A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Saturday that the federal judiciary improperly spent some $200 million of the $920 million in PACER fees it collected from 2010 to 2016.
In so ruling, U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle rejected the principal arguments of both the plaintiffs and the defendants in the case. The plaintiffs…
Mark Britton
Mark Britton, the 51-year-old lawyer and entrepreneur who founded the often-controversial legal marketplace and lawyer-rating site Avvo in 2007 and served as its CEO ever since, is leaving the company.
In January, Avvo was acquired by Internet Brands, a web behemoth that already owned a portfolio of legal sites…
Here is a roundup of news this week from the world of legal technology and innovation.
Mary Juetten
A new era for Evolve Law. Three years ago, two legal industry entrepreneurs, Mary Juetten and Jules Miller, started the organization Evolve Law with the goal of promoting collaboration among innovative…
I will be speaking at several events over the next two months. If you’ll be at any of them, please say hello.
Lexpo 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 16-17. I am speaking April 16 on “The Innovation Gap: Why Law Practice has Failed to Keep Pace with Technology and What to Do About It.”…
It was every lawyer’s worst nightmare. The headline in The National Law Journal last September summed it up: “Wilmer ‘Inadvertently’ Leaks Pepsi Client Secrets to Wall Street Journal.” A lawyer at one of the nation’s most prestigious law firms inadvertently sent privileged and highly sensitive client documents to a Wall Street Journal reporter. How…
A 2017 Altman Weil survey found that half of law firms say they are actively engaged in creating special projects and experiments to test innovative ideas and methods. But a newly released survey finds that the corporate clients of those law firms are seeing little or no actual change in how law…
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act that took effect Jan. 1 made major changes to U.S. tax laws, including with regard to estate and gift taxes. Needless to say, attorneys who practice in this area need to be well versed in the changes and their implications. A new tool launching this week from Wolters…
With the May 25 deadline fast approaching for companies to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, many smaller companies have yet to take action, stymied in part by the high cost of compliance. A recent survey by the law firm Paul Hastings said that Fortune 500 companies will…
The practice management platform CosmoLex has been approved by the Law Society of Alberta as a software vendor for its Electronic Trust Transaction Reporting Program.
The approval means that the Law Society has certified CosmoLex as compatible and in compliance with its requirements for uploading trust transaction data. The Law Society requires…
Raza Hasan is a proselytizer for fixed-fee billing. Which may seem odd, given that his company, TimeSolv, sells a product for lawyers to track their time by the hour. But what is not so obvious is that the same product can be used to bill on a fixed-price basis – and to…
Catching up on some recent stories of note.
Twitter bot follows big cases. The aptly named Big Cases Bot follows major cases in the Supreme Court, federal circuit courts and federal district courts, including Mueller prosecutions and challenges to Trump’s executive orders. The full list of cases it is following can be seen
The Nigerian winning team, Team Lemon.
The Global Legal Hackathon has announced the 14 teams selected to go on to the final round gala April 21 in New York, where they will pitch to a global panel of judges in front of a live audience. The list of finalists is below.…
Robert Ambrogi Blog
