On the latest episode of Lawyer 2 Lawyer, we consider President Trump’s nomination of 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Helping us consider the nomination are two experts:…
Stanford Law Journal Publishes Special Issue on Lawyer Activism Under Trump
Stanford Law School’s Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties has published a special issue, A Lawyer’s Guide to Activism, Resistance, and Change Under Trump.
“The focus of this edition is the role that law students and lawyers can play in protecting rights, liberties, and a healthy environment under a new president…
New Site ‘Legably’ Matches Lawyers With Lawyers For Short-Term Projects
A new website called Legably aims to enable solo and small-firm lawyers to handle higher workloads by hiring other attorneys on an on-demand basis.
The site matches attorneys who are looking for extra work with attorneys who have projects with which they need help.
Notably, Legably has entered into a partnership with
Lawyerist Launches Directory of Law Practice Management Platforms
The good news about law practice management software is that recent years have brought a variety of systems to the market. The bad news is that choosing one can be daunting. Their features and pricing rarely line up in a way that enables apples-to-apples comparisons. I frequently receive emails from frustrated readers saying, in…
In Blow to Open Law, Court Upholds Private Copyright in Public Safety Laws
A federal court has issued a permanent injunction barring Public.Resource.Org from publishing technical and scientific standards that are written by private standards developing organizations (SDOs) but that are incorporated by reference in the Code of Federal Regulations.
The CFR incorporates some 9,500 of these private standards. They help to regulate a wide range of…
In A First For Practice Management Apps, CosmoLex Adds Bank Data Feeds
The bank feed is matched against transactions recorded in CosmoLex.
In lieu of flowers or candy, CosmoLex is giving its customers something different for Valentine’s Day — automatic, direct bank data feeds.
CosmoLex says it is the first law practice management product to provide this capability. As far as I can…
Microsoft Launches Preview Version of Machine-Learning Data Governance Tool for Office 365
With increasing numbers of organizations adopting its Office 365 cloud platform, Microsoft has been hard at work on enhancing security and compliance features. Last September, it announced that it would be developing an advanced data governance tool for Office 365, and on Friday, it released that tool in a limited public preview,…
19 Additions To My List of Legal Startups
Here are 19 additions to my list of legal startups. This brings the list to 632 entries. Send additions and updates to ambrogi-at-gmail.com. To read more about this list and why I created it, see this post.…
Justice Toolbox Lets People Pick Lawyers Based On Win Rates
A recently launched company helps consumers find lawyers based on their win rates for particular types of cases.
Called Justice Toolbox, the startup uses data mined from official state court records to compute and display how many cases a lawyer has won and lost and the lawyer’s approximate win rate.…
Casemaker Gets International Legal Materials Through Partnership With vLex
The legal research service Casemaker has partnered with the international legal research service vLex in a joint licensing agreement that gives clients of both companies access to more of the world’s laws.
The agreement enables Casemaker clients for the first time to search for international case law and materials directly from Casemaker’s…
Podcast: A Wide-Ranging Interview With Rocket Matter CEO Larry Port
It was nine years ago this month that Rocket Matter introduced the first cloud-based practice-management platform, followed a week later by Clio. The two companies brought about a sea change in how lawyers manage their practices and use the cloud.
Recently, I sat down with Rocket Matter’s founding partner and CEO
New Editors Named to Lead ALM’s Corporate Counsel and The American Lawyer Magazines
One month after it laid off the top editors of The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel magazines, ALM has named new editors to take the helms of those publications.
Heather Nevitt, who has been editor-in-chief of ALM’s Texas Lawyer since 2013, has been named executive editor of Corporate Counsel and Inside Counsel. Gina Passarella,…
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