The most popular legal-specific smartphone app among lawyers is Westlaw (maybe) and the most popular smartphone among lawyers is the iPhone, according to the 2016 Legal Technology Survey Report just out from the American Bar Association.

Only 40 percent of lawyers say they have ever downloaded a legal-specific smartphone app, but of those…

I wrote here yesterday about the finding of the ABA’s 2016 Legal Technology Survey Report that only 38 percent of lawyers say they use the cloud for law-related tasks. How likely is that number to be accurate?

Not very, I suspect. In a separate post yesterday that I published at Above the…

Just 38 percent of lawyers use cloud computing for law-related tasks, according to the just-released 2016 Legal Technology Survey Report by the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center.

That is only slightly more lawyers using the cloud than in the three prior years, when the percentage stayed at about 31 percent.

Fifty-three…

Last May, this blog covered the major redesign of its website by the CLE provider Lawline. Now, Lawline has released a new mobile app, allowing lawyers to complete their CLE anywhere via an iPhone.

The app enables Lawline members to download any of their audio courses to an iPhone so they can…

The Supreme Court is notoriously camera shy, staunchly refusing to allow cameras in its courtroom when it is in session. Tomorrow, however, the court will break with that tradition. Sort of.

The court is holding a special meeting tomorrow of the Supreme Court Bar to honor the memory of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. A special…

The American Bar Association today is launching ABA Blueprint, its website designed to help solo and small firm lawyers manage the complexities of their legal practices by helping them find the products and services they need at affordable prices.

As I reported here in August, plans to develop the site were…

WordRake, the editing and proofreading add-in for Microsoft Word and Outlook that is designed for lawyers and other professionals, released its version 3 yesterday.

With more than 600 new editing algorithms and 900 enhancements to existing algorithms, WordRake 3 offers 25 percent more edits and even greater accuracy, according to a

Below is the presentation I gave last week at Above the Law’s Academy for Private Practice in Philadelphia.

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With OneDrive integration enabled, users can now open documents directly in Office web apps.

CosmoLex, the cloud practice management platform, is rolling out new features today that include two-way synchronization with Office 365 calendars, integration with OneDrive, document search, document version control, and new notifications through the client portal.

Although CosmoLex…

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

So said Scott Mozarsky today of Bloomberg BNA’s Legal Division, shortly after it was learned that he would become the division’s president, replacing David Perla, who had been president since July 2014.

In a telephone conversation with Mozarsky this afternoon, I asked him what his becoming president…

I’ve just learned that Bloomberg BNA has named Scott Mozarsky as president of its Legal Division. He will report to Bloomberg BNA CEO and President Greg McCaffery and will be responsible for driving the growth of the company’s legal products, including the flagship Bloomberg Law product.

Mozarsky replaces David Perla, who has reportedly decided to depart…

Alma Asay

Speaking of podcasts, I sat down Friday with Alma Asay, founder of Allegory Law, for a conversation about litigation technology and Allegory’s unique approach to managing litigation documents and data. Asay also talks about her journey from Gibson Dunn litigation associate to legal technology entrepreneur and…