Are you thinking about building a chatbot for your Law Firm Website? Download our handy worksheet on Five Steps to Planning a Useful Chatbot for Your Law Practice, a companion piece to our post about chatbots.
The post Five Steps to Planning a Useful Chatbot for Your Law Practice appeared first on Lawyerist.com.
In this week’s edition of How Lawyers Work, we hear from Jason Beahm. Jason is a San Francisco-based criminal defense attorney whose practice areas include DUI’s, traffic, personal injury and criminal cases.
You can find Jason on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Everything I do begins with my iPhone. Over time I use it more and all other devices less. That means that I use a lot of applications, such as Gmail, Dropbox, and Clio. These applications allow me to stay in touch with my clients and colleagues, no matter where I am.
Google Calendar. It’s simple, it works, everyone knows how to use it and it links with everything. I have it linked with Clio as well, since Clio has a calendar built in, with a sync feature. Of course, my amazing executive assistant is a huge help as well.
(Other beverages are fine, of course, but we think you should really be serving coffee!)
Right now we are serving bicycle coffee made with a Chemex pot. It’s simple and makes great coffee. If I am the first one into the office, I make it. Otherwise, a member of my team always has coffee on hand, as well as a variety of teas, sparkling water, and juices.
I love working solo at the office, from the comfort of my office chair. I also love working at Node, a tech community just down the street that puts on amazing events and has been a great source of business and inspiration.
Cameron Bowman.
The post How Lawyers Work: Jason Beahm, DJ Extraordinaire & Criminal Defense Attorney appeared first on Lawyerist.com.
Ryan Holiday joins us this week to talk about the big takeaways for lawyers from the Gawker-Hulk Hogan lawsuit and how lawyers can learn resilience from modern stoicism.
Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying; The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies like Google, TASER, and Complex, multiplatinum musicians, and some of the biggest authors in the world. He lives in Austin, Texas.
You can check out Ryan’s new book Conspiracy, here:
You can follow Ryan on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Thanks to Ruby Receptionists, Clio, and Answer1 for sponsoring this episode!
Don’t miss an episode of The Lawyerist Podcast! Subscribe now in your favorite podcast app.
If you are hard of hearing, please contact us for a transcript of this episode.
The post Podcast #166: Conspiracy and Resilience, with Ryan Holiday appeared first on Lawyerist.com.
The post Lawyerist Lab appeared first on Lawyerist.com.
This week Jennifer Gerstenzang joins us to talk about her innovative legal coaching and family advocacy services.
Surrounded by stellar criminal defense attorneys as a child, Jennifer has always respected and understood the value of personal freedom and the Constitution’s protections. Her passion for defending the accused led her to the San Diego Public Defender’s Office, where she worked with people struggling to navigate the criminal justice system. In 2015, she decided to follow in footsteps left by her parents and sister and opened her own boutique criminal defense firm, Gerstenzang Law, in Encinitas, CA.
You can follow Jennifer on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Thanks to Thanks to Ruby Receptionists, Clio, and BirdEye for sponsoring this episode!
Don’t miss an episode of The Lawyerist Podcast! Subscribe now in your favorite podcast app.
If you need a transcript of this episode, please contact us.
The post Podcast #165: Designing New Criminal Defense Options, with Jennifer Gerstenzang appeared first on Lawyerist.com.
This week, Megan Zavieh joins us to discuss the byzantine advertising rules imposed on lawyers. Plus, we also talk about her new chatbot and podcast, Lawyers Gone Ethical.
And thanks to Dan Lear for his tweet about the Small Firm Scorecard:
Just took @lawyerist small firm scorecard. Well thought out. Each question is packed with meaning. Answering honestly and thoroughly is no small feat. I think every small business (not just law firms) could benefit from taking it. https://t.co/tmiCNUmriq
— Dan Lear (@rightbrainlaw) March 12, 2018
Megan is a lawyer for lawyers—she represents California attorneys facing ethics investigations and prosecutions. She also writes, speaks, and now hosts a podcast on legal ethics issues, as well as advises lawyers who want to incorporate into their practice new methods of delivering legal services.
You can follow Megan on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Thanks to Ruby Receptionists, Clio, and Headnote for sponsoring this episode!
Don’t miss an episode of The Lawyerist Podcast! Subscribe now in your favorite podcast app.
If you need a transcript of this episode, please contact us.
The post Podcast #164: Ethically Problematic Marketing Strategies, with Megan Zavieh appeared first on Lawyerist.com.
Over the past 10 years, Clio Co-founders Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau have grown Clio from two to 250 employees, and from a new product to something that’s used by 150,000 legal professionals in 90 different countries. Here are some of the most important lessons they’ve learned along the way.
Lead the conversation
When Jack and Rian initially came up against hesitation over the cloud in the legal industry, they knew they had to lead the conversation.
They wrote white papers, took on speaking engagements, and formed the Legal Cloud Computing Association (LCCA) to set legal cloud computing standards and best practices. They even launched the Clio Cloud Conference, the biggest and best legal tech conference. Today, the cloud is generally accepted in the legal industry: 20 U.S. states have issued ethics opinions that permit cloud computing.
Communicate more as you grow
On the road from a single office to four global locations, communication at Clio has become more complex.
“Communication happens easily when you’re on small teams,” Rian explains. “Everybody knows what everybody else is doing. But with companies at scale, you have to engineer different ways of making sure everybody’s in the know, and that they have the information they need to effectively to do their jobs.”
Take time to define your values
Jack and Rian point to Clio’s values as a way they’ve successfully scaled Clio’s award-winning culture. With them, Clio has remained an environment where every employee is encouraged to innovate, share ideas, and take on new challenges.
“I think that was a key moment in our history,” Jack says. “I don’t think we would have scaled as successfully as we have without actually having our values as a touchstone that people can go to and reference on a day-to-day basis.”
Be irrationally optimistic and don’t go it alone
For Jack, it’s important to be optimistic about building a successful business, even if the odds aren’t in your favor. “There are a lot of downpoints that you reach as a founder, and if you’re not irrationally optimistic you’d just give up,” Jack explains.
Both Jack and Rian believe that having a strong friendship prior to founding Clio has supported the company’s success. “A big aspect of our joint success is having each other to lean on,” Jack says. “The whole idea is when you’re in those lows, you have someone to pick you up and help persevere.”
Invest in what matters most
One day, when Clio had about 60 employees, Rian and Jack walked into a common area at Clio HQ and saw faces they didn’t recognize for the first time. Then and there, they decided to meet every new Clion as part of the interview process going forward.
Jack and Rian being personally involved in the hiring process for every person who joins Clio isn’t necessarily something that’s scalable. However, to build a truly successful team, the pair has found some things are valuable enough to warrant the extra effort.
Learn more at clio.com
The post Lessons Learned in 10 Years (Sponsored) appeared first on Lawyerist.com.
