The journey of an innovative idea from prototype to patented invention faces three primary adversaries. Each of them can be mitigated by the use of today’s advanced patent analytics tools.

Time. Before the United States switched from the first-to-invent standard to the first-to-file standard for patent eligibility, inventors and IP-driven companies had time on their…

I hate adding contacts to Microsoft Outlook. Often, I receive an email from someone that has the person’s full contact information in the signature. I want to add the person to my contacts but I don’t want to have to copy and paste (or type) each line into a contact field. Why isn’t there…

Last October, I wrote here about the joint initiative between Harvard Law School and Ravel Law to digitize and make available to the public for free Harvard’s entire collection of U.S. case law, which is said to be the most comprehensive collection of American law and cases available anywhere outside the Library of…

Having co-hosted the Lawyer2Lawyer podcast for more than a decade, I’m used to being the interviewer, not the interviewee. So it felt a bit strange when Sam Glover invited me to be a guest on his Lawyerist podcast.

It turned out to be fun and more of a conversation than…

Many lawyers these days use cloud-based services such as Dropbox and Box for document storage and sharing. But there are always concerns about the security and ease of use of such services.

One of the best of these – with regard to both security and ease of use – is Citrix Sharefile. ShareFile…

Many people aspire to give up their daily commutes and work from a home office. For some time, I’d been feeling a tug in the opposite direction, to move out of my home office into an actual one.

I’m the perfect person for a home office. My legal work is such that I am…

The Berkeley, Calif., based e-discovery company Everlaw today announced that it has closed an $8.1 million Series A funding round led by the prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar

Andreessen Horowitz is known for its investments in a wide-ranging portfolio…

A Ravel Law search conducted from within a Handshake portal.

Handshake Software yesterday announced that it now has an integration partnership with the legal research platform Ravel Law. That announcement comes a month after Handshake announced its integration with West km, the Thomson Reuters knowledge management…

If you run a small practice, or are a solo attorney, you know firsthand how hard it can be to stay focused and get work done. So, when the technology in your office is more often a distraction, than a helping hand… you start to wonder what else is out there. And, could…

Avvo is beginning to roll out a service that offers fixed-fee, limited-scope legal services through a network of attorneys.

The service, Avvo Legal Services, offers a variety of limited-scope legal services at a fixed fee. The services range from review of legal documents such as business contracts and…

This week will start what I view as an experiment for this blog – accepting sponsored posts. The first one will run tomorrow. Before it does, I wanted to provide some background.

What is a sponsored post?

It is a form of advertising. An advertiser pays money to publish a post on my blog. The…

A Florida law firm yesterday launched a website, LegalYou.com, that is in part a portal for self-represented litigants and in part a storefront for selling the law firm’s unbundled services. The site aims to both educate and assist people who are representing themselves while also providing them access to professional services on an…