In September 2017, venerable Magic Circle law firm Allen & Overy launched Fuse, setting aside a portion of its London office for a collaborative innovation space to develop and test new legal technologies, and it named lawyer Shruti Ajitsaria to head the project. On the latest episode of LawNext, Ajitsaria joins me to discuss why…

The Utah State Courts will launch a pilot program tomorrow using online dispute resolution to seek to resolve small claims cases in the Justice Court in West Valley City, a suburb of Salt Lake City.

This appears to be only the second court in the United States to offer ODR for all small-claims…

Last week, I was at ILTACON, the annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, where I sat down with a number of legal technology companies for briefings on their latest news and products. All this week, I’ve been posting a four-part roundup of what I learned in those meetings. I started Monday with

Scott Mozarsky, former president of Bloomberg Law, has been named regional managing director, North America, for Vannin Capital,  a company that provides financing and expert support to corporations and law firms involved in high-value commercial disputes.

Mozarsky will have overall responsibility for the North American business of the company, which was founded in 2010.…

Thirteen years ago this week, in 2005, I sat down in a recording studio in front of a fancy boom microphone, donned a bulky pair of Sony headphones, and waited for the cue. Then I was connected to my new cohost, Newport Beach, Calif., lawyer J. Craig Williams, and recording the first episode of our new podcast. Little did I imagine we’d still be doing it all these years later, making it the longest continually running podcast in law and one of the longest running of any kind. Last night, after 586 episodes (by my count) of that podcast,…

Last week, I attended ILTACON, the annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, where I sat down with a number of legal technology companies for briefings on their latest news and products. I’m posting a four-part roundup of those companies. I started Monday with Part 1 and yesterday with Part 2. Here…

Last week, I attended ILTACON, the annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, where I met with a number of legal technology companies for briefings on their latest news and products. Yesterday, I posted the first of a four-part roundup of those companies. Here is part 2. More tomorrow.

iManage

Every year…

After three years of attending the Clio Cloud Conference, the jazzy, New Orleans legal tech conference hosted by leading cloud-based practice management software provider Clio, Billie Tarascio had had it. Not with the conference, but with being the only staffer from the firm she owns,…

Last week, I attended ILTACON, the annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association. Here is Part 1 of a roundup of some of the legal technology companies and news I saw there. I’ll be writing this roundup over four installments, so watch for Part 2 tomorrow.

Intelllex

It is unfortunate for those of…

In life, there are many things to be scared of, including, but not limited to, spiders, sharks, and clowns – definitely clowns, even Fizbo. ESI is not something to be scared of.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Iain D. Johnston
City of Rockford v. Mallinckrodt ARD Inc.

(Photo by Graeme Maclean, [

What does it mean to practice data-driven law? On this episode of LawNext, I speak with Jeff Pfeifer, the LexisNexis vice president charged with driving overall product strategy for LexisNexis Legal and Professional, North America. Over the past several years, Pfeifer has spearheaded a series of acquisitions and product developments, all…

In June, I wrote about a new legal industry award intended to honor innovation in legal practice and legal technology, The Changing Lawyer Awards, for which I was to be one of the judges. Now, the results are in.

The sponsor of the awards, Litera Microsystems and its online publication The Changing Lawyer, announced…