Articles Posted in 2010

In a post here last week, I wrote about findings on social networking from the 2010 Legal Technology Survey Report of the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center. The six-volume survey looks at legal-technology trends in various aspects of law practice. Volume IV of the survey covers Web and communication technology.

In this post,…

At the ACLEA annual meeting in New York City yesterday, I gave a plenary talk on the topic, “10 Ways Technology is Rewiring Lawyers’ Brains … and What it Means for CLE.”

Embedded below are the slides from my presentation. To view the presentation in a larger window, click this link: How_Technology_is_Rewiring_Lawyers_Brains.…

In a post here in May, I wrote about GroupESQ, a site that aims to deliver group-buying power to lawyers, even in small firms. Now, another site, Prime Advantage Legal, is offering a similar service for small- and mid-sized law…

I wrote last week about the news that JD Supra is Now Linked Up to LinkedIn. After writing that, I came across a post from Martha Sperry in which she said that JD Supra and LinkedIn go together like peanut butter and jelly. Now I read, via Jayne Navarre’s Virtual Marketing Officer…

Robert V. Ward

On this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we interview Robert V. Ward Jr., dean of the new University of Massachusetts School of Law, the first public law school in the state. He talks about why the school is important, how it will be financed, and its…

The ABA Legal Technology Resource Center is out with its 2010 Legal Technology Survey Report. The six-volume survey looks at legal-technology trends in various aspects of law practice. Reliable statistics about lawyers’ use of technology are hard to come by, but this annual survey has proven to be a fairly good indicator of overall…

In thinking about my presentation next week for the ACLEA annual meeting about “How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law … and CLE,” I suddenly remembered that I had once written a magazine article on this very topic. Way back in 1995, I wrote, Empowered or Enslaved: Technology’s Effect on…

I hope to see you at the ACLEA Annual Meeting in New York next week. I am speaking twice, both times on Tuesday, July 27.  From 10 to 11:15 a.m., I will present the plenary session, “How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law … and CLE.” Later that day, from 3:10 to 4:10 p.m.,…

Legal website FindLaw today launched FindLaw UK, a site for individuals and businesses in the U.K. seeking information on legal topics and help finding solicitors.

The site provides articles, FAQs, blogs and other information on various legal topics. It also offers Contact Law, a service designed to connect people with recommended solicitors.…

Will there ever come a day when robots will replace lawyers? Judging by the website of the firm Robot Robot & Hwang, that day has already arrived.  The two senior partners in the three-member firm are both computers, one named Apollo Cluster and the other named Daria XR-1029.

According to his bio, Cluster…

If you need someone to create a screencast for your product or service, I’ve got just the guy. Sure, he happens to be my son. Ben Ambrogi. But he does good work. Below are some examples. If you’d like to get in touch with him, let me know (ambrogi-at-gmail.com).…

For lawyers, this is a marriage made in social-networking heaven: JD Supra, a leading site for sharing legal content, is now partnering with LinkedIn, the leading professional-networking site, so that JD Supra content will now be seamlessly integrated into LinkedIn.

The integration will involve two primary features.

First, any lawyer who is a registered user…