Web & Tech

Two weeks ago, Law.com reported on the legal technology behind the attorney response to the Trump travel ban. Although I feared that this might be yet another story about tech startups wrapping themselves in the banner of promoting access to justice , it wasn’t. Instead,  the piece focuses on solos and smalls as practical technologists…

  Keeping pace with the latest tech has always been a challenge so I’m really excited to announce Evolve Law, an organization comprised of practicing attorneys at law firms of all sizes, academics, investors and legal entrepreneurs that strives to bring innovation to the legal profession through new ideas and technologies. To this end, one of…

Up until the emergence of the first generation of cloud-based platforms for law practice management about a decade ago, many solos — even those like myself who were relatively tech savvy — simply didn’t use the practice management systems like TABS, Amicus, PCLaw, Needles or others then available on the market.  That’s not to say…

You know the saying, “ask and ye shall receive?” It really works!  In yesterday’s post  Study Finds Solo Lawyers Bill Only Two Hours A Day, I questioned the results of a “Legal Trends Study” announced at the recent Clio Cloud Conference  that showed that solos use only a tiny fraction of the workday  for work…

Earlier this week at the Clio Cloud Conference, company co-founder Jack Newton announced the creation of the first Clio Legal Trends Report, the first such report based on data generated by Clio’s users.  Although the full report won’t be ready for release until next month, as a teaser, Jack shared a couple of juicy factoids…

Please tell me this article, Three Online Tools Making It Easier to Leave Biglaw and Start Your Own Practice  by ATL columnist Zach Abramowitz  is either sponsored content for the technologies profiled — or a joke. Because as I’ll discuss after the jump, the tech tools featured by Abramowitz –Casetext  legal research, LawGeex  contract analyzer…

Let’s face it, lawyers get a bad rap. We’re constantly berated for clueless marketing and making our websites and marketing materials all about us, instead of about our clients problems. Yet lawyers aren’t the only ones to blame; many legal tech companies are equally culpable. Yet when I googled “clueless legal tech” companies, I couldn’t…

A panel of security experts moderated by Above the Law’s David Lat at ABA Tech Show 2016  offered lots of solid, practical advice on what lawyers can do to ensure confidentiality of communications with clients. Tips included using FaceTime or iphone-to-iphone texting – both of which are encrypted and surprisingly secure, encrypting emails, avoiding Dropbox…