The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic downturn on law firm hiring is on the minds of many. While no Big Law firm has yet canceled its first-year class, many are pushing back start dates until 2021, or until after the postponed bar exams...
With the most unique and challenging school year in modern history underway, both schools and parents have been faced with tough decisions. Many schools are going totally remote, including school districts in major U.S. cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles...
Dealing with clients in a professional and effective manner is an important aspect of the legal profession. Investing in and valuing client relationships is critical to having low client churn and successful small law practice. However, the legal market is quickly...
Is the Internet Archive’s Open Library a vital channel that democratizes information access, or is it a large-scale digital piracy operation? That’s the question raised in a lawsuit filed by four major book publishers against the nonprofit information...
What’s the meaning of life? Where do artists get their ideas? What came first, the chicken or the egg? They are eternal questions—mysteries of the universe that have long defied explanation. As technology advances and human knowledge expands, the...
Attorneys are held to a high standard in all aspects of their work and responsibilities. This is important to maintain the standards of a respected profession, and it is required by the American Bar Association’s Rules of Professional Conduct. As per Rule...
We live in an increasingly virtual world. Gone are the days of relying exclusively on networking events and personal contacts to obtain clients. Digital marketing for lawyers is more important today than ever, and its value continues to grow. To help capture the...
This post was originally published in August 2020 and updated in September 2023. Small firms are expected to be everything a business is and more. They are not only providing legal representation for their clients, but they are also performing administrative...
If you’re a solo or small firm attorney, you know that networking in the legal profession is key when it comes to securing new clients. Unfortunately, as we learned with the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person interactions aren’t always an option. But even...
In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination. In the majority opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia , the court held that Title...
Spoiler alert: Job hunting during an economic downturn is challenging. A moment when businesses (including the nation’s largest law firms ) are trimming costs and laying off employees is not an ideal time to knock on the door for a job. Open positions are...
Until just recently, many state bar associations required that law firms be named after their partners. For years, law firms always went by any combination of last names. You know the drill: Donelson & Donelson, or Baker, Thompson & Roe. Essentially, names...
After working from home for months, trying to stay healthy and curb the spread of COVID-19, law firm leaders have begun determining how and when to safely transition their workforce back to the office. Now that states are beginning to lift mandatory closure orders...
Law librarians have always been a far cry from the traditional imagery that accompanies the word “librarian”— i.e. a stiff, serious sort of person who spends their time perusing dusty bookshelves, “shooshing” children and adjusting...
Not long ago, video conferencing was a fancy, ultra-modern convenience. Now it’s a necessity for law firms and their attorneys. And with the proliferation of online video conferencing services lately, most of us now feel somewhat comfortable in front of...