Two years ago yesterday, at a briefing for journalists and bloggers, Thomson Reuters let drop a tantalizing tidbit about a product it was developing based on IBM Watson’s artificial intelligence platform. TR offered only crumbs of details, saying the product would help corporate legal and corporate compliance users untangle the sometimes-confusing…

Zero is an iPhone app designed for attorneys that applies artificial intelligence to email to automatically capture billable time, sort emails by importance, and predictively file and organize emails within your document management system, It can be used as your primary email client or in parallel with your preferred client.

I had not heard…

Tali – the voice-driven time-entry application – now integrates with the Rocket Matter practice management platform, the two companies announced.

Tali enables lawyers to record their time using voice commands via the Amazon Echo or any Alexa-enabled device. With this integration, Rocket Matter subscribers will be able to use Tali to…

Speaking of Brigham Young University Law School, here is more news. It will host a summit Feb. 16 on how blockchain technology will impact markets, institutions, digital relationships and civic life.

Presented by the law school and the BYU MBA program, the summit will explore blockchain’s potential impact in a variety…

Join me on Friday and Saturday this week for the 2018 Law + Technology Summit, presented by the San Diego County Bar Association and the Law Practice Management & Technology Section of the California Lawyers Association.

The programs includes a line-up of marquis speakers, including Dennis Garcia, assistant general counsel for Microsoft Corporation, and…

Last June, I reported on the plan by BYU Law School to launch LawX, a legal design lab in which second- and third-year law students would take on the ambitious goal of solving one access-to-justice challenge in a semester. Subsequently, in November, I wrote here about the opportunity I had to sit in on the lab.…

I have said before and I continue to believe that for a legal research company to compete against the longstanding dominance of Westlaw and LexisNexis, having secondary content such as treatises and practice guides is the Holy Grail.

Fastcase clearly sees it the same way. It has steadily been building its libraries of secondary…

We live in a time of unprecedented and exponential innovation in legal technology. Yet the justice gap in our country keeps widening. The majority of low and moderate income people go without legal help, and the nationwide number of unrepresented litigants keeps rising.

Most would agree that technology is one key to bridging this…

Recently I announced that I would be joining LexBlog as publisher and editor-in-chief. I started Jan. 1 and I am proud to unveil our first publication — Legalweek Monitor, a first-of-its-kind publication devoted to publishing gavel-to-gavel coverage of ALM’s Legalweek conference, which begins Jan. 29 in New York City.

Legalweek is actually multiple conferences,…

A new podcast from the State Bar of Michigan, On Balance, covers a wide range of practice-management and wellness issues, all with a focus on how lawyers can effectively balance their personal and professional lives.

Produced in conjunction with the Legal Talk Network, the series is designed to help lawyers find…

Now online is the TECHSHOW issue of Law Practice magazine, the publication of the ABA’s Law Practice Division. I was co-editor of this issue, along with Mary E. Vandenack.

Among the articles featured in this issue:

A Dutch software company that specializes in smart contracts using blockchain technology is preparing to launch an app that uses blockchain to log explicit consent before sexual contact.

The company, LegalThings One, is introducing its app, called LegalFling, in anticipation of Sweden’s proposed legislation that would change rape laws to require…