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PacerPro’s New ‘Case Feed’ Shows Case Activity in Real Time
April 30, 2016
PacerPro, the company that provides various advanced tools for searching the federal courts’ PACER system and for managing PACER documents, today unveiled Case Feed, a feature that shows all activity on all of a law firm’s PACER cases in real-time chronological order, including PDFs of case filings. The feature makes electronic filings from PACER instantly available through the PacerPro platform, where they can be easily accessed by anyone in the law firm. It works by automatically retrieving...
April 30, 2016
PacerPro, the company that provides various advanced tools for searching the federal courts’ PACER system and for managing PACER documents, today unveiled Case Feed, a feature that shows all activity on all of a law firm’s PACER cases in real-time chronological order, including PDFs of case filings. The feature makes electronic filings from PACER instantly available through the PacerPro platform, where they can be easily accessed by anyone in the law firm. It works by automatically retrieving...
How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Legal Profession
April 30, 2016
A REVOLUTION BEGINS Artificial intelligence is changing the way lawyers think, the way they do business and the way they interact with clients. Artificial intelligence is more than legal technology. It is the next great hope that will revolutionize the legal profession. Change can be brought on through pushing existing ideas. What makes artificial intelligence stand out is the potential for a paradigm shift in how legal work is done. AI, sometimes referred to as cognitive computing, refers...
April 30, 2016
A REVOLUTION BEGINS Artificial intelligence is changing the way lawyers think, the way they do business and the way they interact with clients. Artificial intelligence is more than legal technology. It is the next great hope that will revolutionize the legal profession. Change can be brought on through pushing existing ideas. What makes artificial intelligence stand out is the potential for a paradigm shift in how legal work is done. AI, sometimes referred to as cognitive computing, refers...
The Am Law 100: Signs of a Slowdown
April 26, 2016
The country's 100 largest law firms by revenue recorded a sixth consecutive year of aggregate growth across all key metrics...
April 26, 2016
The country's 100 largest law firms by revenue recorded a sixth consecutive year of aggregate growth across all key metrics...
Class Action Spending is Back Up After Four Years of Decline
April 18, 2016
In-house spending on class action defence has rebounded after four years of steady slump, with around 7 per cent more US companies fending off at least one class action lawsuit last year than in 2014. According to the results of law firm Carlton Fields' 2016 Class Action Survey, released on Monday, average legal spend on defending class action lawsuits has lifted in the United States for the first time in four years from $2.03 billion in 2014 to $2.1 billion last year. Of the 391 senior in-house...
April 18, 2016
In-house spending on class action defence has rebounded after four years of steady slump, with around 7 per cent more US companies fending off at least one class action lawsuit last year than in 2014. According to the results of law firm Carlton Fields' 2016 Class Action Survey, released on Monday, average legal spend on defending class action lawsuits has lifted in the United States for the first time in four years from $2.03 billion in 2014 to $2.1 billion last year. Of the 391 senior in-house...
Could This New App, Debuting at Techshow, Become the Uber of Law?
April 17, 2016
Debuting at ABA Techshow this week is a new iOS app that will allow consumers to locate an available attorney and connect with him or her instantly by video, in much the same way that someone can hail a ride on demand using the app Uber. As of this writing, the app, which is tentatively named 1Law, was awaiting final approval from Apple to be included in the app store. The app’s developer, A. Jason Velez, hoped that the app would be available in the app store by the start of Techshow. I was able...
April 17, 2016
Debuting at ABA Techshow this week is a new iOS app that will allow consumers to locate an available attorney and connect with him or her instantly by video, in much the same way that someone can hail a ride on demand using the app Uber. As of this writing, the app, which is tentatively named 1Law, was awaiting final approval from Apple to be included in the app store. The app’s developer, A. Jason Velez, hoped that the app would be available in the app store by the start of Techshow. I was able...
Law School Applicants From Top Colleges Plunge 42%
April 16, 2016
Back in 2013, I was the first person to notice that students graduating from the top universities in the country were beginning to avoid law school in droves. ... What looked like a leveling off last year was apparently only a brief respite. Graduates from top schools increasingly view law school as a poor option for post-graduate studies. Who knows when this is going to level off. But given that bar passage rates continue to decline across the country, things aren’t looking up for the legal...
April 16, 2016
Back in 2013, I was the first person to notice that students graduating from the top universities in the country were beginning to avoid law school in droves. ... What looked like a leveling off last year was apparently only a brief respite. Graduates from top schools increasingly view law school as a poor option for post-graduate studies. Who knows when this is going to level off. But given that bar passage rates continue to decline across the country, things aren’t looking up for the legal...
Number of Legal Startups Nearly Triples in Two Years
April 16, 2016
Two years ago, in a post here titled, A Time of Unprecedented Innovation in Legal Technology, I noted that Angel List, a site that lists startups of all kinds, included 412 companies identified as legal startups. Today, the number of legal startups included at Angel List is 1,094. That is nearly threefold growth in the number of legal startups in just two years. Perhaps I spoke too soon two years ago. The legal industry continues to see innovation at a pace that far outdistances anything we’ve...
April 16, 2016
Two years ago, in a post here titled, A Time of Unprecedented Innovation in Legal Technology, I noted that Angel List, a site that lists startups of all kinds, included 412 companies identified as legal startups. Today, the number of legal startups included at Angel List is 1,094. That is nearly threefold growth in the number of legal startups in just two years. Perhaps I spoke too soon two years ago. The legal industry continues to see innovation at a pace that far outdistances anything we’ve...
Litigation Funders Join Forces Against First Publicly Traded Law Firm
April 15, 2016
The potential claims against Slater and Gordon will stem from statements issued by the company's board of directors in relation...
April 15, 2016
The potential claims against Slater and Gordon will stem from statements issued by the company's board of directors in relation...
2015 Reports on Federal Courts Caseload and AO Activities Released
April 13, 2016
Caseload Highlights U.S. Courts of Appeals In the regional courts of appeals, filings dropped 4 percent to 52,698. Appeals...
April 13, 2016
Caseload Highlights U.S. Courts of Appeals In the regional courts of appeals, filings dropped 4 percent to 52,698. Appeals...
Can AI Replace Lawyers? Vanderbilt Law Event to Address Legal Machines
April 11, 2016
The April 13 and 14 event will feature experts in AI and law as well as ROSS, the world’s ‘first artificially intelligent attorney.’ When people discuss artificial intelligence (AI) replacing jobs, rarely are they thinking about lawyers. Nevertheless in recent years, AI has factored into the legal profession, leaving those in-the-know to wonder: Will AI be a top-resource or replacement. Attempting to answer this question is “Watson, Esq. Will Your Next Lawyer Be a Machine?,” an April...
April 11, 2016
The April 13 and 14 event will feature experts in AI and law as well as ROSS, the world’s ‘first artificially intelligent attorney.’ When people discuss artificial intelligence (AI) replacing jobs, rarely are they thinking about lawyers. Nevertheless in recent years, AI has factored into the legal profession, leaving those in-the-know to wonder: Will AI be a top-resource or replacement. Attempting to answer this question is “Watson, Esq. Will Your Next Lawyer Be a Machine?,” an April...
