The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Act 1, Scene 2)

There’s plenty of consternation and hand-wringing among legal pundits about the access to justice gap in our country. We’ve got panels, task forces, and enough white papers to wallpaper every courthouse in Texas.

The conversation usually centers on those who can’t afford quality lawyering (or any lawyering, for that matter), and the bloated cost of even basic legal services.Continue Reading We Talk About Access to Justice. But Here’s What Everyone Else Says About Us

Last week, the annual Clio Conference was held in San Diego. Attended by approximately 2500 lawyers, technologists, and Clio customers, it has appropriately become the go-to legal tech conference. Part seminar, part marketing, and part pure celebration, it is almost everything you want a conference to be.

Clio provides cloud practice management programs mainly to small and mid-size law firms. Also, through partnerships with countless providers, it can offer a broad array of other products to customers. At its Conference, Clio releases a valuable Legal Trends Report, which looks at the practical and business trends of its law firm customers and others.

The Conference is chock full of useful information and included keynotes from such noteworthy writers and pundits as Daniel Pink, Shaka Senghor, and Glenn Greenwald. As my friend Joe Patrice wrote in Above the Law recently, “it might be fair to say that the show is about the philosophy of all legal technology and how its product fits into that…”Continue Reading Can Clio Solve A2J?