Law Technology News (LTN) is reporting this morning that LexisNexis (LN) will be reducing their headcount by approximately 500 employees in various locations in the United States. You can read the item here. LTN is reporting that the statement was issued by Marc Osborn, senior director of communications for its Research and Litigation Solutions unit. LN had not
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Citation Wars…or Mine! Mine!
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It was a rough time for the Empire.
Online case services were multiplying fast and furious. Yes, even their vaunted reporter system had been compromised. The beginning of the end began in the late 1990’s, when even the Courts had ruled against them. It became more important than ever to just hold…
Ebooks: A Tale of [Publisher] Stupidity
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CI and the "La-la-la I can't hear you" Syndrome
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TR Legal to End Pay-As-You-Go
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AALL Consumer Advocacy Caucus: Why?
Why have a AALL Consumer Advocacy Caucus? There seems to a lot posted lately in Law Librarian circles about this and I’ve been struggling to figure out this question for quite some time. Today’s LLB post about the petition to create this group provides a succinct summary of the arguments of the advocates. However, these…

What have you done for me lately?
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I'm sooo confused!
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After the Love is Gone…
- Charging for both the User Interface and the content
- Laying off all of the Library Relations staff on the West Coast
- Reallocating personnel to
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Who needs a Librarian anyway?
By Mark Gediman In his recent post on the ABA Journal’s The New Normal Blog (“Does it Pay to Hire a Law Firm Librarian”), Patrick Lamb posits that only those firms that need a resident expert for online research would need a Librarian. In fact, Mr. Lamb doesn’t think a library is necessary.…