The new Lexis Advance has a simplified search bar and quick-access pods.
The official theme of the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting in San Antonio this week was “Beyond Boundaries.” But for three of the leading legal-research vendors in attendance there, the theme was “A Change is Gonna Come.”…
Utah-based NetDocuments, a cloud-based document-management system for law firms, today announced that it has secured a $25 million equity investment from Frontier Capital, a Charlotte, N.C., growth equity firm that invests exclusively in B2B software and technology companies.
The investment will be used to drive NetDocuments’ further growth in the legal market,…
Bloomberg BNA announced this morning that David Perla, cofounder of the global legal process outsourcing provider Pangea3, is joining the company as president of Bloomberg BNA Legal, effective July 21. Perla will report directly to Bloomberg BNA CEO Greg McCaffery and play a key leadership role in overseeing the company’s legal business, which…
The influx of unaccompanied minors across the Mexico/U.S. border is fast becoming a humanitarian crisis. On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at what is driving these minors to make the dangerous journey north and discuss their legal status and rights.
To help…
One of the best annual legal technology conferences is ABA Techshow, which this year will be April 16-18 in Chicago. If you want to throw your hat in the ring to speak there, now is the time.
Until July 13, the Techshow planning board is accepting speaker and topic proposals. There is…
The July issue of the ABA Journal includes my ‘Ambrogi on Tech’ column, “An Acrobat alternative, at a third of the price.” I review Nuance Power PDF Advanced, a full-featured professional PDF program that does virtually everything Adobe Acrobat Pro can do, but at one-third the price.…
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. And you can teach a lawyer all about social media, but you can’t make the lawyer do anything with it.
For many law firm marketing executives, that is a frustrating fact of life. All the social media training in the world doesn’t…
In a post here May 19, LegalZoom Suffers Setback in North Carolina, I wrote about recent legal developments in South Carolina and North Carolina involving claims that LegalZoom is engaged in the unauthorized practice of law. Towards the end of that post, I wrote:
…Meanwhile, LegalZoom
I’m a bit behind in plugging my own podcast here. Here are the two most-recent episodes of Lawyer2Lawyer.
Facial Recognition Technology: Security vs. Privacy Concerns.
My cohost J. Craig Williams looks at how facial-recognition technology threatens security and privacy. His guests are Jennifer Lynch, senior staff attorney…
This recent edit tracked by @SCOTUS_servo was minor, but others are ‘truly substantive.’
Last month, a collective “Really!?” rolled through the U.S. legal community when Harvard Law Professor Richard J. Lazarus published his study — and Adam Liptak reported it in
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