Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Depending on your point of view, there’s either lots new or “not so much” new with law firm ownership. In a nutshell, it says that lawyers must own law firms. New Developments in Law Firm Ownership. Australia and the United Kingdom already permit outside ownership of law firms.

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MAY 27, 2021

COVID was not kind to law firm marketing and business development, with two-thirds of firms reporting that business development was more difficult in 2020, and the overwhelming majority of firms pivoting their marketing strategies, turning from live conferences and face-to-face meetings to social media, email alerts and Zoom.

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Kevin O'Keefe

OCTOBER 20, 2023

in September 2020 to just 6.5% Law firms have published close to one million open digital legal articles or blog posts. Data from Similarweb reveals that top news sites saw web traffic from social networks drop from 11.5% by September this year. Why the possible impact to lawyers?

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 13, 2022

That doesn’t mean, however, that law firms and litigation support teams have been quick to embrace them. In the ABA 2020 Legal Tech Survey , 23% of law firms reported not being interested in AI, while 34% said they didn’t know enough about AI to speak to their firms’ interest. AI Hesitation.

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Clio

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

If there has been one constant about the qualifications to own an American law firm, it has been this–you must be a lawyer. jurisdictions for decades has been that non-lawyers cannot own law firms. Whether or not you are an attorney, running a law firm is a huge challenge, but the right software can help.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Advisory firm CEB estimates that the percentage is 40%. Small law firms are not immune to this trend. How many law firm services are in the cloud, especially today? Often, they think the evasion of the policy is good for the law firm, that it allows for better solutions. The likely answer is no.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

law firms have made little progress towards achieving greater diversity, with only minimal gains over the last seven years, according to a new analysis by Law360 Pulse. More strikingly, in the seven years since 2014, the percentage of minority attorneys in law firms rose just four points, from 14.1% of equity partners.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 28, 2022

Jared Correia, host of Legal Toolkit , acknowledged in the December 22, 2020 episode. You can look at] small data, I mean think about it, you’ve got a corpus of information in your law firm through which you can measure your clients and your staff and the activity of those two groups. Give Yourself Permission to Be Geeky.

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Clio

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When it comes to law firm billing, hourly billing is still a mainstay of the legal industry. But the billable hour is no longer the only option for law firms. Alternative fee arrangements (also known as AFAs) can fill gaps, complement your practice’s billing structure, and benefit your clients and firm.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

It launched in 2017 to great fanfare, promising to “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of both a law firm and a technology company. In 2020, Bluford published a book in which he claimed to have become an FBI informant assisting in a political corruption investigation into the former mayor of Sacramento, Calif.,

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 24, 2021

Managing people is tough, and employment issues are among the thorniest that law firm managers must face. Here’s advice on law firm risk management from a managing partner who also represents those disgruntled employees. Here are a few observations and tips from an employment lawyer who also manages a law firm.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Does your law firm work allocation model leave too many associates behind? Historically, work allocation in law firms has primarily been driven by partner s. In a National Association of Law Placement (NALP) Foundation survey, law firms cited dissatisfaction with work quality as the top reason for associate departures.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

As I reported yesterday, the plaintiff in the New York case, Silvia Diaz-Roa , filed the lawsuit against Hermes Law , a Texas law firm, and ClaimDeck , a litigation management system for insurers and insurance-defense firms that spun out of Hermes Law.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As we mentioned in a previous blog post , Google introduced Core Web Vitals in 2020, three specific metrics Google deems crucial for a web page’s user experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): This measures loading performance. Looking for a new law firm website provider? Looking for a new law firm website provider?

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Martindale-Avvo

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Relationships are essential to small law firms and lawyers. An easy way for small law firms to stand out in a crowded marketplace is through client testimonials. What do you value the most when working with my law firm? If you have worked with other firms in the past, what makes us different?

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

Founded in 1995, its collaborative approach to content management made it popular among among law firms virtually out of the gate, and it was acquired eight years later for $171 million by Interwoven. Among the most enduring yet dramatic success stories in legal tech is that of iManage , the document and email management company.

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Clio

AUGUST 21, 2024

It’s also an important metric for law firm owners to track —especially if you want to grow your firm and improve your profitability. But how do you know if your law firm’s revenue is enough to grow and scale your business? And how does your firm’s revenue stack up against the average law firm revenue?

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Clio

JANUARY 30, 2024

Law firm data security should be a top priority for any practice, and here’s why: Clients trust you with their most confidential information. Since clients entrust lawyers with so much of their sensitive data, law firms make prime targets for cybercrime. You don’t want your law firm to become part of that statistic.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Seven times since 2016, Thomson Reuters has conducted a survey on the state of small law firms in the U.S., and every time, it found that small firms had made virtually no progress on one of their greatest challenges, which is that they spend too much time on administrative tasks to the exclusion of practicing law.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Abacus Payment Exchange (APX) is a proprietary tool that has been built from the ground up and engineered exclusively for law firms. If queried, most law firms would point to March of 2020 as the point in time that everything changed. Balance Forward: Introducing Abacus Payment Exchange (APX).

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LawSites

JULY 1, 2022

Intaker , a marketing automation platform for law firms, now integrates with the practice management platform MyCase , so that every lead that comes in to a firm through an Intaker chat is automatically added to MyCase. Intaker was a participant in the 2020 Startup Alley at ABA Techshow (which I oversee).

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LawSites

JANUARY 24, 2023

Axiom , a company that is one of the longest-running alternative legal services providers, this week stepped into the world of regulated legal services as it formally launched Axiom Advice & Counsel , an Arizona law firm. That follows from Arizona’s historic decision in 2020 to become the first U.S.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

Law firms of all sizes are feeling pressure to meet client demand for both tailored services and greater efficiencies in this rapidly changing industry. Must law firms keep pace with their clients’ technology efforts? Increasing law practice specialization. According to Gartner Inc., Rising cyberthreats.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

Law firms didn’t let the pandemic get in the way of profitability or performance in 2020. on average in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Thomson Reuters — and 15% among AmLaw 100 firms. Corporate law departments made structural shifts as well. Profits per equity partner rose 11.5%

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LawSites

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Arizona Supreme Court has granted an alternative business structure license to law company Elevate , enabling Elevate and its affiliated law firm, ElevateNext, to operate as a single entity in that state, the company says.

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Martindale-Avvo

DECEMBER 10, 2024

McBride reminds us that, prior to 2020, “it was uncommon to appear remotely for a hearing within the same state the hearing was to take place.” After all, if tasks once handled by paralegals are now carried out in mere seconds by generative AI solutions, can law firms really justify traditional billing strategies?

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2023

You can also check out the most popular LawNext episodes of 2022 , of 2021 , of 2020 and of 2019. As ALSP Axiom Opens A Law Firm in Arizona, Its Chief Strategy and Legal Officer Catherine Kemnitz Shares Details. Documate Founder Dorna Moini on Rebranding As Gavel and How Law Firms Can Productize their Legal Services.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A legal industry report released today by the sibling legal technology companies LawPay and MyCase provides unique insights into the technology tools that matter most to smaller law firms in the post-pandemic era. Other types of cloud software used by firms: Calendar management software, 44%. Firms Ready for Remote Work.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo.

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Legal Talk Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

An extension to the New York Legal Tech Community and also held on the backside of Legalweek 2020, the Inspire.Legal un-conference made it through its second year. pic.twitter.com/NcxxqBPnWq — Laurence Colletti (@LaurenceEsq) February 7, 2020. How might we get law firms to invest in disrupting themselves?

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

AltFee Elevator Pitch: AltFee revolutionizes law firm pricing by offering a foundation for alternative fee structures. This system empowers firms to precisely assess and assign value to projects, vital in a landscape where AI/efficiency gains drastically shorten task timelines. What makes you unique or innovative? and Beagle.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law, Opinion 24-20 (March 23, 2020). Pennsylvania Bar Association Formal Opinion 2020-300 (April 10, 2020). Synopsis: Working from home has become the new normal, forcing law offices to transform themselves into a remote workforce overnight.

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LawSites

MAY 10, 2021

Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. She is chair of the Supreme Court’s Attorney Regulation Advisory Committee, a member of the National Conference of Bar Examiners board of trustees and has been elected as a member of The American Law Institute.

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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2021

based Intapp , a major provider of cloud-based business applications for larger law firms and financial services firms, filed papers Friday with the U.S. ” Its 1,600 customers include 96 of the top 100 law firms and seven of the top eight accounting firms, it says. Palo Alto, Calif.,

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

million pre-seed funding round led by two venture capital firms, Maple , which invests in companies with Canadian roots, and Haystack , which invests in early-stage companies. The Toronto-based company recently closed a $2.1 In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “ 30 Under 30.”

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LawSites

JUNE 11, 2021

I reported here last week on a statement issued by a committee of Massachusetts’ highest court recommending that law firms and other legal employers permanently adopt flexible working options as their standard, rather than as the exception.

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MAY 13, 2021

Ninety-two percent of law firms worldwide say they were completely or somewhat prepared for full-scale remote work at the pandemic’s onset, a survey released this morning finds. Even so, most firms plan to increase their budgets for technology and process software and adopt more cloud-based technologies, the survey reports.

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