A friend texted me before the New Year to tell me that her firm granted her request for a raise. But today, she got even more interesting news.
Salary is a real issue for young lawyers, as explained by Wired’s “Grad Students are Freak Out About GOP Tax Plan. They Should
One of the best things about being President of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), is the advocacy I get to see first-hand that we do in fighting for the rights of our members, access to justice issues, and when we join in solidarity with peer organizations to urge that our government representatives take
[Ed. Note: Please welcome guest blogger Michael Robak, Director of the Schoenecker Law Library, Associate Dean and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis) School of Law]
I read with great interest Zena Applebaum’s Mandatory Classes a Wish for 2018 post. And, while I can’t say this post will
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”
“We deal in deception here. What we do not deal with is self-deception.”
Change is happening. It is good.
I am not really one for New Year’s resolutions.
While some law schools in the US
Robert Ambrogi did me a kindness by including me in his post, The Year of Women in Legal Tech.
I’ve been working in legal technology before it was even a thing.
Over the past 20 years, the field of legal digital marketing has taken off and become a legitimate business need.
As the legal
We’ve all probably heard some variation of the following two business quotes:
Prepare your staff so they can leave and go anywhere… treat them well enough so they don’t want to leave.
Q: What if I train them, and they leave?
A: What if you don’t train them and they stay?
I thought about both
We take a break from Casey’s BS series and point you to a historical review of the “cutthroat” legal research industry as it moved from print, hardbound reporter sets, to the online legal research systems which we know today. Whenever an industry is disrupted by a new technology, the players within the industry can play
My friend John Grant made a mistake.
Many moons ago he was consulting on process improvement for a large law department. He surveyed in-house counsel on their biggest complaints about outside counsel. The response was that outside counsel:
It’s that time of year: time for top 10 lists for 2017.
What is your favorite top 10 list for 2017? Top movies? Top books? Top cars?
Well, here’s one more: our top ten 3 Geeks blog posts for 2017 in true Letterman style.
No. 10
Legal News Publishers: Stop Using the Term “Non-Lawyer”
No.