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January 31, 2012, 11:45 am, 947434

Jack Newton

I am here at LegalTech in New York where I had an opportunity to meet yesterday with Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau, founders of Clio, the cloud-based practice management application. They had big news to share: Clio ...


January 28, 2012, 7:45 pm, 947011

Starting Feb. 10, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction is offering a free, nine-week online course, Topics in Digital Law Practice, taught by a stellar faculty of well-known speakers:

This course is designed to provide an overview of the changes that are occurring in the practice of law ...


January 25, 2012, 9:45 am, 945641

Assembling a document from a template in Rocket Matter 2.0.

The Web-based practice management application Rocket Matter today released version ...


January 20, 2012, 11:45 am, 943924

A sample shown on the site

I happened across a website called MyPocketAttorney that says it will let lawyers build their own smartphone apps using templates designed for law offices and legal professionals. As ...


January 19, 2012, 11:45 pm, 943748

The Library of Congress unveiled a new app yesterday designed to let you read the Congressional Record on an iPad. Called simply The Congressional Record, the purpose of the new app, as


January 18, 2012, 7:45 pm, 943200

The Legal Services Corporation’s Technology Initiative Grants program held its annual conference last week in Albuquerque. I wasn’t there, but I wish I had been. The conference focused on exploring innovative ways of using technology to promote full access and ...


January 16, 2012, 1:45 pm, 942207

I don’t understand why lawyers think denigrating themselves and the profession is an effective marketing tool. Like the Nilan Johnson video I wrote about before, here is an attempt at humor that fails miserably. Lawyer as shakedown ...


January 16, 2012, 11:45 am, 942181

A new mobile app introduced this week by the New York State Bar Association lets lawyers search and access ethics opinions from their mobile phones. The NYSBA Mobile Ethics App includes the state bar’s catalog of more than 900 legal ethics ...


January 12, 2012, 1:45 pm, 941074

I have a post about this at the ABA Techshow blog: Five Tips for Starting Your Own Blog.


January 10, 2012, 3:45 pm, 940188

I am very proud to report that I have been nominated for election as vice president of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, the state’s premiere legal charity devoted to ensuring equal access to the legal system and to improving the administration of justice.  The election for ...