I have followed the birth and development of Bloomberg Law with great interest. After all, it requires a bit of chutzpah to launch a legal research platform with the goal of competing against Westlaw and LexisNexis on their own turf. It also requires a bit of cash. Bloomberg Law has…
‘TheFormTool’: Smart, Simple Document Assembly
Wandering through the exhibition hall at ABA Techshow last week, I’d ask friends I bumped into whether they’d seen any new products that interested them. Time and again, it seemed, the answer was the same: TheFormTool. TheFormTool is an add-in to Microsoft Word (2007 and later versions) that makes it extremely easy…
More News from MyCase: A Built-In Word Processor
I wrote just yesterday about the announcement from MyCase of its application programming interface and App Bar, which will allow third parties to develop applications to integrate with the MyCase practice management platform. Today at
MyCase Announces Launch of its own API and ‘App Bar’
Just yesterday, I posted here about announcements by two of the leading cloud-based practice management platforms, Clio and Rocket Matter, that they had launched application programming interfaces (APIs) that will allow third-party application developers to integrate directly with their platforms. I noted the coincidence…
Off Topic: Turkeys in my Backyard Today
A half-dozen of them wandered in this morning and then wandered off.
From 2012-03-27 From 2012-03-27…
Clio and Rocket Matter Both Launch APIs and Integration with Third-Party Apps
I’m starting to wonder whether Clio and Rocket Matter are engaged in high-tech corporate espionage. In January, within days of each other, both companies added document assembly to their cloud-based practice management applications. (See my earlier posts
Yet Another Practice Management Platform adds Document Assembly
I’m sensing a trend here. In January, I wrote here that the Web-based practice management application Rocket Matter had added document assembly. Less than a week later, I posted here that Clio had announced its addition of a document assembly feature. Then
Going to Techshow? There’s an App for That
If you are attending ABA Techshow in Chicago next week, be sure to download the Techshow app for your mobile phone. It is available for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.
The app includes a number of features. Among them:
LexisNexis Acquires Legal News Site Law360
LexisNexis said today that it has acquired Portfolio Media, the company that runs Law360, a subscription website that provides legal news and analysis targeted at business lawyers.
Law360 covers legal news on its website and in e-newsletters. News is organized according to some 30 practice areas, industries and regions. According to…
A Thorough Guide to Freelance Lawyering
What if you could have a law job that let you wear pajamas at noon, take extended trips to visit family and friends, and burn the midnight oil because that is when a great idea hits you? If that strikes a chord for you, then don’t even finish reading this post. Just head over and…
Another Site for Lawyers to Share Legal Forms
I’ve written at least a couple times before about websites created in order to allow lawyers to share legal forms and documents. Now there is another one.
First, a recap. I wrote last June about Standardforms.org, a legal wiki intended to serve…