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In a recent conversation, a lawyer questioned whether practice management software was making him any more productive. That got me to thinking about the reasons to use practice management software in the first place. Increased productivity is one, but even setting productivity aside,…

The law practice management system Credenza is shutting down, according to a notice on its website. “Credenza has reached end-of-life,” says the notice. “Effective 60 days after your August 2016 renewal date, Credenza will no longer be offered or supported.”

Credenza was an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that provided the ability to organize client…

THIS.
IS.
YUUUUUUUGGGE!

Florida now officially the 1ST state to require mandatory tech competency CLE hours, per @flcourts opinion *today*! https://t.co/uK3Cu8PTUU

— The Florida Bar (@theflabar) September 29, 2016

Talk about burying the lede. On Friday, I reported that Florida had become…

On this last day of September, catching up on legal tech news:

LexisNexis acquires Intelligize. This was announced Sept. 21 and I have not had a chance to get to it here. Fortunately, Jean O’Grady has it covered at her blog Dewey B Strategic. Intelligize is an analytics platform for mining intelligence…

Just last week, I reported that Oklahoma had adopted the duty of technology competence  for lawyers, becoming the 24th state on my ongoing tally of states that have adopted the ABA Model Rule. Now there is another. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Florida ordered adoption of the duty of tech competence for…

Just one month from today, on October 28th, 2016, Above the Law will host its second annual Academy for Private Practice (“APP”), a full-day conference offering practical solutions and expert insight on meeting the challenges of starting and optimizing a small law firm practice.

The conference programming combines panel discussions and breakout sessions…

Here are eight additions to my list of legal startups. Send additions and updates to ambrogi-at-gmail.com.

To read more about this list and why I created it, see this post.…

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…

Before sponsoring a post on Bob’s blog we wanted to make sure our solution met his technology standards for solo and small practice attorneys. We submitted EasyPayJD to his six point test originally published in Above The Law on June 6, 2016.

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.

Say it ain’t so https://t.co/qYCuNYyzUx pic.twitter.com/VmcgzzbfFD

— The Recorder (@RecorderTweets) September 25,

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