If ever there was poetic justice, this is it. Last week, I wrote about several blogs that purport to be written by lawyers and legal professionals but that are in fact using fake identities. I discovered them after I noticed that several blogs were simultaneously reposting virtually everything I posted here. As…
Case Management Platform Debuting Today Offers A Twist on Pricing
Debuting today is a new cloud-based case management platform called Case.one that promises to enable attorneys to work collaboratively on litigation, exchange information, manage their time and billing, create invoices and monitor their ongoing tasks, all within the Case.one platform.
The platform offers a unique twist on pricing. Rather than charge a…
ROSS AI Plus Wexis Outperforms Either Westlaw or LexisNexis Alone, Study Finds
ROSS Intelligence, the artificial intelligence legal research platform, outperforms Westlaw and LexisNexis in finding relevant authorities, in user satisfaction and confidence, and in research efficiency, and is virtually certain to deliver a positive return on investment.
These are among the findings of benchmark report being released today by the technology…
More Information on Changes to Legaltech News
Earlier this week, this blog reported that Legaltech News, the ALM-owned legal technology magazine, will cease publishing as a stand-alone magazine and instead be published as a quarterly 24-page technology section that will appear in the magazines Corporate Counsel and The American Lawyer.
Now I’ve learned that the change will also…
Ethics Panel Says OK for Judge to Tweet — Within Limits
A judicial ethics panel of the Massachusetts court system has determined that a judge may ethically maintain a Twitter account, but only within certain boundaries, and that a judge must be particularly cautious about selecting accounts to follow on Twitter.
The opinion from the Massachusetts Committee on Judicial Ethics does not identify…
Legaltech News To Cease Publishing As Stand-Alone Magazine
The ALM legal technology magazine Legaltech News will cease publishing as a stand-alone magazine and instead will be published as a quarterly 24-page technology section that will appear in the magazines Corporate Counsel and The American Lawyer.
Legaltech News had previously been published six times a year. Until two years ago,…
What’s With These Fake Lawyer Blogs and Twitter Accounts?
I have five very loyal followers of this blog. Three are lawyers, one is a legal secretary and one is a legal assistant. They reblog everything I post onto their blogs and Tweet some of what I post on their Twitter feeds. From what I see, they are equally loyal followers of other legal blogs,…
New Study Ranks Top U.S. IP Firms’ Use of Social Media
How do large intellectual property firms rank in their use of social media and numbers of followers?
A study published today by The Fashion Law examines the social media activity of 115 of the leading IP firms in the United States.
The study, The Social Network: How The Top Intellectual Property Firms Are Utilizing…
Rocket Matter Update Adds Recurring Billing and Payment Plans, Speed Increases and Workflow Enhancements
The cloud-based law practice management platform Rocket Matter today is rolling out a major software update that adds recurring billing functionality, user interface enhancements and workflow improvements.
The recurring billing functionality can be used for two distinct billing scenarios. The first is if you have a client who pays you a flat amount…
Video: Unboxing and Using the LegalBoard
After I wrote last weekabout the LegalBoard, a keyboard designed just for lawyers, I received a review unit. Earlier today, I published a hands-on review. I also recorded this video of unboxing and using the LegalBoard.
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Hands On With the LegalBoard — The Keyboard Just for Lawyers
Last week, I told you about the LegalBoard, a keyboard designed just for lawyers. It is the brainchild of Brian Potts, a partner at Perkins Coie in Madison, Wis.
This post was a BlawgWorld Pick of the Week.
On Friday, I received a review unit and over the weekend I had the…
Podcast: How Small and Solo Law Firms View Success
I’ve written a number of times here about the findings of a Thomson Reuters survey, The State of the U.S. Small Law Firms Study, in which solo and small firm lawyers were asked about how they define success, the challenges they face and what firms are doing to achieve success.
Recently, I joined
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