In the film Conviction, which opens today, Hilary Swank plays Betty Anne Waters, a wife and mother of two who put herself through high school, college and ultimately law school, in an 18-year-long crusade to prove her brother Kenny’s innocence after he is convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole. The…

Mary Mack, longtime corporate technology counsel to e-discovery company Fios and author of its featured blog, Sound Evidence, is leaving that company to join another e-discovery company, ZyLAB, as enterprise technology counsel and part of the leadership team charged with developing its North American business.

“It is with mixed emotions that I…

In a post two weeks ago about Clio, the cloud-based law practice management application, I said the company had a major enhancement in the works. Well, here it is. Today, Clio and Google announced Clio’s integration with Google Apps, Google’s cloud-based suite of office tools for…

A busy schedule has kept me from reviewing Lexis Advance for Solos, the new LexisNexis legal research platform for one- and two-lawyer firms that LexisNexis released earlier this week. Today, I finally had a chance to sit down (in the virtual sense) with Lexis executives for a tour.

There have already been several thoughtful…

“The very definition of insanity,” Albert Einstein said, is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” If so, then, for the legal profession, it is time to stop the insanity.

That, in short, is the idea of the upcoming 2010 Futures Conference and Symposium (PDF) of the

I was glad to see that Mark Bennett of Defending People dedicated his editorship of Blawg Review #284 to the 40th anniversary of the Oct. 4, 1970, death of Janis Joplin. However, he left off the two sings that I think are her best — “Ball and Chain” and “Summertime.” Thus, I offer…

It’s the first Monday in October and you know what that means. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look ahead at the new Supreme Court term and the docket of cases the court will hear.

Our guests this week are Wilson R. Huhn, professor of law and constitutional law research fellow at…

After I published my post this morning, Clio Turns Two, As Lawyers Ease Into the Cloud, a reader wrote to ask why I hadn’t complied with the FTC’s endorsement guidelines and disclosed that Clio is an advertiser. Lest anyone think I am being in any way deceptive, let me address this.

First, Clio is…

Today marks the second anniversary of Clio, the Web-based practice-management suite. This milestone is notable because it signifies the legal profession’s increasing comfort with and use of cloud-based applications.

I first wrote about Clio in June 2008, when it came out in beta. When its formal version was released at LegalTech New York…

A legal education site being launched today, Beyond The Bar, aims to provide a bridge between law school and law practice, providing training to new associates in business skills, legal skills and client relations. The site is sponsored by Thomson Reuters and the West LegalEdcenter.

“The goal of Beyond the Bar,” the site…

Every year, the Web Marketing Association’s WebAward honors websites in a variety of industries that it determines to be sites that set a high standard for Internet marketing. This year’s awards are now out, and the award for Best Legal Website went to the law firm WilmerHale for its WilmerHale Careers…

With the spectacle of the Frank and Jamie McCourt divorce being played out in a Los Angeles courtroom, there might be no better time for the launch of Our Family Business at Odds, a new legal blog that focuses on the unique legal issues that arise when family-owned businesses suffer internal meltdowns.

Launched by the…