Articles Posted in October, 2017

Recent weeks have brought a rash of news stories highlighting major technology blunders by lawyers that have resulted in severe consequences. Among them:…

The Department of Homeland Security has designated October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Their goal: to emphasize the critical importance of cyber security while providing resources to stay safe online, and recover faster from an attack

Canadian lawyers can enable settings specific to their province.

Because Canadian lawyers are subject to strict and unique accounting, taxation and reporting requirements, cloud-based practice management systems designed for U.S. lawyers often are not good fits for them. For this reason, the majority of Canadian firms that have practice management software use…

Company details page in the Corpman software.

Jeroen Plink is a name familiar to many in the legal information and technology fields. The CEO of Practical Law US until its acquisition by Thomson Reuters, he now works as an advisor to and sits on the boards of a number of law-related companies,…

ROSS founders Pargles Dall’Oglio, Andrew Arruda and Jimoh Ovbiagele.

The artificial-intelligence-driven legal research service ROSS Intelligence today announced an $8.7 million Series A funding round, adding to its earlier $4.3 million seed round.

The two-year-old company will use the funding to accelerate its growth, expand its product lines, increase its capacity, and…

When Courtroom Insight launched in 2010, its focus was on being a kind-of Yelp for rating and reviewing expert witnesses and arbitrators. The idea, as I explained at the time, was for lawyers to provide reviews of experts and others, offering “honest feedback, including constructive criticism when warranted.” In the years…

Steven R. Adams is a lawyer who built a successful Ohio criminal defense practice but who felt that the legal conferences he’s attended weren’t teaching solo and small firm lawyers the skills they need to start and grow their practices. So he took matters into his own hands and decided to put…

Needless to say, the legal research market has long been dominated by Westlaw and LexisNexis. Even as any number of other legal research platforms have come along, what has continued to distinguish the big two are their libraries of secondary legal materials.

While it is relatively easy for a smaller legal research company…

Current and planned use of AI

Corporate counsel generally consider themselves to be open to using new technologies in their legal departments, except when it comes to artificial intelligence technology. When it comes to AI, corporate counsel are largely uninterested or uninformed.

These are among the findings of a just-published survey conducted…

Here is a great opportunity for innovative legal technology startups to gain exposure. For the second year, ABA TECHSHOW is hosting a special Startup Alley in its exhibition hall and an opening night startup pitch competition judged by conference attendees. And we’ve just kicked off the competition to win one of the 15…

The UK company Elexirr (which rebranded in July from LawBot) has thrown down the gauntlet, challenging lawyers to a competition to determine whether its bot can better predict case outcomes than can they.

They are calling it the Elexirr Lawyer Challenge and they describe it as the first event in history to directly…

An attorney charging $250 an hour will bill nearly $47,000 more this year, on average, by using an integrated technology solution across all functions – from practice management to research to billing – than if they use standalone platforms for each.