The American Bar Association annual meeting is coming to Boston Aug. 7-12, and in conjunction with that, the ABA Journal and Suffolk University Law School are making plans to host a hackathon around the theme of access to justice.
A hackathon, Wikipedia tells us, is an event in which computer…
The cloud-based law practice management platform Clio has raised its monthly subscription price by 47 percent, from $49 per attorney to $72 per attorney. For users who pay annually, the monthly price is now $65.
In addition, Clio has eliminated its lower subscription price for support staff. Previously, attorneys could add support staff…
Last week, a mobile-phone charging device called Jumper Card launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to pay for its first production run. Within days, it met its goal. Even so, you can still contribute and be one of the first to receive a Jumper Card when it becomes…
Just back from last week’s LegalTech in New York, and with the perspective of someone who has been writing about legal technology for more than two decades, I am convinced that I have never before seen a time of such intense and creative innovation in legal technology. However, it is not LegalTech that…
At LegalTech in New York this week, Thomson Reuters will be showing a new addition to WestlawNext — the PeopleMap public records service. Although PeopleMap, itself, is not new, its integration into WestlawNext is new. and with that integration comes new visualization tools that now enable users to map…
I will be at LegalTech in New York this week and also at ReInvent Law NYC on Friday. Hope to see you at one or the other.
At LegalTech, I will be participating in a panel on Wednesday at 2 p.m., Total Cost of Ownership – Cloud vs.…
Without any fanfare, JD Supra changed its tagline last month, to “JDSupra Business Advisor.” The move emphasizes the company’s evolution from a simple aggregator of law-related content to a publisher, distributor and curator focused on delivering legal information to the business world.
When JD Supra
I am a frequent user of the Google News Archive, which allows searching of historical newspapers back to the 1800s. In December, the archive disappeared as a search option. A new help page appeared providing alternative instructions for searching the archive, but even using those instructions, nothing can be searched older than 1970.
According…
In a post last week, I briefly mentioned DocketHero, a soon-to-be-launched website that will connect lawyers in need of services with those willing to provide them. Slated to launch later this month or early in February, DocketHero will provide a B2B marketplace to connect lawyers…
Small-firm lawyers are increasingly likely to use cloud-based services, but they remain concerned concerned about the security and confidentiality of their data in the cloud, according to a survey released today by LexisNexis Firm Manager.
Mobility was the top-cited benefit of the cloud. (Click to enlarge.)
The…
In October 2012, two longtime corporate lawyers announced the private beta launch of Jurify, which they described as the “first mass collaboration platform for lawyers and clients.” The site would focus on using crowdsourcing to enhance access to legal research. “Think of it as a Wikipedia for the law,”…
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