Articles Posted in March, 2014

Clio founders Rian Gauvreau and Jack Newton.

WeCite entries for the Supreme Court case Granholm v. Heald.

I’ve written both here and for the ABA Journal about Casetext, a free legal research platform that uses crowdsourcing to…

Big news this morning from Clio, the cloud-based practice management platform: It announced this morning that it has raised $20 million in Series C financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Clio says it will use the new funding to accelerate product development and sales and fuel international expansion. Clio says it plans on doubling its workforce over the next year, to more than 200. The expansion will come in the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Europe, where Clio recently opened an office in Dublin. Clio says it will also continue to invest aggressively in mobile.

Last week brought news that BigHand Inc., a provider of voice productivity and workflow software, had acquired Esquire Innovations Inc., a maker of legal document automation and productivity tools used to create, format and compare documents and remove and manage document metadata. For me, that news…

In the past, when I wanted to find photos or images to illustrate a blog post, my go-to default was Wikimedia Commons,  a database of more than 20 million user-contributed images that are free to copy and use according to the author’s specified license terms (often just requiring credit to…

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The recent disclosure that an N.S.A. counterpart had eavesdropped on a U.S. law firm raises troubling questions about attorney-client privilege in an age of seemingly ubiquitous government snooping. In the criminal context, such monitoring implicates the Bill of Rights. In the latest episode of the legal-affairs podcast…

A year ago, I wrote here about Orion, the practice-management system designed for mid-sized law firms, and its app for iPad and iPhone, iOrion. At LegalTech New York in February, Orion announcing the forthcoming release of version 2.0 of its…

Let’s face it, business development is all about relationships. If you are courting a potential business client, there is no better way to get in the door than by knowing someone on the inside — ideally someone high up the chain of command. Some lawyers consider developing these relationships to be…

A third-year student at The University of Michigan Law School has created an iPad app, BriefCase, that automates the creation of case briefs.

The student, David Lutz, found it cumbersome to have to print out PDFs of cases, annotate them, and then type all the annotated information into a brief. The…

How does your state rate in supporting access to justice for those who face economic, language or physical barriers? A new website, The Justice Index, provides a state-by-state scorecard of resources and initiatives designed to ensure that everyone has equal access to the legal system.

The site…

As you begin to type a search, matching results are shown.

The cloud-based practice management platform Rocket Matter this week announced what it called “a complete overhaul” of its search functionality. Dubbed “Galactic Interdimensional Search,” it is Rocket Matter’s first major upgrade of its search feature since the product’s launch six years…

I attended yesterday’s Harvard Law School conference, Disruptive Innovation in the Market for Legal Services, which featured a keynote by none other than the man who coined the concept of disruptive innovation, Harvard Business School Prof. Clayton M. Christensen, author of the seminal 1997 book, The Innovator’s Dilemma.

The conference was moderated by…