Ever since LexisNexis acquired the legal research startup Ravel last June, its plan has been to integrate Ravel’s caselaw visualization technology and data analytics into Lexis Advance. Earlier this year, I published a preview of the integration of the visualization technology. Today, LexisNexis is formally launching that integration and beginning to…

A partnership announced yesterday will enhance the Fastcase legal research service through the addition of data and reviews on expert witnesses, litigation consultants, mediators and arbitrators from Courtroom Insight.

Content from Courtroom Insight has already been added to Fastcase’s AI Sandbox, a private digital environment where law firms can use artificial…

Legal technology startup Doxly, a secure portal for managing corporate transactions, is today announcing that Christopher Clapp, a veteran executive who has led three companies through exits, has been named executive chairman of the Indianapolis-based company.

Most recently, Clapp was president and CEO of Bluelock LLC, a company that provides cloud-based “disaster…

The website G2 Crowd, which collects user reviews to evaluate business-to-business software, recently released its first grid ranking of the best legal practice management software, and it places only one company, Clio, into the upper-right “Leaders” quadrant — the quadrant that represents the highest rankings in both customer satisfaction and market presence.…

The practice-management platform Clio recently notified long-term customers who had been grandfathered on an older pricing plan that they will now have to switch to Clio’s current pricing plan.

The grandfathering came about in February 2015, when Clio adopted a three-tiered monthly subscription plan in place of its prior single-price plan. (See: Practice-Management…

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments Aug. 17 in Atlanta on the dispute between Fastcase and Casemaker over the latter’s claims of copyright in Georgia administrative regulations.

Fastcase sued Casemaker in federal court in Atlanta in 2016 after Casemaker served it a written notice demanding that it…

What would law practice be today without this technology? It is the standard for filing pleadings and motions in court. It is the standard for exchanging contracts and virtually all other legal documents. It is the standard for producing documents in e-discovery. It is the format around which lawyers build paperless practices. It is how…

Firm Central, the Thomson Reuters cloud-based practice management platform, recently rolled out a new reporting module, replacing its former reporting feature with more robust features and a wider array of user options.

In addition, Firm Central has introduced a number of improvements in recent months to its time and billing functions and across various…

Slated to launch next month is a service that allows consumers to get answers to their legal questions by text for a flat price of $20.

The service, called Text A Lawyer, is modeled after ride-sharing service Uber in that it uses two separate mobile apps, one for consumers to submit legal questions and…

Join me tomorrow as I moderate the free webinar, An Emerging Trend in Legal Technology: Bridging the Law Firm Experience Gap.

Sponsored by the Association of Legal Technologists, the panel will feature the presidents of three major organizations of legal professionals. They will be discussing how law firms can better capture and make…

Adobe today announced enhanced integration with Microsoft Office 365 that will give access to Adobe PDF services from directly from the ribbon bar within the online versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint, as well as from within SharePoint and OneDrive.

Adobe also announced enhancements to its free Adobe Scan app for iOS and…

Since 2015, I have been tracking the states that have adopted the duty of technology competence for lawyers. I have been doing that by updating a now three-year-old blog post. The post has become messy and unwieldy.

To clean it up, I’ve created a new page where I will continue to track adoption. The new…