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…

In my continuing effort to track states that have adopted the ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers, I have two more to add, one that adopted it recently and one that I missed from earlier this year:…

Last week – three weeks after the acquisition of Lex Machina by LexisNexis – I had an opportunity to talk to Josh Becker, Lex Machina’s CEO, about the deal and about what had transpired in its aftermath.

My first question to him was why…

Last July, Wolters Kluwer formally introduced Cheetah, its new legal research platform that it said was “a re-envisioning of the legal research experience.” It was a long time coming. Wolters Kluwer had first previewed Cheetah a year earlier, saying then that it would be released commercially by November…

Microsoft yesterday opened up the source code for its legal practice management software Matter Center for Office 365. It posted the code to the developer site GitHub, where it hopes that outside developers and partners will participate in further developing the software’s capabilities.

I wrote here…