Building on the viral success of his start-ups Invisible Girlfriend and Invisible Boyfriend – services that make it look like you are in a relationship even when you are not – founder Matthew Homann will now launch Intangible Lawyer, a service that will make it look like you have a lawyer even if…
The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Legal Podcasts
Keep a necktie long enough and it will eventually come back into style. And so it is with podcasts — including legal podcasts. They were the next big thing. Then they weren’t. And now they are again. Or at least so it seems.
Trust me on this. I’ve been there for the roller-coaster ride.…
A Series of Podcasts Recorded at Above the Law's Converge Conference
At the March 18 Converge conference sponsored by Above the Law, the Legal Talk Network recorded a series of podcasts featuring interviews with the speakers and with the ATL editors. I hosted several of the interviews and four of the ones I hosted are now posted. They are (follow the links to listen):…
Mass. Becomes 14th State to Adopt Duty of Technology Competence
I wrote recently that 13 states (see full list) had adopted the ethical duty of technology competence reflected in 2012 amendments to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Well, make it 14. Today, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ordered the adoption of Comment 8 to Rule 1.1, which will now read as…
Best Legal Products — And Best Non-Existent Products
At her Dewey B. Strategic blog, Jean O’Grady took an unscientific but nonetheless fascinating poll of her readers to ask them about the best new products they became…
CosmoLex to Unveil Integrated Accounting Capability at Techshow
Since its debut at ABA Techshow last year, CosmoLex has been on a development roll. It started as a cloud-based time, billing and trust accounting program for solos and small firms. (I reviewed it here.) Then, in December, it added a suite of practice-management tools that included document storage…
LexisNexis Firm Manager Adds Batch Invoicing Feature
Firm Manager, the cloud-based practice management platform from LexisNexis, today is announcing the addition of batch invoicing.
The new feature uses a “wizard” to guide attorneys through the process of creating a batch of invoices, according to the announcement.
…This enables a law firm to establish a regular billing cycle
Want to Serve on the ABA Law Practice Magazine Editorial Board?
The Law Practice Division of the American Bar Association is currently accepting applications from those interested in serving on the division’s various boards and committees. The members of these boards help produce ABA Techshow, Law Practice magazine, the Law Practice Today webzine, books, education programs, and other initiatives. But the time to…
Calif. Bar Task Force Calls for Legal Technician Pilot Program
I have been closely following the emerging issue of licensing non-lawyers to deliver legal services in limited circumstances. In the January 2015 ABA Journal, I had an article about Washington state’s limited license legal technician (LLLT) program, and last weekend I had an opinion piece in The Washington Post about the…
Carpe Diem Launches the Next Generation of Its Timekeeping Product
After I returned from LegalTech in February, I reported here that Tikit — which had just last October announced a major relaunch of the venerable timekeeping program Carpe Diem as Carpe Diem Classic — was about six weeks away from launching an all new version of its…
Join Me for this Webinar: New Windows into Law Using Big Data Analytics
Join me this Thursday, March 19, as I moderate this free one-hour webinar, New Windows into Law Using Big Data Analytics.
The webinar will look at some of the practical implications of embracing Big Data in a modern practice and at how Big Data tools can be used in legal research and…
13 15 17 18 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 States Have Adopted Ethical Duty of Technology Competence
[Update 3/15/18: Indiana adopted the rule, so the total is now 31.]
[Update 3/14/18: Kentucky adopts the rule, bringing total to 30.]
[Update 3/5/18:…