The Barrister

MARCH 11, 2025

While many law graduates do indeed follow the path of practicing lawyers, the training and knowledge acquired during law school can lead to a wide range of non-traditional career opportunities, such as roles in public policy, legal technology, or social advocacy. However, only 51% were working in law firms.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Stories are increasingly common of lawyers who leave law practice to start legal technology companies, but few achieve the level of success as an entrepreneur of Matt Spiegel. He was a criminal defense lawyer in 2009 when he founded MyCase , one of the earliest cloud-based law practice management companies.

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Lawyerist

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In that time, Lawyerist has continued its mission to help solo and small law firm owners build healthier businesses. But after graduating from law school in 2011, she ended up at the small two-person family law firm where she had clerked. Now, the small team has increased by two. It’s really exciting.”

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 4, 2022

QUESTION: Our law firm would like to reduce our paper and physical storage use and costs by “going to the cloud” with our data. ANSWER: In many instances, data you are using and communicating with your clients are already being stored and managed with cloud-based technology. 2215 (2012). See, e.g., Arizona Ethics Op.

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Clio

APRIL 15, 2025

per 1,000 in 2012 to 7.1 With many self-represented litigants coming from demographics with lower median incomes and fewer years of formal education, innovative law firms that develop affordable service models can tap into this underserved market while improving access to justice. Divorce rates are declining. per 1,000 people.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group, which owns a number of legal practice management and legal search technology products, said today that it has acquired Phoenix-based LawLytics , a company that provides website management software for small law firms and solo practitioners. .

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LawNext podcast

OCTOBER 22, 2018

They say you can’t go home again, but Matt Spiegel came back to legal technology after selling the first company he founded, MyCase , and then moving to other verticals. Spiegel had been a criminal defense lawyer when, in 2009, he founded MyCase, the legal practice management platform.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2024

A bit late with this, as it was announced earlier this week, but the International Legal Technology Association, in celebration of Women’s History Month, has named five women as its 2024 Influential Women in Legal Tech. In 2012, Alma founded her own legal technology company.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 25, 2022

Regulatory reform is needed to make sure there is coverage for “legal deserts” where citizens have access to few or no law firms. ” What Do Legal Deserts Mean for Citizens Who Need Help? A lawyer in rural North Carolina shared that his law firm was one of two in a 40-mile radius.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While it can often feel overwhelming, there’s no better time to embrace change by incorporating emerging tools like cloud-based software and artificial intelligence (AI) into your law firm. Legal technology providers understand the needs and ethical obligations of legal professionals and are thus better equipped to meet your needs.

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Since this technology is both new and rapidly changing, implementation in law firms is a challenging task, and innovative lawyers are forced to navigate the uncharted waters of generative AI in the absence of clear guidance. She also co-authors “Criminal Law in New York,” a Thomson Reuters treatise.

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LawNext podcast

MARCH 30, 2021

In an exclusive LawNext interview, Marple and Rudy DeFelice , cofounder and CEO of KP Labs, join host Bob Ambrogi to discuss Marple’s move to the company, which spun off in 2018 from the California law firm Keesal, Young & Logan. Everlaw , the cloud-based ediscovery platform for law firms, corporations, and government agencies.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 1, 2024

. ** New Jersey Preliminary AI Guidelines Released If you’re hesitant to test drive generative artificial intelligence technology (GAI), rest assured, you’re not alone. Respondents cited many blockers to adoption including a lack of sufficient knowledge about GAI and how to use it (61%) and ethical concerns (53%).

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 30, 2023

My past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. ** LegalTech’s AI Race: A Sign of What’s to Come Last week, a generative AI acquisition in the legal technology space made news headlines. She also co-authors “Criminal Law in New York,” a Thomson Reuters treatise. Here is a recent Daily Record column.

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Colin S. Levy

MAY 9, 2023

Jason Smith has over 25 years of experience as a practicing attorney (both firm and in-house) and legal technology consultant. He focuses on emerging technology trends and innovation in the legal profession and has received the Award of Merit from the State Bar of Texas for service to the legal technology community.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

In this episode of The Geek in Review, hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer interview three guests from UK law firm Travers Smith about their work on AI: Chief Technology Officer Oliver Bethel , Director of Legal Technology Sean Curran , and AI Manager Sam Lansley. It’s just trying to make you happy.

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LawSites

JULY 2, 2021

Earlier this week, I reported that Alma Asay , the former litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory Law, has joined the law firm Crowell & Moring as senior director of practice innovation and client value. Her thought at the time was to seek a position in a law firm. “I

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Colin S. Levy

MARCH 7, 2023

We went on to develop a successful high-volume, low-cost legal services model through developing partnerships with law firms across the United States to help consumers consolidate and ultimately eliminate their debt. In 2008, I started my first company, CountryWide Debt Relief.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2023

In this episode of The Geek in Review, hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer interview three guests from UK law firm Travers Smith about their work on AI: Chief Technology Officer Oliver Bethel , Director of Legal Technology Sean Curran , and AI Manager Sam Lansley. It’s just trying to make you happy.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

Casey Flaherty has been talking about minimum tech expectations in the practice of law since 2012. His technology audit proved that many attorneys do not possess basic technology competency per Model Rule 1.1 This should not be a surprise because D. and Comment 8.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For somewhat of a time capsule of the past decade in legal technology, see my prior years’ lists of my most-popular posts: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 ). A Former Legal Tech Founder Is At the Center of the Musk Affair Allegations.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the second half of the year, leading legal technology companies like LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters announced the rollout of this technology across their platforms, and nearly one hundred other companies released beta generative AI tools, with many others in the works. Even so, I’ll give it a shot.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 14, 2023

Casey Flaherty has been talking about minimum tech expectations in the practice of law since 2012. His technology audit proved that many attorneys do not possess basic technology competency per Model Rule 1.1 This should not be a surprise because D. and Comment 8.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This was the International Legal Technology Association’s return to a live event, and I had fully intended to be there in the flesh. Price Wars in Legal Research Mean Deals for Small Firms; I Compare Costs (May 23, 2019). The 20 Most Important Legal Technology Developments of 2018 (Dec.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This was the International Legal Technology Association’s return to a live event, and I had fully intended to be there in the flesh. Price Wars in Legal Research Mean Deals for Small Firms; I Compare Costs (May 23, 2019). The 20 Most Important Legal Technology Developments of 2018 (Dec.

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