This is one in a series of brief posts rounding up what I saw and heard at LegalTech New York.
Last year I reviewed the digital dictation system BigHand. As I noted then, the company describes its product as “voice productivity and workflow” software. It provides not…
This is one in a series of brief posts rounding up what I saw and heard at LegalTech New York.
Corporate counsel are the target audience for Legal Decoder, a product launched last October that promises to identify inefficiencies in law firm billing by using data analytics to “decode” law firm invoices. The…
I look forward to participating in Avvo’s Lawyernomics 2015 conference May 13-15 in Las Vegas. If you are thinking of attending, buy your ticket before Feb. 28, because that is when early-bird pricing ends.
I will be moderating a panel on “Innovating Attorneys” on the last day of the conference.…
This is one in a series of brief posts rounding up what I saw and heard at LegalTech New York Feb. 3-5.
Two years ago, the company Rocket Matter blasted off in a new direction, launching an Internet marketing service called Rocket X1, which it offered in addition…
If you did not listen to the Serial podcast, you should. The 12-episode podcast — the most listened-to podcast ever — picks through in fascinating detail the 1999 Baltimore-area murder of high school senior Hae Min Lee and the arrest and conviction of her former boyfriend, Adnan Syed. It is a…
Here is a brief round-up of some of the news I heard at LegalTech New York last week:
Carpe Diem Next Generation. Back in October, Tikit North America announced a major relaunch of the venerable timekeeping program Carpe Diem (which it acquired in 2010) as Carpe Diem Classic. The relaunch represented a…
The iPad is fast replacing the legal pad as the essential accoutrement of trial lawyers. But what are the most-helpful apps for iPad- and iPhone-bearing litigators to load onto their devices before heading off to the courtroom?
I wrote a two-part wrap-up of essential apps for trial lawyers for the Bullseye legal…
Clio co-founders Rian Gauvreau and Jack Newton.
Just one year after adopting a 47 percent increase in its monthly subscription pricing, the cloud-based practice-management platform Clio has announced another major change in its pricing, one that could actually reduce the price for most users.
With the change, Clio…
As I start to make my way through some of the news I picked up at LegalTech last week, here’s a big one: The start-up legal research site Casetext announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A financing round. The round is led by Union Square Ventures…
I’m shocked … shocked to find that there could be deception in advertising, especially when the advertising purports to involve a lawyer. Yet it seems that the successful M&A attorney featured in an online anti-aging cream ad not only doesn’t look as youthful as he appears, but he doesn’t exist at all. Either…
Reflective of the bone-chilling outdoor temperatures in New York last week, the air inside the annual LegalTech conference seemed a bit cooler than in years past. I say that with reference to products, not to the conference itself. Whereas LegalTech some years is characterized by a bevy of new product launches or major upgrades, many…
At Fenway in September for Jeter’s second-to-last game, with David Horrigan of 451 Research and Monica.
Next week’s LegalTech will be a glitzy, bustling showcase of the world’s largest legal technology companies. But amidst it all, one individual may prove to be the biggest story of the show.
After a 30-year career…
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