Articles Posted in May, 2017

During the past week, I’ve had the great honor and pleasure of presenting a four-hour program on legal ethics and technology to members of the Solo & Small Firm Section of the Florida Bar. What made this program particularly special was that it took place during a 10-day cruise along the Danube River,…

For some time now, I’ve been meaning to write about Centerbase, a relatively new entrant to the law practice management space. Targeted at small- and mid-sized firms, Centerbase is unique for the high degree of configurability available to its users. As its website says, “We make Centerbase’s features conform to your needs, not…

The legal research service Ravel Law today announced the launch of a new feature, Firm Analytics, that provides insights on law firms’ litigation histories that can be used for competitive intelligence and research into firms’ litigation activity.

I am traveling today and have not seen this new feature. Ravel CEO Daniel Lewis says it…

Notable news on the AI front today: the document management company iManage has acquired RAVN Systems, a UK company specializing in artificial intelligence. iManage says the acquisition “will revolutionize the way companies find, extract and act on key information from documents and emails.”

RAVN has an AI platform that can organize, discover and summarize…

In what it says is an industry first for a legal research platform, LexisNexis today is launching a multimedia civil procedure practice guide within Lexis Advance that includes not only text but also a series of more than 150 short videos embedded within the content.

The new practice guide, The Wagstaffe Group Practice…

Here are 16 additions to my list of legal startups. This brings the list to 647 entries. Send additions and updates to ambrogi-at-gmail.com. To read more about this list and why I created it, see this post.…

Immi, a website devoted to helping immigrants in the U.S. understand their legal options, has won the 2017 Webby Award for best law website.

A creation of Probono.net and the Immigration Advocates Network, Immi provides an online screening tool, legal information, and referrals to nonprofit legal services organizations.

This…

It’s a maelstrom of activity in our nation’s capital these days, making it all the harder for lawyers to keep up with federal developments and separate truth from rumor. Cognizant of that, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory has launched a new product, the Federal Developments Knowledge Center, designed to help legal professionals…

Well, this is enterprising of them.

Following my report earlier this week that LexisNexis Firm Manager will go dark on Oct. 31, another practice management company announced that it will offer free subscriptions to Firm Manager’s customers.

Case.one says it will provide a free subscription for a period equivalent to the remainder…

Founded 25 years ago, the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School was the first-ever legal website. Rather than rest on its laurels, the LII continues to be a leader today in providing free and open access to law. On the LII’s 25th anniversary, I speak with cofounder Tom Bruce about its origins and…

Fresh on the heels of Casetext’s legal research assistant CARA being named new product of the year, Casetext is today introducing an expansion of CARA that adds briefs to its suggested results. This means that, in addition to finding relevant — but possibly overlooked — case law, CARA also finds relevant briefs. Casetext is calling…

A convergence of three recent developments in legal research suggests that we may be entering what Ed Walters, the CEO of legal research service Fastcase, described in a tweet as “a golden age of legal research innovation.” In my column this week at Above the Law, I describe these three developments and what they…