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Many businesses and law firms attempt to create their own website. With powerful platforms such as Wix and Squarespace, the creation of a website can appear easy and inexpensive. However, there are dangers to creating your own DIY website that in the end will cost you more time and money....

It was a year of precipitous change. It wasn’t just that it was a markedly different market, it was the speed with which it happened. As a cultural matter, we decided we’d be aggressive about hiring. And in the most competitive war for talent I’ve ever seen, we were winners in that. But viewed...

Donald Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina has earned a lot of side eye in this column. But to his credit, Tacopina did not oppose Judge Lewis Kaplan’s sua sponte proposal to impanel an anonymous jury for the upcoming trial in the defamation and battery case filed by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll...

In a move that sets a new standard for chutzpah, seven members of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office have brought a suit against Afroman for the “emotional distress, embarrassment, ridicule, loss of reputation and humiliation” they say they incurred when he publicized that they baselessly raided...

Anyone who’s been paying attention to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health draft leak suspects the leak came from one of the conservative justices or their inner circle since they’re the only folks with any motive. And, as many anticipated when the leak first happened, it turns out...

A federal appeals court has ruled that a Tennessee legal ethics lawyer who was fired for tweeting about Islam can seek damages against his former supervisor. A lawyer who was under investigation by the board complained that the tweets demonstrated substantial bias against Muslims, which chief...

Kyle Duncan’s name has been in headlines recently on account of his belligerent refusal to explain his judicial reasoning when directly confronted coupled with his schoolyard insulting of Stanford Law students who disagreed with him. In response, Stanford put its diversity Dean on administrative...

As of this writing, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has not yet indicted Donald Trump in connection with the 2016 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. But that hasn’t stopped the former president’s pals in Congress from riding to the rescue like a pack of howler monkeys. On Monday, the...

Unlike many other instances where California leads the way, it will bring up the rear in proposing a new rule (all the other states have them pursuant to ABA Model Rule 8.3) that permits an attorney to file a complaint with the state bar against another attorney if certain criteria are met. The...

Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Lindsay Kennedy back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. ChatGPT is the new hotness — that trendy, new...

Lawyers often need to act differently toward smaller clients than they do toward larger ones. Smaller clients often have smaller budgets, so legal work can have a big impact on their bottom lines. Moreover, smaller clients might not have much experience with legal issues, and more hand-holding...

On February 24, 2023, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania issued a ruling that should be highly troubling to LGBTQ+ parents everywhere. In the case, the court denied parental rights to Nicole Junior, who was not genetically related to a child carried by her wife, Chanel Glover. Glover conceived...

I’ve spoken with a lot of lawyers who want to make their own software. In fact, as a creditor’s rights attorney, I knew quite a few who developed platforms for their own use. Many of them entertain the idea of selling these platforms to others. Yet, few of them try, and still fewer of them are...

Welcome to The Lawyerist Podcast, a series of discussions with entrepreneurs and innovators about building a successful law practice in today’s challenging and constantly changing legal market. Lawyerist supports attorneys, building client-centered, and future-oriented small law firms through...

Has the feedback you’ve received from your client surveys been lackluster? We aren’t talking about unhappy clients or low scores. We’re talking about feedback that is beneficial to help your small law firm grow, evolve, and better serve your clients. According to Ashley Steckler, Lawyerist Product...

Welcome to The Lawyerist Podcast, a series of discussions with entrepreneurs and innovators about building a successful law practice in today’s challenging and constantly changing legal market. Lawyerist supports attorneys, building client-centered, and future-oriented small law firms through...

Communicating well with clients and other counsel rarely wins awards (although we think it should). Doing it poorly, however, can alienate clients and even threaten a lawyer’s livelihood. It’s not necessary to become a master of all forms of communication in an office. But it is imperative to have...

Our firm compared many legal management software programs before we decided to go with Zola Suite. In fact, Zola Suite and Clio were our top two contenders. For a start-up solo practitioner, I must say that Zola Suite is the best choice for us. Our firm needed a program that will not only allow us...

Many lawyers begin their firm automation processes at client intake. This is generally a good idea. Yet, fully streamlining the myriad interactions can seem impossible. Firms need to account for preferred timing, methods, and comfort levels of communication on the part of the clients. They also...

Buying a laptop for a law office is actually quite easy. Once firms understand that the computer is only a tool doing a specific job, a lot of the consternation falls away. Questions like, how fast should the processor be, or what size hard drive should we buy, are easily answered. What is it that...

Welcome to the Lawyerist Podcast, a series of discussions with entrepreneurs and innovators about building a successful law practice. In today’s challenging and constantly changing legal market, Lawyerist supports attorneys building, client-centered and future-oriented small law firms through...