For all the talk about using technology to enhance access to justice, it puts things in perspective to see tangible examples. One of the best sources of such examples is the annual set of Technology Initiative Grants awarded by the Legal Services Corporation.

Established in 2000, the TIG program distributes grants annual to…

I have written a number of times here about the innovative LawX lab at BYU Law, in which students use design thinking to tackle issues in access to justice. The lab has already produced two notable applications: SoloSuit, an award-winning online tool to help self-represented people who have been sued for debt,…

Tomorrow at 1 p.m. Eastern time, I am moderating a free webinar, Why Self-Service Is Critical To The Future Of Legal Departments, sponsored by Everlaw and Above the Law.

We will look at how legal departments, in the face of heightened client expectation, are exploring self-service technologies in order to provide services more…

Jack Newton, the cofounder and CEO of practice management company Clio, describes his vision for the company as becoming the operating system of law — a point he reiterated yesterday during his keynote that opened the Clio Cloud Conference in San Diego.

To that end, Clio has steadily been expanding the number of companies…

At the Clio Cloud Conference in San Diego today, Clio announced new features for its practice management platform and a new app for mobile devices.

The new features include a Firm Dashboard within Clio Manage, to provide firms with greater insight into their performance; Clio Scheduler, which allows firms to automate appointment bookings for their…

Monday marks the start of Pro Bono Week, and to help highlight the good work lawyers do, the legal technology company Paladin will send you a free mug of justice for sharing your story about a pro bono matter you take on during the week.

“It’s simple, really, 5.1 billion people lack…

John Tredennick, the Denver lawyer who founded the e-discovery company Catalyst Repository Systems in 2000 and sold it earlier this year to OpenText for $75 million, has now announced the launch of the Merlin Legal Open Source Foundation, a nonprofit corporation that seeks to improve access to justice and make legal and regulatory…

The case management software company TrialWorks was reportedly hit by a ransomware attack, shutting down its platform for at least four days and locking some lawyers out of their case files.

According to the TechBento blog, the attack started last Sunday and lasted at least through yesterday. I have not been able to…

Monday brings the kick-off of the seventh annual Clio Cloud Conference, and among the companies that will be exhibiting there is LAWCLERK, a legal services marketplace where solo and small-firm attorneys can hire freelance lawyers for short-term projects.

In advance of the conference, LAWCLERK is today announcing new duplication and notification features designed…

The deadline is Nov. 1 to nominate a blog post for the inaugural LexBlog Excellence Awards, designed to honor exemplary writing on legal blogs.

As I explained in an earlier post, these awards are unlike other “best blog” awards. Rather than focus on the blog as a whole, ours are intended to recognize individual…

Some of the world’s most efficient and forward-thinking manufacturing companies long ago learned the power of lean methodologies and systems thinking. But how can law firms employ lean thinking and methodologies to grow profits and strengthen client relationships?

That will be the topic we explore in a free webinar tomorrow, Leaner Law Firm, Fatter…

[Editor’s note: The cloud document management company NetDocuments held its second-annual Elevate conference Oct. 6-8 in Salt Lake City. I was not able to attend, but e-discovery consultant Brett Burney was there and files this report. Be sure to scroll down for Brett’s video from the conference.]

How many of you would be surprised…