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Has Legalist finally found its niche? Back in April, I reported here that the site’s founders, both Harvard undergraduates, were preparing to launch a website that would rate lawyers based on publicly available court records. Then, in July, Techcrunch reported that the site had changed its focus, and instead planned to…

Two weeks ago in my column at Above the Law, I gave my impressions of the Report on the Future of Legal Services in the United States, which was recently issued by the ABA’s Commission on the Future of Legal Services. Last week in that column, I published an

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This is another in a series of posts about the findings of a new survey of small-solo law firm management conducted by Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group to which Thomson Reuters has given me exclusive access. Today I am going to discuss what the survey found…

Hartman.

Last week in my column at Above the Law, I wrote about the ABA’s just-issued Report on the Future of Legal Services in the United States. The column elicited an email from Eddie Hartman, co-founder of LegalZoom, who wanted to respond. We ended up discussing the report over the course of…

Recent legal developments have brought both good news and bad news for Avvo. Let’s start with the bad news.

Earlier this year, Avvo launched Avvo Legal Services, a service offering fixed-fee, limited-scope legal help through a network of attorneys. In an earlier post, I explained how this works:

Avvo sets

How small firms characterize their success.

I’ve been writing about the findings of a new survey of small-solo law firm management conducted by Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group to which Thomson Reuters has given me exclusive access. Today I am going to discuss what firms say about their goals and priorities,…

Recently in my column at Above the Law, I provided an overview of a new survey of small-solo law firm management conducted by Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group. I promised to follow-up with subsequent posts here in order to drill down deeper into the data, to which Thomson…

Obtain breakdowns of case resolutions in securities matters.

In the first of its promised expansions into other practice areas following its acquisition last November by LexisNexis, Lex Machina today announced its addition of securities law to its legal analytics platform.

Until today, Lex Machina had focused exclusively on intellectual property. But…

A new survey of solo and small law firms examines the management challenges they face and how they are responding to those challenges. Thanks to Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group, which conducted the survey, I’ve been given exclusive access to the survey results and will be reporting them in a…

It is now an annual tradition around this time of year: Fastcase’s announcement of its Fastcase 50, recognizing 50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law. With this being the sixth year of the awards, the Fastcase 50 adds up to the Fastcase 300.

And if you…

Firm Manager, the cloud-based practice management platform from LexisNexis, today introduced a new two-tiered subscription model and new features to go along with the new pricing.

Starting today, Firm Manager is offering two subscription prices:…

A post here two weeks ago reported on Fujitsu’s introduction of ScanSnap Cloud, a feature that allows scanning directly to popular cloud services, without the need for a computer or mobile device. At launch, it allowed scanning to Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Google Photos and Expensify.

Today, Fujitsu is announcing the…