Regardless of where you are in your career, it can be much easier (and more cost-effective) to buy a law practice than it is to start one on your own.
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The actual practice of law is a lot different -- and a lot less intriguing -- than most law students might believe.
Current laws allow only humans that passed a bar exam to practice law. But if non-humans could practice law, should we have AI lawyers?
Like it or not, the law is a customer service profession. Getting clients and keeping clients depends on your ability to please clients. As the old cliche goes, the best way to do that is to remember that
Can you be "successful" practicing law this way? Columnist Susan Cartier Liebel offers her thoughts.
Sometimes older attorneys bring a great deal of swagger to their legal practice, and this can be a valuable resource for them.
Well, statistically nobody. According to a survey done by case management software company Smokeball, only 9% of legal tech employees have a legal education. When it comes to career background, only 18% of employees come from the legal industry in general. The survey doesn't specify how many of the 9% of employees
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So you've decided to go solo? As you already know, it's tough out there, and getting clients can be a real chore. But now that you're committed, you're faced with a question that you may not have even considered when...
If you're finally ready to hang your own shingle, there's one thing you need to keep in mind: running a law firm means running a business. Even if you're the sharpest legal mind in the state, you're not going...
As a small business, you may think employment law doesn't really apply to you, but you'd be wrong.
For lawyers comfortable with the processes and methods on which they’ve relied for years, the AI phenomenon may still seem a bit too obscure. But the...
"Self-care? Are you kidding? I have to work as much as humanly possible."
If you're doing any of these things, you're doing it wrong.
Do you have lots of standardized documents in your law practice? Is the paperwork becoming an overhead for you? Are you using a lot of manpower to prepare the forms, templates and lists for your routine documents? If so, have you ever thought how much human resource does it take to do these routine …
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Facing frustration—and sometimes litigation—over their approach to motherhood and parental leave law firms are wrestling with how far to go to support new parents.