The marriage between Bloomberg and BNA seems to be moving right along. Today, Bloomberg Law announced that BNA’s CEO, Greg McCaffery, is now the CEO of Bloomberg Law, taking the place of the retiring Larry Thompson. McCaffery has been at BNA since 1986 where he moved up from staff Editor to COO and then President/CEO.
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Big hat tip to the Jones McClure Publishing blog, Annotations, for pointing out John Barker’s post on “Algorithmically Assisted Editorial Insight for Professional Publishers.” In it, Barker discusses the well established notion that there is just too much information out there for even sophisticated search engines to digest without
Toby Brown sat down with Shy Alter on Monday and had a great conversation on where law firms (and clients) are in the transition to Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) versus traditional Billable Hour work. I’ve embedded the video (and it will pick up right as Toby is being introduced. It is a very informative 6
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It is so easy to get yourself into a rut. We find comfort in establishing a routine, and then, after a while, we forget to ask ourselves if the routine is still effective. Those email alerts, those saved search results, news feeds, email lists, internal reports, company monitors, and many other
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| 1L’s are getting younger and younger. Actually, these are my daughters on their way to the first day of school today! |
I had a very pleasant conversation with a fresh-faced first year law student this morning as we waited for a bus that finally showed up 20 minutes late. Being 18 years removed from my 1L experience,
We’re all cruising through the ILTA Conference session titles now in the final stages of making our maps through the Gaylord’s throng of session rooms. One session title that jumped out was John Alber’s Thursday afternoon session: “Five Reasons Why Terms Like “Practice Support,” “Knowledge Management” and “Financial Services” Miss the Point.” That session
Next Thursday afternoon at 3:30 PM in the Maryland A conference room of the Gaylord National Resort in Washington D.C., Sean Brady and I will be giving our presentation: APP 13 – The Future of Data Delivery Or: How I Learned to Stop Browsing and Love the App.
Ours is the last session on
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Recently Greenberg made a Capital Call to its partners. Of course, the market reacted with an expected “Is this the next Dewey?”
My thinking – that is unlikely. Looking beyond the Dewey angle, I think there is a much bigger issue looming here. The issue: The extreme limitations on the
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Once again, Futurist Andy Hines has widened my horizons and exposed me to ideas and professions that I never knew existed. Today’s expanded horizon covers the profession of “Coolhunters.”
Now according to Wikipedia:
Coolhunting is a term coined in the early 1990s referring to a new breed of marketing professionals, called
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I welcomed a new neighbor this week who is moving in across the drive from me. I struck up a “Welcome to the Neighborhood” conversation and learned he is a relatively new lawyer working in a small defense firm. Of course the subject turned to the current market for legal services and