[Editor’s note: It was a major milestone in the legal blogging world when President Barack Obama published a guest post Feb. 24 on SCOTUSblog. Just a day later, he also published a post on LinkedIn. Even with the president’s seemingly newfound interest in contributing to social media, I certainly never…
Video Interviews With Legal Tech Experts at ABA Techshow
At the recent ABA Techshow, MyCase produced a series of video interviews with legal technology experts, all hosted by Niki Black, herself a legal technology expert as well as MyCase’s official legal technology evangelist. Today, Nike posted all the interviews at Above the Law.
Black interviewed David Lat,…
With Acquisition of Rulebook App, Casemaker Plans to Expand Its Coverage
While catching up yesterday with Casemaker CEO David Harriman about his company’s litigation with Fastcase, I also had the chance to ask him about Casemaker’s acquisition of the Rulebook app.
Rulebook is an app for iPhone and iPad. The app is free and, once installed, it can be loaded…
Fastcase Cofounder Phil Rosenthal is Running for Congress in New York
Speaking of Fastcase, one interesting bit of news about the company is that its cofounder, Phil Rosenthal, is running for Congress in New York’s 10th Congressional District.
Rosenthal — a physicist, lawyer and entrepreneur — is running as a Republican against Democrat Jerrold Nadler, the incumbent who…
Casemaker CEO Discusses Latest Developments in Fastcase Lawsuit
As I reported Friday, Casemaker filed an answer and counterclaim in the lawsuit filed against it by Fastcase, even though CEO David Harriman has previously told me his company would not fight the lawsuit and agreed with Fastcase that state law should not be subject to copyright.
This morning, I had…
So Much for Casemaker Saying It Will Not Fight Fastcase Lawsuit
In February, Casemaker CEO David Harriman told me that his company would not fight the lawsuit filed against it by Fastcase over publishing rights to Georgia law. It appears he has had a change of heart, because on Wednesday Casemaker filed an…
Mootus Will Soon Be Moot, As Founders Announce its Closing
The crowdsourced legal site Mootus launched in 2013 with an innovative concept: Provide a platform for “open online legal argument” so that lawyers and law students could create and share legal knowledge.
But as I noted in a post here last summer, sites that rely on crowdsourcing…
Could the kCura-Content Analyst Deal Be A Setback for Thomson Reuters' New E-Discovery Product?
There is a side story worth noting after Monday’s announcement by kCura that it had acquired Content Analyst Company — one that I have not seen mentioned in any of the coverage — and that is the deal’s potential impact on Thomson Reuters.
kCura is the company behind…
PacerPro's New 'Case Feed' Shows Case Activity in Real Time
PacerPro, the company that provides various advanced tools for searching the federal courts’ PACER system and for managing PACER documents, today unveiled Case Feed, a feature that shows all activity on all of a law firm’s PACER cases in real-time chronological order, including PDFs of case filings.
The…
Legaltech Loses Its Longtime Leader; What's It Mean for the Conference's Future?
[This post was updated on 3/22 to add a statement from ALM.]
As many who are involved in legal technology were on their way to ABA Techshow last week, an announcement came out that is sure to shake up another prominent legal technology conference, ALM’s Legaltech.
Henry Dicker…
Westlaw Gets An App for News and Research on an iPhone
Westlaw has had an iPad app since 2010. Surprisingly, however, it has not had its own iPhone app. iPhone users could access Westlaw through a mobile-optimized site. But there was no app.
Well, now there is. Last Wednesday, Thomson Reuters introduced a Westlaw app built specifically for use on…
[Sponsored] Announcing Smokeball Ai – Activity Intelligence, the Next Generation of Law Firm Reporting
Do you know the one common trait seen in successful law practices?
Business intelligence, or a basic understanding of key metrics, performance indicators, and milestones that convey a pattern of success or potential pitfalls. Which give the firm’s leadership the insight they need to correct course before disaster strikes, or…
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