Articles Posted in 2014

Today brings the official launch of the Libra Network, a site designed to serve lawyers and legal professionals by providing a global network that will foster personal connections and professional growth, while also delivering exclusive benefits such as job listings, vendor discounts, document sharing and more. The goal…

Over the last two years, LexisNexis has been ramping up its library of ebooks, with a growing list of titles for both practitioners and law students. Law students, in particular, are key consumers of ebooks, Lexis says, citing statistics that say six in 10 college students prefer digital books over print. One of the…

[Update 3:17 p.m.: My post appears to have created some confusion. The blogs that make up the Blog Network are NOT shutting down. The Network was an affiliation of blogs that existed primarily to allow for advertising sales across the network and also for promotion and linking across the network. Primarily, it was an advertising…

The Web publication Legal IT Insider has announced a new international competition to pick the best legal industry videos. The Legal Industry Video Awards 2014 is accepting submissions from law firms, legal service providers, in-house legal and legal vendors.

The awards are open to anyone in the…

I’ve written a couple times about Lexis Practice Advisor, a set of practice-specific modules intended to provide transactional lawyers with guidance, tools and information they need for their practices. (See here when it launched and

A challenge for large law firms is keeping tabs on their talent. Which lawyers have which skills and knowledge? Who are the go-to partners or associates for specific problems or issues? The larger and more dispersed the firm, the more difficult this becomes. Lateral comings and goings only further complicate the…

As a follow-up to my post this morning about the relaunch of Law.com, and as a former contributor to Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch, I wanted to give an update about that blog’s status.

First, some history. Law.com started Legal Blog Watch in 2004, originally written by Lisa Stone. In 2006,

As I mentioned in a post here two weeks ago, Law.com had scheduled an event at LegalTech New York to launch its new website and mobile app. The site did not actually launch at the event, as I mistakenly thought it would, but Law.com staff…

I wrote yesterday about the price increase announced by the cloud-based practice management platform Clio, but there was lots of other practice-management news coming out of LegalTech New York last week. Most notably, both Clio and LexisNexis Firm Manager unveiled major overhauls of their platforms. There was also news from Thomson Reuters Firm Central…

The American Bar Association annual meeting is coming to Boston Aug. 7-12, and in conjunction with that, the ABA Journal and Suffolk University Law School are making plans to host a hackathon around the theme of access to justice.

A hackathon, Wikipedia tells us,  is an event in which computer…

The cloud-based law practice management platform Clio has raised its monthly subscription price by 47 percent, from $49 per attorney to $72 per attorney. For users who pay annually, the monthly price is now $65.

In addition, Clio has eliminated its lower subscription price for support staff. Previously, attorneys could add support staff…

Last week, a mobile-phone charging device called Jumper Card launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to pay for its first production run. Within days, it met its goal. Even so, you can still contribute and be one of the first to receive a Jumper Card when it becomes…