In a historic vote that could set a blueprint for the rest of the country, the Utah Supreme Court has approved the most sweeping changes in a generation to the regulation of law practice and the delivery of legal services.

Spurred by a widening gap in access to justice, made even worse by the…

Tomorrow at 3 p.m. ET is another episode of the Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, in which we hash out the week’s top stories in legal tech, question the occasional guest, and take your questions from the audience.

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Two weeks ago, I wrote here about a poll of legal administrators on the impact of COVID-19 on law firms, summarizing the findings with the words of novelist Thomas Wolfe, “You can’t go home again.”

I noted then that those who conducted the poll planned to publish a white paper providing more details from…

Headlines last week were touting the ruling on PACER fees issued Thursday by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. The judiciary “can’t use PACER as IT slush fund,” said one. “PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says,” reported another. “Federal judiciary is overcharging for access to public records online,” said still…

More shots were fired today in the litigation battle over whether legal research startup ROSS Intelligence stole copyrighted content from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw in order to jumpstart development of its own product.

Thomson Reuters filed a brief in response to ROSS’s motion to dismiss its lawsuit, asserting that under the “notice pleading” standard of…

Twenty-four finalists in eight categories were announced this morning by organizers of the inaugural American Legal Technology Awards, a new round of awards that will honor companies and individuals who are making a difference in law through technology innovation.

As I reported here in June, this is the first year of these…

When I invited Robert Taylor, vice president and senior corporate counsel for legal ideation and transformation at Liberty Mutual Insurance, to be my guest earlier this week on Litera.TV, I knew him to be a widely recognized innovator in legal department operations, as was recognized last year when the Association of Corporate Counsel…

Join us tomorrow at 3 p.m. ET for another episode of the Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable, in which we hash out the week’s top stories in legal tech, question the occasional guest, and take your questions from the audience.

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The legal research company ROSS Intelligence today introduced an extension for the Chrome web browser that lets you highlight text anywhere online and search for related legal authority.

From any web page, email or embedded PDF, highlight the text you want to research, right click, and select the option “find similar language.”

That…

If you have ever used Microsoft Visio to create a workflow diagram, you can appreciate the simplicity that a visual tool can bring to an otherwise cumbersome process. A new version being released today by Onit of Apptitude, its no-code workflow and business process automation platform, takes that idea and extends it beyond…

One day after the American Bar Association concluded its first-ever virtual annual meeting, the organization’s deputy executive director and general counsel James Dimos has died from a heart attack.

Dimos joined the ABA in 2015 as deputy executive director, in which role he was second in charge of ABA staff, and took on the…

The recognitions keep stacking up for Emeryville, Calif., attorney Erin Levine and her do-it-yourself divorce platform Hello Divorce. Earlier this year, the American Bar Association awarded her its James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering, and just a few months before that, the practice management company Clio named her recipient…