[Note: Since March 1995, I have written a syndicated column, legal.online, that has run in various legal and bar periodicals. After 17 years, I’m calling it quits. Below is my final column, which I sent to editors last month. Many of the columns are archived here. I will continue to write my bimonthly…
Exclusive: America’s Most Productive Federal Courts
At the recent annual meeting of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, U.S. District Judge William G. Young, in accepting the Great Friend of Justice Award, delivered a thoughtful and impassioned speech decrying the decrease in jury trials in the federal courts. Trial by…
No Joke: Law Firm Hires Comedian to Teach Speaking Skills
International law firm Duane Morris had a problem. Some of its key staff were not very good at presenting, either internally or to clients. One was told that her speaking “needed to be more fluid and less analytical.” Another experienced “extreme anxiety at the thought of presenting her ideas to the…
Join Me for a ‘Taste of Techshow’ Dinner
If you are attending ABA Techshow this year, I invite you to join Jeff Lantz of Esquire Interactive and me for a Taste of Techshow dinner Friday evening, March 30. Our venue will be Rhapsody, where the menu is “inspired by fresh Italian flavors and local, seasonal ingredients,”…
Fastcase Mobile App Now Syncs with Desktop
I’ve written several times about the Fastcase app for the iPhone and iPad, both of which let you research cases and statutes for free directly from your mobile device. This week, Fastcase rolled out Mobile Sync, a feature that synchronizes the…
Friday is Last Day for Techshow Early-Bird Discount
With just a month to go before ABA Techshow — which takes place in Chicago March 29-31 — the deadline for early-bird registration has been extended to this Friday, Feb. 24. After Friday, all registration fees will increase by $200. A full list of fees is available…
Another Practice Management Platform with Document Assembly
Recently, I wrote about announcements (here and here) from two cloud-based practice management applications, Rocket Matter and Clio, that they had added document assembly…
Onit App-ifies Legal Process Management
Onit just may be onto something. At LegalTech last week, the company revealed that it is moving in a new direction, away from a single, soup-to-nuts process-management platform in favor of a new line of task-specific apps, each designed to address a specific business process. It rolled out a series of apps that address legal,…