“I have found through the years that the reports in Juris will have almost everything any attorney could ask for even if all you have is core Juris,” wrote Gail Thomas, a billing supervisor with English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley, LLP in a “power interview” published on this blog. “It may be on several reports, but it usually there. We just ... Read More »
A little while ago, LexBlog founder Kevin O’Keefe gave us a compliment in a post titled Two legal companies doing Twitter the right away. While we can’t attest to whether or not we’re doing it the “right away” as Mr. O’Keefe said, we do work at it and just like the rest of the professionals in the legal industry, we ... Read More »
He went to school to be a lawyer and wound up as a technology consultant to law firms for the last 12 years. A little more than a decade ago, Craig Bayer finished school and went to work for a law firm, which coincidentally had just purchased LexisNexis® PCLaw® software for practice management. Though at the time he had no ... Read More »
Note: This post was penned by Christopher Anderson and originally published in Attorney at Work in June 2014. Are law firms really a “soft underbelly” for hackers? Yes, according numerous legal security experts recent news reports. Several corporations are demanding law firms to take increased security measures to protect their businesses. So why are law firms on the hacker radar ... Read More »
Usually when technologists think of startup companies it conjures up images of entrepreneurs in need of legal advice: New currency: How a law firm helps Bitcoin entrepreneurs Tailored services: Law firms offering packaged startup legal services Apps for parking: Startups navigating the legal implications of entrepreneurship Intellectual property: Legal counsel for protecting ideas Even supreme cases: Aereo’s high profile case ... Read More »
In a Legal Talk Network podcast focused on law firm invoicing and collections, moderator Christopher T. Anderson remarked that upwards of 20% of legal bills are past due. What is it that’s contributing to this ongoing law firm collections challenge? Some data we both collected and presented at a LexisNexis® Juris® User Group meeting may provide useful insight into the ... Read More »
If there’s a lesson to be learned for legal bloggers from this month’s analysis, it would be this: While we think of a blog as an external communications tool, it has implicit internal communications value as well. While we keep most posts focused on the legal community,we occasionally share what we’re doing in our own local community. Case in point: ... Read More »
The U.S. might have won its independence with soldiers but it might not have even gotten into the fight without lawyers. While it’s easy to see the influence of the modern lawyer on our system of government – it’s worthwhile to point out the influence lifetime students of law had on its origins. Here are five interesting, if not stubborn, ... Read More »
Note: The following is a guest post by Ann Guinn. If you are one of the many attorneys who regularly discount fees, you are causing yourself to underearn –and sending the wrong message to your clients. Sure, there are times when a discount is the right thing to do; but chronic discounting is a different story entirely. Let’s consider an attorney ... Read More »
Sequestered away in a session at LegalTech NY last February, a semi-secretive appellate court heard arguments from attorneys arguing on behalf of both cloud-based and premise-based law firm practice management tools. Cameras were not permitted in courtroom, but over the weekend, an audio recording of the hearing surfaced on the internet was obtained by this blog. The acting justices included ... Read More »
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