Web & Tech

Let’s say that you need a website for your law firm and you’re on a tight budget. So what are the options? You can’t afford some of the high-end, reputable vendors that serve law firms exclusively — and you’re not interested in a usurious three-year installment contract where you pay a small fee up front…

The problem of lawyers abandoning a practice and leaving clients in the lurch is hardly new. Yet abandoned law practices are increasingly becoming a crisis for the legal profession reports Cincinnati Enquirer and Lexington Herald. In Kentucky, a recent tragic spike in the number of lawyer suicides  (six in 2012 alone) galvanized the bar’s attention…

As Bob Ambrogi recently reported, Box.net is making a play for the legal industry by partnering with various legal service vendors for practice management platforms, legal research, billing, courtroom information management and productivity. And that’s great news. As a long time Box user — first, on the free platform beginning in early 2009 and bumping…

Every so often, I come across cool, completely FREE tools to share with readers — like PicMonkey for logo design, Wordle to create word clouds from text or PiktoChart.  What’s so great about these tools besides the price is that they’re not just a fun distraction, but they can be used to actually create something…

I’ve never been fully happy with the MyShingle logo – though I’ve never been quite sure of how to fix it so I just left it alone. But I decided it was time for a change.  After all, let’s fact it, the .com logo is so last decade — no one ever refers to Facebook…

In the year since I wrote about big data opportunities for small law firms at  Clio’s Small Firm Innovation Blog, the legal profession’s interest in big data has exploded.  According to a May 2013 ABA Journal story , law firms are using big data to determine which cases are likely to be an easy win,…

A few months ago at the Iron Tech Competition at Georgetown Law School, one of the judges asked one of the teams one the best questions I’ve ever heard and have been pondering since: What does the system look like from the client’s side? Yet do you have any idea of how that “client portal”…

My friend, co-author and cloud guru Nicole Black recently reported  on Connecticut’s new opinion  on cloud computing.   To its credit, Connecticut did not mandate obtaining client consent for use of the cloud. Rather, it suggested that lawyers consider seeking consent commensurate with the level of security required. Thus, if you’re representing Edward Snowden, you’d…