The Legal Services Corp. announced on Tuesday that it is developing online “legal portals” to help people who need civil legal help find the most appropriate forms of assistance.
Does your law firm have significant long-term bank debt? Does it give minimum guarantees to lateral partners? Then it could be at risk of faltering or failing, according to a…
“We’re all here today because we’ve been lied to,” said Richard James, an entrepreneur and law firm consultant. “It wasn’t malicious. People we trusted told us things we thought to…
It was gloomy and gray for most of the day as the seventh annual Avvo Lawyernomics conference kicked off Friday from the Wynn Las Vegas. But it certainly felt…
In a move intended to direct more clients to Avvo lawyers, the company announced Thursday at its Lawyernomics conference that it is offering free legal forms over the Internet.
Scott Stratten, president of UnMarketing, has an interesting analogy for lawyer marketing in an increasingly competitive marketplace: One of his earliest jobs was serving as a sales training manager…
Moana Weir started work on Jan. 29 as in-house legal chief and company secretary for Slater & Gordon, the Australia-based personal injury Goliath that made history by becoming the world’s…
For more than 35 years, Hollywood producer Brian Grazer has tracked down people who interest him and asked them to sit down with him for "curiosity conversations." He claims that…
It already seems as if everyone and their dog has a blog. There's even a show on Disney about a dog with a blog—it's called, surprisingly, Dog with a Blog. Apr 1, 2016 2:10 AM CDT
With large firms on one side and legal service providers on the other, the new reality for many small firms is that they face a difficult competitive landscape. But they…
Roughly two-thirds of those eligible for legal aid in Massachusetts (read: people in extreme poverty) are turned away because there aren’t enough legal aid attorneys. Approximately 80 percent of all…
Expanding on a fledgling plan to offer fixed-fee legal services through a network of lawyers, Avvo has announced that it is rolling out the program in 18 states beginning Tuesday.