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- Managing Your Law Firm – Technology
February 6, 2023
Practical tips for law firm technology management, from auditing what you use to embracing the cloud, backups, and security, contributed by a legal practice manager.
Read more - Which Document Production System Should I Use?
September 24, 2020
A breakdown of the differences between manual production, eProduction, and eDiscovery to help litigators pick the right document production system for their case.
Read more - A Responsible Approach to Discovery
August 31, 2020
A simple two-factor framework, case size and applicable court/ethics rules, for choosing between manual production, eProduction, and eDiscovery, plus an FAQ on each.
Read more - Ready to say f#*k you to the same old, same old?
July 21, 2020
Discovery Genie's founder reflects on ignoring the naysayers who told her to stick with the status quo at every stage of her career, including when she built Discovery Genie.
Read more - Doing What Litigators Do Best.
June 15, 2020
A reminder to litigators that the traits that make them effective in the courtroom, connecting, listening, innovating, and persevering, are exactly what's needed to get through difficult times.
Read more - Small Firm Lawyers Have a Lot to Worry About
May 18, 2020
Worry is natural, but citing research that most worries never materialize, this post argues small firm lawyers should redirect worry into concrete problem-solving steps like trimming expenses and upgrading manual processes.
Read more - Why Small and Solo Firms Are Well-Positioned to Survive the Current Crisis
April 27, 2020
Small and solo firms' inherent agility, collaborative culture, willingness to experiment, and readiness to adopt new tools, is framed as a superpower for weathering the COVID-19 crisis.
Read more - Learning to live with constant change
April 7, 2020
Discovery Genie's founder recounts nearly shutting down the company in 2018 before a pivot saved it, and argues that willingness to pivot, simplify, and adapt is essential to surviving the pandemic.
Read more - Taking steps to recession proof your practice in unprecedented times.
March 16, 2020
Amid pandemic-era uncertainty, this post encourages litigators to focus on what they can control, including adopting time- and cost-saving tools like Discovery Genie to recession-proof their practice.
Read more - Why do we stick with systems that are inefficient?
February 4, 2020
Explores why business owners stick with inefficient systems, citing sunk cost and fear of change, even though inefficiency costs companies 20-30% of revenue annually according to IDC research.
Read more - Gathering Evidence
January 13, 2020
Beyond speed and price, this post argues the real costs of switching document production systems are the stress of change, confidence in a new tool, and paralegal burnout, and makes the case for Discovery Genie on those terms.
Read more - What are you proud of?
December 16, 2019
A year-end reflection encouraging lawyers to pause and celebrate their wins, paired with Discovery Genie's own highlights, including accelerator and awards recognition and product improvements driven by customer feedback.
Read more - There are 50 days left in the year… and the decade
November 7, 2019
With 50 days left in the year (and the decade), this short post uses the approaching deadline as motivation to take the first step toward changes readers have been putting off.
Read more - The Real Reason Discovery is Killing Your Small Law Firm
October 15, 2019
A solo practitioner recounts how the sheer tedium of manual document production, not just the unbillable hours, nearly killed her firm, and lays out tips for finding a middle ground between manual work and costly eDiscovery.
Read more - What are you waiting for?
September 23, 2019
A call to stop waiting to be 'picked' by circumstance and instead take action, illustrated by the founder's own decision to build Discovery Genie after years of waiting for someone else to solve her document production problem.
Read more - The one piece of advice lawyers give prospective law students
August 26, 2019
Lawyers often jokingly warn prospective law students to run, but this post reframes that advice into three concrete steps, prioritizing life outside work, managing stress, and cutting boring repetitive work with legal tech.
Read more - 7 ways smaller law firms can use technology to work smarter, not harder.
August 7, 2019
Seven practical tips for smaller law firms adopting technology, from picking the right-sized platform and balancing proportionality with duty-of-competence rules to rethinking billing practices.
Read more - Who Has Time to Be On It, When You’re Going 100 mph To Stay In It?
July 15, 2019
Using the 'sharpen your axe' metaphor, this post lays out a three-step approach to finding time to simplify and improve your workflow even when you're too busy working to stop and fix it.
Read more - What’s A Vision Got To Do With It?
June 30, 2019
Marking the Apollo 11 anniversary, Discovery Genie's founder reflects on how personal vision, from starting his own firm to founding Discovery Genie, has driven his biggest decisions, and asks readers what their own vision is.
Read more - Discovery Genie CLE presentation now available for viewing
March 10, 2019
Announces that Discovery Genie founder Dan Culhane's Colorado Bar Association CLE webinar on ethical and compliance issues in document production is now available to view online.
Read more - Discovery Genie Leadership Interviewed by Colorado Bar Association
March 3, 2019
Discovery Genie founders Dan Culhane and Brendan Haskins joined the Colorado Bar Association's 'Spilling the Tea' Facebook Live series to discuss the company's origin, mission, and approach to customer relationships.
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