What makes a legal technology conference great? I’ve been thinking a lot about this since leaving the fifth Clio Cloud Conference earlier this week. I’ve attended all five and uniformly praised each one. After the…
My Podcast Interview with CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Future Course
At the Clio Cloud Conference in New Orleans on Monday, I sat down with Clio cofounder and CEO Jack Newton to discuss the announcements he made during his opening keynote. We talk about Clio’s ground-up reengineering and redesign of its practice management platform, Clio’s new goals and directions as it starts its…
Bloomberg Law Launches AI Research Tool to Find Key Points of Law
Bloomberg Law today rolled out to its subscribers new tool, Points of Law, that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help legal researchers quickly find language critical to a court’s reasoning and to support their legal arguments.
As a researcher scrolls through a court opinion, Points of Law highlights the essential language in the…
New Judicial Analytics Platform Focuses on Los Angeles But Plans to Expand Nationally
Two years ago, I wrote a post titled, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights about…
At Its Annual Conference, Clio Unveils New Design, New Direction
Nine years after it launched as the first commercial, cloud-based practice management platform, Clio has been teasing the legal community with promises of major news, symbolized by the hashtag #newclio. Earlier this month, I was given a preview of the news during a media day visit to Clio’s headquarters in Vancouver, B.C. But,…
New Hate Crime App Helps Victims Find Help and Resources
Last March, I participated in a day-long design sprint held with the goal of developing a web application to assist hate-crime victims. Now, that app has been released.
The design event was held at Suffolk University Law School in Boston and was sponsored by Suffolk and the ABA Center for Innovation, along…
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Launches Podcast
Here’s another show to add to your podcast-listening list — a new podcast by Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York who President Trump fired last March, called Stay Tuned With Preet.
In the weekly podcast, Bharara plans to speak with prominent judges, justice department officials,…
More Details on the Partnership Between Evolve Law and Above the Law
Two years ago this week, I reported on the launch of Evolve Law, a for-profit membership organization aimed at driving technology innovation and adoption in the legal industry. Cofounders Jules Miller and Mary Juetten told me at the time that they hoped to attract innovative, early-stage companies as members and…
LawToolBox in Running for Office App People’s Choice Award
The deadline calculator application LawToolBox is in the running for a 2017 Office App People’s Choice Award — notable because, of the nine apps in contention, it is the only one designed for legal professionals.
The People’s Choice Award is given to the Microsoft Office 365 add-in or app that receives the most…
Proud To Announce I Will Receive The Yankee Quill Award For Journalism
I am extremely honored to report that I have been selected to receive the Yankee Quill Award, presented by the Academy of New England Journalists “to honor extraordinary newspaper men and women for their lifetime of achievement and distinction in New England journalism.”
The award will be presented at a dinner on Oct.…
Rocket Matter CEO Helps Launch Legal-Focused Payment Processing Company for Credit Cards
[Clarification: Although this post described LexCharge as having “spun off” from Rocket Matter, I did not mean to suggest that the company was formed within Rocket Matter and then sold off in some way. Rocket Matter’s CEO Larry Port and LexCharge’s CEO Jeff Shavitz together conceived of the company and it has been…
Revealed: Justin Kan’s Secretive Legal Startup Debuts Today As A Different Kind of Law Firm
Last April, reports surfaced that Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur Justin Kan was looking to raise — and then in June did raise — $10 million for an initial round of funding for a startup that would “revolutionize legal services.” The name of the startup was known, Atrium LTS, but little else,…