November 2011

“Come and listen to a story
’bout a man named Jed…”

When you graduate from a high school that only had 49 Seniors, it is very unlikely that anyone will have forgotten about you. I had the pleasure of attending my 25th High School Reunion this weekend with a number of my fellow graduates. The

Greg and Jordan make good points in their comments to my post on the shrinking bet-the-farm (BTF) segment of legal services. These beg the question: what exactly is bet-the-farm work in the legal market today? Traditionally this would have been work where the law firm names the rates and puts in whatever amount of hours

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While attending the AALL Futures Summit last week, I got to talk with a number of young members (those within the first five years of the law library profession) and found the discussion to be absolutely wonderful and enlightening. I have a number of topics that I’ll probably blog upon over the

Last week I had the fortune of attending two valuable conferences – the Ark-Group KM and the COLPM Futures Conferences. Perhaps the greatest value to me was the back-to-back participation I enjoyed. This merging of ideas and forums lead me to a new epiphany – or more accurately, an expanded epiphany.
At the Ark-Group KM