Here is a milestone that no other legal podcast has reached, that I know of: 10 years of Lawyer2Lawyer, our legal news and legal-affairs program.

Our first show was posted on Aug. 31, 2005. Our guests way back then were Mike Greco, who had just taken office…

A for-profit membership organization aimed at driving technology innovation and adoption in the legal industry made its formal launch yesterday. Called Evolve Law, its primary focus will be on promoting collaboration among a “community” of lawyers, law firms and innovative legal technology companies in order to speed adoption of new…

[Updated at 10:55 a.m. with statement from Wolters Kluwer.]

The legal research company Fastcase has acquired one of its prime competitors among middle-market legal research providers, Loislaw. Fastcase has purchased Loislaw from Wolters Kluwer, which had acquired it in 2000 for $95 million.

LoisLaw subscribers…

There is news this week from Lexicata, the cloud-based client intake and CRM system for law firms that I reviewed here last May. This week the company announced a new plugin that allows the Lexicata platform to integrate with websites created using WordPress.…

Where lawyers go first to start a research project.

Lawyers spend an average of 20 percent of their work time conducting legal research, and when they start a research project, they generally turn first to free online research services before using fee-based services or research materials in print or on CD-ROM.

However,…

Would you want to join a social network for lawyers whose basic marketing pitch is a lie?

Long-time readers of this blog will know that it bugs me when vendors make claims about their products or services that are not true. It makes me distrust the vendor and distrust its product.

So why does

For the third year running, the Fastcase legal research app is the most popular legal app among lawyers, according to the 2015 edition of the annual Legal Technology Survey Report compiled by the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center.

Among lawyers who reported having downloaded a legal-specific app, 41%…

The American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center is out with the 2015 edition of its annual Legal Technology Survey Report, and it reveals that growth in blogging among lawyers is virtually stagnant.

This year, 26 percent of respondents said that their firm has a blog. That is slightly…

I wrote here yesterday about the emails I’d received from Foxwordy CEO Monica Zent in which she wrote that “we are not currently including press as members of the Foxwordy community” and that “we have placed those members who have used Foxwordy for the purpose of blogging about the Foxwordy product on hold…

[Update: My response to Foxwordy’s response.]

This one begs the question, What are they hiding?

Turns out bloggers are not welcome at the legal networking site Foxwordy. In fact, bloggers are banned from membership — or at least any blogger is banned who might write about Foxwordy. So are members of…

Two brothers — one a lawyer, the other a software engineer — have teamed up to create a software application they say will make the process of creating and analyzing contracts more accurate and efficient. But before all you Windows users get too excited, the software works only on Apple Macintosh computers.

The software,

The annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association kicked off yesterday in Las Vegas, and that means lots of announcements coming out this week from companies that serve the legal industry. But for today, at least, it is turning into a Microsoft kind of day.

First was