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 »
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 »
The ABA Journal recently reported compensation for paralegals is on the rise with managerial positions in law firms earning just under $80 per hour. The average hourly rate earned however, was substantially less, running between $34 and $37 per hour. According to the data, paralegals at law firms tend to earn slightly more than those working for corporate legal departments. ... Read More »
Note: Sections of this post were adopted from an article titled: How Matter Management Works for Legal Departments which ran in the August/September 2013 issue of Today’s General Counsel. The value proposition of automated matter management, in the context of enterprise legal management (ELM), is nested in visibility. Visibility into all relevant information pertaining to a specific matter including: Establish ... Read More »
Cloud-based tools for practice management have gained substantial traction in 2014. There has for example, been some $458 million invested in legal start-ups in the last year or so. That’s up from just $66 million year-over-year – and sizable portion of that is going toward cloud-based products and tools aimed at the legal industry. There’s good reason too: Multiple market ... Read More »
A survey report focused on the State of Law Firm CRM published late in 2013 found “better client relations” among the primary benefits of CRM projects. It’s worth noting the “improved ability to cross-sell” was a close second. As desinationCRM.com, the web affiliate of CRM Magazine, later reported in an article titled, Law Firms Make the Case for CRM: Fifty ... Read More »
As readers of this blog know, LexisNexis both sponsored and competed in the 2014 Ironman Raleigh 70.3 triathlon, which was held on June 1, 2014. As a company, we are of course very proud of the 16 employees that attempted and completed the race. The video nearby was developed by our creative team as a fun tribute to the iron ... Read More »
Law firms are caught in a bit of a bind when it comes to file sharing. On one hand clients demand an easy way to collaborate but on the other, the risks can be high. In a post titled, File Sharing by Lawyers Largely Insecure, Survey Suggests, legal luminary Bob Ambrogi wrote If I were to leave a document on ... Read More »
Attorney, author and entrepreneur David Galbenski believes the legal industry may be at the “most unique inflection points that we’ve experienced” in our lifetime. The legal industry he says is “under dramatic transformation and disruption” which provides the opportunity to innovate, or perhaps to imagine the future of law. The video embedded nearby captures his complete keynote presentation as provided ... Read More »
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