traditionally don’t go together. When I was articling at a large Vancouver law firm, a few of the most senior partners didn’t even type. They dictated all corresondence and had secretaries send their email. Law is about applying precedent set by the past, and the job of interpreting and applying the dictates of the branches of government (legislature, judiciary and executive) has tended to draw a more conservative crowd to private practice.
As a lawyer now practicing as an association of law corporations (Sager Anderson) after having been a large firm associate, the first thing that struck me was an incredible feeling of autonomy from the external pressures of the billable hour and partner supervision. That lasted until my next realization: no paycheque was going to arrive in my bank account on a predictable bi-monthly basis & worse – I was going to be responsible for the regular paycheques of someone else. Haphazard business management techniques prevailed until Andrew put me onto the E-Myth and the search for the holy grails of systemization and efficient practice commenced.
Which brings me to technology & law. Early in my entrepreneurial journey, I attended The Pacific Legal Technology Conference, founded and chaired by the extremely smart and helpful David Bilinsky who is the Practice Management Advisor of the Law Society of British Columbia.
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