Robert Ambrogi

Legal research service Fastcase has long had a citator function, called Authority Check, that lets you see how a case has been cited. Unlike Shepard’s from LexisNexis or KeyCite from Thomson Reuters, however, it has not alerted you when a case…

Monica Bay, editor in chief of Law Technology News, invited me to be a guest on her Law Technology Now podcast this week. Our topic was a recap of legal technology trends we’ve seen on the trade-show circuit this year, primarily at the recent ABA Techshow and the earlier LegalTech New York.

Listen…

The managing partner of a law firm called me and asked my opinion of how his firm’s blog was doing. This struck me as an odd question. After all, wouldn’t he know this better than I? So I put the question back to him.

“How do you think your blog is doing?” I asked.

“I

Business cards can be a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that they provide an easy way to exchange contact information. The curse comes when you get back to your office and have to figure out what to do with them. Basically, you have two choices. One is to condemn the cards to business-card…

Richard Susskind

In case you haven’t noticed, technology is irrevocably changing the practice of law. Unfortunately, law schools have not done a good job of keeping up with that trend. Last August, the ABA made it official that lawyers have a

This is an interesting infographic on the best times to post to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networks. It comes from Social Caffeine. Note that the best times to post to LinkedIn are 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., suggesting that the professionals who use…

The University of Chicago Press and the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association have launched the Journal of Law and Courts, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the examination of legal institutions, actors, processes and policy.

The journal will publish biannually online and in print. The March issue available free. Future…

Law Technology News editor Monica Bay interviewed me yesterday for a forthcoming episode of her podcast. The topic was a recap of ABA Techshow. In looking back on Techshow, I saw that four themes predominated there, and it struck me that they pretty well summed up the state of…

The ability to share documents securely is of utmost concern to lawyers. A new web service, docTrackr, not only allows you to share documents securely, it also enables you to track what happens to your documents and to retain control over them. You can even revoke access to…

Law Technology News has posted my latest Web Watch column, in which I review notable new products unveiled at LegalTech in New York: Downpour of Cloud Products at LegalTech.

My next column will round-up some of what I saw at ABA TechShow.…

I reported recently that the cloud practice-management application MyCase is slated to debut a new mobile app. The app will be a first among practice-management apps in that it will allow both clients and lawyers to access…

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Bill Doran believes lawyers lose too many billable hours through inefficient and ineffective timekeeping practices. The best way not to lose billable hours, he says, is to keep time in real time — to keep an accurate record of…