Legal Technology
The Stresses & Challenges of Being a Lawyer: When Technology Doesn’t Help
In addition to all the pressures lawyers face described in the article The Day to Day Stresses & Challenges of Being a Lawyer, technology has increased the pace of practice. While increasing efficiency, the constant flow of new products and applications can create just as much anxiety. The key is to use technology – don’t… Read More »
Categories: Legal Technology, Wellness and BalanceBook Review: The Future of the Professions by Mark Susskind
For more than 30 years Richard Susskind has been a thought leader on the future of the legal profession. This is despite the Law Society of England and Wales saying he did not understand confidentiality and was bringing the legal profession into disrepute by suggesting that email would become the predominant way lawyers and their… Read More »
Categories: Legal Technology, TechnologyArtificial intelligence and the “self-driving” lawyer
We all look forward to the day when we can jump in a vehicle that will drive itself to our desired destination. And while self-driving vehicles have been in our imaginations for many decades, vehicles from Tesla and others with driving-assistance technology suggest fully autonomous self-driving cars will be a reality in the not too… Read More »
Categories: Legal Technology, TechnologyThe Future of Law: Should legal service providers be regulated?
By stating that they are not practising law or providing legal advice, legal service providers (see yesterday’s post on what a “legal service provider” is) shrewdly aim to take themselves out of the current legal services regulatory scheme and nicely avoid all the education, admission, ethics and insurance obligations that lawyers must fulfill. You can… Read More »
Categories: Law Practice Management, Legal TechnologyThe Future of Law Who will provide legal services?
Our current legal system is predicated on lawyers – and more recently paralegals – delivering “legal services” (the definition of this term is discussed in the next section). Can Ontario lawyers maintain a monopoly on professional legal services? The answer is probably not. In fact, some would argue the monopoly ended when paralegals were given… Read More »
Categories: Law Practice Management, Legal TechnologyTen social media misconceptions, revised
“Social media is just people posting pictures of what they had for breakfast” is a common refrain from those who have no interest in or can’t figure out things like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. It may be said even more by lawyers, who have a reputation of not being the most enthusiastic new adopters of… Read More »
Categories: Legal Technology, TechnologyAssess your online image. What do clients see?
When we meet someone new it’s common now to Google them to see what we can find out. It’s no different with potential clients who are thinking about using your firm. Have you Googled yourself lately to see what they see? Merrilyn Astin Tarlton, writing in the Attorney at Work blog, has some great tips… Read More »
Categories: Legal TechnologyAre you a good chooser?
I believe that poor decision making is one of the biggest problems we face as a profession, and as a society. And that it is eminently improvable. Marc Lauritsen at Attorney At Work asks us to think about choice. Lawyers face daily choices in the practice of law and in the running of their office…. Read More »
Categories: Career Management, Law Practice Management, Legal Technology