real Non-Lawyer “Ownership” Question: Who Should Own the Cloud-Based Law Tech Vendors?

Will non-lawyer ownership of law firms become a reality in the United States? That’s the question raised by  Riverview Law’s  Andy Dawes’ presentation on alternative legal business models and non-lawyer owned firms at the  Clio User conference and summarized at length by Sam Glover at Lawyerist. Although the non-lawyer ownership question has enormous implications for…

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Dispatch from Clio Cloud 9: The Rise of the Lawyer User Conference?

User conferences are all the rage with Silicon Valley start ups.  Salesforce’s Dreamforce user conferences are legendary profitable affairs, but lots of other tech companies host them as well to bring together an ecosystem of users. More recently, the user conference has entered the legal tech sphere.  Avvo has been sponsoring road shows and Avvocating conferences for…

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Lawyer Marketing and Ethics Meets the Real World

Be careful what you wish for.  Lawyers have long argued that law is a business, not a profession – and if these recent  events are any indication, lawyers may have gotten their wish. Only turns out, the real world has even less tolerance for deceptive marketing practice than ye old bar association. Gregory Turza, a…

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