Lots of activity as we approach the July 4th holiday. Let’s kick it off with “A Robot that Kills Parking Tickets and its Big Law Friend,” by Casey Sullivan at Bloomberg Big Law Business features DoNotPay, which launched last September. In addition to overturning parking tickets, the app also helps people get reimbursed for delayed airline flights. Founder Joshua Browder has plans to implement IBM’s Watson tech to “roll out an arabic-speaking feature that helps Syrian refugees understand the legal process while seeking asylum in the U.K.”

Browder claims that DoNotPay has overturned more than $4 million worth of parking tix in London and New York. It’s free—no charge to the client. Sullivan compares DNP to Ross, run by Andrew Arruda (who was a panelist at our recent FutureLaw conference). Good read!

• Ravel Law and its collaboration with Harvard Law School. “The court opinions of Massachusetts and Delaware just became more digital,” announced Ravel CEO Daniel Lewis today on Unravel | Ravel Law’s Blog.  “For the first time ever, the comprehensive collections of caselaw in the two states are now online via Ravel, and freely available to anyone with an Internet connection.”

“Access to legal information is fundamental to our  system—it’s why we have open courtrooms—yet, until now, legal materials have largely remained locked behind expensive paywalls or archived in analog books. We’re working with Harvard to change that, and that means that anyone can now read all of Massachusetts and Delaware’s caselaw for free.”

New York and California are also fully digitized and analyzed, Lewis noted.

• Carol Lynn Grow, VP of Marketing and Sales at LawToolBox.com, Inc., checked in to let us know that LawToolBox365 is now bundled with Microsoft Office 365 for Legal. The bundle is delivered in partnership with Ingram Micro, said the press release.

“As an Outlook add-in, LawToolBox365 is integrated with Office 365 and creates a matter-based backbone inside Outlook allowing legal professionals to manage deadlines from beginning to end without ever leaving their Outlook Inbox,” the June 27 press release said. “With LawToolBox365, Microsoft Outlook users see various buttons in their Outlook Ribbon that activate based on what they are doing, such as “Calculate Deadlines,” “Share Deadlines” and “View Deadlines.”

Also pinging me about this is Microsoft’s Nishan DeSilva, Corporate External Legal Affairs CTO, who forwarded Robert Ambrogi’s report via LawToolBox blog.

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Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX and a member of the California bar. She is also an analyst and freelance journalist (Bloomberg Big Law Business, Above The Law, ALM, Legal Talk Network, and others.) Twitter: @MonicaBay.  Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu.

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