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Last Picture Show 26 Aug 2013 | 08:08 pm
Earlier this morning, I snapped my last first-day-of-school photo of my older daughter who today begins her senior year of high school. While she’ll have many more first days in college, I won’t be th...
What Does Obama’s Two Year Law School Program Mean for Solos? 26 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
As you’ve probably heard, in a recent speech, President Obama endorsed cutting law school down to two years, with students spending their final year gaining work experience clerking or practicing at a...
Big Data, Small Law Firms 22 Aug 2013 | 02:58 am
In the year since I wrote about big data opportunities for small law firms at Clio’s Small Firm Innovation Blog, the legal profession’s interest in big data has exploded. According to a May 2013 ABA...
Hope to Meet At the Clio Cloud Conference 2013 – Get Your Discount Here 16 Aug 2013 | 06:12 pm
I’m very excited about attending the Clio Cloud Conference 2013 in Chicago on September 23-24, 2013. I love Chicago, of course, but I’m also excited about the panel of speakers that Clio has lined up ...
Virtual Firms on the Decline – Why?? 16 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm
According to the 2013 ABA Legal Technology Survey, virtual law practices are on the decline , reports Bob Ambrogi at his Law Sites Blog. The decrease isn’t particularly significant; the number of law...
Does Your Law Firm Have a Compliance Program – and How Ethics Rules Discourage Them 13 Aug 2013 | 09:02 pm
Although many law firms advise corporate clients on compliance, few firms have compliance programs in place observe Compliance strategists Donna Boehme and Joseph Murphy in this terrific piece, Inconv...
Future Fridays: Who Will Be Legal Ethics’ Carl Malamud? 9 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
Looks like ABA Legal Rebel, Carl Malamud, leader of the “free law movement” is at it again. This time, reports the Washington Post, Malamud has been busy posting building codes that govern at his web...
Bruce Cameron’s Book, Becoming a Rural Lawyer and the Benefits of Small Town Practice 7 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
Just as a weekend in the country provides a respite from the hustle and bustle of city life, so too, Bruce Cameron’s book Becoming A Rural Lawyer, is a breath of fresh air from the heaps of impersona...
Ed Poll’s Life After Law – A Wonderful Journey 7 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
My friend Ed Poll has written dozens of books and hundreds of articles. Life After Law: What Will You Do with the Next 6000 Days is, in my view, one of the best yet. Ed deals with the question that ...
Is SimpleLegal A Step Forward or Back on the Way to the Future of Legal Billing? 7 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
TechCrunch reports that there’s a new law technology on the block: SimpleLegal, a company that employs a machine learning to read, understand and ultimately reduce legal bills. As TechCrunch describ...
