At User Conference, Thomson Reuters Elite Shows Off New Products
My ABA Journal Column Looks at a Lower Cost Alternative to Acrobat
The July issue of the ABA Journal includes my ‘Ambrogi on Tech’ column, “An Acrobat alternative, at a third of the price.” I review Nuance Power PDF Advanced, a full-featured professional PDF program that does virtually everything Adobe Acrobat Pro can do, but at one-third the price.…
Another Look at ClearView Social, the Social Media Sharing App for Lawyers
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. And you can teach a lawyer all about social media, but you can’t make the lawyer do anything with it.
For many law firm marketing executives, that is a frustrating fact of life. All the social media training in the world doesn’t…
A Correction on LegalZoom Lawsuits
In a post here May 19, LegalZoom Suffers Setback in North Carolina, I wrote about recent legal developments in South Carolina and North Carolina involving claims that LegalZoom is engaged in the unauthorized practice of law. Towards the end of that post, I wrote:
…Meanwhile, LegalZoom
Two New Podcasts: Facial Recognition and Equal Education
I’m a bit behind in plugging my own podcast here. Here are the two most-recent episodes of Lawyer2Lawyer.
Facial Recognition Technology: Security vs. Privacy Concerns.
My cohost J. Craig Williams looks at how facial-recognition technology threatens security and privacy. His guests are Jennifer Lynch, senior staff attorney…
Tweets Track Secret Edits to SCOTUS Opinions
Last month, a collective “Really!?” rolled through the U.S. legal community when Harvard Law Professor Richard J. Lazarus published his study — and Adam Liptak reported it in
MIT Legal Hackathon Starts Online Tomorrow
This is a summer of legal hackathons here in the Boston area. As I’ve previously mentioned here, The the ABA Journal and Suffolk University Law School will be cosponsoring a hackathon around the theme of access to justice in conjunction with the ABA annual meeting in Boston. Hackcess…
Venerable LawBase Aims to Be ‘Best of Breed’ for Case Management
Revisiting Foxwordy, the Latest Lawyers’ Social Network
Rocket Matter Adds Evergreen Retainer Option and Enhances Performance
The cloud practice management company Rocket Matter today rolls out a new “Evergreen Retainer” feature. The feature automatically invoices clients to replenish their retainers when their accounts fall below specified amounts.
Using this feature, the lawyer and client would agree on a minimum retainer and a replenishment point. After the client pays…