The Human Lawyer is an interesting label. It is interesting because those of us focused on legal technology have now seen dozens of news articles, columns and blog posts about whether robot lawyers or Artificial Intelligence tools are coming for our jobs. Colin S. Levy’s insightful blog post is not about that subject.
I try
Building a Cutting Edge Virtual Law Firm is the subject of our July 2019 Digital Edge Podcast. (Our 138th podcast!) Our guest is Brooke Moore, the founder of MyVirtual.Lawyer, an online law firm model providing flat fee and subscription based limited scope services. She also co-founded MyVirtual.Lawyer for Attorneys which provides automation and consulting
Did you know that students entering law school have same rate of depression as the general population (approximately 7%), but by the time they finish their first year of law school 34% experience depression? This statistic is from a new book from the ABA, The Full Weight of the Law: How Legal Professionals Can Recognize
A feature in the New York Times this weekend, The Lawyer, the Addict, is a compelling read, made so in large part by the writer’s viewpoint from outside of the profession.
Those of us in the profession have repeatedly heard the statistics on lawyer depression, addiction and suicide. In every one of those areas
There is clearly a difference between a lawyer who shows up at work at a law firm employing hundreds of lawyers and scores 
of support staff and a lawyer who shows up at his or her solo practice and greets his or her legal assistant, the only other employee of the practice.
While those differences still
My Struggle for Perfectionism: The Myths and Realities of Being a Young Lawyer is a great read, about a topic which covers one of the challenges facing our profession. I sometimes joke to audiences that one of the problems with being a lawyer is we only have two standards of conduct: perfection and malpractice.
Those fine folks from AttorneyatWork asked me to offer some reflections on my thoughts after ABA TECHSHOW. Since I had already written one such piece for the Oklahoma Bar Journal (soon 
to be published- watch this blog or the bar journal), I had to decline of course happily accepted, not exactly knowing what I
Sometimes life (and law practice) can be a grind.
But often it is all about your attitude.
Here are a few tips for escaping the negative feelings of being in a daily grind.
“An ancient bit of large law firm wisdom was that there were three types of lawyers: finders, minders and grinders.” That’s how
Toward a Less Stressful Workplace is my column in the January/February 2015 issue of Law Practice Magazine. Law offices often deal with very high stakes matters under strict time deadlines. It is not news to those in the legal profession that there is a lot of stress associated with being a lawyer. So there
Every year about this time, Sharon Nelson and I do our fun annual tech toys podcast. This year's edition is ‘Tis the Season: Tech Toys for the Holidays 2015.
Some of these tech toys are related to the legal profession, but most are just for fun. For example, many backyard grillers might like the Steakchamp
