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'Texas Lawyer' Cut From Weekly to Monthly, Puts New Emphasis on Web

By Robert Ambrogi
on April 5, 2016

ALM has converted Texas Lawyer from a weekly newspaper to a monthly magazine and is instead beefing up the TexasLawyer.com website with more robust daily offerings, it announced this week. The first issue of the new magazine came out this month.

According to the announcement:

TexasLawyer.com now offers expanded

…

After Redesign, Networking Site Foxwordy Lifts My Ban; Here's What I Find

By Robert Ambrogi
on April 5, 2016

In deference to privacy, I have blacked out names.

As I logged in to Foxwordy, the professional networking site for lawyers, for the first time since it banned me last fall, I couldn’t help but conjure up that Groucho Marx quote, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would…

Catching Up on News from MyCase, Clio, Lexicata, WordRake and More

By Robert Ambrogi
on April 4, 2016

Clio now integrates with Vonage VoIP phone services.

Time to play catch-up on legal technology news and notes from the past few weeks:

Take credit cards in MyCase. The practice management platform MyCase already has the ability to accept online payments directly from a client’s checking account. At the recent…

Dear Readers: Sorry, But It Was April 1, After All

By Robert Ambrogi
on April 2, 2016

I’ve been publishing April Fool posts here for the last couple years. Last year, it was the Invisible Girlfriend spin-off, Intangible Lawyer. The year before that, it was the joint announcement by Westlaw and LexisNexis that they were opening their databases to free public access.

So, no, yesterday’s guest…

Special Guest Post: Barack Obama on National Legal Technology Day

By Robert Ambrogi
on April 1, 2016

[Editor’s note: It was a major milestone in the legal blogging world when President Barack Obama published a guest post Feb. 24 on SCOTUSblog. Just a day later, he also published a post on LinkedIn. Even with the president’s seemingly newfound interest in contributing to social media, I certainly never…

Video Interviews With Legal Tech Experts at ABA Techshow

By Robert Ambrogi
on March 31, 2016

At the recent ABA Techshow, MyCase produced a series of video interviews with legal technology experts, all hosted by Niki Black, herself a legal technology expert as well as MyCase’s official legal technology evangelist. Today, Nike posted all the interviews at Above the Law.

Black interviewed David Lat,…

With Acquisition of Rulebook App, Casemaker Plans to Expand Its Coverage

By Robert Ambrogi
on March 29, 2016

While catching up yesterday with Casemaker CEO David Harriman about his company’s litigation with Fastcase, I also had the chance to ask him about Casemaker’s acquisition of the Rulebook app.

Rulebook is an app for iPhone and iPad. The app is free and, once installed, it can be loaded…

Fastcase Cofounder Phil Rosenthal is Running for Congress in New York

By Robert Ambrogi
on March 29, 2016


Speaking of Fastcase, one interesting bit of news about the company is that its cofounder, Phil Rosenthal, is running for Congress in New York’s 10th Congressional District.

Rosenthal — a physicist, lawyer and entrepreneur — is running as a Republican against Democrat Jerrold Nadler, the incumbent who…

Casemaker CEO Discusses Latest Developments in Fastcase Lawsuit

By Robert Ambrogi
on March 28, 2016

As I reported Friday, Casemaker filed an answer and counterclaim in the lawsuit filed against it by Fastcase, even though CEO David Harriman has previously told me his company would not fight the lawsuit and agreed with Fastcase that state law should not be subject to copyright.

This morning, I had…

So Much for Casemaker Saying It Will Not Fight Fastcase Lawsuit

By Robert Ambrogi
on March 25, 2016

In February, Casemaker CEO David Harriman told me that his company would not fight the lawsuit filed against it by Fastcase over publishing rights to Georgia law. It appears he has had a change of heart, because on Wednesday Casemaker filed an…

Mootus Will Soon Be Moot, As Founders Announce its Closing

By Robert Ambrogi
on March 24, 2016

The crowdsourced legal site Mootus launched in 2013 with an innovative concept: Provide a platform for “open online legal argument” so that lawyers and law students could create and share legal knowledge.

But as I noted in a post here last summer, sites that rely on crowdsourcing…

Could the kCura-Content Analyst Deal Be A Setback for Thomson Reuters' New E-Discovery Product?

By Robert Ambrogi
on March 23, 2016

There is a side story worth noting after Monday’s announcement by kCura that it had acquired Content Analyst Company — one that I have not seen mentioned in any of the coverage — and that is the deal’s potential impact on Thomson Reuters.

kCura is the company behind…

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Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for more than two decades. He writes the award-winning blog LawSites, is a columnist for Above the Law, hosts the podcast about legal innovation, LawNext, and hosts the weekly legal tech journalists' roundtable, Legaltech Week.

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