Web & Tech
Learn About Legal Tech Without Leaving DC and for Free!
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…
Read MoreEven After Recent Technology Advances, Are Solos and Smalls Back to Where They Started?
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…
Read MoreUPDATE to Study Finds Solo Lawyers Bill Only Two Hours A Day
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…
Read MoreStudy Finds That Solo Lawyers Bill Only Two Hours A Day…But What Does That Mean?
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…
Read MoreThree Technology Tools that REALLY Make It Easier To Leave Biglaw to Start Your Own Practice
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…
Read MoreA Demonstration of Why Most Legal Tech Demos Don’t Work
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…
Read MoreDoes Access to Justice Require Access To Security?
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…
Read MoreNJ Courts Set the Bar Low for Solos – But Will Technology Change All That?
Call New Jersey solo attorney Mark Rinaldi one lucky fellow. Rinaldi narrowly escaped a legal malpractice claim after the New Jersey Appellate Division absolved him of liability for failing to file a timely personal injury suit for a former client who called the office to retain Rinaldi’s service and spoke with a secretary who gathered…
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