Web & Tech
Page Vault – Something That Makes Sense, Something That Works – #ABATechShow Dispatch
Something borrowed, something blue may be aspirational for brides wear, but not for legal tech. Yet sadly, all too many applications these days are characterized by borrowed ideas (the next Uber!!) and make users blue either because they run afoul of ethics rules, don’t work, or solve problems lawyers don’t have . So what would…
Read MoreAnnouncing Smokeball Ai – Activity Intelligence for Solo & Small Law Firms
We don’t do it often, but today, MyShingle is offering this sponsored post by Smokeball. The sponsored post met our stringent criterion. First, I had an opportunity to view Smokeball product demos at the site, and try it out myself at a demo by Smokeball’s very hands-on VP, Chelsey Lambert. What’s neat about Smokeball –…
Read MoreWhy Lawyers May NOT Want to Spend Top Dollar on A Website: Moore’s Law
As readers may notice, My Shingle has gotten a bit of a facelift — as it has over time – morphing from how we looked ten years ago to two weeks ago to the present. Ultimately, technology rather than design sensibility forced my hand: when Google announced last spring that it would take account of…
Read MoreTrial By iPad: 1 New Technology, 10 Days, 3 6-Figure Verdicts
As I’ve described before, I consider myself a practical technologist – I choose tech tools based on cost and what they can do to help me right now rather than paying top dollar for the latest-and-greatest gadgets that may not work for my practice. Likewise, I track technology on a “need to know” basis –…
Read MoreMaybe the Time Has Come For Lawyers to Have A Conversation About Texting or SnapChatting With Clients
For the next generation of clients, texting, particularly through mobile apps like Facebook’s messenger app or Snap Chat – is fast replacing email or phone calls as the preferred mode of communication, according to a Pew Research Center Study released last month. Based on interviews with over 1900 adults, Pew’s research team found that 36% of…
Read MoreA Twitter Shout Out That Lawyers Can Do Without
When I couldn’t get a response from a medical provider after I’d written a lengthy complaint more than two months earlier, I did what any disgruntled consumer would do: I took it to Twitter. Cognizant of the possibility of a defamation claim ( been there, done that ) not to mention loss of my family’s…
Read MoreCalifornia Bar Offers A Reason to Keep Your Website and Blog Separate
Should a law firm blog be incorporated into a website or function as a freestanding entity? That’s a question that’s been asked almost since the beginning of time, with at least two experts – Sam Glover and Kevin O’Keefe endorsing separation for a variety of different reasons. But now, a recent California ethics decision offers…
Read MoreHow Staying On the Cutting Edge About New Technology Can Avert a Fate Of Dressing Up Like Thomas Jefferson Pleading For Your Law License
“I had no idea that cellphones had GPS capabilities at that time…if I had known it, I’d have been on it like a dog on a bone.” [26:19] A recent Forbes article reports on a case out of Calgary, billed as “the first known personal injury case that will use activity data from a Fitbit:”…
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