Joining me last week for my Law Insights show on Litera TV was Dennis Kennedy, legal tech and innovation advisor, adjunct law professor, infotech lawyer, professional speaker, author, and podcaster.
We covered a lot of ground over the course of our 30-minute conversation. If you’re interested, below is the full recording.
For this…
A third state could soon join the two that require technology training as part of a lawyer’s obligation to undergo continuing legal education.
Two states currently require mandatory tech CLE. In 2016, Florida became the first state to do so, when it adopted a rule requiring lawyers to complete three hours of CLE every three…
In April I reported on the release by the Global Legal Tech Report of its report on Australia, the first in a planned series of regional reports on legal tech worldwide, which will culminate in a global report in November.
Now, the GLTR has released reports covering Asia and New Zealand. When considered…
Last week Carolyn Elefant joined me as we kicked off a new series on behalf of LexBlog of live conversations with leading legal bloggers.
Tomorrow the series continues with a live interview with Jim Walker, publisher of Cruise Law News, a maritime-law blog where the motto is, “Everything the cruise lines…
In a year of so many challenges and difficulties, an unexpected highlight for me has been the opportunity to participate as a host on Litera TV, a daily live stream of interviews, educational programs, and tips around legal tech and legal practice produced by the document technology company Litera.
Every Wednesday morning since…
The first major foothold for the use of artificial intelligence software in the legal profession was in the area of e-discovery, where tools variously referred to as technology-assisted review or predictive coding helped lawyers find relevant documents within huge data collections more quickly and at lower cost.
Now, this same software is being deployed to…
In 2015, the husband-and-wife team of James Jones Jr. and Kristina Jones founded Court Buddy, a service that matches consumers with vetted lawyers at affordable prices. Last November, the couple stepped aside from the business to pursue other interests. In their time running the company, they had raised $7.1 million and won…
Last week on my live-streaming legal program Law Insights on Litera TV, I interviewed Melissa Speidel, director of business transformation at the law firm K&L Gates.
Her job, Melissa says, is to “take care of the business” — to manage and find solutions throughout the firm and also to engage with clients…
A new design rolled out yesterday for the website of the U.S. Courts Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) program, the site’s first major update in a decade.
The site, which can be found at pacer.uscourts.gov, provides information about the PACER service and is the portal to PACER applications. It is run by…
It is rare that I get to report on a new legal research tool. Even so-called startups in legal research, such as Casetext and ROSS, have been in business since 2014 or earlier. But today I have news of a new entrant in the field, BuzzyCite.
BuzzyCite is a free and easy-to-use case law…
For our weekly, live legaltech journalists’ roundtable tomorrow, we’re going to do something slightly different — make it an AMA (ask me anything) episode.
In addition to our usual round-up of the week’s top stories in legaltech, we’ll take your questions about how we do what we do. Want to know how we pick…
Join me tomorrow as I kick off a new series on behalf of LexBlog, This Week in Legal Blogging, starting with a conversation with one of the leading bloggers in the legal profession, Carolyn Elefant, founder of MyShingle.com.
Each week, we’ll feature conversations with legal bloggers about their blogging stories — how…
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