It’s a maelstrom of activity in our nation’s capital these days, making it all the harder for lawyers to keep up with federal developments and separate truth from rumor. Cognizant of that, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory has launched a new product, the Federal Developments Knowledge Center, designed to help legal professionals…

Well, this is enterprising of them.

Following my report earlier this week that LexisNexis Firm Manager will go dark on Oct. 31, another practice management company announced that it will offer free subscriptions to Firm Manager’s customers.

Case.one says it will provide a free subscription for a period equivalent to the remainder…

Founded 25 years ago, the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School was the first-ever legal website. Rather than rest on its laurels, the LII continues to be a leader today in providing free and open access to law. On the LII’s 25th anniversary, I speak with cofounder Tom Bruce about its origins and…

Fresh on the heels of Casetext’s legal research assistant CARA being named new product of the year, Casetext is today introducing an expansion of CARA that adds briefs to its suggested results. This means that, in addition to finding relevant — but possibly overlooked — case law, CARA also finds relevant briefs. Casetext is calling…

A convergence of three recent developments in legal research suggests that we may be entering what Ed Walters, the CEO of legal research service Fastcase, described in a tweet as “a golden age of legal research innovation.” In my column this week at Above the Law, I describe these three developments and what they…

This has been the year of the legal keyboard. Earlier this year, I wrote about the launch of the LegalBoard, a computer keyboard designed specifically for lawyers. Then, six weeks ago, came another one designed just for lawyers, called Citepad. Unlike the LegalBoard, which is an actual hardware keyboard, the Citepad is an application…

LexisNexis will turn off its Firm Manager practice management platform on Oct. 31, 2017. This follows news reported here in January that LexisNexis was discontinuing sales and suspending development of Firm Manager.

A LexisNexis spokesperson said that the company will continue to support and operate the platform until Oct. 31, but that…

Just ahead of the annual meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA), where an expected 10,000 trademark lawyers will gather starting Saturday in Barcelona, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. and Alt Legal are announcing an integration that will provide one-click access to WK Trademark Navigator from within Alt Legal.

Through…

This year is the 25th anniversary of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School, literally the first legal site on the Internet. Not only did the LII set the standard for open access to law a quarter-century ago, it continues to set the standard today.

The LII invited me to contribute a…

The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has issued a major new opinion providing guidance on the steps lawyers should take to protect client confidentiality in electronic communications.

The new opinion, Formal Opinion 477 (embedded copy below), updates Formal Opinion 99-413, issued in 1999, to reflect changes in the…

A startup founded by a law professor is using algorithms to help law students get better class grades and pass the bar examination.

Called SeRiouS, or just SRS, it uses the learning technique of spaced repetition to help students remember much more of what they study. The company projects that students using its software…

You may think of Amazon’s voice-activated virtual assistant Alexa as a fun accessory for your home, allowing you to ask for a song or check the weather. But a new tool from Thomson Reuters might encourage you to take Alexa to your law office, where it can now track your billable hours and…