Not exact matches
Technology enabling
lawyers to operate a law
practice completely in the cloud is readily available and reasonably affordable.
A
lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in both private
practice and industry, Victoria has advised clients in many industries including
technology, manufacturing, broadcasting and communications.
The ABA Law
Practice Management Section is a professional membership organization providing resources for
lawyers and other legal professionals in the core areas of the business of
practicing law — marketing, management,
technology and finance — through its award - winning magazine, Law
Practice, Law
Practice Today webzine, educational CLE programs, website and publishing division.
Cloud Servers in Law
Practice, Legal Marketing
Technology Conference (October 11, 2012) Ethics Compliance When Using
Technology, Bar Association of San Francisco (May 3, 2012) Law
Practice Management, Santa Clara University School of Law (March 23, 2012) Blogging 101 for
Lawyers, Bar Association of San Francisco (February 21, 2012) Start Off the New Year Debt Free, San Francisco Law Library (February 6, 2012) Distressed Homeowner Educational Forum, Bay Area Resource (January 28, 2012) Strategies & Solutions in Distressed Real Estate Market, Bay Area Resource (June 22, 2011) Law
Practice Management, Santa Clara University School of Law (January 7, 2011) Bankruptcy, Short Sales and Real Estate, Pacifica Realtor's Association (October 26, 2010) Dealing With Financial Problems, San Francisco Law Library (October 8, 2010) Cover Your Assets, San Francisco Law Library (May 20, 2010) Law
Practice Management, Santa Clara University School of Law (January 5, 2010)
Jim Charne, a California, New York, New Jersey, and Wisconsin
lawyer,
practices at the intersection of intellectual property, entertainment,
technology, music, and e-commerce.
Do
lawyers necessarily need to use the latest and greatest
technology toys in their law
practices and will doing so necessarily make them better
lawyers?
In the same way IP and litigation
lawyers are well trained starting from early on in law school, e-discovery and other
technology - based areas of
practice need to get their due in the hallowed halls of academe.
Called «The Digital Edge:
Lawyers and
Technology,» it is produced as part of the Law
Technology Today e-zine of the ABA's Law
Practice Management Section.
[8] To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a
lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its
practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant
technology
«I had no idea that 10 years later, I would have written several books, appeared just about all over the country speaking to
lawyers on
technology issues, and become involved with a great group of law
practice management experts.
The primary goal of this talk is to inspire
lawyers to embrace
technology — in particular cloud
technology — not only to make their
practices more efficient, ethical and effective, but to deliver superior and differentiated service to their clients.
Client expectations and an incoming generation of
lawyers weaned on
technology, gaming, and the Internet, are forcing the traditional law firm and ways of
practice to change.
Law librarians can teach
lawyers these necessary skills so as to maximize the cost - savings that electronic records management
technology can provide to law
practice management:
Technology coach Adriana Linares aids
lawyers building their
practice or making small - firm transitions.
To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a
lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its
practice, engage in continuing study and education, including an understanding of the benefits and risks associated with the use of
technology, and comply with all continuing legal education requirements to which the
lawyer is subject.
«For
lawyers, effective use of
technology means new clients, stronger work product, and more efficient use of time; for law students it means better job prospects and a smoother transition into
practice.
I have noticed that many
lawyers who make innovative use of
technology in their
practices take advantage of program features not commonly used by others.
[A]
lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its
practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant
technology....
To maintain the required level of competence, a
lawyer should develop and maintain a facility with
technology relevant to the nature and area of the
lawyer's
practice and responsibilities.
As
technology enables more
lawyers to
practice effectively on their own or in smaller groups, many will opt out of larger firms altogether and compete for business as solos or small
practices.
I developed these methods as part of the
technology of centralized legal research at LAO LAW, Legal Aid Ontario's (LAO's) centralized legal research unit for Ontario
lawyers in private
practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare model).
The number of
lawyers who describe their
practice as a «virtual» law
practice declined this year to 5 percent, from 7 percent the year before, according to the 2013 ABA Legal
Technology Survey Report.
After using an early version of his legal tech audit in house, Flaherty teamed up with Suffolk University's Institute on Law
Practice Technology and Innovation to make the LTA available for
lawyers and law students.
«The
lawyering survival guide, featuring posts on blogging, careers, ethics, marketing, going paperless,
practice management, starting a law firm, and
technology.»
To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a
lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its
practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant
technology, engage in continuing study and education and comply with all continuing legal education requirements to which the
lawyer is subject.
It's the Wild West as social media and digital
technology intersect with the
practice of law, and
lawyers debated the impact of it all this week at the Ontario Bar Association's annual Institute in Toronto.
My sense, however, is that solo and small - firm
lawyers have started paying greater attention to the use of
technology for
practice management within the last few years.
To my mind, this is a cautionary tale for
lawyers about using startup
technology, particularly for something such as
practice management that involves client information.
From predicting how
technology will change the
practice of law to examining innovations in billing
practices,
lawyers will always learn about the latest trends at Jordan's blogs and come away with new perspectives on the future of our profession and how we can improve our own
practices.
One resource to help
lawyers sort through all this has been the
practice management system comparison chart compiled by the Legal
Technology Resource Center of the American Bar Association.
«Said the judges: «Brent Kidwell was nominated based on his remarkable success in melding the expertise of the firm's technicians with its
lawyers»
practices so as to create a uniquely efficient «Client Driven Applied
Technology» — all executed within a 12 - month period.»
To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a
lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its
practice, including the benefits and risks associated with the
technology relevant to the
lawyer's
practice, engage in continuing study and education and comply with all continuing legal education requirements to which the
lawyer is subject.
The advent of
technology that allows a
lawyer to
practice from anywhere has created a host of ethics issues.
In fact, the December issue of Law
Technology News will have an article I wrote in which I describe 16 ways
lawyers can use Twitter in their
practices.
What stands out about these
lawyers is their enthusiasm about improving their
practices and in learning new
technology, management and marketing skills to help them do that.
Blog & constangy & digital marketing & employment & getting published & ghostwriter & ghostwriting & innovation & interactive marketing & labor and employment & law firm & law
practice management & law - related &
lawyers & legal industry & legal
practice & leveraging
technology & marketing & mike maslanka & online marketing & professional services & reinventing professional services & Reinvention & social media & social network & work matters
Helping small law firms and young
lawyers through my state's growing Law
Practice Management &
Technology conference.
The phrase I've italicized is the same as the language that the ABA recommended in 2012 when it approved a change to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make clear that
lawyers have a duty to be competent not only in the law and its
practice, but also in
technology.
In communities like San Jose, Palo Alto and Mountain View, there are lots of attorneys serving the most the common
practice areas, as well as numerous
lawyers that specialize in areas that serve the tech giants and other area
technology companies.
Recently,
lawyer, writer, and
technology consultant, Robert Ambrogi, assembled his own list of 16 major ways that you can use Twitter in your law
practice.
But within a specific
practice area, there are very large efficiencies — shared
technology, training, templates, institutional knowledge, and access to client information — that a focused firm has over a bunch of independent
lawyers.
Using cloud - based
technology under creative, but effective, business models, can increase efficiencies so that
lawyers can focus on what they do best -
practice law.
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practice management & law - related &
lawyers & legal ghostwriter & legal industry & legal management & legal
practice & Legal
Technology & leveraging technology & marketing & reinventing professional services & Reinvention & seo & small law firms & web design
Technology & leveraging
technology & marketing & reinventing professional services & Reinvention & seo & small law firms & web design
technology & marketing & reinventing professional services & Reinvention & seo & small law firms & web design & writing
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No doubt about it: information
technology is marching — no, sprinting — ahead, fueled by new products that promise to revolutionize law
practice and make
lawyers more efficient.16 But at the same time, the feedback about law graduates» research skills remains lackluster at best.17 Despite a literal surplus of available tools, recent law graduates generally lack the research skills employers expect.18
This trend was confirmed by the latest ABA Legal
Technology Survey Report, which found that
lawyers are increasingly using web - based software in their law
practices.
Regardless of the
technologies and organization that might make sense in the short - term of managing a
practice, it is still the
lawyers» responsibility to follow and adhere to the rules, regulations and canons of ethics adopted by the bar associations, professional liability funds and malpractice insurance carriers.
Perkins Coie's IP
practice includes more than 250
lawyers focused on IP litigation, post-grant proceedings, patent and trademark prosecution, strategic portfolio counseling,
technology licensing, copyrights, and trade secret and unfair competition counseling.
That statement is not coming from a luddite
lawyer who hates
technology, but from the CTO of a startup / vc law
practice that I am 100 % certain is on the cutting edge of legal
technology (the kind that actually works) adoption.
Peter is a seasoned transactional
lawyer with a
practice focused on the representation of life science, robotics,
technology, venture capital, E-commerce, and other consumer companies.