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…

Recently in my column at Above the Law, I provided an overview of a new survey of small-solo law firm management conducted by Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group. I promised to follow-up with subsequent posts here in order to drill down deeper into the data, to which Thomson…

Until last year, client intake was a forgotten component of most practice-management systems. Then, seemingly all at once, three different client-intake products were launched: Lexicata, Intake123 and Rocket Matter Intake. More recently, LexisNexis Firm Manager added an intake templates feature, although its templates cannot be sent to clients for them to fill…

Obtain breakdowns of case resolutions in securities matters.

In the first of its promised expansions into other practice areas following its acquisition last November by LexisNexis, Lex Machina today announced its addition of securities law to its legal analytics platform.

Until today, Lex Machina had focused exclusively on intellectual property. But…

Here are the latest additions to my list of legal startups. Send additions to ambrogi-at-gmail.com.

To read more about this list and why I created it, see this post.

Two of these may look familiar, since I just recently blogged about them. See my posts about ClariLegal and about Deftr.…

A new survey of solo and small law firms examines the management challenges they face and how they are responding to those challenges. Thanks to Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group, which conducted the survey, I’ve been given exclusive access to the survey results and will be reporting them in a…