Legal Tech Look-Back

Fourteen years ago this week, a federal judge in Seattle dismissed the class action complaint filed by two lawyers seeking to shut down the lawyer-rating site Avvo, which had launched five months earlier.

While calling the rating of attorneys “ludicrous,” U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik nevertheless ruled that the opinions expressed…

Aah legal tech. How far we’ve come. How far we haven’t.

Today I am introducing Legal Tech Look-Back, a recurring series of posts that will turn back the calendar on legal tech news.

What was the news in legal tech five or 10 or 15 years ago this week? That is what this series will…