On Friday, our Legaltech Week panel of journalists convened for another look back at the week’s top stories in legal technology and innovation. If you missed it, you can listen to the podcast version above or watch the full video below.
Among the stories we discuss edthis week were a Law.com series on the…
Our Legaltech Week roundtable of legal tech journalists is back today at 3 p.m. Eastern time, where we hash out the week’s top stories in legal technology (and beyond).
It is free to attend the Zoom webinar, but you must preregister. We’d love you to join and share your thoughts and questions as well.
This…
I will be part of an international media panel tomorrow that will discuss how legal tech startups can get exposure for their companies.
Sponsored by the European Legal Tech Association, the free 90-minute panel starts at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time.
Other speakers are:…
Each week, we’re highlighting one of the resources from our recently launched LawSites Resource Center, a library of downloadable content such as ebooks, white papers, case studies and more from experts and vendors in the legal industry.
This week’s featured resource:
Future-Proofing Corporate Data Privacy: Budgeting and Solutions to Address.
Description:
FTI Consulting surveyed…
A survey of private equity firms in the U.S. and U.K. finds that a softening market for M&As and fundraising, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is causing them to scrutinize their external legal spend more carefully than ever before.
But even as this occurs, many of these firms still lack legal spend management technology and…
Ed Sohn, a veteran managed services executive who last year joined EY Law when it acquired Pangea3 from Thomson Reuters, has now joined Factor, the managed services company that spun off last year from legal services company Axiom, where he will serve as its head of solutions.
After starting out as…
Ever since its 2008 launch by the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the Cadwalader Cabinet has been recognized as an innovative and practical research and intelligence platform for news and analysis of U.S. financial regulation.
Now, a content partnership between Cadwalader and legal research company Fastcase promises to make the platform…
Yesterday kicked off the 2020 annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries, which runs all this week through Friday. It is the AALL’s first virtual conference, and it comes at a time when legal information professionals, like so many in the legal profession, face challenges and uncertainty on multiple fronts.
Recent years have…
Among the lessons for law firms that came out of the recession of 2008 was that diversity and inclusion initiatives suffer during an economic downturn, says Bryan Parker, chief executive officer of alternative legal services provider Legal Innovators.
It took a decade before the numbers of Black and LatinX attorneys at large law…
Here’s one that gets a bit meta. Back in November 2017, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi spoke at BYU Law School about a lawyer’s ethical duty to be technologically competent. The talk prompted the school to explore ways it could help students improve their technological abilities.…
Earlier today, I reported on the motion to dismiss filed by ROSS Intelligence in a lawsuit filed against it by Thomson Reuters. Now, a TR spokesperson has issued a statement in response to the motion.
Here is the statement:
“Nowhere does ROSS deny that it surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw. It did…
After legal research goliath Thomson Reuters sued legal research startup ROSS Intelligence on May 6, alleging that it stole content from Westlaw, ROSS responded with a vow to fight the lawsuit, denying it did anything wrong and portraying the lawsuit as an anticompetitive tactic by TR to squelch an up-and-coming competitor.
UPDATE:
Robert Ambrogi Blog
