Web & Tech

Last month, I sat through a demo of BriefCatch, a new Word add-on developed by lawyer and legal writing expert, Ross Guberman, who is profiled here.  As described in the companion post, BriefCatch is a Word add-on that will suggest grammatical and stylistic changes to a proposed brief and score it based on five different…

Have you ever had to research a broad topic like whether a search is lawful under the Fourth Amendment or whether an employee is an independent contractor?   Although this kind of research question seems as if it would be simple to answer in twenty seconds, figuring out the black letter law on these kinds…

According to Bob Ambrogi, 31 states  have now adopted the ethical duty of technology competence. Yet ironically, many of the same states that have adopted the duty of technology competence are home to bar associations that aren’t setting a very good example for members.  Here’s what I mean. Last month, the Federal Trade Commission released…

What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, I had the honor of speaking at ABA Tech Show  for the first time. Back then, cloud-based tools like Basecamp, Google Docs, Zoho and wikis were just coming on my radar as a means to  connect with and communicate with clients but law-specific practice management platforms…

Virtually every social media site or listing directory is strewn with incomplete profiles and barren social media accounts initiated by over enthusiastic users, then abandoned later. Moreover, now that many sites like Avvo, LinkedIn or Facebook have been around for more than a decade, profiles created back then may now be outdated or no longer…

With increased focus on the growing role of data science and data analytics in the future of law, I decided that it was high time to learn what all the fuss is about.  Initially, I considered taking a course on data analytics geared for lawyers, but shockingly, I couldn’t find much, with the exception of…

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…