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.

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— The Recorder (@RecorderTweets) September 25,

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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…