20 For 2020: The Legal Tech Trends that Defined the Year

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Whoa, what the f*&% just happened? This was a year few of us will ever forget. It brought untold hardships for many and unfamiliar challenges for all of us. To those who suffered losses of loved ones or illness, to those who lost their jobs or their homes, to any and all who suffered scars this year, I offer my heartfelt condolences. But in the world of legal technology and innovation, the phrase I heard often repeated this year was “silver lining.” It was a silver lining in the form of an accelerant. The challenge to modernizing the delivery of…

LexisNexis Releases Unique ‘Crowdsourced’ Resource for Commercial Leases

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LexisNexis today launched a unique “crowdsourced” solution to a problem faced by lawyers who negotiate commercial leases, which is the lack of data on market standards and trends to aid them in lease negotiations.

Because commercial leases are typically private, lawyers are unable to get a broad view of the terms and standards used in…

20 Legal Tech Executives Write Speaker Pelosi In Favor Of Open Courts Act

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Twenty executives of legal technology companies and organizations signed on to a letter delivered this morning to Speaker Nancy Pelosi in favor of legislation that would eliminate the PACER paywall and modernize access to federal court records.

Executives from companies and organizations involved in legal research, docket research and legal information wrote in favor of…

LawSites Blog Marks 18 Years

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Today marks the 18th anniversary of the launch of LawSites blog. My first post was on Nov. 19, 2002.

My initial focus was on tracking web sites of interest to legal professionals. Over time, I expanded to cover legal technology and legal media more broadly, and eventually to also include legal ethics and legal…