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The Board of Governors of the State Bar of Georgia have voted to approve proposed changes to the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct that would adopt the duty of technology competence. The proposed changes will now be published for a 30-day comment period and then submitted for approval to the Georgia Supreme Court.…

Can a law firm be successful in 2019 without a website?

I wondered this as I reviewed the findings of the 2019 Legal Technology Survey Report produced by the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center.

According to the survey, 43% of solos do not have websites. Even more surprising, this percentage has…

It has been a year since I last checked in with MyCase, the cloud practice management platform. Over that time, the company has continued to add new features and improve existing ones. Here are some of the most-notable enhancements made in recent months.

E-Signatures for PDF Documents

In August, MyCase added e-signatures for…

With the Nov. 1 deadline for submissions fast approaching, I am thrilled to announce the stellar line-up of judges for the inaugural LexBlog Excellence Awards, which will honor exemplary writing on legal blogs.

As I explained in a post announcing the awards, these awards are unlike other “best blog” awards. Rather than…

At its 10th annual Relativity Fest conference in Chicago last week, the e-discovery company Relativity announced the winners of the 2019 Innovation Awards, which recognize third-party applications that integrate with Relativity to streamline processes, solve complex workflows, or create an altogether new solution that positively impacts business strategy.

This year’s winners were:…

If you’re a legaltech startup, I don’t want to spook you, but Halloween is the last day to submit your application for one of 15 spots in the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, taking place in Chicago Feb. 26-29, 2020.

The final deadline for applying is…

We often hear that lawyers are fearful of innovation. We often hear that lawyers are luddites when it comes to technology. We often hear that lawyers are horrible at business. We often hear that lawyers are miserable in their work.

So what happens when you gather 2,000 legal professionals who embrace innovation? What happens when…

The ABA Journal has a new publisher and editor-in-chief, according to sources familiar with the hiring. He is John O’Brien, a journalist who has held a number of reporting and editing roles in the Chicago area.

As I reported here in September, the magazine’s former editor and publisher, Molly McDonough, resigned after…

For all the talk about using technology to enhance access to justice, it puts things in perspective to see tangible examples. One of the best sources of such examples is the annual set of Technology Initiative Grants awarded by the Legal Services Corporation.

Established in 2000, the TIG program distributes grants annual to…

I have written a number of times here about the innovative LawX lab at BYU Law, in which students use design thinking to tackle issues in access to justice. The lab has already produced two notable applications: SoloSuit, an award-winning online tool to help self-represented people who have been sued for debt,…

Tomorrow at 1 p.m. Eastern time, I am moderating a free webinar, Why Self-Service Is Critical To The Future Of Legal Departments, sponsored by Everlaw and Above the Law.

We will look at how legal departments, in the face of heightened client expectation, are exploring self-service technologies in order to provide services more…

Jack Newton, the cofounder and CEO of practice management company Clio, describes his vision for the company as becoming the operating system of law — a point he reiterated yesterday during his keynote that opened the Clio Cloud Conference in San Diego.

To that end, Clio has steadily been expanding the number of companies…