Firm Central’s New Enhanced Reporting: The Answer To The Small-Firm Profitability Problem
Perfect the difficult balancing act between lawyer and businessperson.
SmallLaw Billing Maxims (i.e., Get Paid!)
Some tips and tricks that will keep your clients happy and help you get paid quickly.
LexisNexis Practical Guidance Rolls Out Dedicated Practice Area for AI & Technology
The new generation of AI-related legal issues are inherently cross-disciplinary, implicating corporate law, intellectual property, data privacy, employment, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
Are You Ready To Succeed In The New Legal Economy?
Law firms need to respond to client demands by becoming more adept at selecting the appropriate fee arrangement.
Why Lawyers Should Say No To ‘No Charge’ Invoice Items
What do clients really think of the no charge? (as opposed to what lawyers think clients think about no charges)
Now Lawyers Can Say, ‘Alexa, Track My Time’
A new tool from Thomson Reuters might encourage you to take Alexa to your law office.
Raising The Bar For Cloud-Based Practice Management Software
Discover more about Rocket Matter and how it can fit the needs of your law firm.
Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup
With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation.
Receivables Don’t Count: Lawyers Don’t Need To Be The ‘Bank Of Client’
Law firms, regardless of size, should not have to be in the business of involuntarily extending credit to clients or financing accounts receivable.
CosmoLex Now Integrates With Chrometa for Passive Time Tracking
This will help attorneys ensure that they are capturing and billing as much of their time as possible.
Lawyer Sent Fake Bills To Company For 14 Years. Lesson: Check Yo Bills.
Attention, multinational corporations: when paying legal bills, make sure you know exactly what you're paying for.
The Most Offensive Way To Refer To Biglaw Bills
Overall, this is just a bad look for the firm.
What Even Is AI ‘Competence’? It Depends.
Takeaways from a Legalweek panel on evolving malpractice risks.
2 Problems With Shadow Bills
Want something worse (or at least less reliable) than even regular legal bills? Shadow bills.
The Sad Truth One Stat Reveals About The Legal Industry
The only good associate is a billing one.
Non-Sequiturs: 03.10.16
* An in-depth look at Netflix's most lovable lawyer, Foggy Nelson. [Netflix Life] * Berkeley Law is not alone in dealing with scandals. Where is Olivia Pope when you need her? [Law and More] * Wasting time, but churning bills, creating PDFs. [Daily Lawyer Tips] * Environmental law will never be the same now that Justice Scalia's dead. Mother Nature, for one, is grateful. [Huffington Post] * Court rules there is no constitutional right to BDSM. [Slate] * A battle over Texas's voter ID law is coming back to the Fifth Circuit, just in time for the 2016 election. And if the Supreme Court stays split in its presumed 4-4 breakdown, the Fifth Circuit could get the final word on the law. [The Atlantic] * A fascinating look inside the shady business of wrangling amicus briefs. [Chicago Tribune] * Is Camille Paglia flirting with Donald Trump support? [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * Corporate lawyers agree: leaving a vacancy on the Supreme Court is a terrible idea. [Wall Street Journal]
Non-Sequiturs: 02.22.2016
* Most lawyers have a relationship to the fictional Atticus Finch. [Guile is Good] * Is Donald Trump's popularity based, at least in part, on a critique of capitalism? Sure, he's in favor of it, but that doesn't mean he won't exploit discontent with the system to get elected. [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * Hey 1Ls! Wanna know why you aren't getting laid? Blame it on Scalia. [20 Somethings] * Burning question alert: When your work actually makes you sick, can you bill vomit time? [Daily Lawyer Tips] * TSwift is putting her money where everyone else's tweets are -- the singer donated $250,000 to Kesha after her devastating court loss, but is it enough. [Huffington Post] * Is the stalemate over who gets to appoint the next Supreme Court justice really about race? [Talking Points Memo] * Anti-gay laws may finally hurt supporters in one place they care about -- their pocketbooks. Why one business is relocating on the precipice of a new "religious liberty" law in Georgia. [Slate] * Justice Scalia's real legacy was pro-big business. [The Atlantic]
Back In The Race: Should You Let Your Clients Pay You In 2016?
It can offer you tax benefits, but you need to consider your client's present and future circumstances.