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Here Are the 15 Startups Selected for ABA Techshow’s Startup Alley

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 19, 2017

We’ve been running a competition over at Above the Law to select 15 legal technology startups to participate in the second-annual Startup Alley at the American Bar Association’s Techshow conference March 7-10, 2018. With more than 6,000 votes casts, we’ve now announced the winners.

See who they are in my ATL…

CosmoLex Revamps UI, Adds Form and Data Features, and Reveals Shift in Market Focus

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 19, 2017

Before-and-after views show the navigation panel moved to the left.

CosmoLex, a cloud-based practice management platform, today rolled out its version 5.0, featuring a new user interface and several new features, including custom fields, document templates and data mining. It also revealed that it is shifting its focus slightly, away from…

Lexis Advance Now Integrates Attorney Analytics from Lex Machina

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 14, 2017

When LexisNexis acquired the legal analytics platform Lex Machina in November 2015, the the plan was to integrate Lex Machina’s analytics into various LexisNexis products and, in particular, its Lexis Advance legal research platform. Last January, it took the first step in that direction when it integrated judge analytics into Lexis Advance, and later in the…

‘The Volokh Conspiracy’ Legal Blog Moves from WaPo to Reason

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 13, 2017

In 2014, the long-running and influential legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy did something that surprised many of is followers — it moved to The Washington Post and behind the Post’s paywall. But in making that move, it did so with the understanding that, as founder Eugene Volokh writes today, the paywall would be porous, including free…

Startup Launching Today Provides Automated Legal Help to Those with Low and Moderate Incomes, Starting with Domestic Violence

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 13, 2017

As an associate at Sidley Austin who often provided pro bono legal help to low-income people, Dorna Moini came to believe that much of legal technology is designed to benefit corporations and higher-income individuals, while not a lot of technology is designed to help those with low and moderate incomes. So earlier…

What is the Legal Technology Word of the Year? Here’s My Pick

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 12, 2017

Recently, after reading that Dictionary.com had announced “complicit” as its word of the year for 2017, a friend asked what I considered to be the legal technology word of the year. As I thought back over the year, several words and phrases stood out as candidates came to my mind, but one seemed…

Fake News? ABA’s Legal Fact Check Turns to the Law to Get at the Truth

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 12, 2017

If Alabama Republican Roy Moore wins today’s special election for the U.S. Senate, will Congress have to seat him?

The answer to that and many other pressing questions in the news is provided by ABA Legal Fact Check, a website launched last August as one of the initiatives of this year’s ABA…

End the Big Law Advantage: Bridge the Communication and Security Gap

By Thomson Reuters [Sponsored]
on December 11, 2017
A troubling advantage that big law has over small is how attorneys use technology to efficiently and securely communicate with clients, according to the 2017 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report.

Keith Lee Expands His Lawyer Slack Group and Adds A Membership Fee

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 7, 2017

Two years ago, lawyer and blogger Keith Lee started a lawyer-networking group on the messaging application Slack. Called Lawyer Slack, the group expanded to include more than 100 channels dedicated to a variety of legal topics and several hundred members who exchange more than 20,000 messages a week.

But as…

Remember the Legal Keyboard? Now There’s A Mini Version for Travel

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 6, 2017

Remember the LegalBoard, a keyboard designed specifically for lawyers? Now there is a mini version designed to be portable — and that has the added advantage of working with Macs, which the LegalBoard does not.

I first wrote about the LegalBoard last January, and later followed that post with a hands-on…

Avoiding Court with Settlement Agreements

By Thomson Reuters [Sponsored]
on December 5, 2017
Most people avoid going to court. That’s why legal suits for accidents, injuries, and even medical malpractice typically don’t make it to trial. About 95 percent of pending lawsuits end in a pre-trial settlement.

ALM’s New Legal Compass Provides In-Depth Data on Law Firms, Lawyers and Companies

By Robert Ambrogi
on December 4, 2017

ALM is known for surveys and rankings that profile the legal profession such as the Am Law 100, NLJ 500, Global 100 and Diversity Scorecard. What you may not know is that ALM has nearly 150 such surveys, rankings and reports, tracking everything from law firm revenue to lateral moves to workplace…

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Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for more than two decades. He writes the award-winning blog LawSites, is a columnist for Above the Law, hosts the podcast about legal innovation, LawNext, and hosts the weekly legal tech journalists' roundtable, Legaltech Week.

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