As a practicing lawyer in the 90’s running AOL’s legal community on AOL, a community where lawyers helped people faced with legal challenges, and later started my own company to do the same, lawyers raised any number of reasons why this couldn’t be done.
Twenty years ago, lawyers told me blogs and digital publishing would
Need the head of Anthropic’s “Claude for Legal” have experience practicing law?
A number of lawyers commenting on LinkedIn have called out Anthropic for last week’s appointment of Robert Mahari, who has mostly worked in academia, for not having the legal experience lawyers in a law firm would bring to Anthropic.
Ask an AI builder for a law firm website, and you’ll have one in 10 minutes. It’ll look finished, too. But underneath the stock courthouse photo and the vague bio, there’s no real structure for case results, credentials, jurisdiction, or bar compliance. Here’s what’s actually missing.
The post Why Most AI Website Builders Fail Lawyers
Hiring attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants, and administrative staff is one of the most important responsibilities within a law firm. When a position remains open, there can be a natural temptation to keep advancing candidates even when their salary expectations are materially higher than what the firm advertised or budgeted.
That is usually a mistake.
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By Steve Fretzin and Elliot Johnson
Law Firm Marketing That Actually Works
Why simplifying your marketing strategy, building authority through content, and delivering exceptional client experiences create sustainable growth for modern law firms
Law firm marketing has never offered more opportunities or more distractions. Every week there’s a new social platform, AI tool, advertising trend,
You didn’t go to law school to worry about where your next case would come from. Yet here you are, trying to fill your caseload week after week.Employment-law SEO is harder to plan than a generic legal campaign because the audience may include employees in urgent situations, employers evaluating ongoing counsel, or both. Each group
There is a pattern I see in growing law firms all the time.
The firm is busy. There are clients coming in. The team is working hard. Revenue may even be growing.
But behind the scenes, everyone is stretched.
The owner is still involved in far too much. Lawyers are spending hours drafting documents that
RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis Legal & Professional, today (23 July) announced record half-year results, with underlying revenues up 7%; adjusted operating profit up 9%; and adjusted earnings per share up 11%. LexisNexis was RELX’s fastest-growing division, with underlying revenues accelerating from 9% in 2025 to 10% in the first half, the fastest growth rate in its