If you step away from your legal tasks to learn tech, you’ll stop wasting time at work

In order to eliminate waste and become more efficient, lawyers have to do something that, for many, might seem like the epitome of time-wasting. Likewise, if lawyers wish to upgrade their technological capabilities and improve the way the practice law, they have to do something that, for many, is antithetical to their being: Stop practicing law.

Mar 17, 2017 1:35 PM CDT

Net Promoter Score gives lawyers valuable feedback

Of all the data available to lawyers, the cheapest and easiest to use is also one of the most important.

Mar 16, 2017 11:20 AM CDT

Ask Daliah: How to market on a budget

Dear Daliah: How do you find clients using methods that don’t cost more than $1,000 and don’t demand your every-day (every week?) attention? A simple plan to implement a marketing strategy.

Karen Guthrie

Dear Karen: Not all firms are alike, and not all firms can implement the same marketing strategies. However, all firms, regardless of size or practice area, can and should do these three things to effectively attract new clients—without spending lots of money.

Mar 16, 2017 8:30 AM CDT

Veterans hackathon and startup competition kick off ABA Techshow

March Madness has come to ABA Techshow. The annual extravaganza kicked off on Wednesday from the Hilton Chicago with a couple of competitions: A tournament-style pitch contest between legal startups and a Hackathon focused on improving access to justice for veterans. Tech For Justice Hackathon+Veterans will take place over the…

Mar 16, 2017 6:30 AM CDT

US lawmaker wants ethics rules to require warning in legal ads seeking drug plaintiffs

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is asking the ABA to amend its model ethics rules to require a disclaimer in attorney ads that seek plaintiffs who have been injured by pharmaceuticals. The disclaimer should advise patients not to discontinue medication before consulting their physician, according to U.S. Rep.…

Mar 14, 2017 12:29 PM CDT

Illinois Legal Aid Online earns praise as the best website of its kind in the country

If Oscars were awarded for legal aid websites, Lisa Colpoys might be working on her acceptance speech.

Since its launch in August, the executive director of Illinois Legal Aid Online has been fielding compliments about the redesigned, refocused ILAO website.

David Bonebrake, a program counsel for technology at the Legal Services Corp., has called it the “best legal aid website in the country.”

Mar 1, 2017 3:00 AM CST

Two BigLaw firms lose their ampersands

Two large law firms have dropped ampersands from their names. Law.com (sub. req.) has a story on the changes, which also include a dropped comma. Baker & McKenzie is now Baker McKenzie, while Boies, Schiller & Flexner is now Boies Schiller Flexner. Boies Schiller didn’t immediately respond to Law.com’s request…

Jan 23, 2017 7:00 AM CST

Fake legal blogs use ‘lawyer’ photos that match online photos of endodontist, ‘lonelykelvin1’

Corrected: Five legal bloggers appear to be such big fans of Robert Ambrogi, author of the LawSites blog, that they repost all of his posts, all within minutes of each other. But their blogs don’t appear to be real, Ambrogi writes at his LawSites blog. Three of the bloggers claim…

Jan 18, 2017 7:00 AM CST

On-hold callers may not become lawyers’ clients, study suggests

Law firms may be ruining their chances with new clients because of their telephone manners, an audio-branding firm suggests. According to a new study released by audio-branding business PHMG, participating U.S.-based legal firms put their callers on hold for an average of 36.07 seconds—longer than the national average of 29.83…

Jan 12, 2017 11:45 AM CST

Golfer will wear law firm logo in sponsorship deal

PGA golfer William McGirt is sporting a Cozen O’Connor logo on his shirt as part of a sponsorship deal that also requires some personal appearances at client events. The two-year agreement, which took effect at the start of the year, requires McGirt to wear the logo at all PGA tour…

Jan 11, 2017 8:59 AM CST

10th Annual Blawg 100

See this year’s list of 100 blawgs, read about our survey of law bloggers and check out the latest additions to our Blawg 100 Hall of Fame.

Dec 1, 2016 12:00 AM CST

Judge tosses suit claiming wrongful death defendant was defamed on law firm website

A judge in King County, Washington, has dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of a wrongful death defendant who claims the law firm that is suing her defamed her on its website. In a decision last week, Judge James Rogers tossed the defamation suit filed on behalf of Tracy McNamara,…

Nov 23, 2016 7:00 AM CST

Law firm can run ads targeting specific nursing home, Georgia Supreme Court rules

A Mississippi-based law firm seeking nursing home neglect and abuse cases didn’t violate Georgia trademark law by targeting PruittHealth Inc. in one of its ads, the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled. In a decision on Monday, the court lifted an injunction that had barred the ads by the McHugh Fuller…

Nov 22, 2016 12:10 PM CST

Beware of sites importing your contacts, and watch your social media comments, ethics opinions say

The ethics committee of the District of Columbia Bar is advising lawyers about some social media dangers in two ethics opinions released this month. Many issues addressed in the opinions have been widely explored in ethics opinions in other jurisdictions, but a couple of topics haven’t gotten much treatment in…

Nov 21, 2016 7:00 AM CST

Texas lawyers may use competitors’ names in keyword marketing

As more potential clients search for attorneys online, lawyers are finding new ways to gain a competitive advantage in advertising.

Nov 1, 2016 2:20 AM CDT