When Reed Elsevier announced the retirement of its current CEO, Andy Prozes, it also outlined a change in how the LexisNexis business will be organized after January 1, 2011. LexisNexis will be split into two different units, each with its own CEO. There will be a “Risk Solutions” group with Jim Peck as
We thought we would have a little fun this week and play off of the “geek” in our contributors. This week’s question is:
Which Fictional (Star Trek, Monty Python, Dr. Who, mythical, etc.) character do you think would be outstanding in your profession?
Off the top of my head, I picked Mr. Data from Star
Law firms need libraries and need law firm librarians. There have already been several rebuttals posted in reaction to Mr. Lamb’s article, but mostly from the perspective of the library, who presumably want to keep their spaces and their jobs. I however, as a competitive intelligence practitioner, come at from a different perspective –
Toby had a chance to sit down with Shy Alter, Peter Krakaur and Andrew Terrett to discuss the practicalities of Legal Project Management. The ILTA TV program discusses the issues surrounding LPM and whether we are attempting to turn attorneys into defacto Project Managers along with the principles and best practices of LPM in law
We mentioned last week that Thomson Reuters Legal is going to double-down its efforts to sell its products to the one- to three-attorney law firms. From some of the people I’ve talked to, it appears that the majority of these efforts are going to take place through an increase in phone sales focused on these
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.
