I was joking around with Sarah Glassmeyer on Twitter yesterday that the graph she did on Thomson Reuters acquisitions would explode if she added in all the mega-company acquisitions from 2010. Although today’s news about TR becoming the primary printing and binding shop for the American Bar Association isn’t exactly an acquisition, it does louden that
The Law Library staff at the University of Michigan (MLaw) has launched an educational campaign promoting the key benefits that the library offers. The library promotion points out the benefits that can help a student succeed during their time in law school. The MLaw Library Director, Margaret Leary, ticks off a few of the benefits
Not everything that you need to use at work has to be expensive. In fact, many of us use free or open source software all the time. So, this week’s Elephant Post question is:
What Free (or very low-cost) Product do you use everyday that helps you accomplish your job?
Although the saying of “you
For the second year in a row the American Bar Association selected 3 Geeks and a Law Blog as one of the ABA Journal Blawg 100. We are excited about being selected, and wanted to thank all of you that read this blog, and a special thanks to all of the guest bloggers we’ve
There were two pieces of news coming out of LexisNexis today. The first was the announcement that ProQuest has acquired Congressional Information Services (CIS) and University Publications of America. The Second announcement was the launching of Reed Tech Web Archiving Services powered by Iterasi that will focus on preserving “web-based content to support the growing
I ran across a little program called Genieo the other day, and after playing around with it, found it to be an interesting way to compile a pseudo-news page of things that are interesting to me. You can think of it as a product that combines some of the traits of those Twitter newspapers (
Last night, I was reading our Declaration of Independence–don’t ask me why–and I noticed something very interesting. First, let me say that I am no expert on it. Just another average joe with a law degree.
Jordan Furlong brings up an interesting insight in his recent post, “Law firm of the 21st Century.” He notes “the company that used to sell lawyers their textbooks and caselaw databases is now, in effect, competing with them in the delivery of legal services.” He’s referring in large part to the recent acquisition
[Guest Blogger – Marlene Gebauer]
Do you have a Service Level Agreement, or SLA at your library? If you do, I would love to hear about it. If you are wondering what I am talking about, Wikipedia defines an SLA as “a part of a service contract where the level of service is formally
The Social Network director, David Fincher, may have brought his experience from films like Fight Club and Seven, but you may have wondered what The Social Network would have looked like had someone else taken the director’s reins.
Luckily, CollegeHumor’s production gives us a chance to see it through the eyes of famous directors like