Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory has launched one of the first digital resources providing an in depth analysis of the employment provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The resource launched on May 8th and is available on the Cheetah platform. It provides
Demystifying Blockchain: Katherine Lowry Invites You to Build a Blockchain at ILTA
This week, ILTACON 2019 is being held August 18-22, in Orlando, FL. Attendees will have the opportunity to attend a four-part series on the hot topic and still mysterious cluster of technologies known as blockchain
. The program is the brainchild of Katherine Lowry, Director of Practice Services at BakerHostetler. I recently interviewed Lowry to gain some insights into the evolution of her interest in blockchain in the law and her goal in designing the ILTA program.
According to Lowry’s LinkedIn write up, attendees who come to the “Blockchain series will have the opportunity to demystify and learn the practical impact of blockchain for lawyers.” Below is a description of the sessions which will run Monday through Wednesday at the ILTA conference in Orlando.
The series facilitator is Amy Y. Wan, CEO, Sagewise & Bootstrap Legal. The sessions and speakers will be:
• Building-a-Blockchain live (without computers) to bring clarity on how permissioned and permissionless blockchains work, but most important, identify what problems are solved using this technology. Speakers: Diana J. Stern and Christian Smith
• Demonstrations on how blockchain technology can be used to support practical business applications today!
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Lexis Nexis Integrates Courtlink Into Lexis Advance Hooray!
CourtLink was one of Lexis’ earliest product acquisitions and it is seemingly the last to be integrated into the flagship 
Lexis Advance platform. Starting Monday Lexis Advance subscribers will see a host of new features and a cleaner more streamlined interface. This will be none to soon for customers.
The integration of CourtLink was a
What Do Law Firms Need to Know About Buying Litigation Analytics Products?
During the Great Analytics ‘Shoot-Out’ at AALL, law librarians tested and compared the results of seven federal litigation analytics platforms.
Analytics tools enable lawyers to ask completely new questions and gain insights which were virtually unavailable in a text based research world. It takes a special skill set to ask the right “data quality” questions when firms are assessing the dozens of analytics products competing for a share of lawyers desktop or an organization’s information resource budget.
Use cases for analytics include: pitch strategy, AFA responses, litigation strategy, deal negotiation strategy, managing client expectations, diving process efficiency, internal bench marking and developing peer metrics.
Law librarians have been quietly driving the adoption of analytics in the business and practice of law. Hundreds of librarians, knowledge managers and legal publishing executives jammed into a meeting room at the 2019 American Association of Law Libraries Conference and Meeting in Washington DC on July 15th to attend a two and one half hour “super-session” “ The Federal and State Analytics market: Should the Buyer Beware?” exploring the state of litigation
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Bloomberg Law Returns to Predictable Pricing Model – Enhances Customer Cost Management
Several weeks ago Joe Breda, President of Bloomberg Law sent a communication to Bloomberg Law customers 
promising a new pricing strategy. Here in the key text from the document:
“Our migration to a single platform has meant price adjustments for some customers. In response, we are recommitting to transparency and predictability in pricing. Our long-term vision is a fair price that’s consistent with the marketplace and representative of the value Bloomberg Law brings to your practice or business.” (The complete message is included at the bottom of this post.)
I had a conversation with Breda in which he explained that although Bloomberg will no longer sell Practice Centers, customers can get access to practice related content by purchasing as many seats as are required by any practice
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Is Legal Innovation an Aspiration or an Actuality – Innovation Survey Results
Next Sunday July 14th, I will be moderating a Hot Topic: Embracing Sustainable Innovation Initiatives to Build a Future-Focused Library. panel (11:30am in Washington, DC at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual 
Meeting and Conference. Ron Friedmann, (LAC), Marlene Gebauer (Greenberg Traurig) and Darrin Fox (University of Oklahoma) will be discussing
Wolters Kluwer Expands AI Enhanced Capital Markets Clause Analytics for Drafting and Benchmarking Deals
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. continues to expand suite of securities law and workflow products with today’s launch of Capital Markets Clause Analytics. Similar to the M&A Clause Analytics which they launched in 201?, CAPA offers a workflow solution that leverages artificial intelligence and expert human curation. CAPA is the latest addition to
Congratulations to Fastcase and AILA On the Launch of the AILA Law Journal
Late last year Fastcase announced a partnership with the American Immigration Lawyers Association to publish a new biannual publication. Today they delivered on that promise with the launch of the AILA Law Journal. Immigration is a “hot
topic” and the first issue of the journal include seven articles written by leading experts. Topics include: the
Lights, Cameras, Robots — Amazed and Amused at SCALL Institute On Artificial Intelligence — Lively Video Montages
It is now a given that what we think of as “AI” is simply software which has not yet become so pervasive that it is baked into our everyday experience.. Yet AI retains a whiff of mystery which begs to be explored and illustrated through artistic and scientific videos which can range from absurdist to
Casetext CARA Adds Intelligent Filters To Enhance Research Precision
We are all on the path to research Nirvana. Along the way we meet the true believers — many of them are my fellow librarians others are 
legal tech entrepreneurs. I recently had a chat with Pablo Arredondo, Co-Founder and Chief Legal Research Officer at Casetext – an intrepid fellow traveler and legal research thought leader. Arredondo is passionate about citations, algorithms and optimizing the legal research experience. Casetext has recently enhanced their algorithms to identify valuable new caselaw features and elements including: motions, causes of actions and party type which can be used as filters to narrow and focus a search.
Arredondo provided insights into the importance of these new features: “Optimal legal research systems must enable attorneys to navigate the common law along dimensions that matter. Motion at
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