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In recent weeks, I’ve written posts about two new legal startups, LawTova and Text to Ticket, and described ties they appeared to have to another legal startup, QuickLegal, that shut down amid fraud allegations concerning its founder Derek Bluford.
(All of my posts pertaining to Bluford and QuickLegal…
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Advanced Data Governance within Office 365, a tool that uses machine learning to help organizations find and retain important data while eliminating redundant, obsolete and trivial data.
This blog reported in February on the limited public preview release of ADG, which Microsoft…
A federal judge in Georgia has ordered Public Resource to remove Georgia’s official statutes from its website, finding that the state of Georgia holds a valid copyright in them and that Public Resource’s publication was not fair use.
This is the second loss this year for Public Resource in its efforts to…
Bloomberg Law’s new home page.
The Bloomberg BNA legal research service Bloomberg Law today is introducing a new user interface that streamlines the search experience by making it easier to conduct searches and to find specific types of content.The changes were spurred by customers’ feedback that they appreciated the breadth…
UPDATE: A working version and a free trial version can now be obtained through Citepad’s own store here.
After I wrote about the Citepad keyboard on Friday, I heard from some readers that they bought and installed the app, only to find it did not work. In fact, I experienced the same…
President Trump’s budget threatens to eliminate the Legal Services Corporation. What would this mean for civil legal aid to low-income Americans?
LSC President James J. Sandman and American Bar Association President Linda Klein join us on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer this week to discuss the implications of Trump’s proposed budget.
Listen to…
On Feb. 24, 2016, then-President Obama published a post on SCOTUSblog. I thought it was pretty cool that the president of the United States would publish a post on blog, and doubly cool that he chose to do it on a legal blog. So, a month later, when April 1 rolled around, I picked…
A new Silicon Valley legal technology accelerator launched by LexisNexis today named five startups selected to be its first participants.
As I wrote here in December, LexisNexis launched the accelerator to help give legal tech startups a leg up. It is based in the Menlo Park offices of
Earlier this year, I wrote about the LegalBoard, a computer keyboard designed specifically for lawyers. Little did I know what that post would provoke. As I later wrote on Above the Law, never in my 14 years of blogging had I seen the legal world react to a new product…
If you missed today’s Twitter chat, “Attachment Issues: Ethics of Client Communications for Lawyers,” here is the embedded version. I think this stays live only for a few days, so if you’re interested in reading through it, do it soon.
Thanks to Above the Law and Citrix Sharefile for cosponsoring this!
The new magazine version will be mailed tomorrow.
The National Law Journal is discontinuing as a weekly newspaper and becoming a monthly magazine, its publisher ALM announced today.
“As part of ALM’s response to the ongoing shift in readers’ consumption of content, The National Law Journal (NLJ) is introducing a…
Corporate legal departments and insurance claims organizations that receive large numbers of outside-counsel invoices now have a new tool available to them to help review invoices and ensure that they accurately and consistently adhere to billing guidelines.
Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions today launched LegalVIEW BillAnalyzer, a service that combines machine learning and…
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