Total Expert Radio Recap: Legal Technology Roundtable
Monday, August 22, 2011 15:19
Earlier this month, Donna Seyle, Tom Mighell and Stephanie Kimbro joined me to discuss Total Attorneys' 2011 Small Law Firm Technology Report and their own experiences relating to the use of legal technology among small law firm and solo lawyers.
If you missed the program, you can still listen to the discussion in our archives: Legal Technology Roundtable Discussion
Some key points discussed during the program include:
- The high percentage of attorneys still using unencrypted email regularly for client communications
- ILTSO standards and how they may impact attorney willingness to implement technological solutions in their legal practices
- Emerging guidance from the ABA and state bar associations
- The trend toward web-based practice management platforms
- Client-driven advances versus implementation by increasingly tech-savvy attorneys
Some of the report findings our guests found most interesting or surprising included:
- The number of attorneys who are accessing law firm data remotely, but not using web-based platforms
- The sense that lawyers are adopting a "hodge-podge mix" of technology use rather than integrated systems
- How few attorneys are accepting online payments
We'd love to hear your impressions and experiences and how they compare with our findings!
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platforms, online payments and discussing social media and online marketing. I think it's a
good idea to use every platform available and it's interesting that facebook and other social
medias are a good marketing tool. It can make their law firm feel more personable for those
who are already confused in how to retain the right lawyer for them. The more information that
is out there for them to research, I think the more comfortable a potential client can feel with the
lawyer they choose. Being able to accept online payments is one more way to separate your
firm from someone else when easy accessibility is an important factor.