Posts by Carolyn Elefant
Start a Law Firm With A Tiny Office Ordered On Amazon
Why rent office space, when you can buy your own office – online, no less. Believe it or not, you can order a pre-fab tiny house made out of a shipping container for just $36,000 plus delivery fees from Amazon, according to Curbed.com. The house contains a bedroom, shower, toilette kitchenette appliances and living area which…
Read MoreWhat One Lawyer Learned From a 50-Hour Data Science Bootcamp
With increased focus on the growing role of data science and data analytics in the future of law, I decided that it was high time to learn what all the fuss is about. Initially, I considered taking a course on data analytics geared for lawyers, but shockingly, I couldn’t find much, with the exception of…
Read MoreALM Columnist Says Women Aren’t In the Top Echelons of the Legal Profession Because They Don’t Rule at Big Law.
ALM Columnist Vivia Chen’s recent rant on the latest “Best Law Firms for Women” lists starts out promisingly enough as Chen questions why the lists reward law firms for effort, rather than result. As Chen points out, many of the law firms on the four different lists focus on child-friendly policies like part time availability…
Read MoreWhy Those Get Rich Quick, 4-Hour Legal Marketing Programs May Not Work For You
As Seth Godin observes, marketers usually sell pleasure. Think about some of the most popular legal marketing programs. They teach you how to take your law practice to seven figures, or how to run a six-figure practice in a seven-hour workweek and so on. The programs sound great. Some of these programs have worked for…
Read MoreMake Money Monday: Pop Up Law Firm
Believe it or not, the pop-up stores are a $50 million dollar industry according to Small Biz Trends . Moreover, as the infographic shows, there are more ways to run a pop-up business than just by opening a kiosk in a mall. Many pop up businesses are taking place within vacant spaces or existing stores.…
Read MoreFuture Fridays: Can Legal Technology Innovation Be Transformative?
Although I owe my career to legal technology (after all, it enabled me to continue to practice law while staying home with my girls ), truth is, the nuts and bolts and latest and greatest don’t interest me unless I can find a way to employ those tools to help my clients. In other words,…
Read MoreStarting a Law Firm To Serve Clients Just Like You
Fed up with his law firms’ inefficient and costly practices, serial-entrepreneur Justin Kan decided to take matters into his own hands. Now, Kan isn’t a lawyer, so he couldn’t start his own law firm. And given the size of his companies, my guess is that DIY wasn’t an option. But what Kan could do is…
Read MoreWhy the Frictionless Client Experience Is A Legal Fiction
Most of today’s clients have grown accustomed to a frictionless customer experience long before they ever step foot over our office threshold or log in to an online client portal. Most likely, within hours of their first encounter with a lawyer, today’s client has tapped the screen on their phone to summon a car from…
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Want to Threaten Big Law? Work in the Cloud
Small firms have never been better positioned to threaten big law and you can thank the cloud.