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No Smoke and Mirrors: Smokeball Is an Impressive Toolbox for Law Firm Management

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Smokeball has an unusual name, to be sure; but, it actually comes from a famous legal case , which just about every substantive law-loving attorney can appreciate. (I If law firm attorneys and staff hate manual time tracking – and, honestly, how could they not? I love the smell of precedent in the morning.)

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Technology Doesn’t Replace Your Law Firm’s Admin Assistants

Attorney at Work

Let attorneys be attorneys and leave the admin work to those who get paid to get it done. According to the “ 2021 State of U.S. In fact, I imagine they have no idea how busy attorneys are either. When you work at a law firm — especially for multiple attorneys — you have to be able to perform under tremendous pressure.

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TechReport 2021: Websites & Marketing

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But according to the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center’s 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report results on the use of technology in the legal profession, there is still work to be done. Since 2018, the number of respondents who have indicated that their firm has a website has climbed from 77% to 94% in 2021.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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Whereas 2020 ended with a newfound sense of the possible, 2021 ends with us still not knowing what is ahead, and therefore which way to turn. Whereas 2020 ended with great promise for regulatory reform, 2021 ends with little further progress on that front – and even retreats to some extent. I should be more optimistic.

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April calendar will be the largest of the term to date

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To equal last term’s output, the court will need to schedule another 29 arguments over this term’s last three calendars. In re Bradshaw : In this attorney discipline case, the issue is, What is the appropriate discipline in light of the record in this case? The court granted review in March 2024. More about the case here.

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Five Reasons Lawyers Avoid Retirement

Attorney at Work

According to the 2021 ABA Profile of the Legal Profession , the COVID-19 pandemic prompted one-third of senior lawyers to change retirement plans — but that doesn’t mean they decided to retire. Action: Mark your calendar now to take extended time off in the summer. Instead, 53% of those lawyers decided to push the pause button.

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TechReport 2021: Practice Management

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The ABA 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report analyzes hardware firms are currently using, the utilization of e-books by firms, and provides a multitude of analyses around software. For the first time, the majority of attorneys are reporting using a laptop computer as their primary device to conduct work. Hardware Trends and Changes.