Articles Posted in February, 2017

Last year, two leading case management platforms, AbacusLaw and Amicus Attorney, came together under one roof when Abacus Data Systems acquired Amicus from Gavel & Gown Software. Now, in the first joint project between the Abacus and Amicus development teams, Abacus is unveiling the Abacus Payment Exchange (APX), a…

Whether you adore Donald Trump or despise him, you have to admit that he has set himself an ambitious agenda for his first 100 days as president. As lawyers, we have not only a political interest in the policies he is seeking to implement, but also a professional one. From finance to immigration, from…

A new tool being released today for patent lawyers and paralegals uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to help prepare responses to office actions and then uses analytics to help predict how the case is likely to develop.

The new tool, called SmartShell, has been developed by TurboPatent, a Seattle, Wash., company…

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Last June, this blog reported on plans by Adobe and other industry groups, working through a group called the Cloud Signature Consortium, to build an open standard for cloud-based digital signatures across mobile and the web, enabling…

Thirteen regional U.S. legal newspapers are among a group of newspapers that have been acquired by SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese multi-national that also owns Sprint and that is known for its investments in the technology industry.

SoftBank has purchased GateHouse Media, a company that owns over 500 weekly and daily newspapers,…

On the latest episode of Lawyer 2 Lawyer, we consider President Trump’s nomination of 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Helping us consider the nomination are two experts:…

Stanford Law School’s Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties has published a special issue, A Lawyer’s Guide to Activism, Resistance, and Change Under Trump.

“The focus of this edition is the role that law students and lawyers can play in protecting rights, liberties, and a healthy environment under a new president…

A new website called Legably aims to enable solo and small-firm lawyers to handle higher workloads by hiring other attorneys on an on-demand basis.

The site matches attorneys who are looking for extra work with attorneys who have projects with which they need help.

Notably, Legably has entered into a partnership with

The good news about law practice management software is that recent years have brought a variety of systems to the market. The bad news is that choosing one can be daunting. Their features and pricing rarely line up in a way that enables apples-to-apples comparisons. I frequently receive emails from frustrated readers saying, in…

A federal court has issued a permanent injunction barring Public.Resource.Org from publishing technical and scientific standards that are written by private standards developing organizations (SDOs) but that are incorporated by reference in the Code of Federal Regulations.

The CFR incorporates some 9,500 of these private standards. They help to regulate a wide range of…

The bank feed is matched against transactions recorded in CosmoLex.

In lieu of flowers or candy, CosmoLex is giving its customers something different for Valentine’s Day — automatic, direct bank data feeds.

CosmoLex says it is the first law practice management product to provide this capability. As far as I can…

With increasing numbers of organizations adopting its Office 365 cloud platform, Microsoft has been hard at work on enhancing security and compliance features. Last September, it announced that it would be developing an advanced data governance tool for Office 365, and on Friday, it released that tool in a limited public preview,…