Bob Ambrogi

As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced legal professionals to work remotely, many are scrambling to find the best tools and technology to help them manage their legal matters and continue to closely collaborate with their colleagues. While many law firms already use Microsoft Office 365, fewer are as familiar with its core collaboration tool, 

On Friday, March 27, David C. Dobson, the chief executive officer of Epiq Global, convened a company-wide all-hands meeting. There would be pay cuts across the board, he told staff. But by making the pay cuts, he explained, the company would avoid layoffs.

Then, three days later, on Monday, March 30, the layoffs began.…

I received an email from a machine-learning company called MonkeyLearn inviting me to try its free AI-powered word cloud creator.

This tool is different from others, the email said, because its advanced relevance algorithms are able to detect words that usually go together, helping you gain better insights than with other tools on…

This week’s top story is the release of the first ethics opinion to outline and address the issues raised by working from home due to the coronavirus crisis. We’re joined by an author of that opinion, Pennsylvania lawyer Daniel Siegel, to discuss its key points. Also this week: the first major virtual legal conference…

ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association and the world’s largest annual legal tech conference, will take place in August as scheduled, ILTA’s CEO told me this week, “but it might not look like what you’d expect.”

On Wednesday, I interviewed Joy Heath Rush, ILTA’s CEO, for my

The contract management company Knowable is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with the release of two new products designed to help companies understand their crisis-related contractual obligations and entitlements, one of which it is offering free through year-end.

One of these new products, Portfolio Visibility, is a streamlined version of Knowable’s contract management…

It feels like eons, but it was just four weeks ago that I wrote in my column at Above the Law that coronavirus could be a tipping point for tech competence in law. In the weeks since, the legal landscape has been reshaped, with countless legal professionals now working from home. For many, that…

Tomorrow is week two of my live-streaming Law Insights program on Litera TV. My guest will be Joy Heath Rush, chief executive officer of the International Legal Technology Association, the world’s largest organization of those who work in or have an interest in legal technology.

Watch our conversation live tomorrow (April 15) at 10:30…

As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many attorneys and their staffs to work from home for the first time, the Pennsylvania Bar Association has issued an ethics opinion intended to provide guidance now and into the future on working from home and other remote locations.

The opinion, by the bar’s Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility…

For most of us as we’ve hunkered down in recent weeks, Zoom has become our default application for video conferencing. But while Zoom is fine for generic business meetings and virtual cocktail parties, it is not designed for the specific needs — or specific security concerns — of legal professionals.

For lawyers, there is a…

If you are suddenly scrambling for the best technology to help you work from home, then consider signing up for this webinar this week featuring a panel of legal tech experts.

I will serve as moderator for the 45-minute program, which will cover six tools available at reduced or no cost during the coronavirus pandemic. Tools…

Ever since the publication of his seminal 1996 book, The Future of Law, Richard Susskind has remained the world’s most-recognized and most-respected speaker and author on the future of legal services. But even he could not have foreseen the sudden relevance of his latest book, Online Courts and the Future of…