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Raza Hasan is a proselytizer for fixed-fee billing. Which may seem odd, given that his company, TimeSolv, sells a product for lawyers to track their time by the hour. But what is not so obvious is that the same product can be used to bill on a fixed-price basis – and to…

Catching up on some recent stories of note.

Twitter bot follows big cases. The aptly named Big Cases Bot follows major cases in the Supreme Court, federal circuit courts and federal district courts, including Mueller prosecutions and challenges to Trump’s executive orders. The full list of cases it is following can be seen

The Nigerian winning team, Team Lemon.

The Global Legal Hackathon has announced the 14 teams selected to go on to the final round gala April 21 in New York, where they will pitch to a global panel of judges in front of a live audience. The list of finalists is below.…

Two major e-discovery companies, Consilio and Advanced Discovery, today announced their merger to form a combined operation that will consist of over 2,500 employees, 14 data centers and 23 document review facilities in 11 countries.

The merger includes a new partnership with GI Partners, a private equity firm based in San Francisco. Under the…

[Updated to add Vermont Law School’s conference.]

Lest you were wondering whether innovation is a hot topic in the legal field, here are three four conferences law schools are hosting this spring on the topic of innovation in law practice and technology.

#VLSLegalTech: Disrupt the Stone Age. This Friday, March 23, Vermont Law School…

In the wake of news that Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior advisor, had been downgraded from his top-secret security clearance, we take an in-depth look at the security clearance process on the latest episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer. What are they levels of security clearances? How are…

Students in BYU Law’s LawX lab during a visit there last November.

It is a truism to say that law schools do not do a good job of equipping students with the skills they need to succeed in the real world. But some law schools are striving to be more innovative in…

My post yesterday about Kentucky having adopted the duty of technology competence brought an email alerting me that Indiana had also adopted the duty, bringing the total to 31. The complete list of states that have adopted this duty can be found here.

A hat tip to William C. Wagner,…

Suffolk Law School is hosting a full-day conference on legal innovation and clinical pedagogy on April 9 in Boston.

Called Clinnovation, the conference will feature presentations from leaders of legal innovation labs at several law schools, including the Legal Design Lab at Stanford, the Access to Justice Lab at Harvard, the NuLawLab at Northeastern, The…

Just a week ago, I reported on the 29th state to have adopted the duty of technology competence, as part of my ongoing tally of states, and now there is the 30th to add: Kentucky.

The duty took effect on Jan. 1, 2018, having been adopted by the Supreme Court of Kentucky on…

I’ve written a number of times about Tali, the voice-driven time-tracking application, most recently in January, when it announced its integration with the Rocket Matter practice management platform. Today, I have three more updates to report about Tali: a partnership with the Ohio State Bar Association, integration with Google Assistant,…

The judicial analytics platform Gavelytics is today announcing that it has closed a $3.2 million funding round that will support the development of new features and the platform’s expansion into new jurisdictions. The company had previously raised $2.5 million in funding.

As I reported here when it launched last September, Gavelytics…