If you are attending the Connecticut Bar Association’s 2016 Connecticut Legal Conference next week, I look forward to seeing you there.
I am speaking on 30 Cool Tools for Lawyers: The Latest and Greatest in Legal Tech from 4 to 5:30 p.m. I’ll be covering:
Here are the latest additions to my list of legal startups. Send additions to ambrogi-at-gmail.com.
To read more about why I created this list, see this post.…
Tom Boyle was a CPA doing bookkeeping for small law firms in North Carolina when he decided there had to be better software for lawyers’ trust accounting. Most firms he worked with used either QuickBooks or Microsoft Excel, but both were cumbersome for lawyers to use and neither was well-suited to the fiduciary…
A gamification feature allows users to earn coins as they learn the system.
The cloud practice management platform Rocket Matter today is rolling out a series of updates designed to address requests from existing customers and to help new customers get up to speed on the system.
The new features being added…
Yesterday I published a post about Derek Bluford, CEO and founder of QuickLegal, and his recent agreement to have a judgment of $559,330 entered against him to settle a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients. Bluford had not returned my call to him before I…
The plaintiffs hired California Legal Pros after seeing this webpage. Bluford is second from left in the front row.
[Update 5/26/16, 6:25 p.m.: I just received this update from ALM: “ALM recently learned of the developments regarding QuickLegal and can confirm that QuickLegal won’t be participating in Legaltech West Coast. ALM works with…
In 1996, Jerry Goldman, then a professor at Northwestern University, assembled a few dozen recordings of Supreme Court arguments and made them available through a website originally called The Oyez Project. Today Oyez, as it is now known, has grown to become the authoritative source for all of the Supreme Court’s audio…
Are lawyers relying on a false premise to be lured into buying the new .law, .lawyer and .attorney domains? That is the conclusion reached in a blog post published today by Conrad Saam, principal of Mockingbird Marketing.
Some domain resellers are heavily marketing the new domains, the latest of which, .law, went…
A firm can choose to enable UTBMS code sets and set which codes to allow or restrict.
The cloud practice management platform CosmoLex today rolled out a set of upgrades designed to extend its suitability to larger law firms. The upgrades include the incorporation of LEDES 1998B billing codes and…
Capturing and preserving web and social media pages as evidence is an increasingly common need for legal professionals. But doing it in a way that is forensically defensible and that preserves the chain of custody is a challenge.
Enter Page Vault, a company whose software accurately captures and archives web pages to be used…
As regular readers know by now, I recently started building a list of legal startups, in an attempt to develop a more-accurate list of these startups than was then available. Today, another such effort — and a much more sophisticated one than mine — is being unveiled at the CodeX FutureLaw Conference…
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