A New York City law firm that represents superstar musicians such as Lady Gaga, Elton John and Madonna has allegedly been hit with a ransomware attack that threatens to expose celebrities’ privileged legal information.

Attackers have posted images of documents and file folders to the leak site for the REvil ransomware that appear to be…

Tomorrow, we’re going to try an experiment. We’re convening a live video panel of leading legaltech journalists for an open, roundtable discussion of the week in review.

Consider it the legaltech version of Washington Week, but with less gravitas and more attitude.

Later, we’ll put the audio out as an episode of my new podcast,…

The legal research startup ROSS Intelligence came out fighting this morning in response to a lawsuit filed against it yesterday by Thomson Reuters alleging ROSS surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.

ROSS says it had no need or desire to obtain Westlaw’s copyrighted material —…

[Update: ROSS Comes Out Swinging, Vows To Fight Thomson Reuters’ Lawsuit Alleging Data Theft]

In what could be a Goliath v. David legal battle, legal research giant Thomson Reuters has filed a lawsuit against legal research startup ROSS Intelligence alleging that it surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research…

Two widely known e-discovery professionals have been laid off from their jobs in recent weeks as the impact of the coronavirus crisis continues to be felt across the legal industry.

George Socha, cofounder of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), the framework that has guided e-discovery since 2005, and who The American Lawyer…

Join me Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern time to watch a first-ever live video recording of my LawNext podcast featuring an all-star panel of law firm innovators.

The panel, The Innovation Advantage – Driving Client Value in the Midst of COVID-19, will look at how innovation enabled some firms to pivot more quickly…

If the phrase “data wrangling” conjures images in your mind of Stetson-clad riders rounding up horses on the open plains, you probably need read no further in this post. But if you understand the phrase to describe organizing and enriching raw data, then you will be interested to learn of a new tool launched today…

The coronavirus crisis has created turmoil for legal education and bar admissions, as law schools have shut down their campuses and states have put off bar exams. One proposal, advocated by Jennifer L. Mnookin, dean of UCLA Law School, and Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley Law School, in

As the numbers of COVID-19 cases rose in the United States during March, the numbers of new legal matters coming to law firms dropped sharply — by more than 30% compared to the first five weeks of 2020 and by more than 40% from the year’s highest weekly averages — according to data compiled anonymously…

Top stories this week include sweeping proposed liberalization of lawyer regulation, a watershed Supreme Court victory for open-law advocates, a national COVID-19 pro bono portal born out of a unique collaboration among the ABA and legaltech companies, and the first public statements by Epiq Global’s CEO on its ransomware attack and layoffs.…

Here are the episodes of my LawNext podcast that got the most listens during April.

This reflects episode downloads only during April, not for all time.

1. Legal Futurist Richard Susskind on Coronavirus, Courts and the Legal Profession.

The annual meeting of the American Bar Association, which had been scheduled to take place July 29 to Aug. 4 in Chicago, will instead be virtual, held entirely online over those same days.

The ABA Board of Governors decided today that the safety of staff, members and affiliated organizations called for cancellation of the live…