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I’ve just returned from a much-t00-brief visit to the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries in Baltimore. Although the conference started Saturday, family obligations kept me away until Monday. Then yesterday, flight cancellations along the east coast had me scrambling for a route home, forcing me to leave much…

The document-management company NetDocuments today named a new CEO, Josh Baxter, who has been president and COO since joining the company last year.

Matt Duncan, who had been CEO since 2014, is stepping into the role of executive chairman, where he will continue to help drive the company’s strategic objectives while also taking…

Legal professionals can now calculate and manage court deadlines from within Microsoft Teams, Microsoft’s workplace collaboration software, with the release this week by court deadline calculator LawToolBox of its Deadline App for Microsoft Teams.

This new app for Teams builds on the functionality of the company’s app LawToolBox365 Office for Legal, which is an…

Last year, my most popular post was about the LegalBoard, a keyboard designed specifically for lawyers. In fact, as I wrote at Above the Law, never in all my years of covering legal technology had I seen the legal world react to a new product as it did to the LegalBoard.

Now…

I am no stranger to podcasting. Lawyer 2 Lawyer, the podcast I cohost with J. Craig Williams and which is produced by the Legal Talk Network, will mark its 13th anniversary next month, and is the longest-running podcast in law. I have also been cohosting another Legal Talk Network, Law Technology Now, along with Monica Bay. But I've been itching to launch a podcast of my own and am finally taking the plunge. It is called LawNext, and my focus will be interviews with the innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what's next in the legal…

LexisNexis has been positioning itself in recent years as the leader in legal analytics. In addition to acquiring three legal analytics companies – Intelligize, Lex Machina and Ravel Law – it has been developing analytics of its own within various of its products.

Now, in a major move to integrate all those products and…

It was eight years ago that Thomson Reuters unveiled WestlawNext to great fanfare, eventually phasing out classic Westlaw entirely. A lot has changed in those eight years, both in the legal market and in legal technology.

Today, Thomson Reuters is officially announcing its next-generation legal research platform, Westlaw Edge, which uses advanced artificial intelligence…

With the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries convening this weekend in Baltimore, you can expect to see a flurry of product announcements coming up. Today, the news is from Bloomberg Law, which is announcing a number of enhancements to its legal research service, including more than 30 Practical Guidance…

Scott Mozarsky is out as president of Bloomberg Law, a position he has held since November 2016. Replacing him as president is Joe Breda, formerly executive vice president of product.

I spoke briefly today with Breda, who informed me of the transition but provided no further details. The news comes just days before…

[Editor’s note: This is one of a series of occasional guest posts by Sam Glover, founder of Lawyerist.]

There are lots of good reasons for law firms to work on diversity and inclusion, but here is one more: the data is pretty clear that diverse teams have a competitive advantage over homogenous teams. (That’s…

Legal directory Avvo is shutting down its controversial Avvo Legal Services, a service that provides fixed-fee, limited-scope legal services through a network of attorneys.

Internet Brands, the company that acquired Avvo last January, has decided that the service does not align with its business and focus, according to a letter sent by B.…

Legal research company Fastcase today announced its eighth annual Fastcase 50 honorees, the “smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.”

Fastcase has compiled the awards annually since 2011 as a way of highlighting entrepreneurs and visionaries who are helping to drive the future of law. This year’s selections bring the…