Robert Ambrogi

Can Twitter be a legitimate source of legal research and scholarship? As an associate editor of the Michigan State Law Review, 3L Patrick M. Ellis decided to find out. To fulfill the requirement that he produce a scholarly note addressing a legal issue, he…

Starting tomorrow and continuing every Friday thereafter, the creators of the Rulebook app will offer for free one of the books from its library of state and federal rule books. The company is calling this its Free Rule Book Friday promotion. The company will announce which book it is offering each Friday…

I wrote not long ago about Casetext, a new legal research site that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for crowdsourcing references and annotations. I also

I was thrilled this week to interview two giants of the courtroom, F. Lee Bailey and his former law partner, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Kenneth J. Fishman, about their new book, Excellence in Cross Examination, published by Thomson Reuters, in which the two share their insights and lessons on how to excel in cross-examination.

The book…

Last week, the entertainment and business law firm Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp launched Ooh Law Law, a blog about fashion law. Targeted for fashion industry executives and legal professionals involved in the fashion industry, the blog promises to provide regulatory news, legal updates and business…

The popular blog that covers the Supreme Court, SCOTUSblog, released an iOS app yesterday. It provides mobile access to the same content that is available on the blog. It also provides push notifications of breaking news from the court. The blog’s

MyCase, the California company that provides web-based practice management software, this week announced a new product offering, website packages for law firms. The offering is unique in that the sites include seamless integration with the MyCase client portal. This means that clients can access the…

How does your lawyer salary compare to those of others in your field? Soon you may be able to find out using a web-based lawyer salary and intelligence tool called PayCloud.

Currently seeking lawyers to join the beta version of its site, PayCloud aims to provide lawyers with the ability to compare…

Updates, 10/9/13, 3:53 p.m.: Some additions and clarifications to my original post from earlier today:…

The challenge of developing an app for the legal market is to define a compelling reason for lawyers to use it. We are all busy and we all have established sources for getting the news and information we need. A new app introduced last week is an example of one that is nice enough in…

Last Tuesday, Oct. 1, Frank Rivera, developer of the HoudiniEsq practice management software, posted an article to his blog entitled, “IT Consultant, Friend or Foe: Is Your Law Firm’s Clients’ Private Personal Data at Risk?” In it, Rivera claimed that a North Carolina IT consulting firm, Out of the Box Developers…

ANOTHER UPDATE: According to a representative of LexisNexis, the free offer described below has NOT been rescinded, as stated in my last update. Rather, it has been expanded to all solo and small-firm attorneys — not just those who belong to the GP Solo section. The offer is still limited to the first 600 firms that…