Posts by Carolyn Elefant
Six Ways To Enjoy Your Summer as A Solo
Solo and small firm lawyers are notorious for never taking vacations. Some can’t afford the cost, others believe that they can’t afford the time away from the office and some are, quite simply, workaholics. That said, here are a couple of ways for solos and smalls to enjoy the coming summer a little more without…
Read MorePart II: Casetext Is Three-Dimensional Research – Watch How A Real Lawyer Uses It
As I observed in PART I of this post, for decades, legal research — even with later innovations – has been flat and one-dimensional, mimicking the way that lawyers once hunted for cases in hard copy case reporters and digests. But the latest version of Casetext transforms the legal research experience into something at once elegant and…
Read MorePart I: A Brief History of Legal Research Tools, According to Someone Who Actually Uses Them.
In a recent tweet, Ed Walters, one of the founders of Fastcase remarked: To gain an understanding of how we got here, and why this time around, we’re finally seeing real innovation in legal research, you think back to the early ‘90s when the first websites came online. Not only were websites hideously ugly and…
Read MoreWhat’s Next Solo? Lawyer to Legal Tech, Chad Burton, CuroLegal
The final lawyer-to-legal-tech entry in our What’s Next Solo? lineup is Chad Bruton, CEO of CuroLegal. Although Chad had ten years of biglaw legal experience under his belt by the time he turned solo, as a still-newer attorney, he enjoyed the benefits of the technology advances like virtual law offices and distributed firms which he…
Read MoreWhat’s Next Solo: From Little Big Firm to Law Practice Digitizer and Automator, Ernie Svenson
If you’ve been around the blogosphere as long as I have, you can’t help but recognize Ernie Svenson (or “Ernie the Attorney” as he is belovedly known in blogging circles.) Ernie must have been one of the very first law bloggers, launching his eponymous blog on a product now so old that I’m not sure…
Read MoreHow Ethical Prohibitions on Fee Splitting Allows RocketLawyer and Gust Launch To Resell and Profit Off of Lawyers’ Free Legal Services
A couple of weeks back, I stumbled across a company called Gust Launch – billed as a one-stop shop for high-growth start-ups. For $199/month (or $239/month if billed annually), Gust Launch provides startups with ongoing legal, financial, accounting and back-end services dispensed through one convenient cloud-based platform. Somewhat like Clio, the practice management system best…
Read MoreWhat’s Next Solo: Lawyer to Legal Tech, Nicole Black of MyCase
I’m very excited about this week’s What’s Next Solo, From Lawyer to Legal Tech feature about my co-author and friend, Nicole Black of MyCase. Niki and I met online 12 years as part of the early generation of law bloggers, and two of just a handful of female bloggers in that crowd. Nicole is a…
Read MoreWomen Owned Law Firm D.C. Launch – Free Event and Chance to Win Great Doorprizes
On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, the Women Owned Law Firms (WOL), is holding its D.C. launch at the Fastcase office in Washington D.C. Register here now! This event is for women-owned law firms -but that’s not all. We’re seeking women currently at big law, or who have left the practice to raise a family but…
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