Speaking of Brigham Young University Law School, here is more news. It will host a summit Feb. 16 on how blockchain technology will impact markets, institutions, digital relationships and civic life.
Presented by the law school and the BYU MBA program, the summit will explore blockchain’s potential impact in a variety…
Join me on Friday and Saturday this week for the 2018 Law + Technology Summit, presented by the San Diego County Bar Association and the Law Practice Management & Technology Section of the California Lawyers Association.
The programs includes a line-up of marquis speakers, including Dennis Garcia, assistant general counsel for Microsoft Corporation, and…
Last June, I reported on the plan by BYU Law School to launch LawX, a legal design lab in which second- and third-year law students would take on the ambitious goal of solving one access-to-justice challenge in a semester. Subsequently, in November, I wrote here about the opportunity I had to sit in on the lab.…
I have said before and I continue to believe that for a legal research company to compete against the longstanding dominance of Westlaw and LexisNexis, having secondary content such as treatises and practice guides is the Holy Grail.
Fastcase clearly sees it the same way. It has steadily been building its libraries of secondary…
We live in a time of unprecedented and exponential innovation in legal technology. Yet the justice gap in our country keeps widening. The majority of low and moderate income people go without legal help, and the nationwide number of unrepresented litigants keeps rising.
Most would agree that technology is one key to bridging this…
Recently I announced that I would be joining LexBlog as publisher and editor-in-chief. I started Jan. 1 and I am proud to unveil our first publication — Legalweek Monitor, a first-of-its-kind publication devoted to publishing gavel-to-gavel coverage of ALM’s Legalweek conference, which begins Jan. 29 in New York City.
Legalweek is actually multiple conferences,…
A new podcast from the State Bar of Michigan, On Balance, covers a wide range of practice-management and wellness issues, all with a focus on how lawyers can effectively balance their personal and professional lives.
Produced in conjunction with the Legal Talk Network, the series is designed to help lawyers find…
Now online is the TECHSHOW issue of Law Practice magazine, the publication of the ABA’s Law Practice Division. I was co-editor of this issue, along with Mary E. Vandenack.
A Dutch software company that specializes in smart contracts using blockchain technology is preparing to launch an app that uses blockchain to log explicit consent before sexual contact.
The company, LegalThings One, is introducing its app, called LegalFling, in anticipation of Sweden’s proposed legislation that would change rape laws to require…
Regular readers of this blog may remember that I have written a number of posts about Derek Bluford, a one-time rising star on the legal tech start-up scene whose star fell after I reported in 2016 of his settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling…
The global legal publisher vLex, LLC and its Canadian partner Compass/vLex Canada are announcing today that they will support the Feb. 23-25 Global Legal Hackathon by offering up to 100 participants the use of Iceberg, an artificial intelligence platform for massive content projects that vLex initially developed to facilitate its own publishing…
Nicole Bradick, a veteran legal technology innovator and entrepreneur, today announced the launch of her new firm, Theory and Principle, focusing on legal technology design and development. She will serve as its chief executive officer.
Nicole Bradick
A former lawyer, Bradick was most recently partner and chief strategy officer with legal…
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