Robert Ambrogi

The legal research site Casetext is launching something today that could be a game-changer in how lawyers publish and share articles about the law. It is called LegalPad and the Casetext folks compare it to LinkedIn’s publishing platform or to the Medium…

The company eBrevia is today launching a new product, eBrevia Bespoke, that extends its contract review and analytics technology to a much-wider range of custom applications for specific types of contracts and industries.

eBrevia’s flagship product, Diligence Accelerator, uses artificial intelligence to automate the due-diligence contract review process in…

The cloud-based document management service NetDocuments today announced the roll-out of an enhanced security architecture with stronger encryption technology and new capabilities for users to manage their own encryption keys.

The new security architecture includes up to three separate encryption keys for each data file and allows firms and…

When it comes to identifying a group of lawyers who are particularly fussy about file security, it is hard to imagine a better example than the U.S. Department of Justice. These, after all, are the lawyers who handle the nation’s most sensitive criminal and civil matters.

For that reason, it is notable that…

A new website has launched with an intriguing premise: Provide all the technology tools a lawyer needs in a single, integrated platform — from lead generation to legal research to case management and more. For the new site, called CaseEdge, that does not mean it plans to build every one of…

Of the nine candidates in Washington state who took the licensing exam to become the nation’s first-ever limited license legal technicians (LLLTs), seven passed and will now have their names submitted to the Supreme Court of Washington for the court to issue an order granting their admission to practice.

This historic program seeks to help…

No, Thomson Reuters is not about to go out of business or shut down its Westlaw legal research service.

But it is about to shut down Westlaw Classic, as the original version has been called ever since the introduction of WestlawNext.

As of August 31, 2015, Westlaw Classic will go the way of

It is not every day that I get to record a podcast episode in a brewery. For that matter, I don’t usually drink beer while conducting an interview. But for our interview with the hosts of the FOSS+Beer podcast, we set up our mikes in Beryl’s Beer Co. in Denver, Colo.…

Need help with your social media marketing? Hear from over a dozen legal marketing experts at the fifth annual Super Marketing Conference presented by the Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP) and the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Division.

The conference will take place June…

In addition to the free-look document coming to you in an email, it is added to the case’s page on PacerPro.

If I were to tell you that a new service could help you avoid a $40 million mistake in litigation, would you be interested?

The mistake to which I refer was…

A few weeks ago I wrote about the launch by Rocket Matter of client-intake forms for law firm websites. As I’ve looked further into this topic, I’ve realized there are very few options for lawyers who are looking for an online client-intake system. In fact, as far…

I reported here last month that Adobe had officially launched an all-new version of its Acrobat PDF software, Acrobat DC. In the weeks since, I have been able to try it out and I am impressed with what I have seen.

Its usability and interface are dramatic improvements over prior…