Only a third of lawyers use encryption when sending confidential or privileged documents to their clients. Instead, the great majority of lawyers rely on a confidentiality statement in the message body to protect the email’s privacy.

According to the 2015 edition of the annual Legal Technology Survey Report, compiled by the…

A new legal-funding site launched this month with the goal of connecting plaintiffs in civil litigation with investors who compete to advance them a small portion of any future settlement or award.

Called Mighty, the company formally announced the launch of its online funding marketplace on Sept. 16, after having recently raised…

In 2011, LinkedIn sent me an email thanking me for being its 137,277th member. Considering that LinkedIn now has more than 380 million members worldwide, that tells you that I was an early adopter.

I was an early evangelist, as well. Shortly after I joined LinkedIn in 2004, I wrote a post here…

Creating a custom checklist in Lexicata.

Just last week, I posted here about Lexicata’s release of a new plugin that allows law firms to integrate its client-intake forms with their WordPress websites. Today there is more news from Lexicata, the introduction of custom intake checklists.

As…

Some of the week’s legal technology news:

Email Integration in Firm Manager.  LexisNexis Firm Manager, a practice-management platform aimed at one- and two-lawyer firms, this week added email integration. The integration enables users to have their emails and attachments automatically saved with the associated client matter. “If an attorney…

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%…