Archive for August 2013
Bruce Cameron’s Book, Becoming a Rural Lawyer and the Benefits of Small Town Practice
Just as a weekend in the country provides a respite from the hustle and bustle of city life, so too, Bruce Cameron’s book Becoming A Rural Lawyer, is a breath of fresh air from the heaps of impersonal and jargon-filled formulaic guides, blogs and books on starting or marketing a law practice. Though wonderfully lyrical…
Read MoreEd Poll’s Life After Law – A Wonderful Journey
My friend Ed Poll has written dozens of books and hundreds of articles. Life After Law: What Will You Do with the Next 6000 Days is, in my view, one of the best yet. Ed deals with the question that solos and smalls must eventually face: how do you know when it’s time to go…
Read MoreIs SimpleLegal A Step Forward or Back on the Way to the Future of Legal Billing?
TechCrunch reports that there’s a new law technology on the block: SimpleLegal, a company that employs a machine learning to read, understand and ultimately reduce legal bills. As TechCrunch describes: All a customer has to do is ask their law firm to copy SimpleLegal on each invoice, and then the magic starts to happen. SimpleLegal’s…
Read MoreWhat’s Your Client’s View in the Client Portal?
A few months ago at the Iron Tech Competition at Georgetown Law School, one of the judges asked one of the teams one the best questions I’ve ever heard and have been pondering since: What does the system look like from the client’s side? Yet do you have any idea of how that “client portal”…
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