Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

We wondered what tools or initiatives small firms might open their wallets for this coming year. So we asked our experts: What do you think small law firms should (or should not) be spending their technology dollars on in 2022? For 2022, it is time to review: What works, and what doesn’t?

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 6, 2023

My past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. ** Driving Law Firm Efficiency: Proven Productivity Tips In today’s ever-evolving world, technology has become a key differentiator for lawyers, driving productivity and profitability in a highly competitive market. hours per workday. Bankruptcy matters had the highest WIP (10.9)

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 10, 2023

Since launching to the legal market in 2021, the matter management platform Dashboard Legal has built a loyal following among law firm associates, who find it a superior alternative to updating and circulating checklists in Microsoft Word or Excel, says founder and CEO Mat Rotenberg.

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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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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 28, 2023

Since then, Harvey has seen some major wins, including being deployed firmwide by Allen & Overy , one of the world’s largest law firms, and then being adopted by PricewaterhouseCoopers , one of the world’s largest accounting firms, for its 4,000 legal professionals. based CEO of a company called Orion.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022. The 15 startups with the most votes will get the opportunity to be featured at TECHSHOW, which will be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually. 28, 2022, at 11:45 p.m.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 3, 2022

I’ve been thinking about what it means to lead a company through crises and how each crisis affects law firm leaders. Helpful Resources for Law Firm Leaders. “Four Lessons to Confront Ongoing Uncertainty in 2022” “With the new year underway, one thing appears certain, and that is continued uncertainty.

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Dewey B Strategic

MAY 22, 2023

Today LexisNexis® CounselLink released its 2022 Annual Trends Report. The unstable economy and a tighter legal market have not caused law firms to pull back on billing rates. To the contrary law firm partner billing rates rose faster last year than they have in a decade. in 2021 and 3.5% in 2021 and 3.5%

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Clio

MARCH 13, 2024

While it also comes with significant financial rewards, many people wonder: Just how much do partners make at law firms? From the many factors influencing compensation to the art of negotiation, a multitude of aspects determine law firm partner salaries. The answer, as it turns out, isn’t so simple.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Smokeball has an unusual name, to be sure; but, it actually comes from a famous legal case , which just about every substantive law-loving attorney can appreciate. (I Smokeball was founded in 2010 and has been adding useful features for law firms ever since. I love the smell of precedent in the morning.)

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 28, 2022

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. Smart law firms are motivated to track effectively because if you want to get paid you want to track your financial information.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 10, 2022

If you’re stuck with high law firm AR, a change of strategy could be past due. There’s no question that many law firms struggle to whittle away at their accounts receivable (AR), the outstanding amount that has been invoiced and not paid. Why Does AR Pile Up? Lowering AR is Not as Hard as You Think.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

How can you keep good people from leaving your firm — quietly or otherwise? Here’s how to turn law firm hiring and retention challenges to your advantage. Labor Department shows that in May 2022 alone, 4.2 Law firms are no exception. Five Best Practices for Law Firms to Win the Talent War.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 26, 2022

As lawyers embrace remote work and resist returning to the office full time, many law firms wonder what to do with their empty offices. As of early April 2022, the average office population in major U.S. Should your law firm do the same? The post Should You Sublet Office Space in Your Law Firm?

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 21, 2022

Law firms are one-stop shopping for cybercriminals, alluring because they hold the data of many people and businesses. Russia itself shut down REvil, one of the most notorious Russian ransomware gangs in January 2022, based on information provided by the U.S. Ransomware has been a curse for quite a while.

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

What can law firms do to solve the associate retention quandary and make their culture “stickier?” A few years ago, when I spoke with law firms about the importance of investing in the professional development and satisfaction of their associates, my comments were often met with eye rolls and jokes about work-life balance.

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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. LexFusion’s Joe Borstein and Casey Flaherty on the 2022 Legal Market in Review. As ALSP Axiom Opens A Law Firm in Arizona, Its Chief Strategy and Legal Officer Catherine Kemnitz Shares Details. Top 15 of 2023 1.

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LawSites

JANUARY 18, 2023

Over the course of 2022, the principals of LexFusion conferred with 435 law departments and 250 law firms. On behalf of a group of curated legal innovation companies, it works with legal departments and law firms to help them understand how innovative products can benefit them.

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CaseFox

MARCH 15, 2023

Law firm profitability fell for the fourth consecutive quarter as firms grappled with a combination of falling demand and surging expenses, according to the Q3 2022 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index (LFFI) powered by Peer Monitor/Financial Insights. decline in the second quarter of 2022.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Readers have been voting to select the 15 legal technology startups that will get to participate in the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022 , taking place March 2-5, 2022. The first and most awarded ODR platform – used by courts, corporations, law firms and more. Built by lawyers for lawyers. EmotionTrac.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 20, 2024

In its write-up, How Fulcrum GT built innovative tools to provide law firms with extra support , Fast Company says that Fulcrum GT’s product for corporate legal, RapidX, “is critical to businesses that, between 2022 and 2023, saw an average 29% increase in legal spending.”

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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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LawSites

JANUARY 10, 2024

In a marriage of pro bono platforms, Paladin , a company whose platform connects lawyers with opportunities to provide free legal help, has acquired Pro Bono Manager , a product developed by Pro Bono Net to enable large law firms to manage and measure their pro bono programs.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 10, 2022

At its annual Clio Cloud Conference today, the law practice management company Clio released the 2022 edition of its annual Legal Trends Report – its seventh year of the report. The challenge for every law firm is to meet the expectations of clients and employees while balancing business objectives in a fluctuating economy.

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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 2011, LexisNexis leapt onto this bandwagon with its release of Firm Manager , a web-based practice management platform designed for smaller law firms.

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CaseFox

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In 2022, a Gartner report quoted, “By 2024, legal departments will replace 20% of generalist lawyers with nonlawyer staff”. The economic deception has introduced new challenges as big law clients got shifted to law firms, charging less, giving mid-size firms an open hand approaching potential clients.

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LawSites

MAY 31, 2023

For law firms — indeed, for any organization — that poses the challenge of how to safely explore the technology of large language models and enforce adherence with internal governance policies. The company is launching with at least one AmLaw 100 law firm already a customer — Womble Bond Dickinson.

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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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lennyesq

JANUARY 17, 2025

Between 2016 and 2022, Goldstein allegedly schemed to evade the assessment of taxes, file false tax returns and fail to pay his tax obligations when they were due, according to the indictment , which was filed in the District of Maryland. Law360 has coverage. He also underreported his gambling winnings by millions of dollars.

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LawSites

AUGUST 31, 2022

9, 2022, on the eve of the Clio Cloud Conference , at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville. Law Department. Megan Mathias of Lopp Mathias Law. Well, now the finalists are in, chosen by a panel of 23 judges out of 225 submissions, and the winners will be announced at a formal awards gala, which will take place Oct.

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lennyesq

JUNE 20, 2025

announced on Monday that Sean Mescall, 46, of Newburgh, New York, who stole the funds between April 2022 and January, pleaded guilty in the New York State Supreme Court to one count of grand larceny in the third degree and one count of scheme to defraud in the first degree. He is expected to serve between two and six years in prison.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Legal professionals face greater pressure than ever before, driven by the “VUCA” environment of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, but firms that are well-equipped for the future are those that are optimizing their people, processes and technology through a path of continuous improvement.

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Rocket Matter

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As part of our commitment to delivering best-in-class client support, we're sharing the lessons we've learned in 2022—plus tips on how to apply them. 2022’s takeaways . Like any year, 2022 threw a unique set of challenges at the legal industry. As we enter the new year, law firms need to be prepared to surmount: .

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MARCH 9, 2023

In June 2022, an Amtrak train carrying 200 passengers derailed in Missouri. Less than four hours later, attorney webpages geared toward crash victims and their families were popping up, and in less than 24 hours, law firms were announcing retained clients and new lawsuits. Keep reading this post for more details.

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Martindale-Avvo

MARCH 7, 2024

The Problem… With a couple firm locations under his belt, Scurlock reached out to his account manager (AM) at Avvo and requested a focus change in law firm advertising to cover both Texas and Arkansas. His AM suggested the newest service, ProVantage, to increase his law firm’s marketing coverage.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

After all, the very premise of the report is that some law firms and legal departments are more “future ready” than others. Does that mean law firms and legal departments are doing less to leverage technology? In the very first year, 2019, 49% were leaders. This year, the number dropped to 46%.

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