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Legal technology in all its iterations helps the already innovative legal powerhouse mind who uses it. Many new software products designed for use by attorneys are often billed as being game changing and innovative. Some of the newest technology may be a must have for many law offices, advancing how the offices conduct business and…
In a highly competitive marketplace, your firm needs to regularly produce interesting and focused legal content. That legal content – videos, papers, ebooks, brochures – should be high-quality and consistent. Legal marketing is an ongoing task that requires ready access to a variety of digital assets. Most law firms have a collection of items that…
The market for collaborative software is relatively young, but expanding rapidly. Several leading products are low-cost, feature-rich and stable enough for daily use. The feature sets across products tend to be similar, yet they are fluid enough to make a comparison in terms of accuracy. Email is increasingly a frustrating matter in modern business. Ten…
Many of the fastest-growing tech companies in Silicon Valley are backed by a startup incubator called Y Combinator. You may be familiar with a few of them, such as Dropbox or Airbnb. As the legal industry enjoys a surge in technological advancement, Y Combinator is investing heavily in legal tech startups. Some may create products…
There are a number of benefits to using cloud-based messenger services for client meetings. For instance, an app such as Skype allows lawyers to schedule meetings through a video conference, which provides flexibility that in-person meetings cannot. However with convenience comes security concerns that any lawyer using these and other online services must consider and…
Autonomous vehicles have the potential to change cities and lives just as much as the automobile did throughout the first half of the 20th century. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, predicts autonomous vehicles will be ten times safer than human-driven cars by 2022.
Some of a lawyer’s daily tasks are simple while others are intricate. These intricate tasks require high levels of attention and mental effort. Ideally, a lawyer will be able to devote the majority of his or her time to the complex tasks — the meat of legal work. Unfortunately, the time it takes to perform…
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Should Your Law Firm’s Website Allow Comments and Questions?
Should a law firm allow public comments on its website? Should attorneys answer questions from users? An attorney’s instinctual answer may be No. Attorneys answering questions from the public raises issues of potential malpractice liability, and website comment sections are notorious for attracting a low form of discourse. Law firms are also likely to want…