While cleaning up my twitter account this week, it dawned on my that something has been missing from my daily stream of twitter information… that nasty twittergiest, @hklawtwits that was constantly telling me how bad the law firm of Holland & Knight was. The last tweet was posted back on November 29, 2009, and
Interesting discussion going on over at Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP) today regarding low-cost legal research providers Fastcase and Casemaker. Casemaker lays out a claim that Fastcase is chock full of missing case citations, and even gives out a list of the first 50 cases missing a correct citation (A.3d, P.3d, ect.) from all
It seems that the first ‘virtual shots’ have been fired in what might become the first big Internet War of the 21st Century. According to reports from The Guardian this morning, it seems that Google has been hacked, presumably from the Chinese Government, and the bios of Google executives have been converted to Chinese. Many
I thought I’d do a follow up to last week’s post where I crowned Casemaker as the “King of State Case Law Coverage.” There are two reasons behind the follow-up. First, Nina Platt brought up an assumption that many people might have about state case law coverage and the idea that the vendor
It seems that the folks at WestlawNext have created a simple two-page resource that helps us all understand the pricing of their new product. You got to love a clearly written two-page document like this that list out twenty-four scenarios along with three footnotes listing caveats to some of the scenarios. Don’t forget to multiply those
I always enjoy reading project management articles that are written for specific industries, and then seeing if they also apply for managing projects outside of those industries. This morning I came across one such posting on one of my favorite blogs, Heavy Mental. Although the post describes the ten keys of project management for
I took a look at the state case law coverage from four of the low-cost legal research providers (Fastcase, Loislaw, Casemaker and Google Scholar) to see who has the most coverage. When I started this project, I assumed that Loislaw would be the hands down winner. After all, they have the
