Based on comments received and related blog posts I thought I would clarify my Convergence post. References to “convergence” can touch on two separate issues:When it comes to #2, I agree that a smaller
If you were to listen to folks on Twitter on Tuesday, it looks as if AmLaw 100 firms are all going belly up any day now. GC’s are bolting for smaller firms that will listen to their individual needs. BigLaw firms are the last of the buggy whip makers and will no longer be needed
In an attempt to out do the “X for Dummies” approach, Greg and I are going to use the “Whadya Stupid or Somethin?” brand and see what we can make of it.
This week I saw one too many RFPs stating something along the lines of, “in order to better control our costs,
I finally found something on WestlawNext pricing from a Thomson Reuters document called “WestlawNext: Pricing Guide for Commercial Plans“. The pricing seems a wee-bit steep on my initial view, especially if you take the per minute charge and multiply them by 60 to get the hourly charges (like I did in the chart
Let me start this post off with saying that I love living in Houston, with its long Summers and mild Winters (and my wife loves the humidity… something about not needing as much moisturizer.) But the State of Texas sometimes drives me nuts with some of the silly things that goes on here. The two latest
I initially put this as a comment on yesterday’s post of “Hey Library! You’re Now in the Marketing Department!!“, but thought it actually deserves its own posting.
I’ve had some “off-line” conversations with other law librarians at big firms and there is a question that has been raised whether the people that have
I written before that I think the Library department and the Marketing departments work very well together. However, apparently the folks over at Morrison Foerster (MoFo) have taken my advice further than even I would have imagined. Yesterday at the Law Marketing Association conference, MoFo new CMO, Joe Calve, discussed the topic of increasing
In case you don’t know what free legal research product your bar association provides you, here’s an interactive map to help.
Great read over at LOMAP on Research Trails: Breadcrumbs for Recovering (the) Most of Your Research Buck. This is a good follow up read to the post we did here on 3 Geeks asking if a lawyer really needs premium tools like Westlaw to practice. Jared Correia at LOMAP points out that there are
First Thought: Honestly – who would actually read a book on such a tiny screen?
Reality: Chapter 23 and counting …
As soon as they announced the Kindle for Blackberry (BB) was available (for free for all you Greg wannabes) I promptly went to download it. Once I figured out I needed to use the