Maryland State Bar Members Now Get Free Trust Accounting Software in Deal with Smokeball

This post was originally published on this siteLawyers who are members of the Maryland State Bar Association can now get free access to trust accounting and billing software, through a partnership between the bar and the law practice management company Smokeball. Under the partnership, all 18,000 members of the MSBA, which is a voluntary state […]

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On LawNext: How One Legal Tech Company Is Donating Its Software To Help Pursue Justice In Atrocity Crimes

This post was originally published on this siteEverlaw for Good is a program run by the e-discovery company Everlaw, through which it makes its software available at no cost to legal aid organizations, nonprofit organizations, and investigative journalists. One beneficiary of that program is the Center for Justice and Accountability, a human rights nonprofit that works to seek […]

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Another State Moves Towards Adopting Duty of Tech Competence and Mandatory Tech CLE for Lawyers

This post was originally published on this siteThe New Jersey Supreme Court is seeking comments on proposals to adopt the duty of technology competence for lawyers and to add a technology requirement for continuing legal education. If the court ultimately adopts the proposals, New Jersey would become the 41st state to require technology competence for […]

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LawNext: As She Retires From a Trailblazing Career in Legal KM and Innovation, Sally Gonzalez Shares Lessons Learned

This post was originally published on this siteIn the field of legal knowledge management and innovation, Sally Gonzalez is both a legend and a trailblazer. Over the course of her 40-year career, she has worked for some of the world’s largest law firms to develop and lead KM and strategic technology initiatives. She has overseen […]

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Litera Acquires UK Document Automation Company Office & Dragons to Streamline Document Editing

This post was originally published on this siteThe legal technology company Litera said today that is has acquired Office & Dragons, a London-based company that develops document automation software for law firms and legal professionals. Office & Dragons specializes in software that allows editing, generation and review of multiple documents in a single process, to […]

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SixFifty Unveils Project To Encode All U.S. Employment Law As Data, with Free Access for Academics

This post was originally published on this siteSixFifty, a company that helps businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation, today released the first phase of its Employment Law Informatics Project (ELIP), an effort to catalog, summarize, and encode the logic of every employment law in the United States, to enhance both academic legal research and […]

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Today on Legaltech Week, A New Panelist Joins Our Regular Line-up, Canadian Journalist Julie Sobowale

This post was originally published on this siteI am very pleased to announce a new addition, starting today, to our line-up of regular panelists for Legaltech Week: Julie Sobowale, a Canada-based freelance journalist and lawyer who writes about legal tech and legal affairs for publications such as Canadian Lawyer, The Walrus, and others. Julie has […]

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