Crossing into a territory already occupied by companies such as LegalZoom and RocketLawyer, Avvo announced today the launch of Avvo Legal Forms. But Avvo’s new offering has one big difference from those other companies — all of its forms are free.

Today’s…

Is prepaid legal insurance an answer to bridging the gap in access to justice? The insurance company ARAG believes it is. A longtime provider of legal insurance through employer-sponsored benefit plans, it is today introducing a direct-to-consumer plan, ARAGlegal.com, that will allow consumers to purchase coverage for a range of legal matters for…

For many trial lawyers, the iPad has become an essential accoutrement. It is used in discovery, depositions, research, jury selection, trial presentations and even settlement negotiations. For a couple of years now, I’ve surveyed some of the best iPad apps for trial lawyers for the Bullseye expert witness blog of

ALM has converted Texas Lawyer from a weekly newspaper to a monthly magazine and is instead beefing up the TexasLawyer.com website with more robust daily offerings, it announced this week. The first issue of the new magazine came out this month.

According to the announcement:

TexasLawyer.com now offers expanded

In deference to privacy, I have blacked out names.

As I logged in to Foxwordy, the professional networking site for lawyers, for the first time since it banned me last fall, I couldn’t help but conjure up that Groucho Marx quote, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would…

Clio now integrates with Vonage VoIP phone services.

Time to play catch-up on legal technology news and notes from the past few weeks:

Take credit cards in MyCase. The practice management platform MyCase already has the ability to accept online payments directly from a client’s checking account. At the recent…

I’ve been publishing April Fool posts here for the last couple years. Last year, it was the Invisible Girlfriend spin-off, Intangible Lawyer. The year before that, it was the joint announcement by Westlaw and LexisNexis that they were opening their databases to free public access.

So, no, yesterday’s guest…

[Editor’s note: It was a major milestone in the legal blogging world when President Barack Obama published a guest post Feb. 24 on SCOTUSblog. Just a day later, he also published a post on LinkedIn. Even with the president’s seemingly newfound interest in contributing to social media, I certainly never…

At the recent ABA Techshow, MyCase produced a series of video interviews with legal technology experts, all hosted by Niki Black, herself a legal technology expert as well as MyCase’s official legal technology evangelist. Today, Nike posted all the interviews at Above the Law.

Black interviewed David Lat,…

While catching up yesterday with Casemaker CEO David Harriman about his company’s litigation with Fastcase, I also had the chance to ask him about Casemaker’s acquisition of the Rulebook app.

Rulebook is an app for iPhone and iPad. The app is free and, once installed, it can be loaded…

Speaking of Fastcase, one interesting bit of news about the company is that its cofounder, Phil Rosenthal, is running for Congress in New York’s 10th Congressional District.

Rosenthal — a physicist, lawyer and entrepreneur — is running as a Republican against Democrat Jerrold Nadler, the incumbent who…

As I reported Friday, Casemaker filed an answer and counterclaim in the lawsuit filed against it by Fastcase, even though CEO David Harriman has previously told me his company would not fight the lawsuit and agreed with Fastcase that state law should not be subject to copyright.

This morning, I had…