At this time of year, every year, you can count on a regular deluge of articles on New Year’s Resolutions, “getting a fresh start,” and all types of advice to suggest that everything you did last year was a failure, and to make sure this year is not a similar disaster, you’d better get started
Kennedy-Mighell Report
Going Mobile
In this week’s edition of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, Dennis and I tackle the issue of the mobile website. There are stats out there somewhere that for most people, their smartphone is the primary way they access the Internet. So we thought we’d talk about whether it makes sense for law firms to offer mobile…
Is Blogging Dead?
Sorry for the linkbait title – but it is the topic of the latest edition of The Kennedy-Mighell Report. In “Blogging at the Crossroads,” Dennis and I discuss whether social media has made blogging less relevant, and whether we would still advise lawyers to start a blog today. We’re also revisiting Google+…
Learning Legal Technology in Law School
One of my big causes it that of getting lawyers to learn more about Law Practice Management – the business of running a law practice. One of many challenges facing our profession is the near complete lack of practice management education in law school. But in this week’s episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, we take…
Does Bad Technology Make Your Law Practice Harder?
This past week, Dennis Kennedy and I recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, titled Does Poor Technology Equal Poor Morale? We’re discussing a recent AmLaw 100 Mid-Level Associate Survey that found a great deal of unhappiness with the state of technology at mid-size and big law firms. Very interesting topic this week –…
Lawyers as Project Managers?
That’s the question we ask in the most recent episode of The Kennedy Mighell Report, titled (naturally) Lawyers as Project Managers. Dennis and I discuss the fact that project management is really catching on in law firms, primarily in the litigation support department, but also in other areas. We give some tips on how…