Every year at its annual meeting, the American Association of Law Libraries presents an award for the new product of the year. This week, it announced that this year’s honoree will be…
After Five Years in Stealth Mode, Judicata Reveals Its Legal Research Service
Since at least 2013, the website of Judicata has been teasing visitors with the promise of a better legal research service. “We’re mapping the legal genome to help you better understand the law,” said its home page. The San Francisco-based company was started even earlier, in November 2011. Along the way, it…
Is This The First Legal Chatbot on LinkedIn?
A few weeks ago in my column at Above the Law, I wrote about the growing number of law-related chatbots. “Suddenly, it seems, new law-related chatbots are springing up regularly,” I wrote. “It is premature to say they are taking off in the legal industry, but they are certainly making a splash and…
Former LexisNexis VP Named to Lead Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions
Wolters Kluwer today announced that Jonah Paransky has been named executive vice president and general manager of its ELM Solutions business, a part of its Governance, Risk & Compliance group. ELM Solutions provides enterprise legal management software to facilitate workflow and collaboration in law firms, corporate legal departments and insurance claims…
Here’s the Recording of Webinar on ‘A Holistic Approach to Litigation Technology’
On Friday, I moderated a webinar, Litigation Tool Tips: A Holistic Approach to Litigation Technology, sponsored by the ABA’s Young Lawyers Division. If you’re interested, the ABA has now posted the recording of the webinar at the above link, where it is free to view.
The theme of the webinar was how litigators can…
Proposals Sought for TED-Style Talks on Innovation at ABA Annual Meeting
If you’ve always imagined yourself on stage at a TED-style event, this could be your chance. The ABA Center for Innovation is seeking proposals for talks on legal innovation to be presented during a special Spotlight event at the ABA Annual Meeting in New York City on Aug. 12, 2017.
The center will select 10…
Podcast: As Mass. Dismisses 21,000 Drug Cases, We Look at Problems in Drug Labs
On April 18, in the largest simultaneous dismissal of cases in U.S. history, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court dismissed more than 21,000 low-level drug cases connected to the drug lab scandal that involved Annie Dookhan, a former chemist of a Massachusetts crime lab who admitted to falsifying evidence. After an investigation into Annie Dookhan…
Nominees Sought for Innovations in Law Practice Management and Delivery of Legal Services
The College of Law Practice Management is seeking nominations for its annual InnovAction Awards, which honor innovations in law practice management and the delivery of legal services.
Nominations are sought of lawyers, law firms, law departments, nonprofits, tech companies, students, and others worldwide who have invented something or successfully applied innovative practices to…
Where To Find Files The Government and Corporations Don’t Want You To See
In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the memory hole was where government officials deposited politically inconvenient documents for destruction. From 2002 to 2009, the website The Memory Hole served the opposite purpose, rescuing government and corporate files from disappearance or obscurity.
The site garnered controversy in 2004, when it published photographs of the…
Why Does the Legal Profession Resist Evidence in Addressing A2J?
Imagine if doctors gave you treatments based solely on their gut instincts of what works, without any science-based evidence to back them up. We’d probably call that quackery.
But that’s exactly how the legal profession often operates. We adopt theories about how best to…
Update to Lawline’s App Enhances CLE on iPhones, iPads
The CLE provider Lawline recently rolled out enhancements to its iOS app, adding the ability to view synchronized presentation slides as you listen to a program, to download the program’s written materials, and to add s0-called SmartNotes, which are notes that adhere to the point in the presentation where you added them.
Lawline first…