Last year, Florida became the first state to mandate technology CLE for lawyers. In an order that also adopted the duty of technology competence, the Supreme Court of Florida revised its minimum CLE requirements to add three hours every three years in approved technology programs.

To my knowledge, no other state has followed…

A new website called LegalOptics is using an algorithm to analyze driving-under-the-influence cases in Florida and identify the attorneys who get the best results for each judge and case type.

The purpose of the site is to help consumers find the right attorney by providing a more-granular analysis of their records than…

Adobe yesterday introduced a scanner app for mobile devices that includes optical character recognition, so you can edit documents after you scan them. It also introduced notable updates to Adobe, including cross-device signature capture.

The scanner app, Adobe Scan, is free and available for iOS and Android devices. Regular readers of…

During the past week, I’ve had the great honor and pleasure of presenting a four-hour program on legal ethics and technology to members of the Solo & Small Firm Section of the Florida Bar. What made this program particularly special was that it took place during a 10-day cruise along the Danube River,…

For some time now, I’ve been meaning to write about Centerbase, a relatively new entrant to the law practice management space. Targeted at small- and mid-sized firms, Centerbase is unique for the high degree of configurability available to its users. As its website says, “We make Centerbase’s features conform to your needs, not…

The legal research service Ravel Law today announced the launch of a new feature, Firm Analytics, that provides insights on law firms’ litigation histories that can be used for competitive intelligence and research into firms’ litigation activity.

I am traveling today and have not seen this new feature. Ravel CEO Daniel Lewis says it…

Notable news on the AI front today: the document management company iManage has acquired RAVN Systems, a UK company specializing in artificial intelligence. iManage says the acquisition “will revolutionize the way companies find, extract and act on key information from documents and emails.”

RAVN has an AI platform that can organize, discover and summarize…

In what it says is an industry first for a legal research platform, LexisNexis today is launching a multimedia civil procedure practice guide within Lexis Advance that includes not only text but also a series of more than 150 short videos embedded within the content.

The new practice guide, The Wagstaffe Group Practice…

Here are 16 additions to my list of legal startups. This brings the list to 647 entries. Send additions and updates to ambrogi-at-gmail.com. To read more about this list and why I created it, see this post.…

Immi, a website devoted to helping immigrants in the U.S. understand their legal options, has won the 2017 Webby Award for best law website.

A creation of Probono.net and the Immigration Advocates Network, Immi provides an online screening tool, legal information, and referrals to nonprofit legal services organizations.

This…

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…