Just this morning, the Virginia Supreme Court entered an order making the Old Dominion the 18th state to adopt the duty of technology competence for lawyers. It will take effect on March 1, 2016.
(For the full list of states that have adopted the rule, see my earlier post.)
Today’s order…
It has been some time since I last wrote about the Sony Digital Paper tablet, but Sony just rolled out some updates to it that enhance its usefulness to legal professionals.
By way of reminder, the Digital Paper is a device for taking digital notes and for reading and annotating…
I will be participating tomorrow in a free CLE-accredited webinar, The Legal Ethics of TAR: An Ethical Primer on the Use of Advanced Technology in Litigation Support, presented by Bloomberg BNA and the e-discovery company Catalyst.
The program is Thursday, Dec. 17, 2:30 to 4 p.m. Eastern time.
As regular…
Last May, I reported the imminent demise of Westlaw. It wasn’t that the legal research service was going away. But as Thomson Reuters’ next-generation platform WestlawNext became the company’s primary focus, the company decided to phase out the older platform, which it by then referred to as Westlaw Classic.
In my post, I cited…
In the relatively small world of legal news publishing, this is an interesting and potentially big development. The Dolan Company, publisher of legal and business newspapers all across the U.S., was acquired this week by GateHouse Media, a New York-based newspaper company that publishes some 109 daily newspapers and 200…
Is there an article about legal technology you’ve been hankering to write? Here is your chance to get it published and seen by a wide audience of legal and technology professionals.
I am serving as issue editor for the issue of the ABA webzine Law Practice Today that will come out in conjunction with…
Corporate counsel find more value in law firm client alerts and practice group newsletters than in blogs, according to a survey published this week.
When corporate counsel were asked what types of law firm-generated content they found most valuable, 77 percent said client alerts and 76 percent said practice group newsletters, while only 35…
Technology-assisted review (TAR) is now so widely used in e-discovery and so widely accepted by judges that one federal magistrate-judge recently declared it to be “black letter law.” But it was only three years earlier when that same judge, Andrew J. Peck, issued the first decision ever to approve the use of TAR. And it…
I’ve written any number of times here about the ongoing head-to-head competition between legal research services Casemaker and Fastcase to win the loyalty of America’s lawyers — or, to be more precise, to win the loyalty of America’s bar associations, since both services market themselves…
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) has just published its 2015 technology survey. The 269-page report is based on input from 420 law firms representing more than 88,000 attorneys and 185,000 total users. Law firms with fewer than 150 attorneys represent 66 percent (277 firms) of total responses.
Copies of the survey…
Today is the first-ever E-Discovery Day, featuring a full day of free webcast panels with some of the top professionals in the field addressing a range of cutting-edge topics. (This is also the day new e-discovery rules take effect in the federal courts.)
I will be moderating one of the…
You know you’re getting old when even your blog is older than you care to admit. LawSites hit its lucky 13th birthday on Nov. 19. I started it back in 2002, partly as a way of providing updates to the book I’d published back then, The Essential Guide to the Best (and…
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