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Very interesting story from The Daily Beast over the weekend that talks about the situation we have with public libraries in the United States, and the delimma of cutting services and budgets during a time when demand for these services is booming. In her story, “Can Libraries Survive in an Era
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A friend of mine pointed me to an article from Quidlibet Research, Inc.’s, Nina Cunningham, entitled “Leveraging the Assets of the Law Library.” I read it… then I read it again… then I read it again. Each time finding different things to agree, and disagree with. I
Apple gets a lot of flack for creating a closed platform that economically locks its users into their products. After all, if you’ve already spent $200K on iOS apps, why would you switch to Android or Windows phones or tablets and have to repurchase all of that software? It’s a reasonable argument, but it totally
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It may appear I am on some Defend BigLaw run with my recent posts. It’s actually not that, but merely some pent up pet peeves I need to air. This one addresses the attack on law firms for how they come up with matter budgets and fixed fees.
The scenario goes
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Following on the heels of recent posts on the market value of BigLaw and the behavior of partners as workers, we explore the merge-point for those two topics in discussing partners as equity owners.
The market refers to the owner level of law firm partners as “equity partners.” After giving
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Some recent activity on Twitter got me thinking. People love to bag on BigLaw (me included). Much like taking shots at Microsoft or Blackberry, BigLaw is an easy target for many. Large firms move slow, are managed by committee too often, and appear to have an aversion to decision making (see how
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I’ve been on the ‘value’ bandwagon for quite some time now, but I recently had an epiphany courtesy of Ulla de Stricker during the recent CLA webinar “Becoming Indispensable: The Value Proposition”. It was one of those moments where you understand that you’ve been headed in the wrong direction; a real lightning bolt. I
Honestly answer the following questions:
“To provide the public with open access to electronic federal court records.”
That is the plan for The Open PACER Act being pushed by OpenPACER.org.
Today there was a cross-posting on the Law Library Blog (not to be confused with the Law Librarian Blog), and Legal Research Plus. You can read the proposed
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Law firms invest in associates. That seems obvious. They bring in the best and brightest, planning to groom them into future partners. Firms spend considerable sums, investing in these assets. So for fun, let’s take this “investment” as a strategy at face value.
My recollection of the stat is that after
