With the recent Apple announcement about the Apple Watch coming in 2015, it is a good time to contemplate whether wearable technology will be good for lawyers, not so good or somewhere in between. Our new podcast is The Future of Wearable Technology for Lawyers.

“In this episode of The Digital Edge, Sharon Nelson and…

The American Bar Association is once again seeking nominations for its annual list of the 100 best legal blogs. You can find the form here (scroll to the bottom). While my blog hasn’t made this list in the last few years, I’d still appreciate a nomination. I hope you can take the time to nominate…

The news that Ross Kodner passed away from a heart attack on Tuesday, two days after his 52nd birthday has shaken all of us who knew him. He was a legal technologist before anyone knew what that term meant, one of the best, most entertaining CLE presenters a lawyer could ever hear and he was…

Failing Law Schools by Brian Z. Tamanaha was published in June 2012. Among the most startling assertions in that book was that law schools will produce 45,000 new graduates annually while only 25,000 openings for lawyers are projected each year through 2018. Professor Tamanaha includes many strong critiques of how law schools operate today.

Predictably some…

The Website of the Week this week is Unsuckit.com. The site's function is "What terrible business jargon do you need unsucked?" But it may work for legal jargon, too. Some examples:

Low-Hanging Fruit e.g.  Our budget’s tight on this one, so we need to go for the low-hanging fruit first. Unsucked: Easy goal.

For some time, it has been clear that law firms using digital client files as their primary client files (aka the "paperless" office) was becoming the industry standard and, with a few exceptions, law firms that were not on the path to make this switch needed to be.

In this month's Lawyer's USA, my column…

There's a new location for the Oklahoma Bar Association Solo and Small Firm Conference in 2010. it will be held at the Downstream Resort. We have a very nice website for the OBA Solo and Small Firm Conference that will provide you with all of the information and details.

As you can see from the…

My .latest Lawyers USA column has just been published. It is What to keep in your employee files: A small law firm's guide. Many small firm lawyers do not have well-documented files on their employees. Thanks to Detroit lawyer Rebecca Simkins giving us some tips on how to keep these files appropriately.