The cloud practice management platform Rocket Matter rolled out a new product today: client intake forms for law firm websites that integrate with the Rocket Matter platform. All of the information a client or potential client enters is directly added to the firm’s contacts on Rocket Matter and can then…
Next Version of Lexis for Microsoft Office: New Integrations and Features
Tomorrow, LexisNexis Legal & Professional will announce a new, enhanced version of Lexis for Microsoft Office, an application that provides direct access to Lexis research and citation tools and Web search tools from directly within Microsoft Word and Outlook.
The most significant of several new features in this release…
10 Legal Tech Innovations and What They Mean
Wisconsin Lawyer has just published my article, The Cloud Has Landed: 10 Legal Tech Innovations and What They Mean. Here is the introduction:
…Innovations and advances in technology over the last five years have brought dramatic and irreversible changes to the practice of
Techshow Preview: TitanFile to Show New Browser-Based Encryption
At ABA Techshow next week, the file-sharing platform TitanFile will be demonstrating its new integration with Credeon, a highly secure, browser-based encryption technology developed by Hitachi Solutions America Ltd. The first such product targeted at the legal market, the integration allows secure sharing of files and other communications,…
Join Us for Drinks in Boston on April 24
When we heard legal blogger and technology writer Nicole Black was coming to Boston, we said, “How about meeting for a drink?”
Next thing we knew, not only are we meeting for a drink, but we are inviting any Boston legal bloggers and legal professionals who’d like to join us.
And…
Adobe Officially Launches its All-New Version of Acrobat
I wrote last week about Adobe’s impending release of an all new version of its Acrobat PDF software, Acrobat DC, and of the broader Adobe Document Cloud with which Acrobat DC will be tightly integrated. Yesterday, the new products officially launched. Here’s…
'Hopper' App Tells You The Best Time to Buy Air Tickets
If you’re planning a trip, whether for business or travel, run — or maybe I should say hop — to the iTunes store and get Hopper.
Consider Hopper a Big Data tool for finding small airfares. It constantly monitors and analyzes flight prices to predict how prices will change. It uses those…
A New Title in the Biglaw C-Suite: Chief Discovery Officer
The C-suite at the law firm Milberg LLP just got a little cozier. Recently, the firm announced that it had appointed Paul H. McVoy the newly established position of “chief discovery officer.” He will be responsible for guiding the firm’s lawyers, clients and co-counsel with regard to the technical aspects of discovery, the
Free E-Book Gives Basic Overview of Law Practice Technology
David Whelan, the former director of the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center, has published a free e-book that provides an overview of the basic technology needed for a law practice. Called Law Practice Technology: An Introduction for Law Students, the book is, as the name…
Former Head of Bloomberg Law, LexisNexis to Lead New .Law Top-Level Domain
Lou Andreozzi, the former chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, has been appointed as CEO to lead the new .law generic top-level domain (gTLD). Andreozzi will head a new division within the Santa Monica, Calif., company Minds + Machines, which has been granted an exclusive license to operate the…
Washington OKs Fee Sharing and Joint Ownership Between Lawyers and LLLTs
The Supreme Court of Washington has approved revisions to the Rules of Professional Conduct governing lawyers in that state that allow lawyers and limited license legal technicians to form partnerships and share fees. To my knowledge, this makes Washington the first state to allow fee sharing and joint ownership of a law practice between a…
Adobe Acrobat's Next Version Puts Paper in the Cloud
Sometime in the next 30 days, Adobe will launch the latest version of its popular Acrobat PDF software, and it will be notably different from prior versions. The new Acrobat DC, as it will be called, will be part of a broader offering, Adobe Document Cloud, all aimed at reducing the waste and inefficiency…