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Fastcase Announces Its 2018 ‘Fastcase 50’ Honorees

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Legal research company Fastcase today announced its eighth annual Fastcase 50 honorees, the “smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.”

Fastcase has compiled the awards annually since 2011 as a way of highlighting entrepreneurs and visionaries who are helping to drive the future of law. This year’s selections bring the…

Electricity in the Cloud at Clio Conference

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Listen. That roar you hear is thunderous acclaim for the Clio Cloud Conference held last week in Chicago. And where there is thunder, there is lightning, and the electricity at this conference produced an atmosphere that was highly charged.

This was Clio’s second annual conference, and to this grizzled veteran of way…

Another App from the ‘Hackcess’ Winner

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I recently reported here about the ABA Journal’s Hackcess to Justice, the first-ever hackathon held during an ABA annual meeting. First prize went to William Palin, a Massachusetts lawyer. Over the course of the two-day event, he created PaperHealth, an iOS app that provides a quick and easy way to create a legally binding health care proxy or a non-binding living will on an iPhone or iPad. As it turns out, Palin had previously created another legal app, PaperWork. Developed for use by family law attorneys in Massachusetts, PaperWork allows users to create PDF…

‘Hackcess to Justice’ Spawns Creative Concepts

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If you have any doubt as to the success of the ABA Journal's Hackcess to Justice event on Thursday and Friday, consider this: Even Scott Greenfield said nice things about it. The first-ever hackathon held during an ABA annual meeting, the event was a competition in which teams were given two days to develop technology that could help expand access to justice for those unable to afford…