Robert Ambrogi

Bob Ambrogi

Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of several legal publications, including The National Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division.

Is this the Fastest Document Search in Legal?

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A product launched this week claims to be the fastest search and review platform in legal for matters involving large document collections — discovery, investigations and compliance — and the first to seamlessly combine keyword and algorithmic search.

The chief data scientist who helped develop it said it is “an order of magnitude faster than…

Justice Tech Speculative Fiction? Yes, That’s Now A Thing

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Multifaceted is barely word enough to describe Jason Tashea. Lawyer, startup founder, legal affairs writer, law professor, consultant and podcaster, he is now taking on another role: creator of speculative fiction about the criminal justice system.

Over the past decade, Tashea says, the topics he has covered in his non-fiction writing about criminal justice…

Paradigm Acquires TrustBooks, Adding Accounting to its Suite of Practice Management Products

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Paradigm, the parent company to four legal practice management and payments products — PracticePantherBill4Time, MerusCase and Headnote — today adds a fifth, as it acquires TrustBooks, the cloud-based accounting software built specifically for law firms.

With this acquisition, Paradigm adds legal accounting to a product line-up that already includes three separate…

SurePoint Acquires ContactEase, Creating First Practice Management Platform to Integrate CRM and Financial Data

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In a move sure to shake up the market for practice management software for mid-sized law firms, the cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies has acquired Cole Valley Software, developer of ContactEase, a popular client relations management (CRM) software for law firms.

The companies say that the acquisition creates the first legal technology…

MyCase Names New Chief Product and Technology Officer

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Practice management company MyCase has named Arman Samani, an executive with more than two decades’ experience leading product development and innovation at high-growth SaaS companies, as its chief product and technology officer.

Samani’s experience is in building and implementing SaaS software products for businesses that serve professionals. He most recently served as chief…

LawNext Podcast: From Radical to Trailblazer: How Innovative GC Jeffrey Carr Disrupted the Legal Department, Part 2

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In this second of a two-part interview, we continue our conversation with Jeffrey Carr, a trailblazing general counsel who describes his career as decades spent on the radical fringe of reforming legal services delivery. Many of his ideas for revamping legal departments, once viewed as radical, have now become mainstream. 

As general counsel