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In Part 3 of this series we talked about new competitors to law firms and some basic economics of law firms to get deeper in to the intense pressures on firms. Here we peeled back the layers of change driven from new technologies.
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In Part 2 of this series we covered the beginnings of major change in the legal market along with the initial responses from firms and lawyers.
Today, I spent a lot of time messing around with Blogger, Feedburner and Google+.
There is a lot of change afoot with the upgrades in Google+.
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I have found that librarians at law firms walk a tightrope strung over the thorny issues of cost, risk and user demands. We have a reputation of being “gatekeepers” or impeding advances in legal research by holding on to old media at the expense of new media. Although it may be
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Part 1 of this series set the stage for the perfect economic storm, covering the forces pushing change in the legal market. Part 2 covers the first pain felt in the legal market and how firms have reacted.
… and I thought I was alone… unique… special in some way. I thought I was the only blogger at my firm, but it turns out I was not alone. Yesterday, I found another person at my firm that was blogging. Not just any person either, but (“gasp”) a Partner!! Luckily, it turned out that
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Like the series on Marketing 2.0, this series on Staying Relevant is taken from an article written for an upcoming presentation. In 1999 I gave another presentation called Staying Relevant which covered a range of technologies coming online which would significantly impact the legal profession. I suggested lawyers should embrace change
Balancing out my post this week on some less-than favorable news from Texas, I wanted to share some very good news from the Lone Star State.
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Up-Front Disclosures: I volunteer for the Texas Access to Justice Commission (TAJC). Formerly, I worked with the Utah Access to Justice Planning Council and served as President of the Board of the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake.