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This post was written by Bonnie Shucha: "Fastcase recently released an app for the iPhone. And not only is the app free, but so access to the case law and statutes that it contains -- even if you don't practice in a state like Wisconsin where the desktop computer version of Fastcase is free through the State Bar.

So far the reviews have been very good, including this one from iPhone JD:..."

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Source: WisBlawg, 10 February 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Richard Georges: "Clio: Online Legal Practice Management Software | SaaS for Lawyers, Attorneys, Law Firms.  There is another competent cloud based practice management system, as the comments to my blog post about RocketMatter indicate..."

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Source: FutureLawyer, 3 February 2010. © 1996-2010, Richard M. Georges, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Greg Lambert: "As I mentioned yesterday, a group of bloggers traveled to ThomsonReuters (TR) in Eagan, Minnesota earlier this week to get a first-hand look at WestlawNext (WLN) and talk with the Project Cobalt team, meet briefly with TR's CEO of Legal, Peter Warwick, and discuss the functionality of WLN with Westlaw's Reference Attorney staff. There are a number of articles that are out from other bloggers that a range of issues from Lisa Solomon's discussion of Product & Pricing; Jason Eiseman's video interview of myself, Tom Boone and Jason Wilson; Robert Ambrogi's discussion of West Search functionality; Betsy McKenzie's view of WLN from an academic perspective; Ken Adam's survey on CALR value in contract drafting; David Bilinsky's Top 10 list about WLN, and; Simon Chester's discussion of WLR from a Canadian perspective. I wanted to take a different approach and talk about the back-end structure of the new West Search Engine and how they have used Knowledge Management theories to create an algorithm that looks to be much better than the current Westlaw.com search results..."

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Source: 3 Geeks and a Blog, 28 January 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Simon Chester: "Yesterday, two members of Slaw were given an in-depth look at the most profound re-engineering of a legal research system since the migration to the Web. In Thomson Reuters' impressive Eagan facility we had a briefing on the new Westlaw - to be launched at New York LegalTech next Monday under the name WestlawNext.

WestlawNext is the culmination of five years of research and development and a massive amount of customer research into how legal research is actually carried out..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 27 January 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw

This post was written by John Heckman: "Amicus comes in two flavors:  Small Firm and Premium. By and large the feature set is very similar. Gavel & Gown has gone over to yearly releases, so you can expect each release to be minor and incremental. Over several years, however, the "increments" can add up to significant changes..."

Also read his review of Amicus Premium Edition 2010 

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Source: Does It Compute?, 11 and 13 January 2010

This post was written by Dennis Kennedy: "Tom Mighell and I have recorded another episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and it's now available on the Legal Talk Network and on iTunes, with an RSS feed here. The episode is called "Looking Forward: Legal Technology in 2010" (show notes here), and it's sponsored by Bill4Time. A special thank you to readers of this blog who listen to the podcast - we're very pleased with the growing numbers of downloads the podcast is getting.

Here's the episode description:

In part two of this two-part series on legal technology trends, co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell peer into the crystal ball to find the key trends and storylines to expect in legal technology in 2010. Will the economy keep a lid on significant developments? What role will Internet and mobile technologies play? What should lawyers, law firms and other legal organizations be putting into their strategic technology plans? In addition, Dennis and Tom make predictions about technology in general and legal technology in particular.

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Source: DennisKennedy.blog, 5 January 2010

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In the news: "Good software ages gracefully, an apt portrayal of iBlaze, the litigation support software from CT Summation. Nonetheless, according to consultant Brett Burney, the new iBlaze 3.0 brings much-needed feature upgrades to address the tempestuous world of e-discovery and electronic evidence."

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 11 January 2010. Copyright 2009.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

By Minara El-Rahman: "The American Bar Association has announced that it will launch a new technology marketplace called ABA Tech EZ for its members to take advantage of. The purpose of ABA's Tech EZ will be to serve as an educational tool as well as to offer ABA members competitive pricing on legal information technology (IT).

According to the press release by the ABA, they believe that this collaborative initiative will help solo practitioners and small law firms who do not have the luxury of having an in house legal IT staff to help them run their businesses. Legal software can help with billing, legal research and other law firm computing needs.

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Source: FindLaw's The Practice Paper: For Solo & Small Firm Lawyers. 2 December 2009. Copyright © 2008. FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe  <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.

From an e-mail: "The Government Domain: A Handful of Classics

http://www.llrx.com/govdomain43.htm

Peggy Garvin has updated her directory of useful government information resources online, the e-Government and Web Directory: U.S. Federal Government Online. Her research has found that federal web sites do not change as rapidly as users believe. The content on these sites is dynamic, constantly being refreshed and redesigned. However, the sites themselves, the ones that represent so much of the work of the federal government and are selected for inclusion in the book, are fairly stable.

Using Technology to Estimate, Control And Manage Litigation Document

Review Budgets

http://www.llrx.com/columns/litdocrevbudgets.htm

Conrad J. Jacoby details approaches and exercises that contribute to a successful process for calculating - and staying within - a realistic budget for a litigation or regulatory document review.

Legal Implications of Cloud Computing - Part Two (Privacy and the

Cloud)

http://www.llrx.com/features/cloudcomputing2.htm

As a follow-up to last month's article that provided an overview of cloud computing in the context of significant legal issues, this article by Tanya Forsheit reviews the issues of privacy and cross-border data transfers.

Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide

http://www.llrx.com/features/ciguide.htm

Sabrina I. Pacifici's completely revised and updated pathfinder focuses on leveraging selected reliable, focused, free and low cost sites and sources to effectively profile and monitor companies, markets, countries, people, and issues. This guide is a "best of list" of web, database and email alert products, services and tools, as well as links to content specific sources produced by government, academic, NGOs, the media and various publishers.

Pretexting, Legal Ethics and Social Networking Sites

http://www.llrx.com/features/pretexting.htm

The court decisions, ethics opinions and articles comprising Ken Strutin's guide provide background into current legal thinking about covert investigations, and include recent publications addressing online pretexting as well as the privacy limits of social media. -- Published October 6, 2009

LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets - updated by law librarian

Margaret Berkland

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Source: Pacifici, Sabrina. "New on LLRX.com for October 2009." Copyright © LLRX TM, Law Library Resource Xchange, LLC. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://www.llrx.com/subscribe.htm>.

Posted by John Heckman: "LexisNexis has finally announced that Billing Matters will be "sunsetted" (no longer supported) at the end of 2013. Consultants have known this was coming for several years and it was obvious when LexisNexis acquired PCLaw that it would not continue to support both products indefinitely. According to the official statement, Billing Matters will continue to be supported with new versions of Time Matters through 2013. However, if you upgrade Time Matters in 2014, Billing Matters will no longer work.
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For those hardy souls still attached to Billing Matters, in three years Software as a Service billing programs (such as Bill4Time) will easily be mature enough to replace Billing Matters. Actually, they could probably do so now, but that's another issue.

Otherwise, LexisNexis seems now to be pushing PCLaw as the entry to small firms (up to 20 users) and may be getting ready to upgrade PCLaw's "Front Office" functions.  A LexisNexis "Technorelease" dated yesterday claims that PCLaw "is the most widely used practice management software in North America." PCLaw is a Time/Billing/Accounting practice and has never really been described before as a "practice management" program. The same Technorelease pointedly does NOT describe Time Matters as a practice management program. On whether or not PCLaw can "do it all," see my blog of August 24.  

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Source: Does It Compute?, 7 October 2009