In 2018, Mark Britton left Avvo, the often-controversial company he founded in 2006 and led as CEO until he sold it earlier that year to web behemoth Internet Brands. Soon after, he joined us here on LawNext…

The Board of Governors of the State Bar of Georgia have voted to approve proposed changes to the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct that would adopt the duty of technology competence. The proposed changes will now be published for a 30-day comment period and then submitted for approval to the Georgia Supreme Court.…

Can a law firm be successful in 2019 without a website?

I wondered this as I reviewed the findings of the 2019 Legal Technology Survey Report produced by the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center.

According to the survey, 43% of solos do not have websites. Even more surprising, this percentage has…

It has been a year since I last checked in with MyCase, the cloud practice management platform. Over that time, the company has continued to add new features and improve existing ones. Here are some of the most-notable enhancements made in recent months.

In August, MyCase added e-signatures for…

George Psiharis was employee number six at Clio, which he joined shortly after the practice management company was founded in 2008. Now, he is COO of an enterprise with more than 400 employees and growing, responsible for customer success, business development and data operations.

Psiharis also oversees Clio’s annual Legal Trends Report,…

With the Nov. 1 deadline for submissions fast approaching, I am thrilled to announce the stellar line-up of judges for the inaugural LexBlog Excellence Awards, which will honor exemplary writing on legal blogs.

As I explained in a post announcing the awards, these awards are unlike other “best blog” awards. Rather than…

At its 10th annual Relativity Fest conference in Chicago last week, the e-discovery company Relativity announced the winners of the 2019 Innovation Awards, which recognize third-party applications that integrate with Relativity to streamline processes, solve complex workflows, or create an altogether new solution that positively impacts business strategy.

This year’s winners were:…

Nineteen years ago, Mark Harris and Alec Guettel founded Axiom, a pioneering service to provide on-demand legal talent to corporate legal departments, growing it into a company with a roster of more than 2,000 lawyers that works with over half of the Fortune 100, while also developing technology and managed services arms.

Last February, gearing up…

If you’re a legaltech startup, I don’t want to spook you, but Halloween is the last day to submit your application for one of 15 spots in the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, taking place in Chicago Feb. 26-29, 2020.

The final deadline for applying is…

As I mentioned in my post earlier today about the Clio Cloud Conference, a new feature this year was the podcast alley, where a string of podcasters were able to set up shop — LawNext among them.

Among the people I sat down with to record conversations during the conference was Jack…

We often hear that lawyers are fearful of innovation. We often hear that lawyers are luddites when it comes to technology. We often hear that lawyers are horrible at business. We often hear that lawyers are miserable in their work.

So what happens when you gather 2,000 legal professionals who embrace innovation? What happens when…

The ABA Journal has a new publisher and editor-in-chief, according to sources familiar with the hiring. He is John O’Brien, a journalist who has held a number of reporting and editing roles in the Chicago area.

As I reported here in September, the magazine’s former editor and publisher, Molly McDonough, resigned after…