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After I wrote last weekabout the LegalBoard, a keyboard designed just for lawyers, I received a review unit. Earlier today, I published a hands-on review. I also recorded this video of unboxing and using the LegalBoard.

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Last week, I told you about the LegalBoard, a keyboard designed just for lawyers. It is the brainchild of Brian Potts, a partner at Perkins Coie in Madison, Wis.

This post was a BlawgWorld Pick of the Week.

On Friday, I received a review unit and over the weekend I had the…

I’ve written a number of times here about the findings of a Thomson Reuters survey, The State of the U.S. Small Law Firms Study, in which solo and small firm lawyers were asked about how they define success, the challenges they face and what firms are doing to achieve success.

Recently, I joined

Earlier this week, I wrote about the Minnesota State Bar Association’s decision to switch back to Fastcase as a member legal-research benefit, just six months after leaving Fastcase for Casemaker. Although I had reached out to Casemaker for comment, I did not hear back from the company until after I published…

The practice management provider CosmoLex today is releasing Law Firm Accounting Demystified, an e-book intended to serve as a detailed guide for law firms to handling legal, trust and business transactions.

The book is available for free online at www.LegalAccountingGuide.com or can be purchased as a downloadable e-book for $42.50.

Written by Rick Kabra, CEO…

ALM Media — the company that publishes the website Law.com and leading legal magazines such as The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel — has laid off several top editors.

The layoffs were first reported by Casey Sullivan at Big Law Business. An email this morning confirmed some of the layoffs.

Among the departures…

[Update: See my hands-on review of the LegalBoard and a video unboxing.]

Brian Potts had me at the section symbol.

The lawyer and founder of Pro-Boards LLC was explaining why he has developed the LegalBoard, a computer keyboard designed specifically for lawyers, which he will formally introduce tomorrow at the…

In their ongoing competition to win over bar associations as the legal-research member benefit, Fastcase is starting 2017 with an unprecedented victory over Casemaker. Just six months after the Minnesota State Bar Association left Fastcase and switched to Casemaker, it is going back to Fastcase in response to demand by its…

As 2016 draws to a close,  I thought I would perform an exercise of idle curiosity and look back at which of my posts were most popular during the year. I rank these based on total page views, not unique visitors.

I have two lists here. First I list the 10 most popular posts…

As this blog continues to follow the states that adopt the duty of technology competence for lawyers, there is another to add: Colorado.

That brings to 26 the number of states that have adopted some version of Comment 8 to ABA Model Rule 1.1.

Actually, Colorado adopted the rule last April. I…

My gift for the holidays was to discover that this blog was included in a clever holiday verse from John J. DiGilio, editor of Pinhawk’s Librarian News Digest and senior director of research and intelligence at LibSource. If you don’t subscribe to this digest, you should. Not only is it free,…

Prepare last rites for Lexis.com. The legacy legal research service will be leaving this world at the end of 2017.

This week, LexisNexis began notifying Lexis.com customers that it will be shutting down the service over the next 12 months and moving them to the newer Lexis Advance research platform.

“By kicking…