Minor legal infractions from the past can have major consequences in the present when they appear in public records, keeping some individuals from obtaining gainful employment.
A unique new app called Legal Tune Up is designed to help Wisconsin residents address that problem. It enables them to access public data to identify legal issues…
A recent report from the American Bar Association portrayed the nation’s legal deserts – large swaths of the country in which there are few or no lawyers. That report followed from a 2018 paper published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review that documented these legal deserts and rural America’s increasingly dire access-to-justice crisis.
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Last February, legal news and publishing company ALM launched Legal Radar, a free “automated journalism” product that combined the company’s editorial expertise with artificial intelligence technology to deliver fast-breaking litigation news personalized to the reader’s interests.
Today, ALM is introducing the next iteration of that service, rebranded as Law.com Radar and now including…
Is your law firm using one tool for video conferencing, another tool for phone calling, and another for texting and messaging?
This week’s featured resource on the LawSites Resource Center is a free e-book from RingCentral that discusses how law firms are streamlining the number of tools they use in order to work…
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A website launched this summer aims to address the justice gap by making it easier for clients to find the right lawyer and by providing lawyers — primarily solos — with free practice management software to reduce their cost of providing legal services.
On the front end, Xira is a lawyer-matching site through which…
During a hearing last Friday in the copyright lawsuit filed by legal research giant Thomson Reuters against legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, the judge presiding over the case questioned whether TR’s allegations in its complaint were complete speculation.
“Why shouldn’t I understand what you are telling me to be, hey, we’re just completely…
In May 2017, a lawyer I’d never heard of called me with an audacious proposal. He wanted to organize what he believed would be the best conference ever for solo and small firm lawyers. And he wanted my help.
Steven R. Adams was a lawyer who built a successful Ohio criminal defense practice but…
A day-long summit on Nov. 10 will explore key trends and emerging technologies in immigration law and practice.
The 2020 AILA Technology and Innovation Summit, presented by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, promises to bring together thought leaders, technology influencers and immigration law practitioners to provide insight into the current state of practice,…
The practice management company Clio recently released its annual Legal Trends Report, based on analysis of data from tens of thousands of legal professionals and surveys of legal professionals and legal consumers, and it showed that the coronavirus crisis has resulted in a decided…
In September, the private equity firm Lightyear Capital LLC, through a newly formed company called ProfitSolv, made two notable acquisitions of legal technology companies: Rocket Matter, the cloud-based practice management company, and TimeSolv, a provider of cloud-based legal billing and timekeeping software.
In acquiring Rocket Matter, ProfitSolv also got the payment…
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