Whether you are BigLaw, MidLaw, or SmallLaw, the change that LexisNexis just made may have some significant effects on how you conduct legal research and plan your subscriptions for legal research services. LexisNexis is no longer offering “LexisNexis by Credit Card.” In order to access those legal research tools, you’ll need to sign up for
I missed commenting about this when it was announced last week. Looks like former AALL Government Relations representative, Mary Alice Baish, is hard at work at her new post and is working to pilot the release of Federal Court decisions via FDsys.gov. This should prove to be a much better format than the PACER
While I was going through law school, I worked a side job for the university as a mainframe programmer/analyst. It was a fun job, and I worked with some extremely intelligent people. One of my co-workers used to have a saying that he used all the time whenever we’d decide that we needed to “create
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Hopefully that title just made you start humming the Beastie Boys song. If it did, see me in Philly at the Summit and I’ll buy you a beer.
I’ve always been a fan of visualizing information in unique ways. I stumbled upon an app this week that does just that sort of thing
I do a fair amount of presentations on Law Library, Knowledge Management, Records, Social Media, and Competitive Intelligence topics. When the talk is over, I usually go through the comments from the audience to see what I could have done better, or if there were things that I missed and need to include the next
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What is the future of legal directories? Are they still valuable? If so, in what form?
This question came to us from Dallas law librarian, Kevin Miles. What surprised me in this week’s answers was the fact that no legal marketing people chimed in to give an answer. Aren’t they the
Although Toby Brown, Scott Preston and I will be the “lunch-time entertainment” at this year’s Private Law Libraries (PLL-SIS) Summit in Philadelphia, you may not feel that we are the kind of speakers that you could proudly go up to your firm leadership and say “I really need to go to this so I can