Bob Ambrogi

I have made no secret of the fact that I consider litigation analytics to be one of the most important technologies to have gained traction in recent years. Writing about analytics a year ago on Above the Law, I titled the post, This Tech Can Turn the Tables in Litigation. In my year-end summary…

As executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism (aka 2Civility), Jayne Reardon oversees programs and initiatives to increase the civility and professionalism of attorneys and judges, create inclusiveness in the profession, and promote increased service to the public.

In this special edition of LawNext recorded live at the recent Clio Cloud Conference in…

BigHand, a company that started with a focus on digital dictation and voice productivity and has expanded to a range of products for the legal sector, has acquired PayneGroup, a company that develops productivity software and provides training and consulting services for the legal industry.

Donna Payne, a legal technology veteran who…

In one of a series of special reports for my LawNext podcast, recorded live at the recent Clio Cloud Conference, I am joined by Nehal Madhani, an attorney and the founder and CEO of the cloud-based IP filing software Alt Legal.

We talk about the founding and growth of his company,…

Earlier this week, I posted the ballot of 26 semifinalists vying for a spot in Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2020. Now I am removing one of the startups for failure to properly qualify.

Our call for entries specified the criteria for eligibility to compete. One was that the company had never…

It was a much-different world in 2002. A Republican occupied the White House. The New England Patriots won the Super Bowl, led by a quarterback named Tom Brady. At the box office, a Spider-Man movie was a big hit. And the news cycle was taken up with talk of whistleblowers.

But…

We need your vote! Help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2020. Fifteen companies will be selected to face off in a pitch competition on TECHSHOW’s opening night and to exhibit in a special portion of the conference’s exhibition hall.

In September, we…

If you are in the Milwaukee area, the Milwaukee Bar Association’s annual Law & Technology Conference is tomorrow.

I will be there, presenting the keynote on the ethical duty of technology competence and also moderating a panel on legal analytics that features views from the bench and bar.

Below is the conference flier and you…

In another of a series of special episodes of LawNext recorded live at the Clio Cloud Conference, I interviewed Ed Walters, CEO and cofounder of the online legal research company Fastcase.

Under Ed’s leadership, Fastcase has grown to become one of the world’s largest legal publishers, currently serving more than 800,000 subscribers from around…

If you had to guess which legal research service law students prefer, you’d probably answer Westlaw. After all, back in the early days of legal research, West pioneered the idea of giving law students free access in the hope of creating career-long customers.

But a survey published today finds that law students have a new favorite,…

When I give presentations on lawyers’ ethical duty to be competent in technology, audience members often come up to me afterwards and ask something to the effect of, “Ok, I get it, but how do I become competent in technology?”

Preparing for another such talk this week, I thought I’d put the question…

After 10 years as a lawyer at two leading transactional law firms, Haley Altman decided there should be a better way to structure the workflow around the many deals in which she was involved. So in 2016, she left law practice to found Doxly, a technology platform designed to transform the archaic and chaotic process…