Profiles
Solo & Small Firm Side Gigs: Ivy B. Grey, Lawyer & Author of American Legal Style Guide for PerfectIt
In the past, I’ve groused about legal tech products that don’t work well because they were designed without lawyer input. That’s why today, I’m excited to introduce Ivy B. Grey, who is featured today as part of the MyShingle Profile Series, profiling solo and small firm lawyers doing interesting things. As Ivy discusses, she’s a practicing lawyer but she also…
Read MoreSolo/Small Side Gigs – Alan Fanger, Empower Legal
This month, as part of our ongoing Profile Series on solo and small firm lawyers doing interesting things, we’re introducing another category: solo and small firm lawyers who’ve kept their day job but have a gig on the side. Our first solo/small firm side-gigger is Alan Fanger , a lawyer located in Newton, Massachusetts with…
Read MoreInnovative Law Practice: Say Hello to Family Law Attorney Erin Levine of Hello Divorce
Family law is one of those practice areas that everyone loves to hate. Clients complain not only about their partners or spouses but about the high cost of divorce, and the often protracted contentious proceedings can take a toll on family law attorneys who practice in the field. In short, family law is a practice…
Read MoreFrom Lawyer to Legal Writing Tool, Ross Guberman of Briefcatch.
Ordinarily, referring to a person as a “tool” isn’t particularly complimentary because the term describes a person whose ego exceeds his talent. That said, I don’t think that this week’s guest, Legal Writing Pro Ross Guberman will take offense because his new product, Brief Catch captures Ross’ legal writing expertise and talent and makes those…
Read MoreInnovative Law Practice: State Bar Defense and Ethics Attorney Megan Zavieh, Part II
This is the second part of a two part interview with Megan Zavieh of Zavieh Law and The Playbook: The California Bar Discipline System Practice Guide for lawyers representing themselves in California disciplinary proceedings. You can read Part I here. Once you had the idea for The Playbook, did you take steps to validate the idea…
Read MoreInnovative Law Practice: State Bar Defense and Ethics Attorney Megan Zavieh, Part I
State bar defense and ethics is one of those practice areas that I generally associate with difficult-to-research case opinions and opaque disciplinary procedures unfamiliar to most attorneys. Yet even though this practice area retains many of the characteristics of 19th century law practice, state bar defense and ethics lawyer Megan Zavieh is anything but traditional…
Read MoreFrom Lawyer to Legal Tech: Lauren Sturdivant of Case Status
Today we welcome another lawyer to legal tech entrepreneur, Lauren Sturdivant, CEO of Case Status, a secure platform for lawyers to communicate with clients with real-time updates, with the added cool feature of allowing satisfied clients to refer their lawyer with the click of a button. Case Status enables lawyers to respond to clients quickly…
Read MoreLawyer to Legal Tech Entrepreneur: Pablo Arredondo of Casetext
We are back on track with our Lawyer to Legal Tech Co-Founder Series. Today, we welcome Pablo Arredondo, former litigator and Casetext Co-Founder and Chief Legal Research Officer. Last year, I wrote that Casetext is one of the companies that is truly innovating legal research. And in fact, since my last post, Casetext has rolled…
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