LexisNexis representatives are sending out notices that they are now the exclusive provider of The New York Times content for the legal market. For those of you that are keeping score, this adds to LexisNexis’ exclusive content with Factiva (which includes The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones News Service), and ALM content. It would
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Marketing a Law Firm As If It Were A Music Festival
If you’ve seen any concert festival posters over the past few years, you’ll notice that the bigger the band is, the bigger the font is. As I was thumbing through some of my reading yesterday, I saw an article on “Top 10 font size shockers from the Coachella 2015 lineup.” Some bands were…
To Be CI or Do CI – That is the Question

On December 23rd, Arun
Jethmalani, Founder & Managing Director at ValueNotes Database Pvt. Ltd. in India, published an article to LinkedIn
entitled 5
Debates about Competitive Intelligence that will never be resolved. The article essentially lays out five of the
canonical questions that are a constant dialogue in the CI community. I won’t
share
…
The Irrational Fear of Artificial Will
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A lot has been made of Elon Musk’s recent comments about Artificial Intelligence being “a greater risk than nukes.” And no less an intellect than Stephen Hawking recently echoed that sentiment. I’ve seen two examples of this fear showing up in popular television shows; a recent episode of Elementary had…
Using Novelty, Surprise, and Shock to Change Behavior
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As I was going through my Facebook feed this morning, I noticed an update from Amy Hale-Janeke that pointed to an article on “How to Stop Annoying Behaviors and Handle Offensive People.” For strictly research purposes only, of course, I read the article, which led to me watching Dan Pink’s 2009…
Lex Machina and the Wave of Legal Research and Analytics Resources
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There are very few legal research and analytic platforms that are truly unique, ground-breaking, advantage-giving resources. One of the newer products out there that does seem to fit this category is Lex Machina. Although I’m still not sure the proper pronunciation of the “Machina” (is it “Mah-CHEE-Na” or “Mak-IN-ah” or “Mah-KEEN-ah”??…
The Top 5 Myths of Law Library Outsourcing – And the Unsung Heroes
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[Editor Note: Please welcome guest blogger, Deborah Schwarz, CEO and Founder, LAC Group. Since we know there has been a lot of talk about outsourcing in library services, we thought it would be interesting to get Deb’s perspective on what she hears from the business side of Managed Services…
Free Webinar on Competitive Intelligence Deliverables – This Thursday 11/13
Update 11/18/2014: A recording of the presentation, handouts, and examples are available on the CIBlawg site.
NOTE: The Webinar has been over-subscribed! Unfortunately, this may mean that some of you may not be able to log in and listen.
The Slides of the presentation will be available shortly after the webinar. Seems like AALL and PLL have…
Competitive Intelligence, Short and Sweet
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Law Technology News recently published a two-part series on Competative Intelligence, authored by Oz Benemram and Louise Tsang.
Focused and to the point, the articles offer a nice primer on points to consider…
All About The Rules
This post comes from a good friend of 3 Geeks who would prefer to remain anonymous. – RM
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It has taken me a while to post my thought’s on Ryan’s series on The Exponential Law Firm and the technological practice of law not because I wasn’t interested but, because ironically, I…







