Future & Trends
Does Reciprocity Help or Hurt Solos: The Florida Bar Debate?
Earlier this week, the Florida Bar tabled a controversial proposal to adopt reciprocity or some other form of admission on motion, reports The Daily Business Review. The proposal — intended to bring Florida in line with the 40 states that allow admission on motion — sparked a firestorm amongst bar members, particularly solos and smalls…
Read MoreWhy Lawyers Are Slow To Adopt Legal Tech: Because It Often Sucks, and Isn’t Worth Risking Our Law Licenses.
Over at Law Technology Today, Mary Juetten ponders why the legal profession is slow to adopt new technologies. Here’s the perspective of a practicing small firm lawyer who has been a relatively early tech adopter.
Read MoreCrowdsourcing Legal Research Won’t Work Because It Doesn’t Help the Majority: Solo and Small Law Firms
Last week, two of my longtime blogging buddies, Bob Ambrogi and Scott Greenfield tackled the question of why websites dedicated to crowdsourcing legal research haven’t taken off. Citing a quote by entrepreneur Approva Mehta whose own crowdsourcing attempt failed, Bob suggests that the odds are stacked against crowdsourcing from the get-go in the legal industry…
Read MoreNine Years Later, Avvo Is Pretty Much the Only Game In Town
Earlier this week,Avvo the first online lawyer rating site announced another round of funding – to the tune of $71.5 million – to expand product offerings and bring on new hires, reports the ABA Journal. News of Avvo’s expansion brought the usual grumblings on some of the lawyer list-serves where I participate – ranging from…
Read MoreDocument Automation Isn’t the Only Disruptive Legal Technology…And What That Means for Solos & Smalls
Thanks to technology, advance directives- legal documents that specify what actions should be taken if patients are no longer able to care for themselves – are readily available. Free advance directive forms abound online at sites like this, while those who don’t care to read through lengthy instructions can create an advanced directive at…
Read MoreWhen I Grow Up, I Want To Be Acquired By An Internet Marketing Company
Many tech start ups have as an exit strategy acquisition by Google. But for legal start-ups, is being gobbled up by Internet Brands, which operates consumer websites in several different vertical markets, including legal – m be best fate they can hope for? As Bob Ambrogi reported last week, Internet Brands added the floundering Total…
Read MoreLawyer Can’t Work on The Cheap Even If He Wants To
You’ve got to applaud Austin, Texas based lawyer, Lee DiFilippo. Whereas many attorneys with experience in corporate transactions, not to mention a CPA degree in their back pocket might focus on representing Fortune 500 companies or sexy business start-ups, DiFilippo set out to assist moderate income folks in the state of Texas obtain access to…
Read MoreLast week, I found myself over at the law library, for the first time in more than a year. That wouldn’t have been true back in the mid-90’s when I started my firm. Back then, LEXIS cost 600 bucks a month for a dozen searches, and the law library with its digests and bound CCH…
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