A new legal technology company called Deftr is today launching a tool powered by artificial intelligence that helps professionals diagram intricate corporate structures. The tool reads text in real time, as it is being typed, then turns that text into a shareable, interactive graphic illustrating a corporate structure or transaction.

In a…

How much do lawyers earn? The folks at PracticePanther.com have gone through the data and created this infographic showing earnings by practice areas. The data comes from the American Bar Association, as well as Glassdoor, Salary.com, LawyerEdu, and the National Association for Law Placement.

Topping the chart are…

When last we left the litigation between Fastcase and Casemaker, it was mid-May and Fastcase had just filed a motion for summary judgment. A lot has happened since then, including just this week, so let me bring you up to date.

But first, to recap: Last February, Fastcase preemptively…

A portion of a 1734 court record from Rhode Island’s new digital archive.

There has been a flurry of recent activity related to court information on the web, with the launches of two resources for oral argument recordings, two historical archives of court documents, and two court websites, including one designed specifically…

[Note: Case Pacer has changed its name and URL. It is now vrsus.]

Here are the latest additions to my list of legal startups. Send additions to ambrogi-at-gmail.com.

To read more about this list and why I created it, see this post.

A Massachusetts case from 1884.

An update today on the joint project of Harvard Law School and Ravel Law to digitize Harvard’s entire collection of U.S. case law, which they say is the most comprehensive and authoritative database of American cases anywhere outside the Library of Congress.…

When I shopped recently for a Bluetooth keyboard for my iPad Air 2, I felt like Goldilocks in search of that one that would fit just right. I wanted a keyboard that would be natural to type on and easy to use and that didn’t cost a lot. The one I finally picked may seem like an…

TheFormTool – a product I once described as “smart, simple document assembly” – starts shipping its newest product tomorrow and is offering purchase discounts through today.

The new product, Doxserá DB, is a database version that can pull data from multiple sources and generate multiple documents for multiple audiences. The version…

Thanks to Brexit, there’s been no shortage of news about the European Union of late. What you may not have heard, however, is that an EU regulation is taking effect July 1 that aims to expand the use and reliability of electronic signatures, particularly within the EU. One of the purposes of…

SCOTUSblog has become almost as recognized an institution as the institution it covers. The blog is highly respected and widely followed for its detailed and insightful coverage of the Supreme Court. A big share of the credit for that goes to veteran Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston, who announced in a…

Calculate deadlines directly from information in emails.

LawToolBox, the online, rules-based deadline calculator that I reviewed in some depth in 2013, today is announcing that its LawToolBox365 — which brings rules-based calendaring and matter-based deadlines directly into Microsoft Outlook — is now available to the legal…

A bit tardy in posting the latest episodes of our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, so I have two to tell you about.

The first, Tribal Law, Indian Child Welfare Act, and Custody, looks at the highly publicized California case in which a 6-year-old girl named Lexi was removed from her foster home under the…