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Differentiating your law firm in a competitive market is essential for success. Dan Lear talks with session speakers Bob Simon, Rob Dickson, and Jenny Dingus about highlights from their panel geared toward midsize and large law firms. In the new age of AI, they discuss the latest implementations for legal software (including Clio Grow), genAI tools, automation, marketing, and more, helping firms understand how to adapt to changing trends.Robert Simon is a trial lawyer and founder of the Justice Team and Justice HQ.Robert Dickson serves as the Managing Partner of Dickson Frohlich Phillips Burgess, PLLC, one of the fastest-growing law firms in the Pacific Northwest.Jenny Dingus is the Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Clio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As genAI continues to edge into all facets of our lives, Dr. Megan Ma has been exploring integrations for this technology in legal, but, more importantly, how it can help lawyers and law students hone their legal skills. Dennis and Tom talk with Dr. Ma about her work and career path and many of the latest developments in legal tech. They take a deep dive into a variety of burgeoning AI tools and trends, and Dr. Ma discusses how her interdisciplinary mindset has helped her develop a unique perspective on the possibilities for AI in the legal profession and beyond. As always, stay tuned for the parting shots, that one tip, website, or observation that you can use the second the podcast ends.Have a technology question for Dennis and Tom? Call their Tech Question Hotline at 720-441-6820 for the answers to your most burning tech questions.Dr. Megan Ma is a Research Fellow and the Associate Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology and the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX). Show Notes KMR Episode 376: The Language of the Law, by David Mellinkoff Stelo - Glucose Biosensor  Thinking about AI in a new way… Logical fallacies: Seven ways to spot a bad argument Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zack talks with executive coach, Kevin Deshazo, about leadership on a team, in your firm, and in your life. They discuss the power of morning routines, personal statements, and how our views of who we are can affect our performance. They also dive into firm leadership and how casting a vision for your team can be scary but is necessary to get everyone rowing in the same direction.  Zack also talks with Sam Youngblood of Omnizant Marketing about how lawyers should approach content writing on their website and in social media.  Links from the episode:  www.omnizant.com  www.deshazo.me ABA Task Force for Democracy ABA Task Force for Democracy   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From young attorneys to the Chief Justice, a lot of lawyers are dropping the ball.-----We've got some young lawyers out there who don't understand the basics of professionalism and it runs a lot deeper than just lacking experience. That said, there are some experienced attorneys falling down on fulfilling a different set of professional obligations. Meanwhile, Chief Justice Roberts is apparently very, very sad that the public didn't appreciate his latest Constitutional rewrite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To celebrate and reward folks who are utilizing Clio to the maximum degree, the Reisman Awards honor those who stand out with excellence in their legal practice. Laurence Colletti talks with Taylor Lecky and Nick Anderson about the selection process, and they also highlight some of this year’s winners.Taylor Lecky is Customer Marketing Manager at Clio. Nick Anderson is Senior Vice President of Customer Success at Clio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The generative artificial intelligence tool is not just designed to transcribe depositions. It looks for inconsistencies. It suggests questions to ask. It analyzes the transcript in real time to see whether there are issues that have to be cleared up or areas of weakness to address. In other words, it's like having another attorney in the room—only one who's capable of digesting large amounts of data and analyzing it quickly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ed Herman discusses the power of brand affection in marketing. The firm’s Emmy Award winning corporate videos, “Three Layers Eating Sandwiches” “Ed Versus” “Terry’s Safety Squad” and others have been watched for over 1.8 million hours. That’s a lot of name recognition! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The infamous cheating scandal from the 1919 World Series, between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds, broke America’s belief in the purity and innocence of baseball. As the story slowly unfolded, it became filled with all the colorful characters you’d expect from 1920s America: baseball players with catchy nicknames, short-tempered gangsters/gamblers immaculately dressed in business pinstripe suits, newspaper reporters and radio broadcasters with flowery descriptions of the trial as if itself was a baseball game, and even New York mob boss Arnold Rothstein, who was alleged (but never proven …) to be the impetus of the scandal.Unfortunately, the Black Sox trial transcripts were lost long ago, requiring modern-day historians to rely on newspaper reports of trial testimony, which sometimes were sensationalized for their readers and at other times were directly contrary to one another. From this reality, admittedly many of the facts about the scandal we examine in this episode are (true to this show’s title) In Dispute.LINKS: Sign up for our newsletter so that you’re the first to know when new episodes drop! Listen to J. Craig Williams’ other podcast, Lawyer 2 Lawyer. Tell us what you’re looking forward to the most for this show on LinkedIn, Facebook, X or Instagram!  Purchase the e-book.   SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR VOICE ACTORS:Todd Berger as Eddie CicotteBrandon Harpold as Shoeless Joe Jackson Adam Lockwood as Carl Victor LittleAlan Chudnow as “Sleepy Bill” BurnsChad Trudeau as James “Ropes” O’BrienDennis Kennedy as David Zelzer Tom Mighell as Al SpinkJim Brady as Commissioner Landis Lily Spader as Newspaper Journalist #1Nathan Todhunter as Newspaper Journalist #2Thomas Wolfe as Radio Broadcaster #1Cari Lockwood as Radio Broadcaster #2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode’s discussions around the Community Table: The ROI of hiring. It’s important. You may think hiring someone, say a paralegal, will cost you money. Successful firms won’t consider hiring someone if they don’t already know they’re going to make money. Firms use benchmarks to weigh the cost of a new hire against anticipated additional revenue. This is math, not “gut feeling,” and you can do it! Listen to find out how. Dive into the results of a legal industry “secret shopper” study by Clio. The scientific data shows law firms stink at answering calls, responding to emails, and even monitoring chatbots. The first rule of success? When a potential client knocks, open the door. Can AI help? How do you incentivize a high performing team? What kind of rewards are appropriate? And if your team is already firing on all cylinders, what else can you incentivize? Hear how you can help high performers earn more and grow by finding new tasks where they can take over and excel.   Mentioned in This Episode:Moneyball, what your firm can learn about ROI from a movie about baseballGoogle local search ads, be betterTips for better Google reviewsListen to the On The Road episode featuring Joshua Lenon Clio Legal Trends ReportClio For Clients appCliocon 2024Join the next Community Table live. What’s on your mind? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephen Bright made it his life's work to unleash social change by representing unpopular clients--namely those on death row. Remarkably, he succeeded, winning all four cases he argued before the Supreme Court. Robert Tsai chronicles Stephen Bright's decades long fight to ensure equality under the law that is still being challenged at the Supreme Court today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices