A memo (see snippet below) was sent out to all associates at one national firm last week mandating any associate that “utilizes or intends to utilize Westlaw” to attend a training session to learn the firm’s “Best Practices”. I’m actually glad to see that a firm has stepped up and created a “Best Practices” manual
Just to prove that Thomson Reuters isn’t alone in its quest to gobble up the legal publishing market, I thought that I’d put together a list of Reed Elsevier mergers (LexisNexis’ Parent Corp.) Again, the mergers are uploaded to a Google Docs spreadsheet for anyone to download and add play with in your own
Hats off to Sarah Glassmeyer for graphing out the shrinking legal publisher market in a way that really shows how much consolidation has been going on over the past 30+ years (see the full graph). Glassmeyer lists out the three big publishers (Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer) and show how much of
[Guest Blogger Mark Gediman]
My phone is ringing off the hook these days with folks who want to do me a favor and negotiate with my vendors for me. First, yes, I did say “my” vendors even though I know that they are here to service the needs of the firm. I
Hats off to Thomson Reuters for testing out the ‘crowd’ to help them build mobile apps for their Thomson Reuters API through their “StreetApps Challenge“. There are six “prizes” for apps builders ranging from $15K in cash to an iPad for external contestants, to “Thomson Reuters Points” and “Shown on Thomson Reuters Jumbotron
If you say the word “Outsourcing” to a law librarian you’ll notice a few physical reactions that take place. Watch how the hair tends to stand up on the back of our necks; how we tend to raise one eyebrow a little higher than the other; and particularly notice how both hands are clinched into
I finally gave in and ordered an iPad 3G this week. Although I do not have it in my hands right now (delivery scheduled for –cross my fingers– ‘late April’), I’ve already have some big plans for it and am looking forward to testing how much I can make use of it.
When I was
