Blogs

Author discusses the launch of the online Electronic Filing Depository (EFD) by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) to enhance the efficiency of the regulatory filing process for certain exempt securities offerings. The full text is available at http://www.americanbar.org…  

From the article: “You are a licensed lawyer and you currently are employed as the CEO for a mid-sized company. You do not hold yourself out as a lawyer although your status is noted on company letterhead and the company website. You wonder how the legal ethics rules apply to your activities in your current […]

Law firms produce great amounts of data while carrying out their business. Many information such as legacy file shares, back-up tapes, archives and former employee emails are generally stored but do not hold an immediate business purpose. These “miscellanea data” have been defined as “dark data”, i.e. those information assets organizations collect, process and store […]

Law Technology News From the article: “Legal organizations must address the security and confidentiality issues that are already arising”. The full text is available at: http://www.lawtechnologynews…

From the article “Something we are hearing more and more about from lawyers is the idea of virtual offices. Why, collectively as attorneys, are we using virtual offices and what should we be looking out for?  How does it affect our practice and our clients?” The full text is available at http://www.lawtechnologytoday…

Law professor Josh Blackman creates fantasy SCOTUS. In his blog the professor affirms “my co-authors Daniel Martin Katz, Michael J. Bommarito II, and I have designed a general approach to predicting the behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States. Using only data available prior to the date of decision, our model correctly identifies 69.7% of the Court’s overall affirm […]

This August, the Canadian Bar Association has issued a report titled “Futures: Transforming The Delivery Of Legal Services In Canada.” Starting from the concept that “globalization, technology, and market liberalization” are changing the environment in which lawyers work and that lawyers must be responsive to the changed needs of their clientele, the Canadian Bar Association […]

Bitcoin is a virtual currency (or crypto-currency) having an equivalent value in real currency (but with great fluctuation) not backed by any country’s central bank or government. The origin of the currency are uncertain and related back to late 2008/early 2009. See more at Man said to create bitcoin denies it; Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System; Wikipedia. […]

ABA Journal (April 2014 issue) The full text is available at: http://www.abajournal…

ABA Journal (March 27, 2014) Author describes the technological tools and application at lawyers’ disposal presented at the ABA Techshow held Thursday, March 27, 2014 in Chicago. The full text is available at: http://www.abajournal…