What Questions Do You Have For These Legal Vendors?
What questions do you have for vendors of legal research, practice management and other technologies and services? I would appreciate your suggestions for a series of vendor panels I will be moderating this week.
Later this week, I’ll be at the Jump-Start Your Law Practice conference in Indianapolis, where I will be moderating a…
Lex Machina Adds Analytics for Product Liability Litigation
As it continues to expand its legal analytics into new practice areas, Lex Machina is today announcing the addition of analytics for federal product liability litigation. The new module is the largest expansion of the platform to date, it says, encompassing nearly 500,000 cases pending since 2009, including 158,000 open cases.
Since launching with its initial focus…
How Does A Lawyer Get and Stay Competent in Technology?
I’ve written any number of posts about the duty of technology competence under ABA Model Rule 1.1, Comment 8, and I’ve been tracking its adoption by the states. But one aspect of this duty that does not get as much attention is how lawyers can get and remain technologically competent.
There have been several…
NextChapter Unveils Its Next Chapter: A Portal For Bankruptcy Debtors
NextChapter, the cloud-based bankruptcy platform for lawyers, has launched a new product, an online bankruptcy questionnaire and debtor portal called MyChapter.
The portal allows a bankruptcy client to input all of his or her personal and financial information in advance of meeting with the attorney. The attorney can then review and…
A Closer Look at Clio’s Revamped Practice Management Platform
Dashboard shows details of a matter
In September, I reported that practice management provider Clio, at its annual Clio Cloud Conference, had unveiled “the new Clio experience” — a top-to-bottom re-engineering and redesign of its practice management platform, which it dubbed Project Apollo, after the Greek god of healing…
Tim Baran’s Podcast Interviews Me on Legal Tech, Blogging and Social Media
Tim Baran, chief marketing officer at Good2BSocial, a digital marketing agency serving the legal industry, recently hosted me as a guest on his legal marketing podcast. Our discussion ranges over legal technology, blogging and social media.
You can listen to it via the Good2BSocial blog or using the embedded player above.…
So You’re A Lawyer Who Wants to Learn to Code? Well, Which Language Should You Learn?
I often hear lawyers say that they would like to learn to code. I also hear lawyers who have learned to code urge others to follow suit. Some say learning to code can make you a better lawyer or even that it is an essential skill for lawyers in the 21st Century. It might…
Fastcase Launches Legal Publishing Arm; Introduces Inaugural Law Journal
A few weeks ago, in a post here about Fastcase’s addition of blog commentary from the LexBlog Network, I wrote that for any legal research company aiming to compete in the big leagues against the likes of Westlaw and LexisNexis, “secondary content is the Holy Grail.”
Well, in its own quest…
New Index Measures Law Schools on Innovation and Technology Programs
How well are law schools preparing students to deliver legal services in the 21st Century? A new Law School Innovation Index, launched today, aims to provide a measure of that, and finds that Chicago-Kent College of Law and Michigan State University College of Law are at the top of the…
Suffolk Law School to Offer Online Certificate in Legal Innovation and Technology
Legal professionals can now earn an online certificate in legal innovation and technology, thanks to a program being launched by Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
A series of six courses will focus on teaching lawyers and other legal professionals how to deliver their services more effectively and efficiently. Those who…
Podcast: Changing the Legal Game With Blockchain
Although blockchain is emerging as one of the technologies that will most change the practice of law, many legal professionals still know little about it. In this episode of Law Technology Now, I have a conversation with David Fisher, CEO of Integra Ledger, a blockchain for the legal industry, about blockchain and its applications…
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