Media Law

JUNE 14, 2017

Last month, I wrote about Judicata, a legal research that had just emerged into public view after five years of development in stealth mode. With $8 million in backing from some big-name investors, including PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel and Box founders Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, Judicata aims to deliver a legal research platform that […]. The post Judicata Brings A New Dimension to Legal Research: Color appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.

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Media Law

JUNE 22, 2017

Yesterday marked the first day of operation for vLex Canada Open, the first phase of a major new legal research suite for Canada. is launching the research suite in partnership with two other legal publishers: vLex, a Barcelona and Miami-based legal publisher that […]. The post First Phase Launches of New Canadian and Global Research Site appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.

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MARCH 22, 2017

The legal research service Casetext is announcing today that it has closed on a $12 million Series B funding round. The post Legal Research Company Casetext Closes on $12 Million in Funding appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. Jake Heller, founder and CEO, and Laura Safdie, chief operating officer and general counsel. Excluding e-discovery companies, it is one of the largest investments in a legal technology startup ever. The only two larger that I could […].

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Media Law

MAY 5, 2017

One of Canada’s oldest legal publishers is about to launch what could turn out to be the country’s most cutting-edge and comprehensive legal research suite. The post Plans Unveiled for Major New Canadian Legal Research Platforms appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. Last November, Maritime Law Book Ltd., a Canadian case law publisher founded in 1969, came under new ownership, led by a new CEO, Colin Lachance, the former president and CEO […].

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Media Law

MAY 3, 2017

Since at least 2013, the website of Judicata has been teasing visitors with the promise of a better legal research service. The post After Five Years in Stealth Mode, Judicata Reveals Its Legal Research Service appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. “We’re mapping the legal genome to help you better understand the law,” said its home page. The San Francisco-based company was started even earlier, in November 2011.

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Media Law

JUNE 4, 2012

Back in January 2010, this blog had an exclusive first look as Fastcase was about to launch its app to let iPhone users research cases and statutes for free, directly on their devices. Tomorrow that changes, as Fastcase will release an Android version of its legal research app.

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Media Law

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Can Twitter be a legitimate source of legal research and scholarship? To fulfill the requirement that he produce a scholarly note addressing a legal issue, he has written a paper that he researched and sourced almost entirely […] The post Experimental Law Review Note Uses Twitter As Its Research Source appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. As an associate editor of the Michigan State Law Review, 3L Patrick M. Ellis decided to find out.

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Media Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Legal research is often a solitary pursuit, with lawyers hunched over their computers or law books in absolute silence, sometimes with looks of panic or confusion on their faces.

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Media Law

DECEMBER 5, 2011

LexisNexis today is formally launching its next-generation legal research platform, Lexis Advance. In October 2010, I wrote about the roll-out of Lexis Advance for Solos , the flat-rate legal research platform targeted at one- and two-lawyer firms.

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Media Law

JULY 26, 2013

Imagine if you could combine a full-text case law library for research with crowdsourced editing and annotating in the style of Wikipedia and user rankings of annotations and references in the style of a site such as Digg? That, roughly speaking, is the idea behind Casetext, an innovative legal research site launched this week that provides [.] The post New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.

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Media Law

AUGUST 22, 2013

Legal professionals have lots of options for fee-based legal research services these days, but the most popular among them all is WestlawNext, according to the latest ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. Of all lawyers who use fee-based online legal research services, 28 percent say the one they use most often is WestlawNext. And as if […] The post For Paid Legal Research, WestlawNext is Most Popular, ABA Survey Says appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.

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Media Law

DECEMBER 10, 2014

16, I will be moderating a free webinar that will look at how “big data” analytics are being used to provide new windows into legal research. The post Join Me for a Free Webinar: Using Big Data Analytics for Legal Research appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. On Tuesday, Dec. Specifically, we will look at Ravel Law and PacerPro, two tools that are providing new ways of looking at case law and case information. Ravel — […].

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Media Law

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The free legal research site CourtListener rolled out a notable enhancement this week, adding oral arguments from the Supreme Court and nine federal appellate courts to its collection of primary legal materials. The post CourtListener Adds Oral Arguments to its Free Research Site appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.

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Media Law

JANUARY 3, 2012

A new website called Tabulaw hopes to simplify the task of legal research and writing. The site’s premise is that legal research tools are expensive, fragmented and redundant. Once you have done your research and you are ready to start writing, you can do that from within Tabulaw also.

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Media Law

JANUARY 22, 2014

” The site would focus on using crowdsourcing to enhance access to legal research. “By […] The post After Aborted Launch, Jurify is Back with Research Tool for Transactional Lawyers appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.

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Media Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A new website, BriefMine , aims to help lawyers mine a collection of legal briefs for nuggets they can use in their own research and arguments. Here is how the site describes itself: BriefMine is a database of legal briefs and opinions powered by natural-language search that offers a technologically advanced platform for conducting in-depth legal research.

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Media Law

JULY 5, 2011

Bloomberg Law today released what it describes as “the next evolution&# of its legal research platform. One thing that is not changing is Bloomberg Law’s flat-fee, all-inclusive pricing — something the company believes is key to differentiating it from the big-two legal research services, Westlaw and LexisNexis. Even so, Andreozzi asserts that such secondary materials account for no more than 10 percent of all legal research.

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Media Law

MARCH 8, 2011

Back in October, I wrote a post here about Lexis Advance for Solos , the new, flat-rate legal research platform from LexisNexis for one- and two-lawyer firms.

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Media Law

JANUARY 7, 2014

My latest “Ambrogi on Tech” column for the ABA Journal, 2 new websites offer platform for crowdsourced legal research, looks at Casetext and Mootus, two sites that bring crowdsourcing to legal research, but in somewhat different ways. The post Two Sites Offer Platforms for Crowdsourced Legal Research appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.

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Media Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

He kept a log of every case he briefed, every memo he wrote, and every bit of research he performed. Called CitePin , the idea of it is to enable every lawyer to instantly access everything he or she has ever written or researched.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

New York is demanding "all recordings of everyone interviewed for the film who has any direct knowledge of the Central Park criminal case." read more. Movies THR, Esq

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

A judge quashes a subpoena on outtakes, ruling that the filmmakers were independent, and that the city has failed to demonstrate relevancy and the unavailability of information through alternative sources. read more. Movies THR, Esq. Business

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Media Law Prof Blog

JUNE 20, 2011

From the New York Times: Dolby International is suing Research In Motion (RIM) for patent infringement over what Dolby says is RIM's use of Dolby's "patented digital audio compression technology" in RIM's popular smart phones and tablets. Read one of

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Media Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The post Book Serves as Guide to Free and Low-Cost Legal Research appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. I am a cheapskate. I am not ashamed to admit it. That is what first drove me to explore the Internet more than 20 years ago, back when many lawyers still had not even heard of it. Having just gone back into private practice at the time, I was in search of free resources for […].

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Media Law

JANUARY 17, 2017

ROSS Intelligence, the artificial intelligence legal research platform, outperforms Westlaw and LexisNexis in finding relevant authorities, in user satisfaction and confidence, and in research efficiency, and is virtually certain to deliver a positive return on investment. These are among the findings of benchmark report being released today by the technology research and advisory company Blue […].

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Media Law

MAY 24, 2017

The legal research service Ravel Law today announced the launch of a new feature, Firm Analytics, that provides insights on law firms’ litigation histories that can be used for competitive intelligence and research into firms’ litigation activity.

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Media Law Prof Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Academic Social Research and Journalism in the European Union's Privacy Framework. David Erdos, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, has published Freedom of Expression Turned on its Head? Here is the abstract. This article argues that

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Media Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

If your first order of business today is researching Canadian immigration law, you may be able to do it on an all-new research platform. The legal research company Fastcase has begun a broad rollout of its all-new version, Fastcase […]. The new start page displays information in colored tiles, similar to the style of Windows 10. The post Fastcase Begins Broad Rollout Of Its All-New Fastcase 7 Platform appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. General Fastcase

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Media Law Prof Blog

MAY 12, 2017

New from Elgar: Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law (Isabella Alexander and H. Elgar Publishing, 2017) (Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property Series). Tomás Gómez-Arostegui, eds., There has been an explosion of interest in recent years regarding the origin

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Media Law Prof Blog

MAY 11, 2017

The Pew Research Center has released some new information about Americans' attitudes toward the news media. Specifically, Pew notes that Democrats are more likely to believe that the media tends to act as a check on politicians (nearly 90 percent

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Media Law

JUNE 8, 2017

In major legal-industry news, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced its acquisition of Ravel Law, the legal research, analytics and visualization platform that empowers users to contextualize and interpret large amounts of legal information to uncover valuable insights.

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Media Law

JUNE 13, 2017

Legal research company Fastcase today announced that Steve Errick, who was most recently vice president and managing director for research information at LexisNexis, will join the company on July 1 as chief operating officer. Steve Errick Ed Walters, Fastcase CEO, told me that Errick is being brought on to help lead the growth and expansion […].

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Media Law Prof Blog

APRIL 21, 2016

Carroll, American University College of Law, has published Sharing Research Data and Intellectual Property Law: A Primer in volume 13 of PLOS Biology (Issue 8) (2015). Sharing research data by depositing it in connection Michael W.

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Media Law Prof Blog

MAY 14, 2013

From The Scientist, a discussion of misconduct in scientific research, in spite of increased emphasis on ethics training for scientists

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Media Law

MAY 23, 2014

For anyone researching the topic, however, you should note that the list is incomplete. My research has found three states not listed on the LTRC site — Connecticut, Florida and Virginia — which brings the total number of […].

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Media Law

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The legacy legal research service will be leaving this world at the end of 2017. This week, LexisNexis began notifying Lexis.com customers that it will be shutting down the service over the next 12 months and moving them to the newer Lexis Advance research platform. Prepare last rites for Lexis.com. “By kicking off this process […]. The post It’s Last Rites for Lexis.com, As LexisNexis Sets Date for Shutdown appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.

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Media Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The legal research service Casemaker has partnered with the international legal research service vLex in a joint licensing agreement that gives clients of both companies access to more of the world’s laws. The agreement enables Casemaker clients for the first time to search for international case law and materials directly from Casemaker’s website. vLex clients […].

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Media Law

JANUARY 5, 2016

The post Lexbox Organizes and Monitors Canadian Legal Research appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. I know what you’re thinking: Just because Ambrogi won a Canadian law blog award last week, now he’s gratuitously writing about Canadian stuff. But the fact of the matter is that I started playing around with Lexbox even before then. I am speaking later this month at the mid-winter conference of the Manitoba Bar Association […].

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Media Law Prof Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Elizabeth Adeney, Deakin University Law School, is publishing Research Collaborations and ‘Authorship’: Differentiating Legal from Management Norms in Australian Business Law Review, volume 44 (2016).

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Media Law

APRIL 3, 2017

Bloomberg Law’s new home page.The Bloomberg BNA legal research service Bloomberg Law today is introducing a new user interface that streamlines the search experience by making it easier to conduct searches and to find specific types of content.

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