Bestlaw adds a toolbar to Westlaw and Lexis that enables handy features such as one-click copying of Bluebook citations.
Ever since it launched in October 2014, I have been meaning to write about Bestlaw. Now there is a new version out, so I have a whole new reason to…
Announced recently was the launch of Zama, a news and social-media monitoring service for solo and small law firms. It offers flat-fee monitoring of more than 70,000 news, information and social media sources. You receive one daily email notifying you of the latest developments in your topics of interest.
Zama is…
A free service started by two Harvard Law School students that allows users to unsend and edit emails after they’ve been sent is apparently shutting down. The service, Pluto Mail, allows users to unsend emails after they’ve been sent, edit emails after they’ve been sent, set auto-expiration dates that make the text…
Thanks to Susan Martin of Thomson Reuters’ Legal Current blog for interviewing me during the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting recently in Philadelphia.
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Above are the slides from my July 20 presentation on crowdsourcing to the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting. When I first suggested the title, I was sure the presentation would be a positive one, demonstrating the ways in which crowdsourcing and collaboration “are changing” legal research. I have long been a believer…
Ever since 2012, when the American Bar Association amended the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to say that lawyers have a duty to be competent in technology, there has been debate over just how far that duty extends.
In a decision that could be a harbinger of how other states will rule, the State Bar…
My latest “Ambrogi on Tech” column for the ABA Journal looks at 3 New Products to Help with Client Intake. I review:
Lexicata. Intake123. Rocket Matter Intake.Read it at ABAJournal.com.…
For the Product Watch column in the latest issue of Law Practice magazine, I review Two Programs for Redacting Office Documents: Redact Assistant and Redact-It.
Click the link above to read the full article.…
WNYC’s Judge Your Judges will provide voters with location-specific information in judicial elections.
In a post yesterday, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, I wrote about three websites that provide data and analytics about judges. Thanks to sharp-eyed readers, I have learned of three other sites with…
Just noticed that I recently published my 3,000th post to this blog. Given that I started this blog in 2002, that averages out to 231 posts a year.
Compared to a prolific blogging machine such as Howard Bashman or even a consistent two-posts-a-day blogger such as Scott Greenfield, that is…
Ravel Law’s Judge Analytics.
Imagine if you could predict how a particular judge might rule on your summary judgment motion. Or if you knew which cases the judge found most persuasive so you could emphasize them in your memorandum? How would it affect your pretrial strategy if you knew your opponent’s motion…
This week saw the 30th anniversary of LegalTech West Coast, the legal technology conference that wrapped up earlier this week in San Francisco. More than an anniversary, it might also have been a turning point, marking a new level of energy and importance for this sometimes overlooked sibling of LegalTech New York.
I…
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