The cloud-based practice management platform CosmoLex will be unveiling a new matter-based email integration at ABA Techshow next week. The integration will allow users to manage all their email from any email program within the CosmoLex platform and to keep emails together with all other documents and…

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Earlier this year, I announced an experiment for this blog for 2016 — accepting sponsored posts. Well, I can’t say the sponsors have exactly been storming the gates. There have been a couple of sponsored posts so far — thank you very much Smokeball…

The jury is still out on the role to be played by artificial intelligence in law. As a recent New York Times article observed about IBM’s attempts to commercialize its Watson AI computer, “[C]ommercializing new technology, however promising, typically comes in short steps rather than giant leaps.”

That said, there was a…

Hot off the presses is the Techshow issue of Law Practice, the magazine of the ABA’s Law Practice Division. The issue is devoted to legal technology, with a particular emphasis on becoming technologically competent.

I’m proud to say that I served as “team leader” for this issue, along…

Just before Legaltech New York in February, I wrote here about the conference word cloud created by JoAnna Forshee at InsideLegal. Now, with the 30th anniversary edition of ABA Techshow starting next week, she’s done it again.

As she did for Legaltech, Forshee pulls…

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Here are some of the legal technology developments making the news on this Friday:

Venerable law blog to shut down. Marcia J. Oddi, a lawyer in Indianapolis, is shutting down The Indiana Law Blog on March 31, she announced this week. She launched the blog…

The progress bar shows the bill’s status while the gauge shows its probability of movement.

LexisNexis today introduced a new legislative tracking tool, Legislative Outlook, that uses predictive analytics and data visualization to indicate the probability of a bill’s passage.

The new tool became available today as part of a…

When Thomson Reuters acquired the UK-based Practical Law Company three years ago, the legal industry generally reacted positively, although no one knew quite what would come out of the acquisition. Practical Law sells “know-how” for transactional and corporate lawyers, which means that it sells various resources that literally help…

The death of Antonin Scalia at a West Texas hunting lodge has drawn attention to a little-discussed perk of serving on the Supreme Court — free travel, and lots of it. As Eric Lipton reports today in The New York Times, Justice Scalia was the court’s most frequent traveler…

Join me March 2 for an ABA webinar, Are You Plugged In? The Ethical Dangers of Technology in the Law Practice.

The program will use hypotheticals to identify the benefits and dangers associated with using (or ignoring) available technology in everyday practice. Are there activities that may be putting your clients at risk?…

Legal publisher ALM announced yesterday that it is shutting down InsideCounsel, the magazine it acquired in January 2015 as part of its purchase of Summit Professional Networks. The closing was announced in a letter to the magazine’s readers published yesterday by publisher Kenneth Gary and editor-in-chief Anthony Paonita.…