Mark Britton

Losses to businesses from the theft of their trade secrets add up to as much as three percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, according to a 2014 report by the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Yet a 2017 study by law firm Baker McKenzie found that less than…

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…

I wrote last March about Clearbrief, a first-of-its-kind product designed to strengthen your legal writing, and that was backed by some big-name early investors, including Mark Britton, the founder and former CEO of Avvo; Bryan Garner, legal writing expert and editor of Black’s Law Dictionary; and Bill Neukom, longtime Microsoft general counsel.

Now, Clearbrief…

The legal technology company Clio this morning announced a Series E investment of $110 million at a valuation of $1.6 billion, making it the first law practice management company to achieve so-called unicorn status and one of only a small number of legal tech companies overall to achieve that status.

In special episode of…

If I were to tell you that Mark Britton, the founder and former CEO of Avvo; Bryan Garner, legal writing expert and editor of Black’s Law Dictionary; and Bill Neukom, longtime Microsoft general counsel, were all seed investors in a new legal technology product designed to strengthen your legal writing, would I…

My LawNext podcast features conversations with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” But in 2020, “what’s next” was anybody’s guess.

In this list of the 10 LawNext episodes that were most popular during 2020, it may be little surprise that my April interview with legal futurist Richard Susskind…

Here are the episodes of my LawNext podcast that got the most listens during October. This reflects episode downloads only during October, not for all time. (By the way, in the all-time tally, the episode that long held first place, my September 2018 interview with Mark Britton, former Avvo CEO, has been bumped into second place by my April interview with legal futurist Richard Susskind.) 1. Rocket Lawyer Founder Charley Moore.

Here are the episodes of my LawNext podcast that got the most listens during May. This reflects episode downloads only during May, not for all time. (By the way, in the all-time tally, the Richard Susskind interview listed at number six below is now the third most-popular LawNext episode ever. First place has long been held by my September 2018 interview with Mark Britton, former Avvo CEO.) 1. The Innovation Advantage - A Panel Discussion with Leading Experts in Law Firm Innovation.

In legal technology, it was a decade of tumult and upheaval, bringing changes that will forever transform the practice of law and the delivery of legal services.

Feisty startups took on established behemoths. The cloud dropped rain on legacy products. Mobile tech untethered lawyers. Clients demanded efficiency and transparency. Robots arrived to take over our…

In my LawNext podcast, I have conversations with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” Here are the 10 episodes that were most popular during 2019.

Note: This reflects unique downloads during 2019. It is not the most popular of all time. That honor goes to my 2018 interview…

The LegalBoard is back, baby!

Every year for the past decade, I have compiled a year-end list of my most-popular posts. Two years ago, by a wide margin, my top-viewed post was about the debut of the LegalBoard, a keyboard designed for lawyers. This year, the LegalBoard again takes the top spot, thanks…

A highlight of the recent Clio Cloud Conference in San Diego was the podcast alley — a row of tables reserved for legal podcasters to set up their equipment and record interviews with speakers and attendees.

Over the last couple weeks, I have been publishing a series of LawNext “special reports” that we recorded…