As it happens this week, I am involved in two separate webinars, but which have overlapping themes.

The first, on Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern time, is, The Great Debate: Are Lawyers Luddites or is Technology to Blame? In this panel, I join Joe Patrice, editor at Above the Law, and Jon Tobin, founder of…

Richard Zorza once wrote that, after his death, he would continue to blog from hell. I would not be surprised if Richard, who died April 13 at the age of 69, is still blogging somewhere, but I am quite certain it isn’t hell.

On my short list of must-read blogs, Richard’s Access to Justice…

Earlier this week, I posted my LawNext interview with Augie Rakow, cofounder and managing partner of alternative law firm Atrium. Now comes news that Rakow is leaving the firm.

Atrium today posted the announcement, saying that Rakow is stepping down as managing partner. No explanation was given for his departure.

“Building Atrium…

A new website, Trialdex, is a comprehensive resource for finding and comparing federal and state jury instructions.

Formally launched yesterday, the site provides a searchable collection all official or quasi-official federal civil and criminal instructions and annotations, as well as an index of 20,000 legal terms, statutes, CFRs and Supreme Court cases referenced in…

Last November, I reported on a partnership between the American Immigration Lawyers Association and Fastcase to produce a twice-yearly law journal, published by the Fastcase publishing imprint Full Court Press.

Today, AILA and Fastcase released the inaugural issue of the AILA Law Journal. It includes seven articles on current issues in immigration law, including…

Thomson Reuters has notified customers of its Firm Central practice management product of a security vulnerability in its optional desktop software.

Because of an “obscure security vulnerability” in its desktop software for PCs, the notice says, customers should uninstall the software. This applies to anyone who has the software installed, even if they are…

The roster of states that have adopted the duty of technology competence for lawyers is at 36, but now Michigan is on track to possibly make it 37.

Yesterday, the Michigan Supreme Court posted a notice that it is considering adopting the duty and requesting public comment.

The proposal would amend a paragraph…

For my column this week at Above the Law, I do some ruminating on the evolving role of law librarians, particularly with regard to legal technology.

The news hook for my column was a just-published study from the American Association of Law Libraries, the inaugural AALL State of the Profession report, an in-depth look at…

Silicon Valley-backed Atrium is a different kind of law firm — a dual entity that is part law practice and part legal technology company. The goal is to provide corporate clients with a more efficient and transparent alternative to traditional large firms, with Atrium’s lawyers focusing exclusively on practicing law, while a second entity, Atrium…

A roundup of the week’s news from the worlds of legal technology and innovation:

Albany Law program will prepare students for high-tech careers. Three upstate New York educational institutions — Albany Law School, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and the Research Foundation for SUNY — said this week they are partnering to provide a unique, experiential learning program…

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Thanks to the generosity of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory, I have 10 free admission tickets to give away for the final round gala of the Global Legal Hackathon. If purchased, a ticket would cost $75.

The semi-formal gala is Saturday,…

With the report due out today of the investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian election interference, there is one podcast I will be watching for its next episode to come out.

Called Talking Feds, the weekly podcast is a roundtable discussion among well-known former federal prosecutors who discuss and analyze…