As lawyers across the country mobilize to respond to an onslaught of immigration and civil rights issues, some legal vendors are stepping up and offering those lawyers free access to their products and services.
These are the ones I know of. Tell me of others and I’ll add them here (ambrogi-at-gmail.com).
Casetext. The…
A week ago, I reported here that that a federal judge in Georgia had dismissed without prejudice Fastcase’s declaratory judgment lawsuit against Casemaker over the latter’s claims of copyright in Georgia state regulations. Yesterday, Fastcase refiled the suit.
The court had dismissed Fastcase’s lawsuit for lack of jurisdiction on two grounds. One was…
[Updated 1/27/17, 11 a.m. Eastern, to add comments of Fastcase CEO Ed Walters.]
A lawsuit by Fastcase against Casemaker that many hoped would define the parameters of copyright in government information has been dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
A year ago, Fastcase preemptively filed the declaratory judgment lawsuit against Casemaker…
Way back in September, this blog reported that LawBase, the case and matter management system, had signed a deal to integrate BakerManage, the award-winning legal project management system developed by the law firm Baker Donelson. Today, LawBase rolled out that integration and will be demonstrating it next week at Legaltech in…
The cloud-based law practice management platform Rocket Matter today is rolling out a major software update that adds recurring billing functionality, user interface enhancements and workflow improvements.
The recurring billing functionality can be used for two distinct billing scenarios. The first is if you have a client who pays you a flat amount…
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…
[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…
In October, we announced the first-ever competition to select 12 legal technology startups to participate in ABA Techshow’s inaugural Startup Alley. From the initial round of entries we received, we narrowed the contenders down to 20 and, on Nov. 14, we posted their pitches and opened the voting to you to select…
Below are the latest additions to my list of legal startups. Send additions and updates to ambrogi-at-gmail.com. To read more about this list and why I created it, see this post.
Also, I’ve reformatted the list to make it easier to use and nicer to look at. Previously, the list was an embedded…
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