As 2016 draws to a close, I thought I would perform an exercise of idle curiosity and look back at which of my posts were most popular during the year. I rank these based on total page views, not unique visitors.
I have two lists here. First I list the 10 most popular posts…
As this blog continues to follow the states that adopt the duty of technology competence for lawyers, there is another to add: Colorado.
That brings to 26 the number of states that have adopted some version of Comment 8 to ABA Model Rule 1.1.
Actually, Colorado adopted the rule last April. I…
My gift for the holidays was to discover that this blog was included in a clever holiday verse from John J. DiGilio, editor of Pinhawk’s Librarian News Digest and senior director of research and intelligence at LibSource. If you don’t subscribe to this digest, you should. Not only is it free,…
Prepare last rites for Lexis.com. The legacy legal research service will be leaving this world at the end of 2017.
This week, LexisNexis began notifying Lexis.com customers that it will be shutting down the service over the next 12 months and moving them to the newer Lexis Advance research platform.
“By kicking…
Catching up on some recent legal technology news and announcements of interest:
Tis the season to support free law. For websites that provide free and open access to law, there are still bills to pay. Two of the best of these sites are currently conducting fundraising campaigns. If you value free access to legal…
Here are the latest additions to my list of legal startups. This brings the list to 614 entries. Send additions and updates to ambrogi-at-gmail.com. To read more about this list and why I created it, see this post.
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Since April, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, alongside other Native American tribes, have been protesting the construction of Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline. The tribe claims that this pipeline, which will stretch from North Dakota to Illinois along a route adjacent to their land, is a threat to their drinking water, sacred land…
Let us now praise the TrackPoint.
If you have ever owned a ThinkPad laptop, you know exactly what I am talking about. The TrackPoint is that tiny red nub between the G and H keys on a ThinkPad keyboard that performs the function of a mouse or keyboard. Outperforms, ThinkPad aficionados will…
I have been helping to coordinate a competition to select 12 legal technology startups to participate in the first-ever Startup Alley at the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW conference in March.
For the first time ever, TECHSHOW is reserving a portion of its exhibition hall to showcase 12 innovative legal startups. In addition, on TECHSHOW’s opening…
Readers who click on social media posts are taken to a page branded to the lawyer.
For lawyers, the problem with blogs and social media is that they take time. And who has any excess of that?
This is the problem that a relatively new company called Scroll aims to solve,…
Aiming to help give legal tech startups a leg up, LexisNexis today announced the launch of a legal tech accelerator. It will be located in the Menlo Park, Calif., offices of its legal analytics unit, Lex Machina, and will be led by Lex Machina’s CEO Josh Becker.
Josh Becker
“The…
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