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Last year, I wrote here that judge analytics is the new black. I was referring to the growing selection of tools that analyze case dockets and judicial opinions to provide insights into how judges rule on various types of matters and how long it takes them to do so. Products in this…

Adding time passively captured in Chrometa to a CosmoLex matter.

The practice management platform CosmoLex today announced its integration with the passive timekeeping system Chrometa. The advantage of this integration is that it helps attorneys ensure that they are capturing and billing as much of their time as possible.

“Passive…

This week is the Microsoft Ignite conference for IT professionals in Atlanta, Ga., and one legal-specific app will be honored there from out of the over 1,700 apps and add-ins available through the Office Store.

The legal calendaring and docketing application LawToolBox365 has won a Microsoft 2016 Office App Award, which…

I wrote yesterday about the announcement by Clio at its conference earlier this week of its new Legal Trends initiative. Clio will aggregate and anonymize data moving through its system to produce an annual Legal Trends Report and to provide its customers with insights into billing and financial benchmarks.

The announcement generated a…

My column this week at Above the Law rounds up 10 Tiny Tools to Simplify A Lawyer’s Life. I cover:

ActiveWords. Evernote Scannable. CaseManager. Copy2Contact. Redact Assistant. Wolfram Lawyer’s Professional Assistant. SimplyFile. Bestlaw. PerfectIt. Duet Display.

Read all the details at Above the…

I’m sitting here at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, on my way home from the fourth-annual Clio Cloud Conference, racking my brain for something critical to say about it. I’d been to all three of the prior Clio conferences, and, frankly, I’d gushed about them, calling the 2014 conference one of the best legal…

In his keynote speech kicking off the Clio Cloud Conference in Chicago this morning, Clio co-founder and CEO Jack Newton unveiled the practice management platform’s new mobile app for iOS and Android devices — a completely redesigned and re-engineered replacement for Clio’s prior app.

“What we’re releasing today is a completely re-imagined vision…

A new update to CosmoLex — the cloud-based law practice management platform — enables system administrators to more granularly control user access to a law firm’s financial information.

CosmoLex already allowed administrators to set different permission levels for different types of users, from full administrative access to all system functions down to limited, read-only…

Right click on a Worldox file name to send to Workshare.

The document-management system Worldox and the document-collaboration system Workshare last week announced a jointly developed product that will allow Worldox customers to securely synchronize, share and collaborate on documents outside the Worldox system while still maintaining control of the documents…

I spent the last week at ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. It was a massive conference. Not sure if this is correct, but someone told me that the attendance exceeded 4,000. There were nearly 200 exhibitors and close to that many educational sessions.

Over the next couple days, I…

Think your legal blog is award-worthy? The Expert Institute is running its second annual Best Legal Blog Contest, with prizes awarded to the top three blogs in each category.

Here’s the catch: You can’t nominate yourself. A colleague, reader, friend or someone else has to nominate you. And the more nominations…

Global launch menu for common activities.

In a major update scheduled to  be released today, the cloud practice management platform CosmoLex is rolling out a number of new features and enhancements, including a client portal with secure messaging, internal firm messaging, native document storage, a global launch location for commonly used…