Here are my picks for the 10 most important legal technology developments of 2013. What am I missing? What would be on your list?
The numbers are not meant to indicate priority. They are all important, in my mind.
1. Lawyers’ use of social media became yesterday’s news.
OK, lawyers blog. They use Facebook. They’re…
Keeping track of an issue within the U.S. government can be daunting. The government is gargantuan, with thousands of entities publishing a constant flow of news and information across many thousands of websites and social media platforms.
Say you have a client who has an interest in food labeling law. To track everything concerning food…
Earlier this year, I published a post about CardMunch, an app from LinkedIn that I called “the holy grail of business card apps.” Well, not anymore. It seems that many users, including me, are having trouble with the app consistently hanging and crashing, and no one at LinkedIn seems to be doing anything…
If you’re at all like me, your life is dispersed across multiple cloud platforms. I have documents on Drive, Dropbox and Box. I have notes in Evernote. I have photos on Instagram, Picasa and Flickr. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could access all these cloud services through a single interface and a single login?…
Today brought the launch of the Journal of Open Access to Law, an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to promoting international research on the topic of open access to law.
According to the journal’s home page, topics it plans to address include:…
I have been playing around with a handy little device called the HoverCam Mini 5. Billed as a pocket-sized scanner, it is actually a 5.0 megapixel autofocus camera that functions as both an overhead scanner and a video projector. You can use it on your desktop, but it is even better suited to use on…
In January, I am slated to become president of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, the premier legal charity supporting access to justice and civil legal services in Massachusetts.
I am particularly honored because 2014 is a momentous year for the MBF — its 50th anniversary. This milestone will be marked by…
Transporter, a device that lets lawyers set up their own private cloud for secure file storage, has been named as the year’s top new product for lawyers in TechnoLawyer’s listing of the top 25 new products and…
Here is a surprising story that I missed earlier this week while I was off at a conference: Thomson Reuters Legal is getting a new president. Out goes Mike Suchsland, president since 2011. In comes Susan Taylor Martin, currently the managing director of Thomson Reuters Legal in the UK and Ireland.
Susan Taylor…
It’s silly season again, when 100 or so legal bloggers begin beating the bushes for your votes as a readers’ favorite in the annual ABA Journal Blawg 100. With this blog having been retired last year to the Blawg 100 Hall of…
The web-based practice-management platform Rocket Matter announced improvements this week to its time-and-billing capabilities. The improvements include:…
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