Following up on my post this morning about the Free the Law partnership between Harvard Law School and Ravel Law to digitize and make available to the public for free Harvard’s entire collection of U.S. case law, I just had an opportunity…
Huge News: Harvard Law and Ravel Law Team Up to Digitize All U.S. Case Law
See also this later post: Ravel Founder Daniel Lewis Discusses Today’s News of Partnership with Harvard to Digitize All Case Law.
Harvard Law School and Ravel Law today announced an initiative to digitize and make available to the public for free Harvard’s entire collection of U.S. case law, which…
Free Webinar Tomorrow: The Duty of Technology Competence As It Applies to E-Discovery
The past year has seen a growing number of states adopt the ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers. What does the duty mean and how does it apply to e-discovery?
I will be moderating a free webinar on that topic tomorrow, Oct. 29, from 1 to 2 p.m. Eastern time. The webinar…
Clio Cloud Conference Post Mortem: It Was Déjà Vu All Over Again
It might strike you as corny to hear that a legal technology conference kicks off at 8:30 a.m. with a bevy of hip-looking Millennials, all clad in the conference’s official black T-shirt, swarming en masse into the auditorium-sized room where some 600 legal…
MyCase Users Can Now Accept E-Check Payments from Clients
The cloud-based practice management platform MyCase has added a new feature, MyCase Payments, that allows MyCase users to accept e-check payments from their clients. The feature, built directly into the MyCase platform, is designed to help lawyers get paid more quickly.
The new feature works with MyCase’s legal billing capabilities and allows…
More News from the Clio Conference: Partnership with CuroLegal
On Monday, I wrote here about several new features and integrations that Clio announced at its annual Clio Cloud Conference. Yesterday, there was another announcement: Clio is partnering with CuroLegal, an outsourcing and consulting firm, to provide professional services to assist law firms with software configuration and customization, on-site training,…
Casetext's Crowdsourced Citator Gains Traction, Passes 67,000 Entries
As I explained then, all someone has to…
At Its Annual Conference, Clio Announces New Features, Integrations
The cloud-based practice-management company Clio kicked off its annual Clio Cloud Conference in Chicago today with announcements of two new features and eight new integrations with third-party applications.
In the conference’s opening keynote, Clio CEO and co-founder Jack Newton announced…
Illinois Adopts Duty of Technology Competence; Is Now 15th State To Do So
The Supreme Court of Illinois yesterday adopted the ethical duty of technology competence, making it the 15th state (by my count) to have adopted the 2012 amendment to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
The Illinois change mirrors the Model Rule and amends Comment 8 to Rule 1.1, Competence, to read (changed text…
Adobe Acrobat DC Adds Dropbox Integration
Last May, in a post here, I reviewed the new Adobe Acrobat DC, the all-new version of the popular PDF software. (I also have a more…
More on ModioLegal: Now With Audio from LawSites
I wrote here last week about ModioLegal, a service that partners with legal publishers to convert news articles and current-awareness content to audio that subscribers can access through their smart phones or computers.
Now, the folks at ModioLegal have added the audio of my post about them to their service, as a sample…
New .Law Domains Go on Sale Today – Here's How to Buy One
Hold on to your hats — the new .law and .abogado top-level domains go on sale today to the legal community at large and there is likely to be a land rush of lawyers flocking to buy them.
But buying one today will cost you a bundle — an extra $12,500 over the minimum annual…