Legal Technology
ABA TECHSHOW 2010 Full Program Released
By Nerino Petro at 10 December, 2009, 1:49 pm
It’s hard to believe that ABA TECHSHOW 2010 is less than four months away. Set for Chicago, IL March 25-27, TECHSHOW 2010 promises a plethora of educational sessions in 15 tracks. The full program and schedule has been released and can be found here.
Read More >>LexisNexis Sells HotDocs Software Business to UK Company
By Nerino Petro at 17 November, 2009, 3:54 pm
LexisNexis announced today that Capsoft of Scotland has purchased the HotDocs software business from LexisNexis. LexisNexis retains its Automated Forms group and will continue to provide HotDocs enabled forms including those found on its LexisONE website. Read the full press release after the break
Read More >>Legal Implications of Cloud Computing
By Nerino Petro at 20 October, 2009, 7:00 am
Whether we want to admit it or not, cloud computing is making an impact on the way we practice law as well as the way our clients approach computing and information storage. Lawyers need to have a t least a basic understanding of the benefits and potential pitfalls that this new technology will impose.
Read More >>Do Lawyers need another legal search tool? LegalGrub thinks so.
By Nerino Petro at 11 September, 2009, 8:16 am
Just when you thought it was safe to start searching the internet after the release of Wolfram|Alpha , a new legal research tool was announced today by Miles Technologies called LegalGrub.com . According to the announcement, LegalGrub.com is supposed to make lawyers research lives easier by conducting searches only “…of the top law firms all across the country.” Sounds impressive, but after looking and trying the site, I was left with more questions than answers:
Read More >>Review of Redaction Software: Redact-It by IGC
By Nerino Petro at 9 September, 2009, 11:03 am
Using software tools to redact text from electronic case documents is obviously more efficient than printing out pages, striking out sensitive text with a black marker and scanning the altered documents back into your system. However, improperly redacting an electronic document can have disastrous consequences with the unplanned disclosure of information, such as in Hepting v. AT&T Corp. (C-06-072-VRW) or Facebook, Inc. v. ConnectU (LLC C-07-01389-JW).
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