Category: Interesting Technology

I never thought I’d see an intersection between legal technology and the Holiday Season.  This year I have received noticeably fewer holiday cards by US Mail and many more by e-mail. The e-mail greetings range from simple images in the e-mail body to links to...

Enterprise search is a hot topic for large law firms.  I recently cited John Alber’s excellent article on enterprise search. Another leading thinker about search is Oz Benamram, the mover behind Morrison & Foerster’s AnswerBase (AnswerBase article; AnswerBase demo). In a message circulated to an...

Attending the annual ILTA conference last week was the proverbial “drinking from a fire hose.” I’m left mulling strategic information technology decisions for large law firms, specifically the fate of document management and federated search.  My entirely unscientific “buzzometer” noticed Interwoven’s announced integration with federated...

Law.com has released a new search tool, specific to legal web sites. This will likely be a useful tool for lawyers and legal professionals.  Law.com Quest lets you search two sources: (1) “the Law.com Network of sites, including the New York Law Journal, The American...

I continue to be intrigued by Google’s custom search engines. These little tools have potential value for law practice and law business.  I recently blogged about a top US law firm search I created. After that, Mark Gould, Head of Knowledge Management, Addleshaw Goddard LLP...

In my prior post, I described the challenge of searching across the AmLaw 100 web sites.  Spotted today at slaw is a post about custom Google searches. My experiment below, which searches top US law firms, roughly defined by the AmLaw 100 survey. This is...

Not long ago I wrote about using enterprise RSS to deliver the right information to lawyers. I’ve since learned of another good use for this technology.  My former colleague Robyn Rebollo is a law librarian. She recently moved from the US to Australia, where she...