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Lawyers Need To Be Using Twitter For When They Are Recognized

By Kevin O'Keefe on June 23, 2019

Reading a post from Ms. JD’s Sonya Rahders announcing the winners of the 2019 Public Interest Scholarship Competition, I wanted to give a shout out to the law student winners and Ms JD for recognizing women in this regard. After all, the passion and commitment to public interest careers of these four scholarship recipients topped a large pool of highly competitive applicants. But I did not. The reason being that the scholarship winners did not have…

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New ‘Historical Trends’ Viewer from Caselaw Access Project Graphs Frequency of Words and Phrases

By Bob Ambrogi on June 21, 2019

Harvard Law School’s Caselaw Access Project, which last year completed a massive project to digitize all U.S. case law, this week released a tool called Historical Trends that allows a user to visually graph the frequency of words and phrases in those cases over time. The tool is similar in function to the Google Books Ngram Viewer, which allows users to graph the frequency with which phrases have appeared in a corpus of…

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Legal Tech Round-up, Post-Vacation Edition: Two Weeks of Tech News

By Bob Ambrogi on June 20, 2019

When I left for vacation 2.5 weeks ago, I jokingly sent out a tweet, “Dear #legaltech world: Please stop making news for two weeks. I’m trying to take some time off.” Unfortunately, the legal tech world did not get my message. The news kept coming, even if I wasn’t here to cover it. So allow me to round up some of what’s happened. As for France, let me just say it wasn’t my fault, even…

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ILTA Invites Applications for StartUp Hub at ILTACON 2019

By Bob Ambrogi on June 19, 2019

The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) today invited companies to apply for spots in the StartUp Hub at its annual ILTACON conference, which takes place Aug. 18-22 in Orlando, Fla. The StartUp Hub is a special area of the exhibition hall designed to showcase legal IT and tech startups, disruptors and visionaries. Participants will be selected based on the “newness” of the company, the innovative nature of the product, and the possibility of industry disruption,…

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The Problem With The Word “Content” In Legal Publishing

By Kevin O'Keefe on June 17, 2019

“You can tell a lot about a person and how they think about their work based on whether or not they use “content” to describe what they do. A photographer who says that he is creating “content” for his YouTube channel is nothing more than a marketer churning out fodder to fill the proverbial Internet airwaves with marketing noise.” This from longtime and widely respected, digital publisher, Om Malik in his newsletter this week. I’ve…

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What Is Innovation in Law? Take this Very Short Survey

By Bob Ambrogi on June 17, 2019

Seems as if everyone talks about innovation in law. But what does it really mean? At the upcoming annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries, Jean O’Grady, author of the Dewey B Strategic blog, is moderating a panel on embracing sustainable innovation. To help the panelists better understand what innovation means in law firms and legal organizations, Jean has prepared a very brief survey. She hopes to hear from a broad cross-section of…

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LawNext Episode 43: LexLab’s Alice Armitage on Teaching Innovation and Mentoring Startups

By Bob Ambrogi on June 17, 2019

As director of applied innovation at UC Hastings College of the Law, Alice Armitage oversees two innovation-focused projects at the law school: LexLab, a multifaceted innovation program for students, startups and the broader legal tech community; and Startup Legal Garage, a program offering free legal assistance to early-stage technology and biotech companies. LexLab has three areas of focus: building a concentration in law and technology for students; setting up an incubator for legal…

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Blogging Lawyers Can Learn From 97-Year Old Seattle Blogger

By Kevin O'Keefe on June 14, 2019

What can legal bloggers and other professionals learn from a 97-year old retired nurse who recently took up blogging? Plenty. After leaving the UW School of Nursing, Doris Carnevali, wanted to share what she was learning about aging. Rather than aging being a bad thing, she found it to be a learning experience, and a time for growth. “I had been ranting about the fact that I thought aging had gotten a rotten deal. That…

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How LexBlog Makes Editorial Decisions: Round Two

By Melissa Lin on June 13, 2019

Last week, I hosted a live webinar giving those interested a look into how the publishing team makes editorial decisions for our network of 22,000 bloggers (now 23,000). It was a joy to engage with bloggers who hoped to make their blogging more impactful, wanted to get more out of their relationship with LexBlog, or were simply interested in learning more about our legal publishing company. That webinar has led to many follow-up conversations with…

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Sprinkles on the donut: Advice I’ve received from LexBloggers

By Chris Grim on June 11, 2019

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve blogged on the LexBlog. I wanted to post some general soft-knowledge lessons I’ve picked up with my time here about life at a small company. Many of these I’ve learned from others directly, but many of them are from my observations. They are also good little quips that seem to float around the office as a sense of daily culture. Be proactive: If you see a problem, fix…

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Lawyers Need To Be Using Twitter For When They Are Recognized

New ‘Historical Trends’ Viewer from Caselaw Access Project Graphs Frequency of Words and Phrases

Legal Tech Round-up, Post-Vacation Edition: Two Weeks of Tech News

ILTA Invites Applications for StartUp Hub at ILTACON 2019

The Problem With The Word “Content” In Legal Publishing

What Is Innovation in Law? Take this Very Short Survey

LawNext Episode 43: LexLab’s Alice Armitage on Teaching Innovation and Mentoring Startups

Blogging Lawyers Can Learn From 97-Year Old Seattle Blogger

How LexBlog Makes Editorial Decisions: Round Two

Sprinkles on the donut: Advice I’ve received from LexBloggers

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