Robert Ambrogi

In February, Casemaker CEO David Harriman told me that his company would not fight the lawsuit filed against it by Fastcase over publishing rights to Georgia law. It appears he has had a change of heart, because on Wednesday Casemaker filed an…

The crowdsourced legal site Mootus launched in 2013 with an innovative concept: Provide a platform for “open online legal argument” so that lawyers and law students could create and share legal knowledge.

But as I noted in a post here last summer, sites that rely on crowdsourcing…

There is a side story worth noting after Monday’s announcement by kCura that it had acquired Content Analyst Company — one that I have not seen mentioned in any of the coverage — and that is the deal’s potential impact on Thomson Reuters.

kCura is the company behind…

PacerPro, the company that provides various advanced tools for searching the federal courts’ PACER system and for managing PACER documents, today unveiled Case Feed, a feature that shows all activity on all of a law firm’s PACER cases in real-time chronological order, including PDFs of case filings.

The…

[This post was updated on 3/22 to add a statement from ALM.]

As many who are involved in legal technology were on their way to ABA Techshow last week, an announcement came out that is sure to shake up another prominent legal technology conference, ALM’s Legaltech.

Henry Dicker…

Westlaw has had an iPad app since 2010. Surprisingly, however, it has not had its own iPhone app. iPhone users could access Westlaw through a mobile-optimized site. But there was no app.

Well, now there is. Last Wednesday, Thomson Reuters introduced a Westlaw app built specifically for use on…

The cloud-based practice management platform Rocket Matter today rolled out a complete, top-to-bottom redesign of its user interface — its first full redesign since it launched in 2008. The redesign also adds a new workflow tool that allows firms to create templates that automate the set up of new legal matters.

“This…

Debuting at ABA Techshow this week is a new iOS app that will allow consumers to locate an available attorney and connect with him or her instantly by video, in much the same way that someone can hail a ride on demand using the app Uber.

As of this writing, the app, which…

In the latest episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer, we look at the career, the jurisprudence and the legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia. We’re joined by two guests who knew Scalia well:…

I was a guest on The Digital Edge podcast to talk about the ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers. Host Jim Calloway and I discuss the duty in some depth, including where the duty came from and what it means for lawyers. (Jim’s cohost Sharon Nelson was not able to join…

The cloud-based practice management platform CosmoLex will be unveiling a new matter-based email integration at ABA Techshow next week. The integration will allow users to manage all their email from any email program within the CosmoLex platform and to keep emails together with all other documents and…

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Earlier this year, I announced an experiment for this blog for 2016 — accepting sponsored posts. Well, I can’t say the sponsors have exactly been storming the gates. There have been a couple of sponsored posts so far — thank you very much Smokeball…