It has become an annual tradition for JoAnna Forshee at InsideLegal to take the text of the Legaltech agenda, mash it up into a word cloud, and thereby illustrate the conference’s dominant themes.
As you can see above, the biggest topic of the show is, once again, e-discovery. But if you…
Lex Machina released new apps yesterday targeted to provide legal analytics around two key litigation topics, damages and parties. The new apps, Damages Explorer and Parties Comparator, are designed to make it easier for users to explore and analyze data around these two topics.
Over the last year, Lex Machina has rolled out…
[Updated 1/27/17, 11 a.m. Eastern, to add comments of Fastcase CEO Ed Walters.]
A lawsuit by Fastcase against Casemaker that many hoped would define the parameters of copyright in government information has been dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
A year ago, Fastcase preemptively filed the declaratory judgment lawsuit against Casemaker…
Erin Harrison, the former editor-in-chief of Legaltech News and InsideCounsel, has joined the corporate communications agency Baretz+Brunelle, the agency announced today.
Harrison will lead a new legal technology practice for the agency and focus on the development of the firm’s digital content strategies for existing and future clients.
Harrison was among the top editors who…
Next week is the annual Legaltech conference in New York. But in case you haven’t heard, there’s a big change this year. Legaltech has expanded into something called Legalweek, The Experience.
Rather than just legal technology, the conference will include what ALM is calling seven “events-within-an-event,” each with a distinct focus: LegalExecutive,…
Way back in September, this blog reported that LawBase, the case and matter management system, had signed a deal to integrate BakerManage, the award-winning legal project management system developed by the law firm Baker Donelson. Today, LawBase rolled out that integration and will be demonstrating it next week at Legaltech in…
A federal lawsuit challenging as excessive the fees charged by PACER, the federal courts’ electronic records system, has been certified as a class action.
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle in the District of Columbia approved the class of “[a]ll individuals and entities who have paid fees for the use of PACER within…
It is a curse of riches. With so many practice management systems on the market, how is a lawyer or law firm to choose which is the right fit?
I don’t have the answer. But I do have six questions you should be asking to help you decide. I lay them out in my column…
Following my post earlier this week about the benchmark report published by Blue Hill Research that assessed the ROSS Intelligence legal research platform, I had several questions about the report and many readers contacted me with questions of their own. The author of the report, David Houlihan, principal analyst at Blue…
I cannot remember the last time I changed a headline on a blog post or even whether I ever did. But by popular demand, I am changing the headline on my recent post about a study that compared the ROSS artificial intelligence platform against Westlaw and LexisNexis.
My headline said:
…ROSS Artificial Intelligence
The dashboard of a demo site in LexBlog’s new blogging platform.
When lawyer Kevin O’Keefe started LexBlog in 2003, many in the legal industry thought the idea of a company devoted to nothing but lawyer blogs was crazy. After all, blogs were still a nascent technology then and relatively few…
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…
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