What would law practice be today without this technology? It is the standard for filing pleadings and motions in court. It is the standard for exchanging contracts and virtually all other legal documents. It is the standard for producing documents in e-discovery. It is the format around which lawyers build paperless practices. It is how…
Firm Central, the Thomson Reuters cloud-based practice management platform, recently rolled out a new reporting module, replacing its former reporting feature with more robust features and a wider array of user options.
In addition, Firm Central has introduced a number of improvements in recent months to its time and billing functions and across various…
Slated to launch next month is a service that allows consumers to get answers to their legal questions by text for a flat price of $20.
The service, called Text A Lawyer, is modeled after ride-sharing service Uber in that it uses two separate mobile apps, one for consumers to submit legal questions and…
Join me tomorrow as I moderate the free webinar, An Emerging Trend in Legal Technology: Bridging the Law Firm Experience Gap.
Sponsored by the Association of Legal Technologists, the panel will feature the presidents of three major organizations of legal professionals. They will be discussing how law firms can better capture and make…
Adobe today announced enhanced integration with Microsoft Office 365 that will give access to Adobe PDF services from directly from the ribbon bar within the online versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint, as well as from within SharePoint and OneDrive.
Adobe also announced enhancements to its free Adobe Scan app for iOS and Android devices…
Since 2015, I have been tracking the states that have adopted the duty of technology competence for lawyers. I have been doing that by updating a now three-year-old blog post. The post has become messy and unwieldy.
To clean it up, I’ve created a new page where I will continue to track adoption. The new…
A month from now, the American Association of Law Libraries will convene its annual conference in Baltimore. While Baltimore is typically hot in July, it might feel even hotter than normal in the vicinity of the LexisNexis exhibit-hall booth.
Last week, a lawyer for the AALL sent a letter to Mike Walsh, CEO of…
With recreational use of marijuana legal in nine states and the District of Columbia and medical use legal in 29 states, cannabis has emerged from the counterculture to become a mainstream industry. And where there is an industry, there is the need for lawyers to serve that industry.
Cannabis law is an increasingly competitive field.…
Blogging takes time. There’s no two ways about it. It takes time to come up with ideas for posts, to research the ideas, and to write the posts. For busy legal professionals, time may be the single-greatest obstacle to blogging, or at least to blogging regularly.
A new application aims to make it easier for…
Recently, I wrote about a new report from the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (both on this blog and on Above the Law) that recommends loosening rules on attorneys’ participation in for-profit referral services such as Avvo Legal Services.
Now, in the latest episode of our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer, I…
Most judges in a survey say that they see lawyers miss relevant precedent in their legal research and that those missing cases have impacted the outcome of a motion or proceeding.
The legal research company Casetext surveyed 66 federal and 43 state judges to learn whether missing precedent over affects the outcome of a matter.…
