Here are some stories of note this week from the world of legal technology and the legal web:
Platform aims to make legal services more affordable. A new cloud-based platform called PlanetXLaw aims to help lawyers deliver legal services more affordably to low and moderate income consumers. The platform is unique in that it collects…
AppFolio opened for trading on the Nasdaq market on June 26.
Last June, AppFolio, the Goleta, Calif.-based company that owns MyCase, the cloud-based practice-management platform, completed an initial public offering in which it raised some $74 million. I cannot think of a major IPO in the legal industry in…
Bad news on the legal-media front: California Lawyer, one of the nation’s preeminent legal magazines for the last 35 years, is shutting down, according to news reports.
The magazine is owned by the Daily Journal Corporation, which publishes legal newspapers throughout California, including the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the San…
A perennial problem for lawyers is that we have far more current-awareness material to keep up with than we have time to read it all. Whether we regularly follow legal newspapers, blogs, magazines, journals or whatever, they tend to pile up unread as we try to find the time to sit down and go through…
I tend not to gush about legal technology conferences. As a veteran of more than I care to remember, they all start to seem formulaic and familiar after awhile. But after attending last year’s Clio Cloud Conference, I posted about it with the headline, Electricity in the Cloud at Clio Conference.…
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In a recent interview with legal writing expert Bryan Garner, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said that law schools need to “think in a deep way” about how to help law students become better writers, even as she acknowledged that “writing is one of the hardest things to…
Hot off the wire today: Thomson Reuters announced that its legal business has acquired Business Integrity, a company that provides document assembly and contract creation tools to law firms and corporations.
The company’s primary product is ContractExpress, an enterprise-level document automation platform used primarily at larger law firms and corporations.
Its…
Only a third of lawyers use encryption when sending confidential or privileged documents to their clients. Instead, the great majority of lawyers rely on a confidentiality statement in the message body to protect the email’s privacy.
According to the 2015 edition of the annual Legal Technology Survey Report, compiled by the…
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