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InCloudCounsel Crosses the Pond, Opens London Office to Serve UK and EU Market

InCloudCounsel Crosses the Pond, Opens London Office to Serve UK and EU Market

By Bob Ambrogi
on January 14, 2019

InCloudCounsel, a U.S. company that provides corporations and law firms with freelance attorneys to handle routine legal work, is today announcing its expansion into Europe with the opening of an office in London to serve the UK and European legal markets.

Leading the office and the company’s expansion there is Bridget K. Deiters,…

Live at 6 ET Today: The Last ‘This Week in Law’

Live at 6 ET Today: The Last ‘This Week in Law’

By Bob Ambrogi
on January 11, 2019

After 448 episodes, Denise Howell is calling it a wrap on her vide0 and audio podcast This Week in Law, which she currently cohosts with Stefan Szpajda, an attorney with Dorsey & Whitney in Seattle.

I’ll be the guest as they broadcast the show live today at 6 p.m. Eastern time. (To…

Conference Preview: AI in the Spotlight when Legalweek Convenes Jan. 28

Conference Preview: AI in the Spotlight when Legalweek Convenes Jan. 28

By Bob Ambrogi
on January 11, 2019

With Legaltech, one of the world’s largest and most-important legal technology conferences, just two weeks away, we are at a time when it has never been more obvious how tech is transforming the practice of law. With the proliferation of legal tech startups and new apps on the market seemingly every day, lawyers are in…

New Year Kicks Off With Huge $200M Investment In Legal Tech Company

New Year Kicks Off With Huge $200M Investment In Legal Tech Company

By Bob Ambrogi
on January 11, 2019

Just a few weeks ago, in my 2018 year-end round-up of the most important legal technology developments, I noted that it had been a banner year for investments in legal technology companies, with the total hitting $1 billion.

Now, 2019 is off to a roaring start, with news of a $200 million strategic investment…

Clio Is Launching A Podcast Devoted To What Matters In Building A Law Practice

Clio Is Launching A Podcast Devoted To What Matters In Building A Law Practice

By Bob Ambrogi
on January 10, 2019

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…

Global Legal Hackathon Launches Initiative To Support Women In Legal Tech; Names Former Wolters Kluwer Exec To Lead It

Global Legal Hackathon Launches Initiative To Support Women In Legal Tech; Names Former Wolters Kluwer Exec To Lead It

By Bob Ambrogi
on January 8, 2019

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…

Ruby Receptionists Acquires ProfessionalChats, Expanding Its Offerings Into Online Chat

Ruby Receptionists Acquires ProfessionalChats, Expanding Its Offerings Into Online Chat

By Bob Ambrogi
on January 8, 2019

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…

LawNext Episode 24: Making Legal Research Better, with Judicata Founder Itai Gurari

LawNext Episode 24: Making Legal Research Better, with Judicata Founder Itai Gurari

By Bob Ambrogi
on January 7, 2019


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…

Legal Tech in the Heartland, Episode 2: John Walker, Walker Law PC, Houston, Texas

Legal Tech in the Heartland, Episode 2: John Walker, Walker Law PC, Houston, Texas

By Bob Ambrogi
on January 4, 2019

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…

One More State Adopts Duty of Technology Competence (Sort Of)

One More State Adopts Duty of Technology Competence (Sort Of)

By Bob Ambrogi
on January 3, 2019

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…

Two New Podcasts to Start the New Year: One on Trials, Another on Ethics

Two New Podcasts to Start the New Year: One on Trials, Another on Ethics

By Bob Ambrogi
on January 3, 2019

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…

Announcing the Winners of the 2019 ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley Competition

Announcing the Winners of the 2019 ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley Competition

By Bob Ambrogi
on December 31, 2018

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…

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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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