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The ABA Legal Technology Resource Center is out with its 2010 Legal Technology Survey Report. The six-volume survey looks at legal-technology trends in various aspects of law practice. Reliable statistics about lawyers’ use of technology are hard to come by, but this annual survey has proven to be a fairly good indicator of overall…

In thinking about my presentation next week for the ACLEA annual meeting about “How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law … and CLE,” I suddenly remembered that I had once written a magazine article on this very topic. Way back in 1995, I wrote, Empowered or Enslaved: Technology’s Effect on…

I hope to see you at the ACLEA Annual Meeting in New York next week. I am speaking twice, both times on Tuesday, July 27.  From 10 to 11:15 a.m., I will present the plenary session, “How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law … and CLE.” Later that day, from 3:10 to 4:10 p.m.,…

Legal website FindLaw today launched FindLaw UK, a site for individuals and businesses in the U.K. seeking information on legal topics and help finding solicitors.

The site provides articles, FAQs, blogs and other information on various legal topics. It also offers Contact Law, a service designed to connect people with recommended solicitors.…

Will there ever come a day when robots will replace lawyers? Judging by the website of the firm Robot Robot & Hwang, that day has already arrived.  The two senior partners in the three-member firm are both computers, one named Apollo Cluster and the other named Daria XR-1029.

According to his bio, Cluster…

If you need someone to create a screencast for your product or service, I’ve got just the guy. Sure, he happens to be my son. Ben Ambrogi. But he does good work. Below are some examples. If you’d like to get in touch with him, let me know (ambrogi-at-gmail.com).…

For lawyers, this is a marriage made in social-networking heaven: JD Supra, a leading site for sharing legal content, is now partnering with LinkedIn, the leading professional-networking site, so that JD Supra content will now be seamlessly integrated into LinkedIn.

The integration will involve two primary features.

First, any lawyer who is a registered user…

For any lawyer who follows or participates in federal rulemaking, the U.S. government’s launch a few years ago of Regulations.gov was a great leap forward. Finally, from a single site, you could find and track proposed rules from nearly 300 federal agencies and even submit formal comments.

But Regulations.gov is difficult to use for…

Spindle Law describes itself as “a new kind of legal research and writing system.” Its goal is to make legal research “faster and smarter.” It seeks to do this in two ways: by structuring information more intuitively and by building on the knowledge of the lawyers who use it.

Spindle Law resembles a treatise…

Somewhere along the line, I picked up the idea that a lawyer is always a “lawyer,” but should only be called an “attorney” in connection with representing a client. (“John went to law school and became a lawyer. He is now the attorney for an accused bank robber.)

At his blog You Don’t Say,…

In legal-blogging circles, Mike Dillon is known as the first Fortune 500 general counsel to launch a blog. That was in 2006, when Dillon was GC of Sun Microsystems. Earlier this year, Oracle acquired Sun. With Sun’s demise, so went Dillon’s blog (although the archives remain up).

With the acquisition over…

Last February, Law.com published my review of Bloomberg Law, in which I wrote, “Bloomberg’s biggest challenge may lie in convincing the legal market that it needs another high-end research service.” That is essentially the same conclusion reached by Wall Street Journal reporter Russell Adams, who writes about the service today in a piece titled,…