When a call comes into your law firm from a prospective client, will your intake specialist know if the case is a good one for your firm? How long will it take before an attorney can review and evaluate the lead? Will that potential client have found someone else by the time you call back?…
Webinar Today: Making Malpractice Insurance Less Painful through Tech
Eighty percent of lawyers get sued for malpractice at some point in their careers, a startling statistic that underscores why professional liability insurance is a must-have component of a law practice.
But shopping for and buying insurance is a cumbersome process, and paying for it can be downright painful.
So is malpractice insurance a field…
How DLA Piper Moved Over 3,000 Staff to Working from Home in 36 Hours
I have to confess that I have been surprised by the ease with which many large law firms transitioned to working from home. In various contexts over the past few months, I have spoken with law firm leaders who described transitions that were fairly seamless and that were pulled off within a relatively short time…
Today at 10:30 ET: Live Interview with Kathryn DeBord, Chief Innovation Officer, Bryan Cave
For my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV today, I’ll be interviewing Kathryn DeBord, chief innovation officer at the law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.
You can watch the live stream directly at the Litera TV page.
DeBord leads Bryan Cave’s innovation team, which is an international cross-disciplinary team dedicated to…
On LawNext: A Coronavirus Success Story – How A State Bar and Two Legaltech Companies Partnered to Help the Unemployed Get Legal Help
On the latest episode of the LawNext podcast: A coronavirus success story – how a state bar, anticipating a tidal wave of unemployment claims, partnered with two legaltech companies to launch a pro bono portal in barely more than a week.
On April 27, 2020, the New York State Bar Association launched a website devoted to…
Launching Today: Legal Billing Rates Database Enables Benchmarking By Firms and Clients
The company Reorg, a global provider of financial intelligence, is today launching a first-of-its-kind Legal Billing Rates Database, an analytics tool that uses data drawn from court dockets to help attorneys benchmark their fees in preparation for client pitches.
It can also be used by general counsel and other commercial and financial clients in…
Watch or Listen to the Legaltech Week Journalist Roundtable for 5.22.20
The Legaltech Week journalist roundtable is back, with a week-in-review discussion by leading legaltech journalists from the U.S. and U.K. who discuss and dissect the week’s top stories.
Joining me this week as panelists are Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill, editor in chief, Legal IT Insider; Molly…
Legal AI Book Wins Law Libraries Award; Here’s My Chapter on AI and the Future
Proud to report that a book to which I contributed has been selected by the American Association of Law Libraries for its 2020 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award.
Ellyssa Kroski, director of information technology and marketing at The New York Law Institute, won the award as author and editor for the book,…
First-Ever Legal Blogger Says He Will Cease Publishing May 31
Somewhere in the rafters of legal blogging, someone needs to retire the jersey of legal blogger number one, Walter Olson.
After 21 years of blogging at Overlawyered, a blog dedicated to chronicling the high cost of the legal system, Olson announced today that he will cease publishing May 31.
Back in 2007, curious…
Register for Tomorrow’s Legaltech Journalist Roundtable, or Catch Up on Last Week’s
As we’ve done for the past two weeks, we will be back tomorrow at 3 p.m. Eastern time with the live Legaltech Week journalist roundtable — a live video panel of leading legaltech and legal innovation journalists discussing the week’s top stories.
It’s free to watch, but registration is required.
Meanwhile, if you missed…
Law Firm Snared in $312K Email Scam Loses Lawsuit to Recover from Bank
It is one of the most-common email scams targeting law firms. An email arrives from an overseas company asking to hire you for a quick-and-easy matter, often collection of a debt or sale of equipment. If the attorney agrees, a check arrives from the purported debtor or purchaser. The attorney deposits it in trust and…
Featured Resource: Ultimate Guide to Corporate Legal Case Management Software
I noted last week the launch of the LawSites Resource Center, a library of downloadable content such as ebooks, white papers, case studies and more from experts and vendors in the legal industry. Each week, we’ll highlight one of the library’s resources.
This week’s featured resource: The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Legal…