The Decline of the Machines – What the Unabomber Can Teach Us About Legal Learning Matthew Homann: Bio / Blog / Web / Twitter… Continue Reading
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Big Data or Big Brother?
Big Data or Big Brother? Big Data Analytics has fascinating ramifications when applied to social media and analyzing business-driven behavior and client relationships. Take search giants (i.e., Google) and social shares (i.e., Facebook) and how they customize and analyze our consumer behavior. The benefits for businesses of all sizes is astounding, from a solo practitioner… Continue Reading
Legal Services in a Global Village – Jurisdiction Changes Everything
Legal Services in a Global Village – Jurisdiction Changes Everything The building blocks of the legal profession – law school, bar admissions, professional regulation, ethics, discipline and malpractice liability and insurance – are all undergoing revolutionary changes. Your parents got legal services from a lawyer that grew up around the corner and had an office… Continue Reading
Flattening the Legal Tower of Babel
Flattening the Legal Tower of Babel: Fishing for a means to remove language barriers from the law. Today it is a mantra that the legal profession is going global and the world is becoming flat, yet the law remains the poster child for parochial national divisions — every country and jurisdiction has its own law,… Continue Reading
The Future of Virtual Law
The Future of Virtual Law Is it too early to talk about the future of virtual law practice? This is not about more supposed Starbucks lawyers. It is not about lawyers sitting on the couch wiping Cheetos grease on their shirt while watching Dowton Abbey reruns and waiting for Google to shove clients toward their… Continue Reading
Gaming the System: Are lawyers ready to game-up?
Gaming the System: Are lawyers ready to game-up? Whether its mind games or online games, we amuse ourselves with games every day. When a game does not exist, we make it up – from “Hi, Bob” to beer-pong. Digital games are becoming ubiquitous whether we simply entertain ourselves with online solitaire or join a group… Continue Reading
How Cat Videos Can Make Your Law Firm Awesome
How Cat Videos Can Make Your Law Firm Awesome Do you *really* know what people want? You think you do. But the painful truth is, it’s a lot simpler and more obvious than any wacky idea you can come up with. Your clients, your leads, and referral sources, more than anything else, want to watch… Continue Reading
Lawyers, Rats, Stress, and Rules (and Toothpaste)
Lawyers, Rats, Stress, and Rules: what we can learn from (im)proper toothpaste techniques. So, even though I know I’m not *supposed* to start a “professional” presentation description with the word “so,” that’s what I’m doing here. Proudly. I’m doing that because it feels good to break a rule or two from time to time. And… Continue Reading
Lawyer Efficient Profitability: No Longer an Oxymoron
Lawyer Efficient Profitability: No Longer an Oxymoron Legal Project Management assisted by technology can put the law back in lawyering and the profitability into efficiency. The Billable Hour business model is being rapidly replaced with an efficiency model for the legal industry. Corporate clients are driving this sea change and demanding that outside law firm… Continue Reading
Knowing Unknowns – The Key to Intelligent Lawyering
Knowing Unknowns – The Key to Intelligent Lawyering In bygone days, lawyers who read and understood every piece of possible evidence were able to represent their clients very effectively. With the explosion of ESI, this is virtually impossible even in non-complex litigation. The rise of machines has helped with “predictive coding” and “technology assisted review.”… Continue Reading