At the end of January, I attended LegalTech 2013, a legal technology conference sponsored every year by American Lawyer Media. This conference is attended by thousands of legal and IT professionals seeking to learn about the latest legal technologies and innovations. If nothing else, this conference is oftentimes a convergence of some of the most innovative and influential people and companies in the legal technology space, and this year was no exception.

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The New York Times reported extensively in recent weeks on the impending crisis facing all but the most elite of U.S. law schools and the measures some institutions are taking to counteract it. But more is needed.

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I’ve discussed before how iPad apps for lawyers is a burgeoning arena and there are new apps released every day. For that reason, I figure it’s high time to highlight both newer apps and some of the more popular standbys that have been around for a few years now.

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9/11. Without saying anything more, those numbers and that phrase conjure up images, memories and emotions in the minds and hearts of every American.

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There was a quote I read on a friend’s loft in college that asked, “Are you the man the boy wanted to be?” This always struck me as an interesting thought, although I’m not sure I grasped its full meaning as a twenty-something know-nothing. But from time to time things in my legal career cause me to pause and to reflect on this question and ask myself whether I am, in fact, the lawyer the first year law student wanted to be.

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In "Only the Strong Survive," a song of my youth, Jerry Butler (aka the Iceman), sings about the importance of being strong in a budding love relationship. The sentiment by the Iceman may be right about love. But the title, taken from what many believe Charles Darwin, author of "The Origin of the Species," surmised, is wrong.

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