Hartman.

Last week in my column at Above the Law, I wrote about the ABA’s just-issued Report on the Future of Legal Services in the United States. The column elicited an email from Eddie Hartman, co-founder of LegalZoom, who wanted to respond. We ended up discussing the report over the course of…

Clio CEO and co-founder Jack Newton delivers the opening keynote at last year’s conference.

One of my favorite legal technology events to attend is the Clio Cloud Conference. After the 2014 conference, I wrote that it was one of the best legal technology conferences I had ever attended. After last year’s, I…

Pokémon Go is the latest craze sweeping the world. The location-based augmented reality mobile game/app produced 15 million downloads in just its first week. Unfortunately, the popular app has also raised a host of legal issues, from trespassing to muggings to accidents on foot and on the road.

On the latest episode of

Recent legal developments have brought both good news and bad news for Avvo. Let’s start with the bad news.

Earlier this year, Avvo launched Avvo Legal Services, a service offering fixed-fee, limited-scope legal help through a network of attorneys. In an earlier post, I explained how this works:

Avvo sets

How small firms characterize their success.

I’ve been writing about the findings of a new survey of small-solo law firm management conducted by Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group to which Thomson Reuters has given me exclusive access. Today I am going to discuss what firms say about their goals and priorities,…

The ABA’s Commission on the Future of Legal Services released its much-anticipated report on Saturday, calling for broad changes in how legal services are delivered and accessed. At the same time, however, the report hedged its recommendations on some of the key issues facing the profession.

My verdict on the commission’s report is mixed. You…

Have you ever tried Reddit, the content-sharing and discussion site? There is a lot there. But the question is, is there anything there of value to lawyers?

I offer an answer to that question in my column this week at Above the Law: This Week in Legal Tech: Is Reddit Worth It…

As I continue to track the states that have adopted the ethical duty of technology competence, I have two more to add, bringing the total to 23.

Last week, Wisconsin became the latest state to adopt the duty, which will take effect on Jan. 1, 2017. On July 21, the Supreme Court of…

Just a month before its annual conference is to convene in National Harbor, Md., the International Legal Technology Association, commonly referred to as ILTA, has announced that its long-time executive director, Randi Mayes, is leaving in 2017, which will be her 20th year in the job. ILTA says it has launched a…

At the annual meeting of the American Bar Association next week in San Francisco, Linda A. Klein, managing shareholder for the Georgia offices of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, will take office as ABA president. As she prepares to take office, Klein joins us on the latest Lawyer2Lawyer podcast to share a…

It’s been a long, strange road for Matter Center for Office 365, Microsoft’s practice management platform, but there is good news at last, as it finally becomes available in the cloud to law firms of any size.

It was January 2015 when I first reported that Microsoft was quietly preparing to…

Federal regulations incorporate by reference some 9,500 different technical and scientific standards developed by private standards developing organizations (SDOs). Understanding these standards is essential to compliance with the regulations. Yet, while anyone can freely access the regulations, they must pay to access the standards — anywhere from $40 to $1,000 for a single standard and…