Well I have been out-of-pocket this week since I traveled to D.C. to witness the Inauguration with my lovely wife. We had an incredible time. We had tickets in one of the front sections with seats and actually made it there in time to see the whole thing. We also made it to the reception
If you’ve followed my “product review” blog posts in the past, you know that I am a sucker for presenting information in new and entertaining ways. Well, I found a tool from IBM that really excites me about how information can be presented in ways that help the end-user quickly grasp large amounts of information
One of the best sayings about the Internet is that it is a place “where no one knows you’re a dog.” However, tonight we are taking the leap and going to actually meet-up, or more appropriately, Tweet-Up with some of our local social media comrades. The first, of what I hope will be many, Houston
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
Sun-Tzu
To fully appreciate and understand the challenge of How To Alternative Bill, we should explore the various aspects of the challenge. This means we should explore all the reasons lawyers and firms have not embraced new ways of billing
Although Toby is the master of this discussion, I thought I’d chime in with some open-ended questions of my own. There has been a lot of talk about attorneys moving away from the billable hour method and look toward either flat rate or some type of maximum billable rate in order to coax more
Last year I had the opportunity to speak with Ron Baker. I’ve previously mentioned him in relation to alternative billing as he is a guru on the subject for the broader professional services arena. The conversation started with him going in to why large firms need to move away from the billable hour. I
Larry Bodine recently blogged about Attorneys Flocking to Twitter listing the the following reasons:
- Because lawyers don’t have time to update their own bios.
- They don’t have time to write articles.
- They don’t have time to update a blog.
Since the first day I walked into a large law firm, I have been amazed at the vast amount of information that is compiled within the four walls of each of these firms. Even more so, I’m am amazed at the normalization of the data that is compiled. Each office has a specific designation number;
Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shift theory says that once a system (usually a scientific school of thought) has answered all the questions it can and then created a bunch of questions it cannot answer, a shift occurs and a new system emerges designed to answer these new questions. These shifts occur over time as schools of
Having touched on Semantic Search in general terms, this post explores it in a bit more detail. Having watched a series of webcasts from Semantic Universe on the tools of Web 3.0, I have been on the lookout for interesting semantic applications that shed more light on the power of Web 3.0. From my subscription