The lawyer-rating service Super Lawyers today won a U.S. patent on its system for rating excellence within the legal profession. The patent, which is number 8,412,564, makes Super Lawyers the first lawyer-rating service to receive this unique distinction. Super Lawyers is owned by Thomson Reuters.
The abstract…
Rocket Matter, a company known for its cloud-based law practice management platform, is blasting off into an entirely new direction. Today, it is announcing the launch of Rocket X1, an Internet-marketing service for law firms that combines a website and blogging platform with consulting services…
Last September, I wrote here about the private beta launch of BriefMine, a database of legal briefs that lawyers can mine for arguments and legal theories they can use in their own legal briefs. As I wrote then, the site uses intuitive,…
Ever wonder whether a Twitter feed is really from the government body or official it claims to be? There is certainly reason to doubt sometimes, given the frequency of fake and spoof social-media accounts.
To help clear up any doubt, the U.S. government has a web…
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…
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