In a watershed ruling for public access to primary legal materials, the Supreme Court today held that the state of Georgia cannot claim a copyright in the annotations contained in its official legislative code.

The opinion in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. is a victory for Carl Malamud and his organization Public.Resource.Org, which had…

As chair of the Specialty Treatment Courts in Jefferson Parish, La., Judge Scott U. Schlegel manages what may be one of the most advanced courts in the country for delivering justice online, and he does it almost entirely with off-the-shelf software he cobbled together himself.

Even before the coronavirus crisis caused courts to shut down, Judge…

David Curle, a lawyer who is well known for his writing and analysis on legal technology, has joined the machine-learning contract-analysis company Kira Systems as legal content and research lead.

Since 2013, Curle has been director, enterprise content, technology and innovation, at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, where he has provided research and…

The Utah Supreme Court on Friday proposed the most-sweeping reforms of the regulation of legal services in a generation and said it will fast-track approval of non-traditional legal-help programs that target problems spawned by the Covid-19 crisis.

The proposed changes, posted for a 90-day period of public comment, would amend Utah’s Rules of…

Last month, I reported that Stanford University has cancelled the face-to-face version of this year’s CodeX FutureLaw Conference, which had been scheduled for April 9 and would have been the conference’s eighth year, as well as the 15th anniversary of CodeX.

But as I noted then, Roland Vogl, executive director of CodeX, the Stanford Center…

Earlier this week, for my weekly Law Insights program on Litera TV, I interviewed Jordan Furlong, legal analyst and futurist and author of The Law21 Blog.

A former journalist, Furlong has for the last decade established himself as a leading analyst of the global legal market and forecaster of its future development.

At his…

Docketwise, a case management platform for immigration attorneys, said today that it is opening its application programming interface to the public in order to encourage the interoperability of the many innovative immigration technologies on the market.

“With thousands of immigration lawyers and paralegals logging into Docketwise every day, we have the unique ability to…

As part of its continuing virtual roundtable series for technology leaders, the public relations agency Plat4orm is presenting a program tomorrow, Earning the Legal Media’s Attention in Times of Crisis.

I will be one of the panelists, along with Zach Warren, editor-in-chief of Legaltech News. Here is Plat4orm’s description of the program:…

Litera’s business continuity series dives into the unprecedented challenges we are all facing and looks at how technology can help provide what law firms need to continue serving their clients, even while their teams are working remotely, unable to travel or meet face-to-face with clients, and otherwise disrupted from their regular routines. You can find…

“I would rather cut off my right arm than make this decision,” said an emotional Joy Heath Rush, chief executive officer of the International Legal Technology Association, as she announced that the organization is implementing reductions in staff.

Rush said that ILTA is laying off eight of its 41 employees and furloughing another five.…

Bodhala, a company founded by two Harvard Law School graduates that seeks to disrupt legal spend management through the use of data analytics, has raised $10 million in a Series A financing round led by the growth-equity investment firm Edison Partners.

“With Bodhala, we created an AI-driven platform for the $500 billion legal services…

Editor’s note: When courthouses in Jefferson Parish, La., shut down on March 15 due to the COVID-19 emergency, it presented a unique challenge for drug court probationers who are required to regularly check in on their status and well-being.

A call for help on Twitter, posted by Gabriel Teninbaum, director of Suffolk Law…