{"id":14810,"date":"2020-05-19T17:17:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=664007"},"modified":"2020-05-19T17:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:17:25","slug":"wait-lawyers-talk-smack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2020\/05\/19\/wait-lawyers-talk-smack\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait, Lawyers Talk Smack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-403471\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/01\/smack-slap-benchslap-benchslaps-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Things are still closed down, which means we&#8217;ve not had an opportunity to haunt the halls of an event center with the usual legal community suspects for a while, so let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s going on out there. It&#8217;s time to catch up with Keith Lee, founder of LawyerSmack, about the private community of lawyers he&#8217;s built up over the years and the trends he&#8217;s observed participating in these conversations with lawyers from all sectors coming together to connect.<\/p>\n<iframe border=\"0\" class=\"shortcode_iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/legaltalknetwork.com\/podcasts\/thinking-like-a-lawyer\/2020\/05\/wait-lawyers-talk-smack\/?embed\" width=\"100%\"height=\"115\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">Catching up with Keith Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":403471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[102,7580,158,112,7,7262],"class_list":["post-14810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-biglaw","tag-featured-podcasts","tag-keith-lee","tag-small-law-firms","tag-technology","tag-thinking-like-a-lawyer-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wait, Lawyers Talk Smack? 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