by Dan Jaffe | Aug 17, 2015 | Dan
The phone rings. It’s an attorney. She’s frustrated. She explains to me that her firm has invested a lot of money in their firm’s website. Tens of thousands of dollars. “They’re lucky,” I think to myself. “I’ve seen much...
by Dan Jaffe | Aug 3, 2015 | Dan
The news is full of gloom and doom for law students. Job prospects suck. Pay sucks. Student loans suck. If you listen hard enough you might even conclude that finding a decent law job out of law school is like winning the lottery. And being a realist, you might resign...
by Dan Jaffe | Jun 3, 2015 | Dan
According to Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, robots will reach human levels of intelligence by 2029. Since there is wide variability in intelligence in humans, it’s a matter of degree. According to Gartner, robots are set to take over one-third...
by Dan Jaffe | Jun 2, 2015 | Dan
The legal marketplace, like the practice of law, is nuanced. There is no survey, short list or expert who can say definitively what every potential new client of every law firm is looking for when they shop. In this post we will look briefly at some of the factors, in...
by Dan Jaffe | Apr 30, 2015 | Dan
There is no better source of new clients for a law firm than referrals. All attorneys know this. But many law firms never get referrals because they don’t do these simple things. Ask for referrals. As fellow lawyers. Ask friends. Ask clients and former clients....
by Dan Jaffe | Apr 28, 2015 | Dan
Got my “eLegal” email newsletter from the Arizona State Bar Association today. Their “Eye on Ethics” feature caught my eye. The question presented is: Is block-billing unethical? The practice of block-billing, as defined in the blurb, is:...
