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Lawyer Tech Tips: Online Business Development Ideas to Try Today

Attorney at Work

During the pandemic, lawyers have experienced changes in how they connect with people — including those who might need their services. So what are some of the best online business development options lawyers have been using, and that you could be using too? Also, who is one of the busiest lawyers you know?

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Take the Money and Run? Factors to Consider Before Accepting a Big Law Job Offer

Attorney at Work

Yes, I know you’re a good lawyer, but trust me, you are not as good as the potential new firm says you are. And the longer you work in Big Law, the more you know what I mean. Even better, find departed associates who worked for the partners and get a more honest assessment. These are hardly exhaustive. How much do you care?

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Why There is No Such Thing as a New Normal

ALPS

I’ve been telecommuting for over a decade now, so when a COVID-19 stay at home order finally made its way to Montana, not much changed for me personally, at least in terms of my work routine. In fact, it actually got a bit better due to the adjustments ALPS had to quickly implement in order to enable everyone else to work from home.

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Pandemic-Related Legal Ethics Opinions: A Compendium

LawSites

The pandemic has raised a number of ethical issues for lawyers and resulted in the issuance of several ethics opinions addressing those issues. Synopsis: Working from home has become the new normal, forcing law offices to transform themselves into a remote workforce overnight. Issues addressed: Working remotely.

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TechReport 2021: Cloud Computing

LawTechnologyToday

The 2021 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report will be important historically because it gives us the first look at how lawyers responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the 2021 results might be interpreted as another example of lawyers being late arrivals to technologies widely in use in other professions and businesses.

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TechReport 2022: Cloud Computing

LawTechnologyToday

Every Wednesday, we’ll be posting a new report from one of our experts, so stay tuned! The 2022 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report showed the surge in cloud usage we expected after March 2020 starting to take off, led by solo lawyers. In 2021, 70% of respondents reported that they used cloud computing, up from 60% in 2021.

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The Cloud Provides Law Firms a Safe Place to Work

LawTechnologyToday

The legal sector has felt this particularly keenly, suddenly finding that every aspect of their business from client communication, team collaboration, to how courts function change. Traditional working practices, that have been established over many decades, have been disrupted.