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What have been 2015’s most important developments in legal technology? For the past two years, I’ve posted my picks of the top developments in legal tech (2014, 2013). With another year under our belts, it’s time to look back at 2015.

What follows are my picks for the year’s most important legal technology…

Fastcase today announced the recipients of its 2015 Fastcase 50 awards. The awards recognize “50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.”

This is the fifth year of these awards. Previous winners can be seen for 2011, 2012, 2013, and…

In addition to the free-look document coming to you in an email, it is added to the case’s page on PacerPro.

If I were to tell you that a new service could help you avoid a $40 million mistake in litigation, would you be interested?

The mistake to which I refer was…

At her Dewey B. Strategic blog, Jean O’Grady took an unscientific but nonetheless fascinating poll of her readers to ask them about the best new products they became…

Join me this Thursday, March 19, as I moderate this free one-hour webinar, New Windows into Law Using Big Data Analytics.

The webinar will look at some of the practical implications of embracing Big Data in a modern practice and at how Big Data tools can be used in legal research and…

Last February, I reviewed PacerPro, which I described as a better way to search federal court records than PACER. This free search tool provides an interface to PACER, while actually improving on the service with features such as real-time universal search, aggregated search results and one-click downloads of entire dockets. In the last week, there have been some notable developments regarding PacerPro. Most notably, PacerPro announced a major new release that adds two significant features:

My latest “Ambrogi on Tech” column for the ABA Journal looks at PacerPro, a better way to search the federal courts’ Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. Started by a lawyer who wanted an easier way to get through PACER’s archaic interface, the service not only improves on…