If you, like me, weren’t able to attend ABA Techshow this year, or you were there and didn’t attend the IgniteLaw talks, the videos are now online at LexThink’s YouTube channel. Lots of food for thought. It might just spark a few blog posts over the next couple of weeks too, assuming I can get through them sometime soon!
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Well, in the case of the Seattle Public School District’s data breach, the culprit seems to be their outside law firm: “Late Tuesday night Seattle Public Schools learned that a law firm retained by the district to handle a complaint against the district inadvertently sent personally identifiable student information to an individual involved in the…
The ABA Journal is asking lawyers to take a survey about the job market and the current state of the legal economy. I’m not a lawyer so I can’t take it, but I’m very interested in seeing how the results work out. I think all of us have seen, at the very least, a belt-tightening…
This is true, you will always get more of what you measure – Don’t make the mistake, therefore, of blaming lawyers for the lack of law firm innovation. Sure, lawyers are change-resistant and conservative and all the rest — but so are most people, to a greater or lesser extent. Since almost any worthwhile innovation…
This series at Trial by Tech may be something you want to keep an eye on over the next couple of upcoming posts. I’m sure I will but I think this first part, identifying why legal consumers are turning to legal service companies can really be boiled down to this: “In another survey posted by…
There is clearly a mental health issue in the legal industry, but who is really to blame? That’s not so clear and clients aren’t taking the blame laying down – “The response follows the most recent piece in Law.com’s “Minds Over Matters” yearlong series: an article titled “Constantly on Call” that states that “client demands…
The reason that I say this is because not a day goes by that I don’t hear someone talking about “getting back” to onsite visits with clients, and doing training, or even CLEs in person again, without taking a moment to consider whether that is even feasible for the client.
For example, on the training side, yes many folks miss the in-person workshops or training classes that a software or legal tech company would provide, but how many of us in that space have considered how difficult/expensive it might be for the client to gather their people into one location for that time?
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