Respond to the 2020-21 What’s Hot and What’s Not Survey here. Although the world was shut down by the pandemic, our friends in
legal tech continued their pursuit of innovation and market share. Most of us had a sense of whiplash and disbelief when the world came to a virtual halt in March 2020. Law librarians who had built digital libraries over the years offered their attorneys a fairly seamless transition to their work from home desktop. Within weeks most legal publishers had developed a special COVID offering. These ranged from free alerts, to primary sources and workflow toolkits. Despite all of these efforts law librarians and knowledge managers faced a gap in COVID coverage. Almost overnight a “gray literature” emerged which major legal publishers were not
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products. I have identified five trends, which I have divided into three categories: unforeseeable, continuing and surprising.State Litigation Analytics — California was ground zero for the development of federal and state analytics. Gavelytics and Judicata were two of the earliest startups to tackle the challenges of state litigation analytics. Lex Machina, the pioneer in federal litigation analytics, entered the state litigation analytics market with the February launch of California and Texas modules and launched New York Courts in the fall.
Westlaw and Bloomberg Law which previously launched state analytics continues to build out state analytics content. Starts-ups Trellis and Unicourt joined the state analytics party in 2020. Fastcase/DocketAlarm continued building out their state litigation analytics and late in the year announced the acquisition of Judicata.
because that completely ignores the dramatic integration of workflow, drafting, brief analysis and analytics into the 21st century progeny of the foundational case law research systems.The 
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and analytics information to highlight emerging litigation topics such as farming, food, tobacco, and cannabis. It will also cover related topics such as agriculture policy at the FDA and USDA, the cannabis industry, environmental and land use, and the emergence of agricultural technologies. The Law Street Media newsletters are geared toward providing information “that generates business for its users.”
annual Dewey B Strategic Hits and Misses Survey. In an attempt to “carry on” as if everything were normal, today I am reporting on the survey results.Thanks to the 87 readers who responded to the survey between January and March 15th. Compared to 2018, 2019 was a fairly slow year for the launch of new products and features. As a result this years survey has fewer questions and fewer categories of new products. But this year the survey covered new analytics tools, analytics documentation, workflow tools, law comparison tools. The survey also asked
enabled research Assistant Vincent available to every lawyer in Kentucky. I wrote about the
about the impact of COVID-19. Lawyers need to untangle the myriad legal issues impacting virtually every area of legal practice. We are surely witnessing the emergence of a new pandemic law practice over the course of several weeks. I have summarized the landscape of tools produced by legal publishers to help lawyers get oriented and “jump start” their practice in the “new normal” of law in a time of pandemic.