Bob Ambrogi

As states seek to find innovative ways to address the access-to-justice crisis, a key component has been eliminating or loosening the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. Two years ago, Arizona became the first state to completely eliminate the prohibition. Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services…

One way to avoid the cost of downloading documents from the federal courts’ PACER database is by getting them instead from the RECAP Archive, a database of millions of PACER documents and dockets maintained by the Free Law Project.

But before you can get a document out of RECAP, the document had to…

Should the legal industry have a common set of data standards for classifying the work we do? The SALI Alliance – short for Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry – believes we should, and it recently released version 2.0 of its Legal Matter Standard Specification, which sets…

When was the last time you made a substantial purchase without first reading reviews? Not in recent memory, I bet.

Recent research says that as many as 95% of people read online reviews and that 84 percent trust them as much as a personal recommendation.

Among B2B buyers, 92% are more likely…

It will be a bittersweet episode of Legaltech Week tomorrow as we toast Zach Warren, who is leaving our panel and his job as editor-in-chief of Legaltech News for an exciting new opportunity. It’s strictly bring your own champagne, but we hope you’ll join us as we bid Zach farewell.

Of course, as usual, we’ll…

New York has become the first U.S. state to mandate that attorneys take continuing legal education courses in cybersecurity, privacy and data protection.

Under the new requirement, all attorneys must complete one hour of training every two years in either the ethical obligations surrounding cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, or in the technological and practice-related…

The LegalTech Fund, which was the first venture capital firm devoted exclusively to law and legal technology, announced today that it will convene its first TLTF Summit in December — a three-day event for investors, startups and legal innovation thought leaders that will feature networking, dealmaking and educational…

Ever since we launched the LawNext Legal Technology Directory, which debuted in February, I am consistently fascinated to see the products that get added. As closely as I follow legal tech, I always discover products that are new and interesting.

Here are the 10 latest additions (descriptions taken from product listings). 

Ketanji Brown Jackson has made it to the pinnacle of the legal profession, not only becoming an associate justice of the Supreme Court with her swearing in June 30, but also as the first Black woman to sit on the court.

But, let’s face it, no Supreme Court justice has fully made it until they…

Today at 3 E.T., join us live as our Legaltech Week panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers unpacks the week’s top stories in tech and innovation, including a post-mortem on last week’s annual convention of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Attendance is free, but, if you have not already done so, you need…

It is not the typical stuff I cover on this blog, but it is difficult to overlook the fact that the woman at the center of the latest Elon Musk scandal is the former founder of a legal technology startup and a fellow at CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.

On Sunday, The…

The chief justice of the California Supreme Court, Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye, said that the state legislature is to blame for stalling efforts to bring about regulatory reforms to address the state’s gap in access to justice.

Cantil-Sakauye was the keynote speaker last week at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries.…