Legal Commentary

I turn the mic over to my colleague Sean Doherty, Law.com's technology editor:

 After welcoming the new year with a bevy of new predictions, we are looking forward to another LegalTech new year in New York from February 1 to 3. And it promises to be like the forthcoming Chinese New Year of the Metal Tiger, projecting a positive year with a motto of "I win." Only at LegalTech, I think the motto will be "we win."

It's going to be a new legal technology year when IT stops talking about feeds and speeds (read: hardware and infrastructure) and focuses on making it easier for lawyers to provide legal services and tend to the business side of the law.

That said, we are already getting some news on Westlaw's Project Cobalt from a number (one, two, three) of sources. The new project appears to offer users an easier interface (read: Google-like) to legal resources. I can only hope that the hype does not give us any game changers. We have the game, ladies and gentlemen. We need the tools to master it.

(Hat tip to Aric Press for pointing out the sources.)