Category: LawSites

This post was originally published on this siteAt the Clio Cloud Conference in San Diego today, Clio announced new features for its practice management platform and a new app for mobile devices. The new features include a Firm Dashboard within Clio Manage, to provide firms with greater insight into their performance; Clio Scheduler, which allows firms […]

This post was originally published on this siteMonday marks the start of Pro Bono Week, and to help highlight the good work lawyers do, the legal technology company Paladin will send you a free mug of justice for sharing your story about a pro bono matter you take on during the week. “It’s simple, really, […]

This post was originally published on this siteJohn Tredennick, the Denver lawyer who founded the e-discovery company Catalyst Repository Systems in 2000 and sold it earlier this year to OpenText for $75 million, has now announced the launch of the Merlin Legal Open Source Foundation, a nonprofit corporation that seeks to improve access to justice and […]

This post was originally published on this siteThe case management software company TrialWorks was reportedly hit by a ransomware attack, shutting down its platform for at least four days and locking some lawyers out of their case files. According to the TechBento blog, the attack started last Sunday and lasted at least through yesterday. I […]

This post was originally published on this siteMonday brings the kick-off of the seventh annual Clio Cloud Conference, and among the companies that will be exhibiting there is LAWCLERK, a legal services marketplace where solo and small-firm attorneys can hire freelance lawyers for short-term projects. In advance of the conference, LAWCLERK is today announcing new […]

This post was originally published on this siteThe deadline is Nov. 1 to nominate a blog post for the inaugural LexBlog Excellence Awards, designed to honor exemplary writing on legal blogs. As I explained in an earlier post, these awards are unlike other “best blog” awards. Rather than focus on the blog as a whole, ours […]

This post was originally published on this siteSome of the world’s most efficient and forward-thinking manufacturing companies long ago learned the power of lean methodologies and systems thinking. But how can law firms employ lean thinking and methodologies to grow profits and strengthen client relationships? That will be the topic we explore in a free […]

This post was originally published on this site[Editor’s note: The cloud document management company NetDocuments held its second-annual Elevate conference Oct. 6-8 in Salt Lake City. I was not able to attend, but e-discovery consultant Brett Burney was there and files this report. Be sure to scroll down for Brett’s video from the conference.] How many of […]

This post was originally published on this siteWith the goal of narrowing a growing justice gap in the state, an Arizona task force has called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, including eliminating the ban on nonlawyer ownership of legal practices, loosening restrictions on lawyer advertising, and expanding the ability of nonlawyers […]

This post was originally published on this site In August, a Utah task force on access to justice issued a report that called for “profoundly reimagining the way legal services are regulated in order to harness the power of entrepreneurship, capital, and machine learning in the legal arena.” Two days later, the Utah Supreme Court […]