Future & Trends

There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency that which should not be done at all. –Peter Drucker Oh how the mighty have fallen. Recently, there’s been a backlash against “disruptive” tax preparation companies like  Intuit  (which makes Turbo Tax, a DIY tax prep product) and HR Block (tax form-fillers)  that enable consumers…

Quimbee bills itself as the only study guide for law students, “hell-bent” on helping every student to get an A. Too bad that Quimbee’s most recent venture – creating content to teach law students practice and business skills gets an F. Why? Because Quimbee only wants big law firm attorneys as instructors. #FAIL! Quimbee’s ad…

Perhaps Aaron George’s post on the Lexicata  blog entitled Why the Law Firm Business Model Is All Wrong didn’t generate enough of a stir when it was posted six months ago, so George’s co-founder Michael Chasin saw fit to resurrect it in a recent blurb that showed up in my LinkedIn feed. George argues that…

With concern over the high cost of legal services so acute that even the ABA is encouraging bars to consider allowing non-lawyers to provide limited scope services , it is unfathomable that the Hampden County Bar Association is opposing a move towards replacing court reporters with a digital reporting system, as reported in MassLive.com. The association…

Yesterday, TechCrunch contributer Bastiann Janmaat pondered this question: Are startups selling to startups building a house of cards? Bastian observes: B2B companies whose customers are other early stage B2B companies put themselves doubly at risk: Not only are startups failure-prone by nature, but an early stage company with strong fundamentals can still falter if its…

Scrolling through #LegalTech on Twitter, a new name came across my feed: StandIn, described as kind of an Uber for court appearances. Since many other #altlaw sites that self-describe as Uber rarely live up to the hype, I decided to see how StandIn would stand up to the comparison and downloaded the app to my…

Click image above -Fast Forward to the 3rd Segment of the episode Last Friday, the founder of Fixed –  an app that enables users to upload and contest a parking ticket, and part of the Tiny Law Revolution appeared on Shark Tank to pitch for investment in his company.  Given that most legal tech products…