Cyber currency Bitcoin has seen an exponential rise in value and popularity since its inception in 2010. Consider this: If you had bought $1,000 worth of Bitcoins in 2010, it would be worth $2.4 million dollars today. But as Bitcoin gains wider mainstream use, it is surrounded by a host of legal questions. In…

Are you a solo or small-firm lawyer who sometimes needs to hire temporary help for short-term assignments? If so, two new services promise to help you find the right person.

One, Legalkin.com, was just launched on Jan. 9. It focuses on connecting law firms of all sizes with freelance lawyers,…

Smart phones make lousy conference phones. Sure, you can put your phone in speaker mode and place it in the middle of the conference table. But those in the room have a tough time hearing the phone and those on the phone have an equally tough time hearing all of you.

Here to save…

Where did law firms spend their technology dollars in 2013? Every year, the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) and the market research and consulting firm InsideLegal team up to conduct a survey examining the technology purchasing trends and budgets of ILTA firm members. That’s old news, insofar as

Well, here’s a licensing deal I would not have seen coming: LexisNexis and Fastcase. The two companies announced today that Fastcase will now be the exclusive provider of Collier TopForm & File, a tool for creating and filing bankruptcy…

My latest “Ambrogi on Tech” column for the ABA Journal, 2 new websites offer platform for crowdsourced legal research, looks at Casetext and Mootus, two sites that bring crowdsourcing to legal research, but in somewhat different ways.…

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will offer live audio streaming  of all oral arguments beginning today, it announced last week. You can listen to the proceedings online by visiting the court’s website and clicking on links listed under “Live Oral Arguments.”

Audio streaming begins today with oral arguments from the…

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for apps that let you share contact information. Recently, I wrote about problems with CardMunch, the LinkedIn app that uses actual humans to read and transcribe business cards you scan with your mobile device. Now, Google has announced that it is shutting down Bump, the…

In our latest edition of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we are joined by Allen Pusey, editor and publisher of the ABA Journal, and Molly McDonough, deputy managing editor, to discuss the most important legal stories of 2013.

Alan Pusey has been with the ABA Journal since 2007 and was named editor and…

Last summer, Law Technology News published my article, Blogging From the Bench, in which I surveyed the fairly paltry number of judges who blog. In a subsequent post here, I added more blogging judges.

Prominently featured in the LTN piece was Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf, who last…

I always find it interesting to go back and see which posts generated the most traffic during the year. These are ranked based on page views, not unique visitors.

I have two lists here. First I list the 10 most popular posts of 2013, without regard to the year a post was originally published. After that,…

Here are my picks for the 10 most important legal technology developments of 2013. What am I missing? What would be on your list?

The numbers are not meant to indicate priority. They are all important, in my mind.

1. Lawyers’ use of social media became yesterday’s news.

OK, lawyers blog. They use Facebook. They’re…