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This post was originally published on this siteIf you are in the Milwaukee area, the Milwaukee Bar Association’s annual Law & Technology Conference is tomorrow. I will be there, presenting the keynote on the ethical duty of technology competence and also moderating a panel on legal analytics that features views from the bench and bar. […]

This post was originally published on this site In another of a series of special episodes of LawNext recorded live at the Clio Cloud Conference, I interviewed Ed Walters, CEO and cofounder of the online legal research company Fastcase. Under Ed’s leadership, Fastcase has grown to become one of the world’s largest legal publishers, currently […]

This post was originally published on this siteIf you had to guess which legal research service law students prefer, you’d probably answer Westlaw. After all, back in the early days of legal research, West pioneered the idea of giving law students free access in the hope of creating career-long customers. But a survey published today finds […]

This post was originally published on this siteWhen I give presentations on lawyers’ ethical duty to be competent in technology, audience members often come up to me afterwards and ask something to the effect of, “Ok, I get it, but how do I become competent in technology?” Preparing for another such talk this week, I […]

This post was originally published on this site After 10 years as a lawyer at two leading transactional law firms, Haley Altman decided there should be a better way to structure the workflow around the many deals in which she was involved. So in 2016, she left law practice to found Doxly, a technology platform designed to […]

This post was originally published on this site“Never in my 14 years of blogging and more than two decades of covering legal technology have I seen the legal world react to a new product as it did this week to the LegalBoard, a keyboard designed for lawyers.” That is what I wrote in 2017 after […]

This post was originally published on this siteWhat do millennials look for when shopping for a lawyer? They want to know if you’ll meet with them in Starbucks. They want to know if you accept payment via Venmo or Bitcoin. They want to know a fun or quirky fact about you. That, at least, is […]

This post was originally published on this siteAt its annual user conference this morning in Miami, Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions unveiled a product that will help corporate legal departments pick the best law firm for a litigation matter by using predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to rank outside law firms along a range of metrics. […]

This post was originally published on this siteAustralian legal startup Lawpath has closed a $4.4 million fundraising round, which it said was one of the largest capital raises for legal tech in Australian history. The investment will be used to strengthen its products and services in Australia and to expand into Asia. Lawpath also today […]

This post was originally published on this site In 2018, Mark Britton left Avvo, the often-controversial company he founded in 2006 and led as CEO until he sold it earlier that year to web behemoth Internet Brands. Soon after, he joined us here on LawNext Episode 11 for an insightful conversation about why he started the company, […]