Tomorrow, LexisNexis Legal & Professional will announce a new, enhanced version of Lexis for Microsoft Office, an application that provides direct access to Lexis research and citation tools and Web search tools from directly within Microsoft Word and Outlook.
The most significant of several new features in this release…
Wisconsin Lawyer has just published my article, The Cloud Has Landed: 10 Legal Tech Innovations and What They Mean. Here is the introduction:
…Innovations and advances in technology over the last five years have brought dramatic and irreversible changes to the practice of
At ABA Techshow next week, the file-sharing platform TitanFile will be demonstrating its new integration with Credeon, a highly secure, browser-based encryption technology developed by Hitachi Solutions America Ltd. The first such product targeted at the legal market, the integration allows secure sharing of files and other communications,…
When we heard legal blogger and technology writer Nicole Black was coming to Boston, we said, “How about meeting for a drink?”
Next thing we knew, not only are we meeting for a drink, but we are inviting any Boston legal bloggers and legal professionals who’d like to join us.
And…
I wrote last week about Adobe’s impending release of an all new version of its Acrobat PDF software, Acrobat DC, and of the broader Adobe Document Cloud with which Acrobat DC will be tightly integrated. Yesterday, the new products officially launched. Here’s…
If you’re planning a trip, whether for business or travel, run — or maybe I should say hop — to the iTunes store and get Hopper.
Consider Hopper a Big Data tool for finding small airfares. It constantly monitors and analyzes flight prices to predict how prices will change. It uses those…
The C-suite at the law firm Milberg LLP just got a little cozier. Recently, the firm announced that it had appointed Paul H. McVoy the newly established position of “chief discovery officer.” He will be responsible for guiding the firm’s lawyers, clients and co-counsel with regard to the technical aspects of discovery, the
David Whelan, the former director of the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center, has published a free e-book that provides an overview of the basic technology needed for a law practice. Called Law Practice Technology: An Introduction for Law Students, the book is, as the name…
Lou Andreozzi, the former chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, has been appointed as CEO to lead the new .law generic top-level domain (gTLD). Andreozzi will head a new division within the Santa Monica, Calif., company Minds + Machines, which has been granted an exclusive license to operate the…
The Supreme Court of Washington has approved revisions to the Rules of Professional Conduct governing lawyers in that state that allow lawyers and limited license legal technicians to form partnerships and share fees. To my knowledge, this makes Washington the first state to allow fee sharing and joint ownership of a law practice between a…
Sometime in the next 30 days, Adobe will launch the latest version of its popular Acrobat PDF software, and it will be notably different from prior versions. The new Acrobat DC, as it will be called, will be part of a broader offering, Adobe Document Cloud, all aimed at reducing the waste and inefficiency…
Building on the viral success of his start-ups Invisible Girlfriend and Invisible Boyfriend – services that make it look like you are in a relationship even when you are not – founder Matthew Homann will now launch Intangible Lawyer, a service that will make it look like you have a lawyer even if…
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