Legaltech Week

Our panel of legal journalists discusses the week's top stories in legal technology and innovation. This week's topics include: the Utah Supreme Court approves sweeping regulatory changes to address access to justice, e-discovery company Reveal acquires AI company NexLP, Biglaw lawyers flock to distributed firms, the Wall Street Journal issues a robot lawyer scare, and a possibly more palpable purpose for facial recognition technology. This week's panelists are: Victoria Hudgins, reporter for Legaltech News; Victor Li, assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law; and Zach Warren, editor in chief of Legaltech News.Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates.

A panel of legal journalists discusses the week's top stories in legal technology and innovation. This week's topics include: how Zoom helped a law firm avoid layoffs, new data on the pandemic's impact on law practices, technical difficulties for online bar exams, big tech companies face the fire on Capitol Hill, 'legal deserts' and how tech can help, and New Zealand sets standards for algorithms. This week's panelists are: Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill, editor in chief, Legal IT Insider; Victor Li, assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law. Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates.

The Legaltech Week panel of journalists tackles another week of legal news. Among the top stories we discuss this week: fun with mute buttons, civil rights edition; the privacy and due process dangers of Zoom courts; excessive attorneys' fees in a data breach case; and a new legal news service from Thomson Reuters. This week's panelists are: Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Victoria Hudgins, reporter for Legaltech News; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law; and Zach Warren, editor in chief of Legaltech News. Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates.

The Legaltech Week panel of journalists convenes for another look back at the week's top stories in legal technology and innovation. Among the stories they discuss this week are a Law.com series on the machines influencing criminal justice decisions, ROSS's response to Thomson Reuters' lawsuit, an EU court quashes the Privacy Shield, a bail hearing illegally recorded, and the California bar exam goes virtual. This week's panelists are: Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill, editor in chief, Legal IT Insider; Victoria Hudgins, reporter for Legaltech News; Victor Li, assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law; and Zach Warren, editor in chief of Legaltech News. Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates.

The Legaltech Week panel of journalists is back for a look at the week's top stories in legal technology and innovation. Among the topics this week are a new legal research service from LexisNexis, concerns about self-driving cars and crime, another naked lawyer on Zoom, possible backlash against DoNotPay, law firms commit to a data-driven diversity initiative, a look at the law firm of the future, and the legal tech companies that received PPP loans. This week's panelists are: Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill, editor in chief, Legal IT Insider; Victor Li, assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law; and Zach Warren, editor in chief of Legaltech News. Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates.

On this episode of Legaltech Week, we invite the audience to put their questions to our panel of legaltech journalists. Among the questions we answer: How best to pitch us with a story, what's our favorite type of story, how to break into legal journalism, how to get assignments as a freelance writer, and the worst pitch any of us received. This week, a new panelist joins our line-up: Victor Li, assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal. The other panelists are Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill, editor in chief, Legal IT Insider; Victoria Hudgins, reporter for Legaltech News; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law; and Zach Warren, editor in chief of Legaltech News. Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates.

The Legaltech Week panel of journalists is joined this week by Jack Newton, cofounder and CEO of Clio, to discuss new research findings on COVID-19's impact on the legal industry. With findings based on both anonymized customer data and surveys of lawyers and consumers, the research suggests business may be picking up for law firms, but there are still reasons for concern. Newton discusses the findings and takes questions from the panel and audience. Also, our panelists discuss their top stories of the week. This week's panelists are: Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Victoria Hudgins, reporter for Legaltech News; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law; and Zach Warren, editor in chief of Legaltech News. Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates.

The Legaltech Week panel of journalists is joined this week by Rohan Pavuluri, cofounder and CEO of bankruptcy platform Upsolve, to discuss his recent article arguing that rules prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law -- rules that he says give lawyers a monopoly on providing legal services -- effectively work to promote racial inequality. Also, we're joined by a new panelist this week: Victoria Hudgins, reporter for Legaltech News, for our usual roundtable on the week's top stories. The weeks' other panelists are: Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill, editor in chief, Legal IT Insider; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; and Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law. Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates. The Legaltech Week panel of journalists is joined this week by Rohan Pavuluri, cofounder and CEO of bankruptcy platform Upsolve, to discuss his recent article arguing that rules prohibiting the unauthorized practice of law -- rules that he says give lawyers a monopoly on providing legal services -- effectively work to promote racial inequality. Also, we're joined by a new panelist this week: Victoria Hudgins, reporter for Legaltech News, for our usual roundtable on the week's top stories. The weeks' other panelists are: Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill, editor in chief, Legal IT Insider; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; and Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law. Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates.

At the close of a week in which issues of racism and racial injustice have consumed the nation and the world, we abandon our usual news round-up for an in-depth conversation about diversity in law. Joining us to share his insights and perceptions is Bryan Parker, cofounder and CEO of Legal Innovators, a startup dedicated to changing the hiring, pricing and diversity of junior legal talent. Parker joins this week's line-up of panelists: Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill, editor in chief, Legal IT Insider; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law; and Zach Warren, editor-in-chief, Legaltech News. Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates.

Our weekly Legaltech Week journalist roundtable, rounding up the top legaltech news, kicks off this time with news that one of our panelists was a contestant on Cash Cab. And if you don't know what that is, then you'll have to listen to the episode. Joining host Bob Ambrogi this week are Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Caroline Hill, editor in chief, Legal IT Insider; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law; and Zach Warren, editor-in-chief, Legaltech News. Among the other stories the panelists discuss: How the ubiquity of mobile-phone cameras is changing criminal law and justice, the First Amendment implications of President Trump's Twitter crackdown, lessons learned from the first Zoom trial in Texas, a U.K. firm's selection of Oracle for its practice management platform, and another practice management platform's new lead-ranking tool.