Robert Ambrogi BlogTwo events coincided to produce this week’s episode of Lawyer2Lawyer. First, the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame — an institution devoted to honoring the nation’s most exceptional trial lawyers — marked the grand opening last month of its permanent home at Temple Law School in Philadelphia. Around the same…
Re-evaluating the Sony Digital Paper, Six Months In
Last April, just ahead of its release in the U.S., I received a Sony Digital Paper tablet to test out, courtesy of Worldox, which was selected to be the device’s exclusive distributor to the U.S. market. I
Comparing Fax-to-Email Services: eFax v. Maxemail
In a recent issue of the email newsletter TechnoLawyer Answers, a lawyer asked about the easiest way to transition from a physical fax machine to a service that delivers faxes by email. Harold Burstyn, a lawyer and computer science professor, recommended the free version of eFax. This surprised me, primarily…
Electricity in the Cloud at Clio Conference
Listen. That roar you hear is thunderous acclaim for the Clio Cloud Conference held last week in Chicago. And where there is thunder, there is lightning, and the electricity at this conference produced an atmosphere that was highly charged.
This was Clio’s second annual conference, and to this grizzled veteran of way…
Estate Map Returns, in a Consumer-Facing Beta
Remember Estate Map? It launched just over a year ago as a cloud-based tool for estate planning lawyers and their clients. Then, last April, its founder, Minneapolis lawyer Joseph Henderson, announced he was closing it down. In…
Everywhere You Go, Google is Watching — and Mapping Your Location
I was in Chicago this week for the Clio Cloud Conference, where I sat in horrified disbelief as keynote speaker Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, described the extent of government snooping on our digital lives. As we all know, of course, it is not just the…
Lots of News from Clio, Including Integration with Fastcase
The Clio Cloud Conference kicked off this morning in Chicago with a keynote by company cofounder Jack Newton in which he made a number of major announcements.
Notably, Newton announced a new integration partnership between Clio and the Fastcase legal research platform, making Clio the only practice-management…
Rocket Matter’s New iPad Version ‘Not Just an App’
“This is not just a companion app to our Web version,” Rocket Matter CEO Larry Port said about the iPad app the company released today. “It is a full-featured practice management platform.”
In fact, the user interface of this new app will now drive development of the UI for Rocket Matter’s web version…
See You at the Clio Cloud Conference?
It is not too late to register for the Clio Cloud Conference next Monday and Tuesday in Chicago. I attended and spoke at the first Clio conference last year and can attest to the fact that it was well worth attending.
This year’s conference looks even better than last year’s, with…
ScanSnap’s Newest Scanner Works Anywhere with Any Device
Fujitsu today is releasing its newest scanner, the ScanSnap iX100, and it is a mobile lawyer’s dream. Lightweight and battery operated, it scans wirelessly to any computer, iOS or Android device, producing high-quality scans at a fast speed.
Wireless scanning is nothing new, of course, but what distinguishes the iX100 is that…
