Rapid turnover, multi-entity structures, and rising compliance demands are putting significant strain on the finance teams of real estate companies that still rely on manual, fragmented processes. These pressures surface as data gaps, slower reporting cycles, and limited clarity into critical indicators such as occupancy trends, delinquencies, and property-by-property performance. A recent Deloitte survey found
AI Isn’t Eliminating Legal Librarians, It’s Expanding Their Role
As reported (password protected) by Amanda Robert of the ABA Journal,
“Law librarians are pushing back on the idea that generative artificial intelligence will eventually replace them. If anything, they have become more relevant as they test and promote new AI-based tools for government, law schools and law firms, says Jenny Silbiger, the president
Here’s One Thing That Won’t Change Any Time Soon
My friend and I were having one of those conversations that seem more prevalent with each passing year. We were running through a list of relatively dramatic changes over the last couple of years.
Maybe you’ve had your own version of this discussion. Ours covered a broad spectrum, from changes in football rules to the
How to Show Up as a Leader in ChatGPT Search Results
Before someone reaches out, they usually take a minute to look you up. They read a few things. They see what comes up. They try to get a sense of who you are and what you do. These days that often includes ChatGPT, right alongside Google and LinkedIn.
What they see in that moment quietly
What NOT to Automate in Your Law Firm Marketing
Automation makes a lot of things easier, but it doesn’t make everything better.
The appeal is obvious: fewer manual tasks, more efficiency, better consistency. And for solo and small firm owners, automation can save hours a week. But there’s a point where it stops being helpful and starts eroding the trust you’re trying to build.
Forget Atticus Finch. Joe Rogan should be your role model
Attorneys and their law firms should strive to become THE destinations for thought leadership in the eyes of their clients and referral sources—not merely sources of it.
Is there another attorney, fictional or otherwise, who has inspired more attorneys to pursue the practice of law than Atticus Finch?
While defending Tom Robinson in his trial
Matter-Aware AI for Lawyers: What It Is and Why It Matters
What is matter-aware AI?
Matter-aware AI is legal artificial intelligence that connects directly to your practice management system and automatically understands your entire case file (—your documents, timeline, work product, and matter details) —before you even ask a question.
Most AI tools work differently: You type a question, they search a database, and return an
How to write a blog post in five minutes
Would you write more blog posts or newsletter articles if it only took a few minutes?
You can. Using voice dictation. Something I’ve done for many years.
When I was in law school and clerked for my father, I dictated everything on a belt-driven recording machine or a cassette tape recorder, and a secretary would
The Real-time Record-to-Report Transformation for Continuous Close
Finance leaders deal with two timelines at the same time. A business-focused timeline that runs on daily signals: shifts in pricing and demand, disruptions in supply, and cash movements that do not wait for the calendar. And then there is the month-end timeline, which is the most reliable financial view of performance. This was an
How One Lawyer Helped Define What Blogging Could Be
Long before blogs were common in the legal profession, Ernie Svenson, widely known as Ernie the Attorney, was already writing online and figuring things out as he went. Svenson was among the first lawyers to experiment with publishing on the internet, not as a marketing tactic but as a way to connect, think out