Erik Mazzone

Me and My Mini-MBA

The day started off innocuously enough. I was in a meeting with my boss and I passed him a spreadsheet I had been working on. He has an MBA and has, shall we…

Catherine Reach, Visionary Legal Tech Leader, To Join NCBA Staff As CPM Director

NCBA Membership Experience, Senior Director I am super excited to share with you that we have hired a new Director of the Center for Practice Management.…

The Future Has Arrived; Come Take a Look At Annual Meeting

“The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.” – William Gibson I’ve thought about that quote a lot over this bar year,…

Try Snapchat, and Three Other Resolutions For the Rest of 2017

Here we are a mere 60 days into 2017 and my many well-intentioned New Year’s resolutions are dead and buried with a fresh covering of rationalization and…

A Tale Of Two Legal Tech Conferences: Artificial Intelligence, Practice Management And More

It was the best of conferences, it was the … actually, they were both pretty good. Not exactly Dickens, is it? I recently attended two legal technology…

Here’s What Should Be Keeping You Up At Night

Here’s an actual email1 I received from a consulting client at the Center for Practice Management. Dear Erik, I think it is time for me to ramp up my…

On the Ides Of March, a Soothsayer’s Tips On Making Law Partnerships Last

“All happy law firms are alike; each unhappy law firm is unhappy in its own way.” Tolstoy wrote that. Or maybe it was Tolstoy’s lawyer. I forget.…

Gifts for Lawyers Who Say They Don’t Want an Apple Watch — But Really Do

Editor’s note: This article appears in the November edition of NC Lawyer.I didn’t want an Apple Watch. Really. With an iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air, I…