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A challenge for large law firms is keeping tabs on their talent. Which lawyers have which skills and knowledge? Who are the go-to partners or associates for specific problems or issues? The larger and more dispersed the firm, the more difficult this becomes. Lateral comings and goings only further complicate the…
Robert Ambrogi
Is a Massachusetts lawyer, writer and media consultant. He also writes the blog Media Law and cohosts the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer
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Legal Blog Watch May Yet Rise from the Ashes
As a follow-up to my post this morning about the relaunch of Law.com, and as a former contributor to Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch, I wanted to give an update about that blog’s status.
First, some history. Law.com started Legal Blog Watch in 2004, originally written by Lisa Stone. In 2006,
Preview Shots of the New Law.com
As I mentioned in a post here two weeks ago, Law.com had scheduled an event at LegalTech New York to launch its new website and mobile app. The site did not actually launch at the event, as I mistakenly thought it would, but Law.com staff…
Round-Up of Practice Management News from LTNY
I wrote yesterday about the price increase announced by the cloud-based practice management platform Clio, but there was lots of other practice-management news coming out of LegalTech New York last week. Most notably, both Clio and LexisNexis Firm Manager unveiled major overhauls of their platforms. There was also news from Thomson Reuters Firm Central…
ABA Seeks Ideas for Boston-based Access-to-Justice Hackathon
The American Bar Association annual meeting is coming to Boston Aug. 7-12, and in conjunction with that, the ABA Journal and Suffolk University Law School are making plans to host a hackathon around the theme of access to justice.
A hackathon, Wikipedia tells us, is an event in which computer…
Clio Raises the Price of its Practice Management Platform
The cloud-based law practice management platform Clio has raised its monthly subscription price by 47 percent, from $49 per attorney to $72 per attorney. For users who pay annually, the monthly price is now $65.
In addition, Clio has eliminated its lower subscription price for support staff. Previously, attorneys could add support staff…
A Credit-card Sized Charger for Every Phone
Last week, a mobile-phone charging device called Jumper Card launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to pay for its first production run. Within days, it met its goal. Even so, you can still contribute and be one of the first to receive a Jumper Card when it becomes…
A Time of Unprecedented Innovation in Legal Technology
Just back from last week’s LegalTech in New York, and with the perspective of someone who has been writing about legal technology for more than two decades, I am convinced that I have never before seen a time of such intense and creative innovation in legal technology. However, it is not LegalTech that…
With PeopleMap, WestlawNext Now Maps Connections
At LegalTech in New York this week, Thomson Reuters will be showing a new addition to WestlawNext — the PeopleMap public records service. Although PeopleMap, itself, is not new, its integration into WestlawNext is new. and with that integration comes new visualization tools that now enable users to map…
See You at LegalTech?
I will be at LegalTech in New York this week and also at ReInvent Law NYC on Friday. Hope to see you at one or the other.
At LegalTech, I will be participating in a panel on Wednesday at 2 p.m., Total Cost of Ownership – Cloud vs.…
New Tagline for JD Supra Underscores Business Focus
Without any fanfare, JD Supra changed its tagline last month, to “JDSupra Business Advisor.” The move emphasizes the company’s evolution from a simple aggregator of law-related content to a publisher, distributor and curator focused on delivering legal information to the business world.
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