Not long after Lucy Dillon joined Reed Smith as global chief knowledge officer in 2015, the firm embarked on a firmwide initiative to develop a culture of innovation. The initiative included giving lawyers billable credit for work on innovation projects and a summer associates program that focuses on legal technology.
Innovation projects that…
The usual weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable will not be held tomorrow, Nov. 13, due to a scheduling conflict.
We will be back at our normal time next Friday, Nov. 20, at 3 p.m. Eastern time.
Free registration is required to attend the weekly live broadcast, but you need only register once to be…
In a move to expand the legal transformation services it offers law firms and legal departments, the global company Epiq has acquired Hyperion Global Partners, a major provider of business and technology services to the legal profession.
Epiq, formed in 2016 out of the combination of Epiq Systems and DTI, and rebranded…
An email alert service launched today by legal research company Fastcase, COVID-19 Case Alerts, provides daily updates on new civil opinions, selected pleadings, breaking news, and analyses of legal issues related to the coronavirus pandemic.
The alerts, delivered each business day except holidays, provides a snapshot of the latest legal developments on COVID-19, Fastcase says.…
For startup companies that go through high-profile incubator programs or whose founders come from prestigious schools, the traditional word-of-mouth referral network works just fine for finding a lawyer to represent them.
But for many other startups, it can be difficult to find a lawyer they know they can trust and who is a good fit…
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.
Our guest this week…
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…
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