ABA summit discusses new paths for providing legal services

Aug 1, 2015 2:20 AM CDT

New app aims to find you a sub in a second

Jul 1, 2015 2:30 AM CDT

Team approach keeps pregnancy leave from stalling careers

For many female attorneys, maternity leave can be the equivalent of a poisoned chalice—offered as a benefit, but damaging to a career. Federal law mandates that all public agencies and private companies of 50 or more employees must provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid maternity leave. Many states have…

Jun 1, 2015 6:15 AM CDT

What will lawyers be doing in 5 to 10 years?

Coming into Las Vegas to attend Avvo’s sixth annual Lawyernomics conference, I was bombarded with concert billboards, including ones for the latest extended residencies. It used to be if you were doing a residency in Las Vegas, your career was circling the drain. Artists like Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Elton…

May 18, 2015 8:30 AM CDT

It’s a mobile world—embrace digital marketing and learn Google’s secrets, Lawyernomics speakers say

Here in Las Vegas, Elvis Presley may still be the king. But for the legal industry, it’s mobile devices that are wearing the crown (or the gold lamé suit). That factoid probably comes as no surprise to most people. Many lawyers, however, are stuck in the PC era—assuming they have…

May 15, 2015 12:50 PM CDT

How should you reboot your legal marketing? Lawyernomics speakers will explore

It’s only fitting for someone with the nickname “the rock star of digital marketing” to play Las Vegas. Mitch Joel, president of digital marketing and communications agency Mirum, will do just that when he delivers the keynote address at the Avvo Lawyernomics conference. The conference, which will be held at…

May 13, 2015 8:30 AM CDT

Legal innovation summit attendees are long on ideas but short in data

Sunday’s marathon session at the National Summit on Innovation in Legal Services at Stanford University really hammered home a lot of points for me. For instance, the number of litigants forced to go pro se is shockingly high when it comes to family, immigration and housing court. I also learned…

May 5, 2015 1:50 PM CDT

True innovation in the legal industry requires outside views and thinking, summit speakers say

Corrected: To paraphrase Hillary Clinton, it takes a village in order to have true innovation within the legal industry—especially when it comes to closing the sizable gap between those who need access to legal services and the ability of the bar to provide them. It was a jam-packed second day…

May 4, 2015 6:34 PM CDT

Summit on legal innovation in legal services gets underway in Silicon Valley

It might be strange to attend a conference about innovation in legal services and hear the names Carole King and Herbert Hoover invoked as major themes. But it worked in the context of the National Summit on Innovation in Legal Services. For the next couple of days, I’ll be at…

May 3, 2015 12:26 AM CDT

Georgetown Law teams up with 2 firms to create ‘low bono’ law firm

When Sheldon Krantz, a retired DLA Piper attorney and adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, published his book, The Legal Profession: What Is Wrong and How to Fix It, in 2013, one of the biggest problems he identified was that there’s a large swath of low-income individuals and families…

Apr 16, 2015 9:00 AM CDT

When making things free means gaining more interest

Apr 1, 2015 2:50 AM CDT

Sedgwick ex-chair writes about what he knows in new novel

Feb 1, 2015 1:30 AM CST

Creator of the DuPont model makes an inside move

Dec 1, 2014 1:40 AM CST

Firms bet on growth potential of drone law

For most people, unmanned aircraft systems—aka drones—are only slightly more popular than Ebola. That’s because when most people think of a drone, they think of the army using video-game controls to fly a sophisticated aircraft that can travel through airspace without being detected while boasting enough firepower to incinerate a…

Oct 27, 2014 10:08 AM CDT

How profitable are alternative fee arrangements, in practice?

Alternative fee arrangements have been a reality for lawyers and law firms for several years now. But are they profitable? The answer depends on whom you ask. It turns out that lawyers working in the trenches on actual matters and cases had somewhat different experiences with AFAs compared to lawyers…

Oct 1, 2014 10:38 AM CDT