Robert Ambrogi

At the American Bar Association annual meeting in August, the House of Delegates will take up the recommendations of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20. The commission spent three years conducting an in-depth review of whether advances in technology requires changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.…

I blogged earlier today about how Fastcase is disrupting the legal publishing field, providing free access to core legal research materials. In much the same way, Lawline.com has been disrupting the CLE industry. Last year, it began offering

Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal, the founders of Fastcase, seem to revel in disrupting long-held notions of how legal publishing is supposed to operate. For two guys who are in the business of selling legal research, they can’t seem to find enough ways to give away access to core legal…

Here are the slides from the presentation I gave Friday at the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Bar Association.

Cloud Computing for Lawyers: Practical and Ethical Uses of the Cloud …

[Update: See Will Hornsby’s perspective on the Hunter case.]

A three-judge panel in Virginia has issued a decision that is important for lawyer-bloggers everywhere. The panel ruled that  a lawyer has a First Amendment right to blog about his own cases, at least…

Surprisingly, I have seen this happen several times. Someone and I share a Dropbox folder as we work on a joint project. Six months or a year later, that someone starts loading documents into the shared folder that clearly are not intended for me. Has the person forgotten that the folder is…

Since 2009, the law firm Morrison Foerster has published Mofo Tech, a digital magazine covering trends and issues in science and technology. Now, the firm has launched the MoFo Tech Blog as a counterpart to the magazine.

The blog will include original content as well as articles from the magazine and…

This week brought the arrival of two different blogs, one devoted to law practice management and the other to legal technology.

Today, LexisNexis launched the blog Matters of Practice, written by contributors from its Law Firm Practice Management group.   According to today’s

If you will be attending the Rhode Island Bar Association Annual Meeting this week, I look forward to seeing you there. I am presenting two programs Friday:

9 a.m. to 10:15, Cloud Computing for Lawyers: Practical and Ethical Uses of the Cloud. 10:45 to noon, Twenty Tips for Seizing the Power of Social Media.

Both…

In this last of the four videos I prepared for the 38th ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility panel, “Old Rules, New Tools: The Challenge of Social Media for Bar Associations and Lawyers,” I answer Simon Chester’s question, “Is there anyone a lawyer should not friend on Facebook?”

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In this third of the four videos I prepared for the 38th ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility panel, “Old Rules, New Tools: The Challenge of Social Media for Bar Associations and Lawyers,” I answer Simon Chester’s question, “Are there any ethical concerns raised by lawyers’ use of Twitter?”

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In this second of the four videos I prepared for the 38th ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility panel, “Old Rules, New Tools: The Challenge of Social Media for Bar Associations and Lawyers,” I answer Simon Chester’s question, “Are you aware of any cautionary horror stories about ethical problems caused…