Thomson Reuters today announced the appointment of co-chief operating officers to lead its legal and tax and accounting businesses and the departure of Susan Taylor Martin as president of the legal business.

Brian Peccarelli

Effective July 1, Brian Peccarelli, president of Tax & Accounting, will become co-COO with responsibility for customer markets.…

The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission this week published for comment its report that recommends loosening rules on attorneys’ participation in for-profit referral services such as Avvo Legal Services.

Loosening of the rules would help Illinois address the unmet legal needs of poor and moderate-income individuals in the state, the study…

Tomorrow, I will be at the ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility in Louisville, Ky., where I will be moderating the plenary session, “Ethics Issues in Lawyers’ Use of Artificial Intelligence.”

Here is the program description:

If machine capabilities allow us to diminish, or even remove, human participation from some tasks traditionally involved in

The Mississippi Bar today announced that it is switching the research service it offers as a free benefit to its members from Casemaker to Fastcase. The switch will take effect for its more than 9,000 members on June 1.

“This new partnership allows us to support our members by providing free access…

Although law firms often talk about innovation, fewer than a third have actually tasked someone within the firm with the responsibility for driving innovation.

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That is among the findings of a new survey, the 2018 Aderant Business of Law and Legal…

“Sometimes I get nervous
When I see an open door
Close your eyes
Clear your heart
Cut the cord”

-The Killers: Human

They say change is hard. I’m not sure I agree. Leaving one thing for another is hard. The process and decision of leaving something and somewhere are gut-wrenching. It’s…

The number of artificial intelligence companies catering to the legal field has grown by 65 percent in the last year, from 40 to 66.

This finding is from the In-House Counsel’s LegalTech Buyer’s Guide 2018, published today by the contract review automation company LawGeex.

The increase in AI companies includes a…

Update #2: The Washington Post has this: The Cybersecurity 202: Security community has its own encryption debate after discovery of new flaw.

Update: “Don’t panic,” is the message of an EFF post published subsequent to my post below, but avoid using PGP, at least temporarily until more is known. And computer security blogger

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

Suffolk’s online innovation courses OK’d for CLE. In a post here last October, I reported on a new online certification course in legal innovation and technology being launched by Suffolk University Law School in Boston. This week, Suffolk announced that the

When last we wrote about judicial analytics company Gavelytics on March 13, it was announcing a $3.2 million funding round to support development of new features and expansion into additional jurisdictions. Today, the first two of these new features roll out — a rulings database and an arbitrator archive.

As I…

The jury of popular opinion is divided on the writing style of the newest justice on the Supreme Court. Slate pronounced Neil M. Gorsuch a terrible writer. But a forthcoming quantitative study of his published opinions concludes that he “does exceedingly well according to the standards of good writing that legal writing authorities…

In 2016, Florida became the first state to mandate technology training for lawyers, when it adopted a rule requiring lawyers to complete three hours of CLE every three years “in approved technology programs.”

So far, no other state has followed suit. But now one has moved a giant step closer to following in Florida’s footsteps.…