Robert Ambrogi

Last year, I wrote here that judge analytics is the new black. I was referring to the growing selection of tools that analyze case dockets and judicial opinions to provide insights into how judges rule on various types of matters and how long it takes them to do so. Products in this…

My son Ben sharing a cigar and a laugh with the farmer who was our host in Vinales, Cuba.

Apologies for the silence here during the past week. I’ve just returned from an amazing nine days visiting the beautiful country of Cuba, where I had no phone or internet. I’m back now and…

Adding time passively captured in Chrometa to a CosmoLex matter.

The practice management platform CosmoLex today announced its integration with the passive timekeeping system Chrometa. The advantage of this integration is that it helps attorneys ensure that they are capturing and billing as much of their time as possible.

“Passive…

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In a recent conversation, a lawyer questioned whether practice management software was making him any more productive. That got me to thinking about the reasons to use practice management software in the first place. Increased productivity is one, but even setting productivity aside,…

The law practice management system Credenza is shutting down, according to a notice on its website. “Credenza has reached end-of-life,” says the notice. “Effective 60 days after your August 2016 renewal date, Credenza will no longer be offered or supported.”

Credenza was an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that provided the ability to organize client…

THIS.
IS.
YUUUUUUUGGGE!

Florida now officially the 1ST state to require mandatory tech competency CLE hours, per @flcourts opinion *today*! https://t.co/uK3Cu8PTUU

— The Florida Bar (@theflabar) September 29, 2016

Talk about burying the lede. On Friday, I reported that Florida had become…

On this last day of September, catching up on legal tech news:

LexisNexis acquires Intelligize. This was announced Sept. 21 and I have not had a chance to get to it here. Fortunately, Jean O’Grady has it covered at her blog Dewey B Strategic. Intelligize is an analytics platform for mining intelligence…

Just last week, I reported that Oklahoma had adopted the duty of technology competence  for lawyers, becoming the 24th state on my ongoing tally of states that have adopted the ABA Model Rule. Now there is another. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Florida ordered adoption of the duty of tech competence for…

Here are eight additions to my list of legal startups. Send additions and updates to ambrogi-at-gmail.com.

To read more about this list and why I created it, see this post.…

A lawsuit claiming that the federal courts’ PACER system routinely overcharges for document downloads has survived the government’s motion to dismiss.

In a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Bryndon Fisher of Seattle claims that the formula used by PACER to calculate per-page download charges is faulty and that it resulted in PACER…

This week is the Microsoft Ignite conference for IT professionals in Atlanta, Ga., and one legal-specific app will be honored there from out of the over 1,700 apps and add-ins available through the Office Store.

The legal calendaring and docketing application LawToolBox365 has won a Microsoft 2016 Office App Award, which…

In my column this week at Above the Law, I have an exclusive first look at a new product that uses machine learning to help prevent mistakes in drafting legal documents.

Called jEugene Compass, the product will be formally announced tomorrow morning.

What separates it from other proofreading programs for lawyers…