Law.com rolled out its revamped website today, with reorganized navigational elements and the all-new Contributor Network of more than 160 outside writers.
News from across the ALM network of print and web publications is now accessible through a single subscription. Stories are organized not by publications but by practice areas,…
Here is a great opportunity for someone with an interest in legal technology. Law Technology News is looking to hire a staff reporter. The reporter will write for both the LTN website and the print magazine. They are looking for someone with training in journalism and at least two years of journalism…
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As an increasing number of states legalize marijuana, it is easy to forget that federal law still outlaws it. Where does this leave citizens, local government, and attorneys who work in the cannabis industry? In the latest episode of the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss this…
It’s been all of two days since I’ve written about the launch of an online network for lawyers, and already here’s another. Making its debut today is Foxwordy, which calls itself “the first private social network for lawyers.”
Uh-oh, here we go again. Regular…
My latest “Ambrogi on Tech” column for the ABA Journal looks at PacerPro, a better way to search the federal courts’ Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. Started by a lawyer who wanted an easier way to get through PACER’s archaic interface, the service not only improves on…
Today brings the official launch of the Libra Network, a site designed to serve lawyers and legal professionals by providing a global network that will foster personal connections and professional growth, while also delivering exclusive benefits such as job listings, vendor discounts, document sharing and more. The goal…
Over the last two years, LexisNexis has been ramping up its library of ebooks, with a growing list of titles for both practitioners and law students. Law students, in particular, are key consumers of ebooks, Lexis says, citing statistics that say six in 10 college students prefer digital books over print. One of the…
[Update 3:17 p.m.: My post appears to have created some confusion. The blogs that make up the Blog Network are NOT shutting down. The Network was an affiliation of blogs that existed primarily to allow for advertising sales across the network and also for promotion and linking across the network. Primarily, it was an advertising…
The Web publication Legal IT Insider has announced a new international competition to pick the best legal industry videos. The Legal Industry Video Awards 2014 is accepting submissions from law firms, legal service providers, in-house legal and legal vendors.
The awards are open to anyone in the…
I’ve written a couple times about Lexis Practice Advisor, a set of practice-specific modules intended to provide transactional lawyers with guidance, tools and information they need for their practices. (See here when it launched and
A challenge for large law firms is keeping tabs on their talent. Which lawyers have which skills and knowledge? Who are the go-to partners or associates for specific problems or issues? The larger and more dispersed the firm, the more difficult this becomes. Lateral comings and goings only further complicate the…
As a follow-up to my post this morning about the relaunch of Law.com, and as a former contributor to Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch, I wanted to give an update about that blog’s status.
First, some history. Law.com started Legal Blog Watch in 2004, originally written by Lisa Stone. In 2006,
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