Most attorneys know the duty of competence in general terms. Fewer have looked closely at what it now says about technology. Over the past decade, bar authorities have made explicit what was already implied: an …
Managing partners and office administrators ask this question more than almost any other, and it is a fair one. IT is a line on the budget that never seems to go away, and it is …
AI note-taking tools are easy to like. They join a video call, produce a transcript, and deliver a tidy summary with action items, sparing someone the job of writing it all down. For a firm …
Not long ago, a phishing email was easy to recognize. The grammar was off, the greeting was generic, and the request made little sense. Those tells are disappearing. Messages now arrive well written, correctly addressed, …
Clio, MyCase, and PracticePanther are three of the best-known practice management platforms for small and mid-sized firms, and a firm choosing among them will find no shortage of feature comparisons. This post does not try …
A firm does not have to decide to adopt AI for AI to show up in its work. Staff use drafting assistants, summarizers, and chatbots on their own, often with good intentions and without anyone …
Remote and hybrid work has become a normal part of running a law firm, not an exception. An attorney reviewing a filing from home the night before a deadline, or a paralegal working from a …
For many firms, a managed IT agreement is signed after the sales conversation has already done most of the persuading. The contract is where the real commitments live, and it is often read less carefully …
Contract review is one of the first places law firms look when they consider AI. The work is repetitive, document-heavy, and billed in hours that clients increasingly question. The tools are real, and some of …
Most firms have moved at least some case files to the cloud, often without a formal decision ever being made about it - a partner starts using a convenient tool, and within a year it's …
Most attorneys know the duty of competence in general terms. Fewer have looked closely at what it now says about technology. Over the past decade, bar authorities have made explicit what was already implied: an …
Managing partners and office administrators ask this question more than almost any other, and it is a fair one. IT is a line on the budget that never seems to go away, and it is …