Articles Posted in February, 2018

The release of a four-page memo created by Republican staffers and House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes alleging abuse of surveillance authority by the Justice Department and FBI has unleashed a firestorm of controversy. The Nunes memo alleges that the FBI may have relied on “politically motivated or questionable sources” to obtain a Foreign Intelligence…

In recent years, so-called venture studios have become increasingly popular vehicles for launching startups. The idea is to not only provide venture funding to a startup, but to actually play a role in creating and launching new businesses.

Now, CuroLegal, a company that designs and develops technology for the legal industry, has…

Two weeks after announcing her departure as assistant general counsel at Microsoft, Lucy Bassli has joined LawGeex, the artificial-intelligence contract review company, as chief legal strategist.

“LawGeex exemplifies what I hope to see more of in the legal tech space — an honest approach to sales, product development, and service delivery,” Bassli…

In 2008, a scandal rocked New York’s process-serving industry. An investigation by New York City’s Department of Consumer Affairs of the high default rate in consumer credit cases found that disreputable process-serving companies were never actually serving process, but instead effectively tossing the papers in the sewer and filing false affidavits of service. The “sewer…

The Global Legal Hackathon, which takes place Feb. 23-25 in more than 40 cities around the world, has put out a call for legal technology companies to participate.

The hackathon is inviting all legal technology companies, no matter how large or small, to participate by providing their technology,…

Just five days after the wrap of the Legalweek/Legaltech conference in New York, the ALM vice president who oversaw it is out of his job.

John Stuttard, senior vice president of global events at ALM, is no longer with the company, ALM has confirmed.

A trade show veteran, Stuttard was brought on in 2016,…

Another Legalweek is history. The conference long known as Legal Tech and then rebranded as Legaltech and now Legalweek was another cacophonous whirlwind of exhibitors, panels, briefings, receptions, and meals.

But how is the new Legalweek concept, now in its second year, working out?

I offer my take in my column this…

Last July, I reviewed PDF+, a PDF tool for trial lawyers from ExhibitView Solutions, a company that has developed several products for trial preparation and presentation. As I noted then, PDF+ is designed to be a more agile alternative to full-featured PDF programs such as Adobe Pro DC or Nuance Power…

What matters most to clients in choosing a lawyer?

Most practicing lawyers will have an opinion about that, but even better than an opinion is hard-and-fast data. And that is what is provided in the 2017 Legal Trends Report, compiled by practice management company Clio.

As part of its report, released last…

The second part of my two-part column on “The Innovation Gap” is now posted at Above the Law. (Actually, it was posted a week ago, but I was so busy with Legalweek in New York that I did not get to mentioning it here.)

If you missed the first part, my…

At Legalweek in New York, I caught up with Josh Becker, CEO of legal analytics company Lex Machina. Had no idea until we finished talking that he was running off moments later to deliver a keynote on legal analytics and the future of data-driven law.

Becker talked about developments with Lex…

Daniel Lewis was just in his second year at Stanford Law School when he had an idea for a different way to do legal research, as I recounted in this 2014 ABA Journal article. His idea was to display search results visually, along a cluster map that shows the relationships among cases and…