As lawyers, we’re all accustomed to talking about the lines of cases that create bodies of precedent for legal principles. A new tool launched this week lets you visualize lines of Supreme Court cases so that you can better analyze and study them. Called Supreme Court Citation Networks, it was created as a…

The latest issue is out Law Practice Today, the monthly digital magazine of the ABA’s Law Practice Division, and the focus is on legal technology.  I had the privilege of serving as issue editor for this issue, so I hope you’ll take a look.

The theme is timed to coincide with…

Judge analytics is the new black. Or at least that’s what I wrote in a post last summer that discussed several products that could do things such as help you predict how a particular judge might rule on an issue or which cases that judge was likely to find most persuasive.…

The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has roiled the nation, fueled political rancor and disrupted the institution that he served for nearly 30 years.

But there is one impact of his death that major news outlets have overlooked — its effect  on FantasySCOTUS.

Just like fantasy sports leagues, there is…

This Wednesday, Feb. 17, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EST, I will be moderating a webinar, “Mining Gold from Government Data.” We’ll be looking at how new technologies are making new types of government data – including key information about government regulations, judges, litigants and attorneys – available.

Our panelists include two companies whose tools…

The cloud-based practice management platform CosmoLex and the legal research service Casemaker have formed an exclusive alliance to integrate their two products.

The integration enables lawyers who are subscribers to both services to easily track their research time in Casemaker using CosmoLex’s time-tracking capabilities and associate the time…

Legal publisher Casemaker will not fight the lawsuit filed against it by Fastcase over copyright in Georgia law, its CEO David Harriman told me today. The company agrees that state law should not be subject to copyright and will not file an answer to Fastcase’s complaint, he…

I wrote last week about the lawsuit filed by Fastcase against Casemaker challenging Casemaker’s claim that it has exclusive rights to publish and license the Georgia Administrative Rules and Regulations. Casemaker’s parent company, Lawriter, has an agreement with the Georgia Secretary of State designating it as the exclusive publisher of…

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has launched the beta version of a website it is calling the “next generation” of access to information from the three branches of the federal government. Called govinfo.gov, the site is a more modern alternative to FDsys, the seven-year-old federal digital research site it…

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It is now generally accepted that lawyers may use cloud-computing platforms without violating legal ethics rules. Even so, however, many states say that lawyers who use the cloud have a duty to make reasonable efforts to ensure that the cloud services are provided in a manner that…

Last month, this blog was the first to report the news that Avvo was beginning to roll out a service, called Avvo Legal Services, offering fixed-fee, limited-scope legal services through a network of attorneys. At that point, the service was being tested in five cities.…

Lex Machina CEO Josh Becker and GC Owen Byrd at Legaltech in New York last week.

Legal analytics company Lex Machina — which LexisNexis acquired in November — is introducing a new feature today that is designed to correct and improve upon the information PACER provides about attorneys…