Goodbye Winter, Hello Legal Tech Updates
With only two more days before March arrives, the sun is beginning to show its warmth. Legal technology companies and startups have survived Legaltech New York for yet another year, and the rituals of Spring are upon us: the white Oscars will be presented tomorrow; baseball training is in progress in Florida and Arizona; we’re starting to think about our picks for the NCAA tournaments—and the crocuses and daffodils are starting to poke out of the cold soil. As we all defrost, here are some updates about legal technology products, ideas and people.

• Free Law Project, in collaboration with the University of Baltimore School of Law, has launched a visualization tool for studying Supreme Court doctrine. Source: Mike Lissner. More info.
• Lex Machina has added improvements to its Attorney Search Engine.
• ZL Technologies has launched 8.0.3 of ZL Unified Archives.
• Cycayda has named Aaron Vice as chief strategy officer.
• Tom Baldwin will be leaving his CIO post at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft to join Fireman & Company as a partner.
Click here and here (Baldwin).
Source: Gabe Friedman, Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business.
• LexisNexis has unveiled DiscoveryIQ eDiscovery Platform Enhanced by Brainspace. Source: Daryn Teague, Teague Communications.
Among the reaction: LexisNexis Business of Law Blog; Stephanie Simon, KMWorld; CIO Review.

ESSAYS
• “Today’s Tech: How a Law Professor Uses YouTube in His Classroom,” by Nicole Black (Legal Technology Evangelist at MyCase), Above The Law.
• “Apple Isn’t above the Law, Even If Time Cook Is Right About Protecting Privacy,” by Adam Lashinsky, Fortune. (Hat tip: Above The Law).
Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. She is a freelance journalist for Bloomberg Big Law Business and a columnist at Above The Law. Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu. Twitter: @MonicaBay