Here’s a roundup of recent news from the world of legal technology.
Search nonprofits’ tax records. The nonprofit news organization ProPublica has launched a new feature allowing free, full-text search of nearly 3 million tax filings sent by nonprofits to the IRS since 2011. The new feature is an enhancement to ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer, which already let users search for tax information from more than 1.8 million nonprofits. The feature allows searches for text that appears anywhere in a nonprofit’s tax records, provided the nonprofit filed digitally (which is about two-thirds of filings).
A hub for legal events. Launched this week was Events.Legal, a one-stop shop for information about legal conferences and events, with more than 100 events listed already and more to be added. The site is intended as a resource for companies that participate in events as exhibitors, sponsors and speakers, with a calendar and resources designed to help companies pick the right events for them and then plan for their participation and marketing. The site was created by the Legal Tech Media Group, a marketing agency led by co-CEOs Cathy Kenton and Chelsey Lambert.
The legal keyboard gets a patent. Remember the LegalBoard? When I wrote in 2017 about this keyboard designed for lawyers, it was my most popular post of the year by a wide margin. Now, the keyboard’s inventor, Brian Potts, a lawyer at Perkins Coie, has received a utility patent for the device (Patent No. 10,345,921). “Lots of people told me before I created the LegalBoard that a keyboard isn’t patentable,” Potts told me. “And they said not to waste my time because people will just steal the idea. Well, they were wrong.”
Transfer digital currency by email. Using digital wallets to transfer digital currency can be cumbersome. Now, a new add-on for Microsoft
