At ABA Techshow next week in Chicago, the cloud practice management platform MyCase is slated to debut a mobile app that will be a first for practice-management apps in that it will allow both clients and lawyers to access their case information. While other practice-management platforms…

Last May, I wrote about the launch of Lexis Practice Advisor, a series of practice-specific modules intended to provide transactional lawyers with one-stop shopping for the information and tools they need for their practices. Today, LexisNexis will announce the…

Does it make sense for a judge to allow blogging but ban tweeting from the courtroom? That was the question in a recent Massachusetts murder trial, and the judge’s explanation of why he did it has failed to satisfy media observers.

The recent first-degree murder trial of Nathaniel Fujita attracted national media to Superior Court…

Among the mainstream media, they call it checkbook journalism and it is frowned upon as highly unethical. “Money can corrupt almost anything it touches,” explains the Society of Professional Journalists, “and that certainly includes the news.”

Ethics notwithstanding, the legal blog JD Journal announced this week that it will now pay…

Last August, I moderated a CLE webcast, “The Expert’s Guide to Change Management at Law Firms,” presented by the North Carolina Bar Association and LexisNexis Firm Manager. Having just realized that the webcast is available on YouTube, I thought I’d post it here.

The…

I received an email yesterday alerting me to a new app for converting Microsoft Office documents to PDF on an Apple or Android mobile device. In researching it, I discovered that the company also has an app for converting PDF to Office. Either of the two apps — both of which are free — make…

An innovative experiment that turned working Massachusetts courtrooms into test labs for social media in the courts has quietly closed down operations as its operating funds have dried up. Called OpenCourt and operated by WBUR, an NPR news station in Boston, the project used digital technology to make Quincy…

Across the United States, men, women and children — both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals — are subjected to forced labor, debt bondage, involuntary servitude and sex trafficking. “Make no mistake,” Attorney General Eric Holder said last year, “human trafficking is not just a global problem. It is a national crisis.”

In response to this…

An app introduced this week enables legal consumers to engage in free consultations with lawyers via an iPhone.

The new app, LawZam, was developed by the company of the same name, LawZam. As I wrote about…

In what is getting to be an increasingly crowded field, another cloud-based practice management platform launched this week. The latest entrant, Velawsity, joins the ranks of Clio, Rocket Matter, MyCase, LexisNexis Firm Manager, Thomson Reuters Firm Central, and others.

So why does a crowded field need…

Can an iPhone app improve your legal writing? Kathleen Vinson thinks so. A professor of legal writing at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Vinson has developed iWrite Legal, a free iPhone app designed to help legal writers improve their…

The legal directory and Q&A site Avvo this week added a new feature, the Avvo Legal Marketplace, through which consumers can obtain proposals from lawyers interested in handling their case. Initially, this will be available for two practice areas,