This is one of those things that catches everyone by surprise right before the annual AALL conference. W.S. Hein and Fastcase announced this morning that they are forming a partnership to integrate content on each platform and create a more extensive legal research database. This is the sort of thing that everyone expected from Aspen/CCH/Loislaw
To Thomson Reuters, Time is Money… And Money Will Buy You Time
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Back in January, Tom Wolfe wrote a Newsweek article called Eunuchs of the Universe where he articulated the new style of Wall Street versus the Wall Street that most of us knew. Instead of a raucous gathering of traders in a pit, scrawling information on sheets of paper and signaling wildly to buy
Dan and Jane: Ep. 6 – Legal Process Outsourcing
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Jane: Legal Process Outsourcing is a brilliant idea whose time has come, Dan. I think we will see a number of high profile firms begin to partner with LPOs in the next few years. Whereas
Goodbye My Old Friend Google Reader
I knew that July 1st would be its final day, but I hoped that someone at the “Don’t Be Evil” Empire of Google would call upon the leaders of the company and give it a last minute reprieve. No call was made, and no last minute stay of execution was issued. Sometime last night my
Does Who You Follow Affect Who You Are?
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Interesting post from Julie Neidlinger entitled, “Who You Follow on Social Media Is Changing You.” I read it over the weekend and really didn’t think too much about what she was saying at the time, but I sent out at Tweet to let others know the article was worth a read. Caren Silverman sent
HsuTube Remastered
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“Today, with the help of my thirteen year old daughter…”
This is how my former colleague, Richard Hsu, now a partner at Shearman & Sterling starts his “HsuTube” videos on complex transactional legal concepts. We’ve covered Richard before when he and I both worked
TLO's Vehicle Sightings Search Releases Tomorrow
In this day and age of constant communications and observation, I guess the announcement from TLO shouldn’t surprise me as much as it did. It seems that TLO is launching a new service tomorrow that will use License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology and will return to you the places, times and dates that those license
Dan and Jane: Ep. 5 – Legal Pricing
Dan: You may not know this Jane, but I’ve been moving into more of a Pricing role at my firm.
Jane: I’m impressed. And a little frightened for the well being of your firm.
Dan: Every firm needs to have at least one person focused on determining the right price and fee structure for every
The 3rd Band Member
I wasn’t a part of the not quite 3 Beer lunch that Greg and Toby had last week that spawned their last two posts. (They never invite me to anything.) But you know me, ignorance has never kept me from espousing an opinion.
There is a clear connection between Greg’s recognition that certain people have
Bringing Out the Extrovert Within the Introvert… Or Vice-Versa
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In the same conversation that Toby and I had regarding email created a way for lawyers to not talk with their clients, we also discussed how people you’ve ‘met’ via social media sometimes don’t match up to their personalities when you meed them in person. Someone that may be very extroverted on