Here is an interesting factoid for you: David Lat, editor of the blog Above the Law, is credited with coining three of the 7,500 new terms in the latest edition of Black’s Law Dictionary.

Due out Friday in its 10th edition from Thomson Reuters,…

In March in my ABA Journal column, I reviewed PacerPro, a free service for searching the federal courts' Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. Inforuptcy is a similar sort of service, except that, whereas PacerPro searches only district court dockets and excludes bankruptcy courts, Inforuptcy does just the opposite, searching only bankruptcy courts and excluding district courts. That, however, is about to change. Later this year, Inforuptcy will be expanding to add district court dockets. Read on for more…

I do not remember ever being so conflicted in my opinion of a device as I am about the new Sony Digital Paper, which just went on sale this week exclusively through Worldox and is targeted at the legal market. I posted a brief note and video about it a week and a half ago and have been using one ever since. The DP is a remarkably thin and light tablet-like device for keeping all your digital documents and notes. A stylus enables handwriting, either to mark up and annotate documents or to take handwritten notes.…

Are you a judge or former judge with a hankering to be on TV? If so, have I got an opportunity for you. Fox Television is casting a new reality show and is looking for a judge or former judge to apply. But before you dash off your resume, be prepared to give up…

There is a trend in legal information, rapidly gaining momentum, in which visualization tools and design concepts are used to help lawyers, students, consumers and scholars make sense of the law. In the cover story of this month’s ABA Journal, I take an in-depth look at this trend.

I write about some emerging…

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In this week’s Lawyer2Lawyer, we consider the promise and reality of the right to counsel, 51 years after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Gideon v. Wainwright. Specifically, we look at public defenders in…

It has happened to all of us, I'm sure. You hit "send," only to realize autofill has provided the wrong address. Or, you "reply all" when you meant your response to be private. How many times have you said to yourself, "If only I could unsend that email"? Now you can. Two Harvard Law School students, Lindsay Lin and David S. Gobaud, have launched a free service, Pluto Mail, that allows users to unsend emails after they've been sent. It also allows users to edit emails after they've been sent (but before they've been opened), set auto-expiration dates…

Have you ever thought about whether you should back up your law firm’s cloud? If your cloud service goes down or loses files, where will that leave you? A recent report from Forrester Research cautions that businesses should back up their critical cloud data…

Just after ABA Techshow, I published a post listing my picks for the top 10 product announcements at the show. My #2 pick was Sony’s Digital Paper, a remarkably thin (.26 inches) and light (12.6 oz.) tablet-like device with a 13.3 inch, high-contrast E Ink display.…

When WordRake , the editing program for lawyers, was first released in 2012, I put it to the test against two of the most eloquent writers on the Supreme Court, Justices Antonin Scalia and Elena Kagan. If WordRake could improve on Scalia and Kagan, I reasoned, imagine what it could do for the rest of us. Now, WordRake is preparing to release version 2.0 of its software and it provided me with a beta version. This time, I decided to give Justices Scalia and…

It’s a good time to be a legal startup, it seems. Just three weeks ago, we reported here that Clio, the cloud-based practice management platform, had raised $20 million in financing. Now comes news that the lawyer directory site Avvo has closed $37.5 million in financing.

This latest round of…

You've no doubt heard about Heartbleed, the security flaw that exposed personal information at many leading websites. The flaw was in OpenSSL, an open-source version of the SSL protocol that is used to encrypt transmissions between you and a website. The flaw created a vulnerability that could have exposed sensitive information. The vulnerability affected several leading Internet companies, including Google, Yahoo and Netflix. It made me wonder how many companies that cater to the legal profession were affected. I've collected a bit of information here. If you know of others, please let me know or add a comment below. If…