Bob Ambrogi

What does it mean to practice data-driven law? On this episode of LawNext, I speak with Jeff Pfeifer, the LexisNexis vice president charged with driving overall product strategy for LexisNexis Legal and Professional, North America. Over the past several years, Pfeifer has spearheaded a series of acquisitions and product developments, all…

In June, I wrote about a new legal industry award intended to honor innovation in legal practice and legal technology, The Changing Lawyer Awards, for which I was to be one of the judges. Now, the results are in.

The sponsor of the awards, Litera Microsystems and its online publication The Changing Lawyer, announced…

The Australian legal technology company Legaler has raised $1.5 million to be used to help build a proprietary blockchain aimed at bridging the global gap in access to justice.

Legaler’s blockchain will provide the infrastructure and developer tools for legal services providers to build their own secure and scalable decentralized applications, the company says.…

It was around the world in 40 days — the legal tech world that is. Earlier this year, Dera Nevin traveled to 19 destinations in 15 countries on six continents over 40 days, meeting with legal hackers and legal entrepreneurs all over the world. The trip, in conjunction with the Global Legal Hackathon, taught her…

[Editor’s note: This is a guest post by veteran e-discovery consultants Tom O’Connor, director of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center, and Don Swanson, president of Five Star Legal.]

Nine years is a long time for technology. In 2009, eDiscovery expert Craig D. Ball issued his EDna Challenge, asking eDiscovery lawyers and…

Law students at BYU Law School’s year-old LawX Legal Design Lab and the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law’s newly launched Innovation for Justice program will join forces this year to explore ways to reduce evictions in their home states of Utah and Arizona and beyond.

Both the LawX and…

[Editor’s note: I am serving this year on the committee that will select the winner for the fourth annual Monica Bay STEM Leadership Award, named in honor of my friend and former colleague Monica Bay, the longtime editor of Law Technology News. Below is the committee’s press release announcing the opening of the process…

The virtual receptionist service for law firms and other businesses, Ruby Receptionists, introduced a new plan this week designed specifically for solo attorneys and solo business owners.

The Ruby Solo plan provides solos with a local phone number that rings through to their mobile phone, live telephone answering in English and Spanish by a team…

As was reported here yesterday, it was revealed that Dan Liutikas, CEO of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), would be leaving to pursue another professional opportunity. The news came just days before the start of ILTACON, ILTA’s annual education conference, which begins Aug. 19 in National Harbor, Md.

The timing of the…

Two years ago, James Sandman, president of the Legal Services Corporation, urged that one way to accelerate technology adoption in the legal industry would be to assess and rank law firms based on their use of technology. Last year, Daniel W. Linna Jr., then director of L LegalRND: The Center for Legal Services…

Exactly one year ago today, the headline on this blog read, Just Days Before Its Annual Conference, ILTA Reshuffles Its Management. One year before that, again just ahead of its annual conference, its longtime executive director Randi Mayes announced her retirement. Well, here we go again.

Legal IT Insider reported this morning that Dan…

LAWCLERK, a legal services marketplace where solo and small-firm attorneys can hire freelance lawyers for short-term projects, is announcing today its new integration with the practice management platform Clio.

With the integration, firms that post projects to the LAWCLERK marketplace will be able to synchronize them to the pertinent matter in Clio. Synchronization…