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With New ‘Opinion Minion’ App, Point Your Phone At A Cite, Get the Case

With New ‘Opinion Minion’ App, Point Your Phone At A Cite, Get the Case

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 26, 2019

A new app called Opinion Minion uses your mobile phone’s camera to read case citations and then deliver you the opinion from Google Scholar.

The app, which describes itself as “your legal helper,” uses text-recognition software to read the case citation and then search for it on Google Scholar. As of this writing, it…

#ILTACON19: Post-Mortem Notes, Musings and Observations

#ILTACON19: Post-Mortem Notes, Musings and Observations

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 23, 2019

Home now from ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. It is five frenetic days of seminars, exhibitors and networking by legal technologists and vendors from all over the world. Here are some of my somewhat-random thoughts about the event.

Let’s start with what many were thinking: Orlando in August?…

Webinar Tomorrow Will Provide Sneak Peek Into New PWC Product for Small Firms

Webinar Tomorrow Will Provide Sneak Peek Into New PWC Product for Small Firms

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 20, 2019

Tomorrow I am moderating a webinar in which attendees will get an exclusive first look at a new product for solo and small firms being introduced by the PWC New Ventures group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC).

The free webinar, How Successful Small Law Firms Get Ahead of the Game, is being sponsored by…

LawNext Episode 49: Dean Sonderegger of Wolters Kluwer on the ‘Future-Ready Lawyer’

LawNext Episode 49: Dean Sonderegger of Wolters Kluwer on the ‘Future-Ready Lawyer’

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 19, 2019



Which firms are best prepared to keep pace with changes in the legal market? That was the question explored in a recent survey of U.S. and European law firms, the 2019…

#ILTACON19 News: CloudNine E-Discovery Software Now Available Via Private Cloud

#ILTACON19 News: CloudNine E-Discovery Software Now Available Via Private Cloud

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 19, 2019

I wrote here last week about the rollout by CloudNine of new versions and enhancements for its suite of e-discovery products. Now at ILTACON, the company is announcing a partnership with the legal technology company Oasis Discovery to offer access to its products through a managed private cloud.

Law firms will…

At #ILTACON19, Law Firm Tech Spin-Off Debuts App Designed to Better Serve and Inform Clients

At #ILTACON19, Law Firm Tech Spin-Off Debuts App Designed to Better Serve and Inform Clients

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 19, 2019

Being announced today at ILTACON is a client-facing app and cloud platform designed to provide law firm clients with intuitive access to legal documents, automated legal forms and agreements, secure messaging, and digital billing and payment.

Called ConnectIVITY, the app is being developed by Connective Counsel, a startup technology company that spun off in 2018…

Debuting at #ILTACON19: ‘Legal AI Efficacy Report’ Promises to Cut Through Market Hype

Debuting at #ILTACON19: ‘Legal AI Efficacy Report’ Promises to Cut Through Market Hype

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 18, 2019

If there is one category of legal technology products where it is difficult to separate the hype from the reality, it is artificial intelligence. Seemingly every new product to come on the market claims to use AI in some way, shape or form.

Given that, the new Legal AI Efficacy Report, being announced tomorrow…

Litera’s Acquisition of Doxly: I Speak with the CEOs on What’s Ahead

Litera’s Acquisition of Doxly: I Speak with the CEOs on What’s Ahead

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 16, 2019

As I wrote here earlier, Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired Doxly, a four-year-old company founded by a former biglaw partner to manage the legal transactions process. I have just had a phone call with the CEOs of the two companies and can provide more details.

First, to sum up the news. the document technology…

Friday Roundup: So Much News, So Little Time, Not to Mention #ILTACON19

Friday Roundup: So Much News, So Little Time, Not to Mention #ILTACON19

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 16, 2019

So much legal technology news, I can barely keep up with it all, thanks in part to the fact that Sunday is the start of ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Here are some of the week’s headlines.

Litera acquires Doxly. Litera yesterday announced that it has acquired…

Ahead of #ILTACON19, Levit & James Finalizes Its Pay-Per-Document Pricing for Best Authority

Ahead of #ILTACON19, Levit & James Finalizes Its Pay-Per-Document Pricing for Best Authority

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 15, 2019

Software company Levit & James, Inc. today announced the formal release of a pay-per-document licensing option for the latest version 5.0 of its Best Authority, a Microsoft Word add-in that automatically finds and marks all the legal citations in a brief and generates a table of authorities.

Formerly, law firms could purchase Best…

Join Me for A Legal Media Panel at #ILTACON19

Join Me for A Legal Media Panel at #ILTACON19

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 14, 2019

If you are attending ILTACON 2019, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, next week, consider joining me and other legal technology journalists for a panel discussion on the state of the industry.

Moderating the panel is Gina Passarella, editor-in-chief, ALM Media. In addition to myself, panelists will be:…

ABA Votes to Urge Legal Profession to Address Emerging Legal and Ethical Issues of AI

ABA Votes to Urge Legal Profession to Address Emerging Legal and Ethical Issues of AI

By Bob Ambrogi
on August 14, 2019

The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, its policy-making body, voted this week to approve a resolution urging courts and lawyers to address the emerging ethical and legal issues related to the usage of artificial intelligence in the practice of law.

Among the AI-related issues the profession should address, the ABA said, are bias, explainability, and…

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Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for more than two decades. He writes the award-winning blog LawSites, is a columnist for Above the Law, hosts the podcast about legal innovation, LawNext, and hosts the weekly legal tech journalists' roundtable, Legaltech Week.

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