In my LawNext podcast, I have the great privilege of engaging in conversations every week with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” That “what’s next” spans a range of topics, from rethinking legal education to innovating legal practice, from developing new technology to driving greater diversity.
These are among…
Twenty twenty-one has been a year of uncertainty for the legal profession, as we have wrestled with the question of returning or not returning. Whether it has been to the office, the courtroom, or legal conferences, we have been unsure whether to go back or not.
Perhaps that explains why my most-read post of the…
Fourteen years ago this week, a federal judge in Seattle dismissed the class action complaint filed by two lawyers seeking to shut down the lawyer-rating site Avvo, which had launched five months earlier.
While calling the rating of attorneys “ludicrous,” U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik nevertheless ruled that the opinions expressed…
The Delaware court system is recognized throughout the legal profession as a leading forum for the litigation of business and commercial disputes. But for out-of-state attorneys, Delaware presents unique procedural hurdles, including that all electronic case filings must be done by local counsel licensed in Delaware, and that any electronic notices of filings…
Aah legal tech. How far we’ve come. How far we haven’t.
Today I am introducing Legal Tech Look-Back, a recurring series of posts that will turn back the calendar on legal tech news.
What was the news in legal tech five or 10 or 15 years ago this week? That is what this series will…
Law360, the legal news service owned by LexisNexis, is today introducing audio versions of every story it publishes.
For every story published on Law360, readers will now see an icon they can click to listen to an audio version of the article, read by a relatively lifelike male or female “newscaster” voice.
Sixty percent of general counsel are concerned that their risk landscape is expanding or becoming more difficult to navigate in areas spanning compliance, regulatory enforcement, data privacy, information security, emerging data sources and ongoing impacts of the pandemic.
This is among the findings of a survey of 30 general counsel presented in a report released…
For all the money being poured into legal technology development these days, woefully little gets spent on technology designed to enhance access to justice for low-income Americans. That makes the Technology Initiative Grants awarded annually by the Legal Services Corporation all the more significant, as they are among the few funding sources specifically…
Last Friday was the 19th birthday of this blog, which I founded on Nov. 19, 2002, with this introductory post.
I had recently published the book, The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, a guide to the then still nascent but rapidly evolving legal web, and wanted…
The Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group, which owns a number of legal practice management and legal search technology products, said today that it has acquired Phoenix-based LawLytics, a company that provides website management software for small law firms and solo practitioners.
The LawLytics platform is an all-in-one website publishing and SEO platform for small law firms. Its founder…
At its first-ever customer conference today, the practice management company MyCase announced that it has acquired the cloud-based legal accounting company Soluno, and that it will leverage Soluno’s expertise to develop full-featured accounting natively within the MyCase platform.
The company also announced the launch of MyCase Drive, which syncs a lawyer’s documents between…
Last year, I wrote here about Lexion, an AI-powered contract management system for mid-market corporations that emerged out of the Allen Institute for AI, the AI research institute created by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen.
At the time, the company had just raised $11 million in a Series A round, and discussed plans to…
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