I wrote here last week about ModioLegal, a service that partners with legal publishers to convert news articles and current-awareness content to audio that subscribers can access through their smart phones or computers.
Now, the folks at ModioLegal have added the audio of my post about them to their service, as a sample…
Hold on to your hats — the new .law and .abogado top-level domains go on sale today to the legal community at large and there is likely to be a land rush of lawyers flocking to buy them.
But buying one today will cost you a bundle — an extra $12,500 over the minimum annual…
Here are some stories of note this week from the world of legal technology and the legal web:
Platform aims to make legal services more affordable. A new cloud-based platform called PlanetXLaw aims to help lawyers deliver legal services more affordably to low and moderate income consumers. The platform is unique in that it collects…
Bad news on the legal-media front: California Lawyer, one of the nation’s preeminent legal magazines for the last 35 years, is shutting down, according to news reports.
The magazine is owned by the Daily Journal Corporation, which publishes legal newspapers throughout California, including the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the San…
A perennial problem for lawyers is that we have far more current-awareness material to keep up with than we have time to read it all. Whether we regularly follow legal newspapers, blogs, magazines, journals or whatever, they tend to pile up unread as we try to find the time to sit down and go through…
I tend not to gush about legal technology conferences. As a veteran of more than I care to remember, they all start to seem formulaic and familiar after awhile. But after attending last year’s Clio Cloud Conference, I posted about it with the headline, Electricity in the Cloud at Clio…
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In a recent interview with legal writing expert Bryan Garner, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said that law schools need to “think in a deep way” about how to help law students become better writers, even as she acknowledged that “writing is one of the hardest things to…
Hot off the wire today: Thomson Reuters announced that its legal business has acquired Business Integrity, a company that provides document assembly and contract creation tools to law firms and corporations.
The company’s primary product is ContractExpress, an enterprise-level document automation platform used primarily at larger law firms and corporations.
Its…
Only a third of lawyers use encryption when sending confidential or privileged documents to their clients. Instead, the great majority of lawyers rely on a confidentiality statement in the message body to protect the email’s privacy.
According to the 2015 edition of the annual Legal Technology Survey Report, compiled by the…
A new legal-funding site launched this month with the goal of connecting plaintiffs in civil litigation with investors who compete to advance them a small portion of any future settlement or award.
Called Mighty, the company formally announced the launch of its online funding marketplace on Sept. 16, after having recently raised…
In 2011, LinkedIn sent me an email thanking me for being its 137,277th member. Considering that LinkedIn now has more than 380 million members worldwide, that tells you that I was an early adopter.
I was an early evangelist, as well. Shortly after I joined LinkedIn in 2004, I wrote a post here…
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