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At the annual convention next week of the American Association of Law Libraries, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory will unveil two new features of its Transactional Law Suite for Securities. One, M&A Clause Analytics, uses analytics to help streamline the process of drafting…
Every year since 2011, the legal research company Fastcase has honored the “Fastcase 50,” a selection of individuals it considers to be the “smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.” This week, it announced its 2017 honorees, and they include a diverse array of lawyers, technologists, law librarians, policymakers,…
The new employment module includes analytics showing case resolutions.
When LexisNexis acquired the legal analytics platform Lex Machina in November 2015, the plan was to use LexisNexis’s collection of federal and state docket data to expand Lex Machina’s analytics beyond its original area of intellectual property. Since then, it has been adding…
The business of helping lawyers find expert witnesses for litigation is one that has not changed much in a very long time. Is there an opportunity here for disruption?
One company that thinks so is Gerson Lehrman Group, the world’s largest company providing expert consultants to investors and business professionals. Over the last five…
Now in its 10th year, the ABA Journal’s annual Blawg 100 has become a much-anticipated event highlighting the best legal blogs. But this year, the ABA Journal is expanding its scope to also include the best of lawyers’ websites, podcasts and social media, and renaming it the Web 100.
Now, the ABA Journal has…
I sometimes hear people complain that they’ve never been invited to speak at ABA Techshow. But when I ask them, “Did you apply?”, they just shake their heads.
For those of you interested in joining the Techshow speaker roster, here is your chance. Techshow has put out a call for speaker proposals.…
The recently released report from the Legal Services Corporation, The Justice Gap: Measuring the Unmet Civil Legal Needs of Low-income Americans, includes notable findings regarding the legal needs of veterans. Among them, the report found that 71 percent of households with veterans or other military personnel have experienced a civil legal problem in the…
Sad news in the legal blogging world, as the Wall Street Journal on Monday shut down its Law Blog, which has regularly covered and broke legal news since its launch in 2006.
The closing came as part of the news organization’s shut down of eight blogs on Monday covering a range of…
For lawyers, it is an abundance of riches when it comes to selecting a practice management application. But what separates one product from another? And how does a company decide which features to build and how to prioritize them?
In the latest episode of the podcast Law Technology Now, I interview
CosmoLex, the cloud-based practice-management platform, today announced the release of a new credit card processing feature, CosmoPay, that eliminates the need to pay a separate subscription for credit card processing services through LawPay.
Now, any CosmoLex subscriber who opens a new LawPay account within CosmoLex will have the monthly LawPay fee covered by…
After a six-day trial and a “hopelessly deadlocked” jury, the judge declared a mistrial in the prosecution of comedian Bill Cosby for the alleged sexual assault of Andrea Constand. What happened to bring about a mistrial and what is the future of this case? This is our topic this week on the legal-affairs podcast…
RoboReview’s report includes predictive analytics to inform strategy and set expectations.
TurboPatent, a company that develops applications to automate and streamline the patent protection process, is today introducing two artificial intelligence products for patent lawyers, RoboReview, a cloud-based product that analyzes draft patent applications, and RapidResponse, a product that assists lawyers…
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