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Retiring Reluctantly: As lawyers age, many struggle with exit strategies

January 11, 2024

Lawyers hear it all the time: Don’t work yourself to death. They trade stories about attorneys in their 90s collapsing at their desks or on their way to work. “We know these stories because there’s some truth to them,” says Beth Slate, a Seattle-based law firm organizational development consulta...

Legal sector added nearly 5,000 jobs to kick off 2021

December 14, 2021

The United States added 4,800 legal services jobs in January after months of stagnant growth in the industry, the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. There were 1,126,000 legal sector jobs in January, the government’s monthly jobs report showed...

As Case Management Software Usage Grows, Lawyers Call for More Integrations

December 12, 2021

As lawyers continue to work from home, they are logging more of their own billable hours and spending more time overall in their case management platforms. While case management software providers are experiencing a boom in usage, lawyers are also calling for more...

Ask the Experts: What Will the Legal Industry Look Like in 2021?

December 11, 2021

Goodbye 2020 and hello to 2021! As we kick off a new year, we asked some of our Zola Suite partners to make predictions on what we can expect to see in 2021. They shared their thoughts on legal technology, remote work and the continuing evolution of...

As Remote Lawyers Handle More Admin Tasks, Firms Discover Support Inefficiencies

December 1, 2021

As Remote Lawyers Handle More Admin Tasks, Firms Discover Support Inefficiencies. More lawyers are taking a hands-on approach to more administrative matters, including time entry, opening new matters and case management as they continue to remotely work.

The Pandemic Accelerated Small Firms’ Cloud Adoption. Client Pressure Could Solidify It

August 2, 2021

The abrupt pivot to remote working might mark the unofficial beginning of cloud-based tech’s dominance in solo practitioners’ and small law firms’ practices. And even as lawyers return back to the office, clients’ cybersecurity demands will only continue to spur accelerated cloud adoption...

As Furloughs Become Layoffs, What’s Next For Firm Staff?

September 25, 2020

Law360 (September 25, 2020, 6:01 PM EDT) -- Furloughed law firm staff may have been hopeful that their employers would be able to bring them back after weathering the coronavirus pandemic, but many of them are now realizing that they are being laid off, and...

Ask the Experts: How Was the Legal Industry Transformed in 2020?

September 20, 2020

We asked Zola partners to share some of the trends they witnessed in 2020 and how they may affect the transition to cloud-based solutions. It’s safe to say that 2020 threw us all a curveball. Despite the hardships this year brought, the legal industry rose to the challenge, adapting operations and...

How Misconceptions, Overpromises Are Stifling Client Intake Tech Adoption

March 14, 2020

Client intake software hasn’t fully gained traction in most U.S. law firms. But legal tech observers say the path toward greater adoption will likely require dismantling common misconceptions that client intake software creates a tech-only process, and finding easy-to-deploy...