Android or iPhone?

By John Edwards Contact All Articles, Law Technology News, April 24, 2013 Attorneys often find themselves operating in separate camps, such as plaintiff-defendant, prosecution-defense, civil-criminal, private-public and, perhaps most contentiously, Android-iPhone. While both iPhones and Androids deliver a smartphone experience that keeps attorneys connected wherever they go, each platform takes a unique and sometimes idiosyncratic approach to [...]

Reviews Pour In for Apple’s iPad Mini Tablet

By Monica Bay All Articles, Law Technology News, November 2, 2012 There’s been quite a lot of buzz about the recent debut of the new iPad and iPad mini from Apple Inc., so we thought we’d check out the mainstream technology press and legal blogs to see what they’re saying. CIO Insight offers another one [...]

Tech Circuit: Money & Microsoft

People, events, deals, tablets, trends, and every now and then, gossip! By Monica Bay All Articles, Law Technology News, October 29, 2012 Money Talks: Friday morning, Robert Mattern held the rapt attention of the attendees at the 11th Annual Hildebrandt Institute-West LegalEdCenter Law Firm COO & CFO Forum, as he shared the results of the [...]

A Simpler Interface Works Best for Tablet-Toting Lawyers

Lawyers want simplicity, not excessive bells and whistles. By James McKenna ContactAll Articles, Law Technology News, October 23, 2012 It was not that long ago that we could safely predict that the next version of any software would have more capability, features, and complexity than its predecessor. That notion is quickly changing as attorneys increasingly [...]

Xerox Develops Automatic Redaction Tool

By Evan Koblentz ContactAll Articles, Law Technology News, October 11, 2012 Xerox Litigation Services is adding a free automatic redaction feature to its cloud-based e-discovery software, OmniX. The new tool searches for predetermined patterns in large sets of review documents and automatically redacts the results. Attorneys and legal professionals would work with Xerox Corp.’s staff [...]

‘Easy Button’ Scanning for Law Firms

HP Scanjet Enterprise 8500 fn1 Document Capture Workstation is like having an “easy button.” By Sean Doherty All Articles, Law Technology News, October 8, 2012 Lawyers like options to consider in legal matters. But their preference for options may not extend to office equipment, where anything more than a Staples “easy button” to accomplish a [...]

Thomson Reuters’ International Law App, RenewData Adds Symantec EDD Software, More News

Legal technology industry developments from October 1 to 15, 2012. By Michael RoachContactAll Articles, Law Technology News, October 2, 2012 Thomson Reuters announced its latest native iPad app, Global Business Law, which gives transactional attorneys vital information about laws in 160 countries and 46 practice areas. The application itself is a free download for the [...]

Persuading Juries With Effective Graphics

G. Christopher Ritter offered pragmatic advice and examples of successful and disastrous courtroom exhibits. By Monica Bay All Articles, Law Technology News, September 20, 2012 At The Recorder‘s inaugural LawTech Day on Wednesday, G. Christopher Ritter was a veritable one-man band as he showed attendees how they can more effectively use everything from sophisticated 3D [...]

In iPhone 5 and Beyond, No Revolution

By Evan Koblentz ContactAll Articles, Law Technology News, September 11, 2012 It’s an open secret that Apple Inc. will unveil the iPhone 5 on Wednesday, with updates expected to include a bigger screen and a 4G LTE cellular connection. That’s nice, but it’s hardly innovative compared to many rival smartphones — big screens and 4G [...]

Fastcase Releases Legal Research App for Android

By Sean Doherty ContactAll Articles, Law Technology News, June 5, 2012 Like the iPhone app, the Android app synchronizes research activity to the desktop. Following the successful launch of Fastcase for the iPhone, the legal research company released today a mobile version (1.0) for the Android operating system for smartphones and tablet computers. Like the [...]