Many lawyers these days use cloud-based services such as Dropbox and Box for document storage and sharing. But there are always concerns about the security and ease of use of such services.

One of the best of these – with regard to both security and ease of use – is Citrix Sharefile. ShareFile…

Many people aspire to give up their daily commutes and work from a home office. For some time, I’d been feeling a tug in the opposite direction, to move out of my home office into an actual one.

I’m the perfect person for a home office. My legal work is such that I am…

The Berkeley, Calif., based e-discovery company Everlaw today announced that it has closed an $8.1 million Series A funding round led by the prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar

Andreessen Horowitz is known for its investments in a wide-ranging portfolio…

A Ravel Law search conducted from within a Handshake portal.

Handshake Software yesterday announced that it now has an integration partnership with the legal research platform Ravel Law. That announcement comes a month after Handshake announced its integration with West km, the Thomson Reuters knowledge management…

If you run a small practice, or are a solo attorney, you know firsthand how hard it can be to stay focused and get work done. So, when the technology in your office is more often a distraction, than a helping hand… you start to wonder what else is out there. And, could…

Avvo is beginning to roll out a service that offers fixed-fee, limited-scope legal services through a network of attorneys.

The service, Avvo Legal Services, offers a variety of limited-scope legal services at a fixed fee. The services range from review of legal documents such as business contracts and…

This week will start what I view as an experiment for this blog – accepting sponsored posts. The first one will run tomorrow. Before it does, I wanted to provide some background.

What is a sponsored post?

It is a form of advertising. An advertiser pays money to publish a post on my blog. The…

A Florida law firm yesterday launched a website, LegalYou.com, that is in part a portal for self-represented litigants and in part a storefront for selling the law firm’s unbundled services. The site aims to both educate and assist people who are representing themselves while also providing them access to professional services on an…

When viewing a document, Lexbox adds a box (upper right) with options for saving, tracking and sharing the document.

I know what you’re thinking: Just because Ambrogi won a Canadian law blog award last week, now he’s gratuitously writing about Canadian stuff. But the fact of the matter is that I…

With 2015 behind us, I thought I’d look back and see which of my posts were most popular during the year. I rank these based on total page views, not unique visitors.

I have two lists here. First I list the 10 most popular posts of 2015, listing only posts first published during 2015.…

The 2015 Clawbies — the Canadian law blog awards — came out today and I am very honored to say that this blog was selected for the Friend of the North award (given to a non-Canadian blog).

Legal technology developments, product reviews, and legal tech startup reports from Canada and

What have been 2015’s most important developments in legal technology? For the past two years, I’ve posted my picks of the top developments in legal tech (2014, 2013). With another year under our belts, it’s time to look back at 2015.

What follows are my picks for the year’s most important legal technology…