Future & Trends

Are you interested in what generative Ai can do but haven’t had a chance to spend the time experimenting, or even sitting through an hour-long webinar? Here are two resources that won’t take more than ten minutes of your time. First up – a summary comparison of five gen AI platforms and their legal research…

Hands down 🙌, one of the best parts of starting or owning your own law firm is the ability to create a novel business model that addresses a profound gap in the market, and marries your passion to your legal talent.  Below, I highlight three recent examples of lawyers whose unconventional business models caught my…

Earlier this week, stock prices for Chegg, which provides study materials and outlines for high school and college students, plunged by almost 48 percent reports CNBC.   The culprit? ChatGPT which has cut into much of Chegg’s business in just five months.  Chegg’s recent losses are yet another reminder of just how quickly ChatGPT can…

With the legal tech market now valued at $27.6 billion, it was only a matter of time before a company serving lawyers would succumb to the siren’s song of deregulation and launch a DIY service to compete with its own customers directly. That time has arrived.  Back in April 2022, Findlaw debuted a DIY Estate…

A decade ago, Attorney at Work carried this piece penned by then-solo Ruth Carter which evaluated different mailing address options for her virtual law practice: (a) a bare-bones, UPS Store or PO Box option, (b) a mailing address at a corporate space with access to conference rooms or (c) a “faux office” with access to…

Last week, consumer-facing legal tech enjoyed a moment in the mainstream sun when HelloPreNup and its founders Sarabeth Jaffe and Julia Rodgers appeared as contestants  and snagged a deal on the popular television hit, Shark Tank.  When I shared news of the win in the popular Lawyer on the Beach Facebook group, several commenters immediately…

Via Bob Ambrogi’s Law Sites Blog, I learned of yet another Captain Obvious study on diversity at biglaw.  Spoiler alert (NOT): there’s been little progress or improvement over the past seven years.   Though the percentage of minority associates at large firms hovers around 26.4 percent – so slightly less than the 30 percent of…