Every year there seems to be a hot topic revolving around some action taken by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Executive Board as we head to the annual meeting. This year is no exception, and the topic involves the expansion of defining who can be a full-fledged member of AALL and what this
Last week I posted on how recent DC Bar opinions would cause clients to have to pay for more lawyer time. I don’t think the DC Bar was attempting to directly protect the lawyers’ market from e-discovery vendors, but instead saw that protection as an unintended consequence. As a result of the post, I received
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While having an off-the-cuff Twitter conversation the other day with my friend Sarah Glassmeyer, regarding if technology and open access can transform us as a society and make us better people. My tweet was joking about how 95% of librarians believe that Open Access publications is delivering benefits to society, and that
At 3 Geeks, we have previously touched on the concept of Third Party Litigation Funding (TPLF) and its potential impact on the profession. Today we are fortunate to have Danielle Olofsson, a Knowledge Management Lawyer from Montréal Canada, bring us the Canadian perspective. This guest post highlights the continued evolution and growth of TPLF
OK … so that’s not exactly what the DC Bar said, but take a moment and think about what two recent DC ethics opinions are suggesting. The Bar opinions note that many e-discovery vendors providing document review services are either a) practicing law without a license (opinion 21-12), or b) splitting fees improperly with non-lawyers (opinion 362
In my role, I am fortunate to see the various market updates on demand, productivity and other key legal market stats. One fairly consistent stat over the past few years has been flat market growth (a.k.a. no market growth). Although there have been minor ups and downs on this stat (most recently a slight up-tick),
According to the Washington Post, the Justices on the US Supreme Court are big fans of Googling facts not presented to the court in briefs or oral arguments. Although the practice of in-house fact finding is not prohibited by any rules, the practice does raise some questions about how Justices research the issues presented
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Librarians, both as individuals, and as a profession, are constantly navigating the tidal shifts of how information is consumed in the age of the Internet. Whether it is understanding ways to disintermediate resources so that the librarian is no longer a gatekeeper to that resource, but rather a promoter of getting
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In the past I have talked about how law firms have become profit-margin businesses versus their old cost-plus model. And I have alluded to the fact that associates and other non-partners are the source of margins and therefore profit. So I thought I would take a crack at modeling a single associate
Toby and I had a great lunch today where we discussed everything from the current state of the music touring business to what will happen when Mayor Mike goes back to his day job of running Bloomberg. One of the topics along the way to the Bloomberg end of things was if Reed Elsevier spun