It is rational for someone who has been wildly successful doing something a certain way to keep doing it that way, especially when the odds appear favorable that they will continue to be successful. Most people don’t exit their comfort zone without a compelling reason. This is doubly true of many high-status experts.
While I was sadly unable to attend the 2016 AALL annual conference that wrapped yesterday in Chicago, I have it on good authority that the most recent ALM Law Library Survey caused some intense discussion around industry surveys and their value. The issues raised go well beyond law libraries and seem to fit almost
Word limits are a very good idea. Constraints benefit my regular writing (which needs all the help it can get). Here, however, I get to ramble, which has its own virtues.
As some you may have seen, Legaltech News published the first Legal Tech Assessment case study in November. This was a milestone moment for
It is hard to feel sympathy for extremely successful people. The problems of the powerful pale in comparison to the problems of the powerless. But the thing about power is that those who lack it have a difficult time understanding its limitations. Those who earn at the poverty line don’t really see the gap between
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Nearly five years ago, we did an Elephant Post asking our readers what they think Law Firms would stop using by the Fall of 2016. We thought it would be interesting to review those predictions and see how well we guessed.
Some of them were spot on… some were close… and
This post originally appeared on the HighQ Blog.
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| My Workshop for the South African Online Users Group Meeting in beautiful Pretoria, South Africa (6/7/16) |
It’s been a while now since I’ve written a truly geeky post that didn’t focus on law libraries. I’m going to try to make up for that with this one on how to pull data from websites using Excel.
In Part 1, I introduced the idea that we are all professional cyborgs. I used my personal experience with a diabetic toddler whose life literally depends on computers attached to his body to ruminate on how technology is so deeply intertwined with our professional lives that we often don’t even notice it. I rejected
In the May 23rd American Lawyer article, “More Law Firms Outsource Their Law Libraries [pay wall],” is a wakeup call for some librarians, old news for many, a call to arms for others, and a confirmation of a shift in the profession for the rest. Outsourcing is a scary word, but one that