Persuading lawyers is hard. Here are the necessary steps. (Video Part 1) I’ve worked closely with hundreds of legal marketers and administrators, and I have seen many of them repeatedly making the same mistake, drastically decreasing their effectiveness and career…
Will AI Render Litigators Obsolete? Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Law (Part 3) If clients could know the likely outcome of nearly any dispute within a small statistical range, will they still need litigators? For example, let’s imagine a…
“Happy Halloween!” from Your Romanian Law Firm Speaking to 50 lawyers from 40 countries at the Legal Network International (LNI) conference last week, I suggested that law firms from smaller jurisdictions could build their brands and seek referrals by connecting…
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Will Revolutionize Law. Part Two. How often are your lawyers correct? Last week, I posted the introductory part of a TED-talk style presentation I gave on some of the ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) will likely…
AI, Big Data, and Machine Learning Will Revolutionize the Practice of Law (Part 1) Big changes are coming. But what does this mean? Exactly how will this affect us? Predicting the future is challenging, but in a TED Talk-style presentation…
Four weeks. Five cities. Ten presentations. I have a pretty busy speaking schedule over the next month, presenting 10 times in 4 weeks in Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Los Angeles, and Denver (the schedule is below). If you’re in the neighborhood…
So what’s the Construction Lawyers Society of America (CLSA)? There’s been quite a bit of conversation (and some confusion) regarding the CLSA. This is a new honorary association of top construction lawyers. The invitations to leading lawyers across the US and…
Every law firm management committee member needs to read this book. The legal world has changed. The Recession changed us and, unlike previous recessions, the profession that returned was not the latest version of the status quo. We’re in the…
Helping Law Students Build a More-Successful Careers. I had the best time last week, standing on stage in Tull Auditorium at my alma mater, Emory Law School and presenting an hour-long speech to the shiny new first-year law students at the…
URGENT: Solar Eclipse-related PR tip! I recently wrote about how to get a feature story about your firm by connecting it to the Comey Hearings. Monday’s solar eclipse offers an even better opportunity to create a photo op that is…