The Estrin Report
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Have people to bounce ideas off of: those people can be other lawyers, but also make sure you are talking to people who are NOT lawyers as well. Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law?
Rocket Matter
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Why the billable hour matters Reports state that many attorneys bill between 1,700 and 2,300 hours per year , so not tracking all your time accurately can lead to tens of thousands in lost revenue. Second, law firms track the billable hours of each attorney. Six minutes also works out nicely because it amounts to 1/10th of an hour.
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Attorney at Work
APRIL 30, 2021
During the pandemic, lawyers have experienced changes in how they connect with people — including those who might need their services. So what are some of the best online business development options lawyers have been using, and that you could be using too? Also, who is one of the busiest lawyers you know?
LawSites
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
For all the discussion of how generative AI will impact the legal profession, maybe one answer is that it will weed out the lazy and incompetent lawyers. By now, in the wake of several cases in which lawyers have found themselves in hot water by citing hallucinated cases generated by ChatGPT, most notoriously Mata v. XYZ Corporation.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The pandemic has raised a number of ethical issues for lawyers and resulted in the issuance of several ethics opinions addressing those issues. Synopsis: Working from home has become the new normal, forcing law offices to transform themselves into a remote workforce overnight. Issues addressed: Working remotely.
Patently O
APRIL 20, 2021
In ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 498 (March 10, 2021) ( here ), the ABA provided guidance on the ethical issues that we all have done a lot of the last year, and which I am guessing we will continue to do for a while: practice law outside the confines of a typical brick-and-mortar, or steel-and-glass, law office.
LawTechnologyToday
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
The 2021 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report will be important historically because it gives us the first look at how lawyers responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the 2021 results might be interpreted as another example of lawyers being late arrivals to technologies widely in use in other professions and businesses.
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