A lawsuit claiming that the federal courts’ PACER system routinely overcharges for document downloads has survived the government’s motion to dismiss.
In a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Bryndon Fisher of Seattle claims that the formula used by PACER to calculate per-page download charges is faulty and that it resulted in PACER…
This week is the Microsoft Ignite conference for IT professionals in Atlanta, Ga., and one legal-specific app will be honored there from out of the over 1,700 apps and add-ins available through the Office Store.
The legal calendaring and docketing application LawToolBox365 has won a Microsoft 2016 Office App Award, which…
In my column this week at Above the Law, I have an exclusive first look at a new product that uses machine learning to help prevent mistakes in drafting legal documents.
Called jEugene Compass, the product will be formally announced tomorrow morning.
What separates it from other proofreading programs for lawyers…
One of the oldest legal newspapers in the United States is publishing its last issue today. San Francisco’s The Recorder, published since 1857, will exist only in digital format after today’s issue.
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— The Recorder (@RecorderTweets) September 25,
During her 17-year tenure as editor-in-chief of Law Technology News (now rebranded as Legaltech News), there was one word Monica Bay would not tolerate in articles or press releases: “solution.”
“We’re determined to build bridges, not walls — and to explain and demystify technology,” she once wrote. “That means no jargon, no…
I wrote yesterday about the announcement by Clio at its conference earlier this week of its new Legal Trends initiative. Clio will aggregate and anonymize data moving through its system to produce an annual Legal Trends Report and to provide its customers with insights into billing and financial benchmarks.
The announcement generated a…
My column this week at Above the Law rounds up 10 Tiny Tools to Simplify A Lawyer’s Life. I cover:
ActiveWords. Evernote Scannable. CaseManager. Copy2Contact. Redact Assistant. Wolfram Lawyer’s Professional Assistant. SimplyFile. Bestlaw. PerfectIt. Duet Display.Read all the details at Above the…
Oklahoma this week became the latest state to adopt the duty of technology competence for lawyers. According to my ongoing tally, that brings the number of states that have adopted the duty to 24.
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma adopted the change on Monday, to be effective immediately, in an order amending…
Earlier this week at the Clio Cloud Conference in Chicago, Kevin O’Keefe of LexBlog conducted a Facebook Live interview of me about the future of legal news. Here’s the recording:
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I’m sitting here at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, on my way home from the fourth-annual Clio Cloud Conference, racking my brain for something critical to say about it. I’d been to all three of the prior Clio conferences, and, frankly, I’d gushed about them, calling the 2014 conference one of the best legal…
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