Category: Online Legal Services

Will general counsel and the ACC demand for more value from law firms drive firms to consider offering online legal services?  Bob Ambrogi’s Crowdsourcing the Law (Law Technology News, 1 Aug 2010) describes some interesting new web services – OpenRegs and Spindle Law – that...

Recently I learned via a Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) Tweet (@wilsonsonsini), that the firm had launched On-Demand Learning Resource to Help In-House Attorneys Keep Current and Earn MCLE Credit. I think the firm has done a very nice job with this initiative.  The...

In a tough economy with daily BigLaw lays-off announcements, it’s nice to see a firm innovate to help clients and prospects. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) announced today a new online service, a term sheet generator.  The WSGR Term Sheet Generator, “will generate a...

Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy has launched a separate entity to apply technology to solve a commercial contracting challenge.  A&O launches document management company reports on A&O’s launch of docGenix, whose “mission is to develop innovative legal documentation risk management solutions for the international...

PeopleFinder, a new system by leading Australian law firm Mallesons, makes clear that previous views of client facing technology have been too narrow.  Client-facing typically has meant extranets, document creation software, or content-rich systems, including online legal services. While new instances of these come to...

In the late 1990s, large law firms started creating web-based interactive legal advisory systems. What happened to that trend?  Market data on the number subscribers, and revenue is not available; as far as I know, the best listing of these types of systems is my...

Baker McKenzie has recently launched an online legal service, this one with a bit of a twist.  Lawyers Weekly reports (4 April 2008) that “BAKER & MCKENZIE’S global climate change practice last week launched the CDM Rulebook website – a freely available, comprehensive online database...

Open source software has had a dramatic impact on how business and consumers use computers. Could the same be true for law?  I blogged about the idea of open source law four years ago. Lawyers Open Their File Cabinets for a Web Resource (New York...