Necessity, and occasionally tedious tasks, can be the mothers of invention. In an entry onLawSites, attorney Robert Ambrogi says the latter led a third-year law student at the University of Michigan Law School to invent an iPad app that automates the creation of case briefs.
According to Ambrogi, David Lutz was looking to simplify the process of printing out case PDFs, annotating them and then typing the information into the brief. So he came up with BriefCase.
He says the app allows you to annotate...
Observations from the biggest technology show in the legal industry: "no new stuff."
It’s been about a week since LegalTech New York attendees packed their bags and headed home. Now it’s time to reminisce, and in the case of bloggers, offer up reviews of the massive event.
First up is attorney Robert Ambrogi, who runs LawSites. He says in a Feb. 10 post that there were few innovations this year, adding if there were any to be found they were “at best incremental.”
However,...
Fifteen years ago, on her first day as editor-in-chief of Law Technology News , Monica Bay had a problem. She took over just as the September issue was about to go to press, and a scheduled column was AWOL, leaving a hole in the magazine that needed to be filled on short order.
We knew each other through the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management section, when she was a law student and then an editor at ALM's The Recorder newspaper. She called me and asked if I could write an article,...