In building a law practice, small changes can have a big impact on your success. That is the driving principle behind a new monthly podcast being launched today by the practice management company Clio.
Called Matters, each 30-minute episode will focus on a specific technique, strategy or tactic that — as the name…
As plans get underway for the second Global Legal Hackathon Feb. 22-24, its organizers today announced it will include an initiative to support up-and-coming women leaders in legal innovation around the world.
The initiative, Global Rise of Women in LegalTech, or GROWL, will be chaired by Nita Sanger, who this month left her position…
The Portland, Ore., virtual receptionist company Ruby Receptionists is today announcing its acquisition of the online chat service ProfessionalChats, a three-year-old company based in Kansas City, Mo. This is the first acquisition by Ruby, which was founded in 2003, and it will allow it to offer its customers managed chat services through their…
With Judicata, Itai Gurari believes he has built a better legal research platform. A lawyer and computer scientist, his approach to designing a legal research engine was to first “map the legal genome” — that is, map the law with extreme accuracy and granularity. The result is a research engine that…
In October 2018, I recorded a series of 18 interviews with solo and small firm lawyers about how they use technology in their practices. For an introduction to the series, see this post. A special thanks to the Law Firm 500 conference for hosting us to record these videos, and to Ben…
I’m adding another to my list of states that have adopted the duty of technology competence for lawyers, although this state has done it in a somewhat different way.
Louisiana has amended its Code of Professionalism for lawyers to add two provisions related to lawyers’ use of social media. The two provisions related…
Earlier this year, in my column at Above the Law, I rounded up a passel of new legal podcasts. No sooner had I published that column than I started hearing from other new legal podcasts that I missed, so I published a supplement a week later.
This week, on New Year’s Day, another legal…
Drum roll please. We’ve been counting readers’ votes to select the 15 legal technology startups that will get to participate in the third-annual Startup Alley at the American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW conference, which is Feb. 27 to March 2, 2019, in Chicago. Voting ended Friday night and now we are pleased to announce the…
What goes around comes around, as they say. In 2010, I started compiling a year-end list of my most-popular blog posts. That year, my most popular post was a first look at the newest version of Westlaw, WestlawNext. Fast forward to 2018, and my most popular post this year was a first look…
The deadline is tomorrow, Dec. 28, at 11:45 p.m. Eastern time, to vote for the legal tech startups that will get to participate in Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW.
Your votes will determine the 15 companies that are selected to face off in a pitch competition on TECHSHOW’s opening night and to exhibit in a…
What a whirlwind of a year it has been for legal technology. Barely a week into 2018, industry-changing news broke of Avvo’s sale to Internet Brands. Legal tech news has been nonstop ever since – so much that it’s a struggle to keep up with it all.
For several years now, I’ve closed out…
In October 2018, I recorded a series of 18 interviews with solo and small firm lawyers about how they use technology in their practices. For an introduction to the series, see this post. A special thanks to the Law Firm 500 conference for hosting us to record these videos, and to Ben…
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