Articles Posted in September, 2014

The number of lawyers with legal blogs is dwindling, according to the latest Legal Technology Survey Report from the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center. For 2014, 24% of respondents in the annual survey said that their firms have blogs, down from 27% in 2013. Asked whether they personally maintain a legal blog, 8% said yes, down from 9% in both 2013 and 2012.

Last month, I wrote about A2J Author, a tool used by legal aid programs and others to create automated guided interviews to assist people in need of legal help. It is primarily used to help self-represented individuals create court and legal forms, for online intake at legal services programs, and to help guide individuals to appropriate legal help. Now, A2J Author is in the running for a 2014 Innovation Justice Award presented by the Hague Institute of Internationalization of Law. It is one of 16 finalists in the category that honors successful innovations, defined as…

Last February, I reviewed PacerPro, which I described as a better way to search federal court records than PACER. This free search tool provides an interface to PACER, while actually improving on the service with features such as real-time universal search, aggregated search results and one-click downloads of entire dockets. In the last week, there have been some notable developments regarding PacerPro. Most notably, PacerPro announced a major new release that adds two significant features: