Web & Tech

As I observed in PART I of this post, for decades, legal research — even with later innovations – has been flat and one-dimensional, mimicking the way that lawyers once hunted for cases in hard copy case reporters and digests. But the latest version of Casetext  transforms the legal research experience into something at once elegant and…

In a recent tweet, Ed Walters, one of the founders of Fastcase remarked: To gain an understanding of how we got here, and why this time around, we’re finally seeing real innovation in legal research, you think back to the early ‘90s when the first websites came online.  Not only were websites hideously ugly and…

Remember the song Locomotion — that catchy tune about a “brand new dance” that resurfaces every few decades as a cover? The tune came to mind as I was scoping out some of the newer online logo makers – where you can DIY a logo for free or cheap. So how about a doing a…

Two weeks ago, Law.com reported on the legal technology behind the attorney response to the Trump travel ban. Although I feared that this might be yet another story about tech startups wrapping themselves in the banner of promoting access to justice , it wasn’t. Instead,  the piece focuses on solos and smalls as practical technologists…

  Keeping pace with the latest tech has always been a challenge so I’m really excited to announce Evolve Law, an organization comprised of practicing attorneys at law firms of all sizes, academics, investors and legal entrepreneurs that strives to bring innovation to the legal profession through new ideas and technologies. To this end, one of…

Up until the emergence of the first generation of cloud-based platforms for law practice management about a decade ago, many solos — even those like myself who were relatively tech savvy — simply didn’t use the practice management systems like TABS, Amicus, PCLaw, Needles or others then available on the market.  That’s not to say…

You know the saying, “ask and ye shall receive?” It really works!  In yesterday’s post  Study Finds Solo Lawyers Bill Only Two Hours A Day, I questioned the results of a “Legal Trends Study” announced at the recent Clio Cloud Conference  that showed that solos use only a tiny fraction of the workday  for work…

Earlier this week at the Clio Cloud Conference, company co-founder Jack Newton announced the creation of the first Clio Legal Trends Report, the first such report based on data generated by Clio’s users.  Although the full report won’t be ready for release until next month, as a teaser, Jack shared a couple of juicy factoids…