In a recent post here, I told you about iPleading, an iPhone and iPad app that lets lawyers get a head start on the process of drafting a legal pleading. As I reported then, the app did not work as it was supposed to. When I pointed this out to its developers, they…

For an update on this post, see: Update on iPleading: It’s Been Fixed.

iPleading is billed as an iPhone and iPad app that lets lawyers create “impressive pleadings with astounding ease.” The problem is, it doesn’t work. The developers say a fix is in the works and will be available within the…

This post comes nine months too late, but it was only via a recent post by Walter Olson that I learned about the untimely death at age 54 of lawyer Peter Nordberg. He died April 17, leaving behind his wife and four children.

In his day job, Peter was a partner with the Philadelphia…

An iPad equipped with the right software could be a powerful tool in the courtroom, given its portability and ease of use. A new iPad app, TrialPad, is specifically designed for use in the courtroom, as a tool to prepare and present electronic evidence at trial. Connect your iPad to a courtroom projector and use…

Voting ends Dec. 30 for the readers’ favorites of the 2010 ABA Journal Blawg 100. LawSites is in the Legal Tech category. If you haven’t voted for your favorites, now is the time.

(In order to vote, you have to register with ABAJournal.com.)…

A full-featured PDF program is a must-have for any lawyer these days. But at a price tag of $449, Adobe Acrobat X Pro is a lot to pay for lawyers in solo and small firms. CutePDF Pro is a program that provides much of the same functionality as Acrobat Pro, but…

After my earlier post about Demand Media, I received a comment from a Demand Media community manager who said that the contract I cited is not the contract that applies to bloggers. I went back and checked the contract that was presented to me when I was invited to migrate my BlogBurst account to…

[See my update about this: Clarification on Demand Media: Two Contracts.]

Way back in 2006, I accepted an invitation to enroll this blog in something called the BlogBurst Network. It described itself as “a syndication service that places blogs on top-tier online destinations.” Those destinations included several major newspapers, such as the Houston…

Ever wonder why someone who is in the business of selling court opinions would want to support a project that is devoted to giving them away for free? I have the answer to that question from Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase.

As I wrote here earlier today, beginning in January, Fastcase will collaborate…

The next revolution in legal publishing is just around the corner. Starting in 2011, Public.Resource.Org, an organization devoted to putting government documents in the public domain, will begin a weekly release of HTML versions of all slip and final opinions of the appellate and supreme courts of all 50 states and the federal…

Google this week announced a new visualization tool called the Google Books Ngram Viewer. Using data drawn from the millions of books it has digitized covering the years 1500 to 2008, it lets you see and compare the frequency of words and phrases as they were used in books over a span…

I’m stealing this idea from someone who suggested it for another blog, but it got me curious to go back and look at which of my posts were most popular this year.

Here are the top five:…