Lynn Lenart, Law Librarian, and Richard Cohen, Associate Professor & Director of the University of Akron’s Legal Writing program have written a “Guide for WestlawNext & LexisNexis Online” that should give a lot of you a good overview of the new legal research products (and tweaks to existing products). It is written from
That was the lyric of the Some Girls’ song I was listening to while I just happened to be reading how Google’s boss, Eric Schmidt, suggested that someday young people will have to change their actual identities to escape their online identities. Schmidt, like a lot of other “non-young people”, seem to think that young
Sometimes reading the morning legal headlines can be funnier than reading the comics. This morning I came across two articles where Judges dismissed the cases and also blasted the plaintiffs for submitting petitions to the court that either didn’t list a single legal reference to back up the claim, or attempted the “everything and the
If I were to say the phrase “Temporal Analytics Engine” to you, would you think I was quoting something off of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Well, it would turn out that (this time at least) you would be wrong. A temporal analytics engine (TAE) is actually a method of searching documents that discuss related
The Elephant Series Brainstorming over beer – we came up with a new blog concept and we’re calling it The Elephant. The concept is tackling a topic from multiple points of view. On the first pass, these POVs will come from our stable of bloggers. But then the real fun will come engaging others POVs
While flipping through some of my daily BigLaw news feeds, I noticed a free service that Latham & Watkins offers all of us — The Books of Jargon on Corporate & Bank Finance, and Project Finance. So, if you need to know that in Project Finance, the term “LAER” actually stands for “Lowest
I hear many law librarians complain that the foot traffic in a library has shrunk to that one guy that grabs the morning paper… heads out to the bathroom… then brings the paper back a few minutes later. (Does that guy even work here??) Anyway… I found this little tidbit from a “60’s Girl Group/Beat
Obviously, everything we need is on the Internet, right??
That’s what Josie D. Schoolcraft wrote to the Editor of the Bullard Banner Newspaper. Ms. Schoolcraft believes that Cherokee County Texas is wasting the $4,176 in annual salary that goes to the person that maintains the books in the county’s law library. Is she right? Is