David Chodikoff, a tax litigation lawyer at Miller Thomson, spoke with Blue J Legal about how innovation in the practice of law, such as adopting new technologies like Blue J Legal’s Tax Foresight, is key to staying ahead of the curve.

This is Part One of a new series based on the TEDx talk, Transcending Books: What’s Next For Law and Society, given by Blue J Legal's CEO, Benjamin Alarie. 

A report looking closely at the legal industry found that legal professionals, on average, are missing out on about six hours of billable time every day.

This week’s blog post centres on a question in BJL’s FAQ section:

Q: Why would a client pay me to use this system when they could pay for access themselves and get their own answers?

Altman Weil, Inc. has released their Law Firms in Transition survey for 2018, and it offers a number of insights about why law firms have been slow to incorporate new technology into their practices.

40 years ago, a $99 piece of software transformed the accounting profession. VisiCalc, developed by Harvard business student Dan Bricklin, was the first affordable and interactive electronic spreadsheet.

According to the Federation of Law Societies Canada, in 2016, there were 8,360 small and medium-sized law firms in Canada.