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…

Just this morning, the Virginia Supreme Court entered an order making the Old Dominion the 18th state to adopt the duty of technology competence for lawyers. It will take effect on March 1, 2016.

(For the full list of states that have adopted the rule, see my earlier post.)

Today’s order…

It has been some time since I last wrote about the Sony Digital Paper tablet, but Sony just rolled out some updates to it that enhance its usefulness to legal professionals.

By way of reminder, the Digital Paper is a device for taking digital notes and for reading and annotating…

I will be participating tomorrow in a free CLE-accredited webinar, The Legal Ethics of TAR: An Ethical Primer on the Use of Advanced Technology in Litigation Support, presented by Bloomberg BNA and the e-discovery company Catalyst.

The program is Thursday, Dec. 17, 2:30 to 4 p.m. Eastern time.

As regular…

Last May, I reported the imminent demise of Westlaw. It wasn’t that the legal research service was going away. But as Thomson Reuters’ next-generation platform WestlawNext became the company’s primary focus, the company decided to phase out the older platform, which it by then referred to as Westlaw Classic.

In my post, I cited…

In the relatively small world of legal news publishing, this is an interesting and potentially big development. The Dolan Company, publisher of legal and business newspapers all across the U.S., was acquired this week by GateHouse Media, a New York-based newspaper company that publishes some 109 daily newspapers and 200…

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I am serving as issue editor for the issue of the ABA webzine Law Practice Today that will come out in conjunction with…

Corporate counsel find more value in law firm client alerts and practice group newsletters than in blogs, according to a survey published this week.

When corporate counsel were asked what types of law firm-generated content they found most valuable, 77 percent said client alerts and 76 percent said practice group newsletters, while only 35…