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For a geek like me, it was big news last August when the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates voted to amend the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make clear that lawyers have a duty to be competent in technology. Specifically, the ABA voted to amend the comment to Model Rule 1.1, governing lawyer…

The Web-based practice management platform MyCase will roll-out a new project-management feature this weekend, MyCase Workflow, that will enable its users to create custom templates of tasks and calendar events, including automatic date calculations, that can be applied to any case.

Say, for example, you are a divorce attorney and you…

As a member of the inaugural 2011 class of Fastcase 50 honorees, I am pleased to report that Fastcase today announced its 2013 group of Fastcase 50 honorees. This year’s group is a diverse list of legal innovators that ranges from…

Yesterday, Hein and Fastcase announced a publishing partnership through which the companies will share primary and secondary legal materials. Today, Fastcase revealed details about how the arrangement will be priced.

Under the agreement between the companies, Hein will provide its HeinOnline subscribers with…

On the Internet there is no rule against perpetuities. To the contrary our perpetuation seems assured. Latest case in point: the new Legal Blawgs Web Archive from the Library of Congress. Yes, just as the LOC is archiving all…

Not long ago, I served as chairperson of a tripartite arbitration panel. Near the close of the complicated case, one of the arbitrators indicated he was having trouble understanding the sequence of events. At his suggestion, we asked the parties to provide timelines. They proved extremely helpful in enabling us

The latest issue of Law Practice magazine is focused on “big ideas” and includes my article, As the World Goes Mobile, Is Your Marketing Up to Speed? This is a great issue overall, packed with thoughtful articles by an array of well-known authors, including a cover story by legal futurist Richard…

The main page features a ‘wall’ showing the user’s updates.

Thomson Reuters announced something last week that I cannot think of any other vendor having done in the legal industry – the launch of a social network tied exclusively to a group of products. The Thomson Reuters Elite Community, as it is…

After talking about it for more than a year, Thomson Reuters Elite is preparing to launch Workspace within the next month. Workspace is Elite’s attempt to bring together distinct but related products within an environment where they share a common workflow and a common look and feel, across both web…

I spent a couple days this week at Vantage 2013, the conference for users of Thomson Reuters Elite. The most fascinating presentation I attended there was by Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at the cyber-security consulting company Mandiant.

Bejtlich painted a terrifying view of…

Legal news company ALM today rolled out a set of apps for iPhones and iPads covering 14 of its national and regional publications.

The apps, which can be downloaded from at.law.com/apps, cover the the following publications:…

History does not bode well for the prospects for success for legal-networking sites. As regular readers of this blog have heard before, many legal-networking sites have been launched over the years, but few have survived. The ABA’s social networking site, LegallyMinded, shut down in 2011 after barely two years…