Articles Posted in October, 2013

Updates, 10/9/13, 3:53 p.m.: Some additions and clarifications to my original post from earlier today:…

The challenge of developing an app for the legal market is to define a compelling reason for lawyers to use it. We are all busy and we all have established sources for getting the news and information we need. A new app introduced last week is an example of one that is nice enough in…

Last Tuesday, Oct. 1, Frank Rivera, developer of the HoudiniEsq practice management software, posted an article to his blog entitled, “IT Consultant, Friend or Foe: Is Your Law Firm’s Clients’ Private Personal Data at Risk?” In it, Rivera claimed that a North Carolina IT consulting firm, Out of the Box Developers…

ANOTHER UPDATE: According to a representative of LexisNexis, the free offer described below has NOT been rescinded, as stated in my last update. Rather, it has been expanded to all solo and small-firm attorneys — not just those who belong to the GP Solo section. The offer is still limited to the first 600 firms that…

I was the plenary speaker last week at the annual meeting of the Communications Section of the National Association of Bar Executives. My topic was, “Communicating Amid Clamor and Calamity: How Technology Has Rewired Lawyers’ Practices and What It Means for How You Communicate With Them.”…