Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!
Legal Tech Tips: Testing Unroll.Me to unsubscribe from unwanted emails and lists. Learn more about this useful app here…https://unroll.me/?eWRkqPwA
Florida Contract Law: When Should I Review and Revise my Contracts?
If you run a business you are selling goods or selling services. In either case you will be making deals to do your business. The best reference for the terms of your deal is a written contract, not a handshake or notes on a napkin. But you got that covered, you had a contract written up when you first started business… twenty years ago. Maybe you even got a real nice official looking form from an office supply store. Better yet, you recently went online and downloaded a generic contract from the web. I cannot tell you how many times over the past twenty years I have heard business owners tell me precisely this when they seek help for a good deal gone bad. See anything wrong with this picture? As a practicing Miami contract lawyer, I do. Read more here…
Legal Tech Tips: 5 Ways to Keep Email from Ruining Your Life
Email is out of control. For many of us in the working world, there’s just too much of it. Email has become a source of anxiety, a measurement of our failure to keep up.
I’ve done a ton of reading on the subject, trying to peer over my virtual backyard fence to see how other people manage their email tsunamis.
Some people treat email like it’s Twitter: a living stream of communiqués that’s constantly rushing beneath our feet, to be dipped into when there’s a free moment — but otherwise, without feeling any obligation to answer every single one. Read more here…
Law Practice Management: Two Approaches to the Commoditization of Legal Practice
In Richard Susskind’s book, Tomorrow’s Lawyers, he predicts that legal work will fragment. In particular, he talks about “bespoke”‘ (a tailoring term for made-to-measure clothing) work. Matters requiring bespoke work need careful crafting and design from scratch; this is because each of these matters are unique, without repetitive elements and workflows. According to Susskind, bespoke matters will become increasingly rare.
Instead, because most clients have legal needs that are routine, commoditized legal work will meet the needs for most legal consumers. Employment contracts, incorporations, wills, leases, and more have become products that consumers can purchase. For many, these products will be perfectly sufficient. The law and requirements for many of these services are well established. Form and even content can be prescribed by regulation or case law. Read more here…
Thank you for reading (and sharing). Stay tuned for next week’s weekly review for Law Practice Tips!
