I ran across a fun blog run by a Brooklyn, New York public librarian called Screwy Decimal, where Rita Meade has a number of tongue-in-cheek posts about her life in the library and her constant struggle to fight Mayor Bloomberg’s efforts to cut public library funding. It’s a fun, award winning, blog with a
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I have read Mia Breitkopf’s article on Roy Tennant’s Wake-Up Call to Academic Librarians multiple times over the past few days and continue to think of parallels that run between what Tennant warned the Academic Librarians Conference attendees, and the red flags that private law firm librarians should see in our environments.
Following up on the post about The Dewey Situation, I had seen some dialog about how service partners are becoming second class citizens. First off – I define service partner as a partner with sufficient legal skills, but not one with a sufficient book of business. These are typically very good lawyers and their
I saw an interesting visual of where all the Dewey & LeBoeuf partners went on a Thomson Reuters’ site earlier today. The graphic illustrates the firms that picked up the laterals, the names of the lateral partners, and their practice areas. The Dewey situation has been like watching a train slowly wreck, day after day,
Have you ever been involved in creating a practice group with all of the jockeying and politics that is involved?
Don’t you just wish that you wish that you could cast it all aside and just “get ‘er done”, as we Texans like to say?
Well, in my little dream world, I would create my
Based on some job ads we have recently seen, it appears Axiom is establishing a presence in Texas. Axiom, as you may recall, is an alternative provider of legal-type services and new breed of competitor to law firms. They have a very interesting business model and have been quite successful in other markets.
Texas firms
I recently stumbled upon an alternative pricing scheme that I instinctively felt was wrong. The details are irrelevant, but I was struck by how vastly different the attorney’s point of view was from my own. So I tried to expand my viewpoint and to see the problem from all sides. I came up with three
My first few posts on this blog were about the coming end of Corporate Information Technology, or the CorpTechPocalypse as I coined it. Nearly 18 months have passed. The world around IT has changed substantially, but like the dinosaurs shortly after the meteor impact, IT itself is still desperately trying to understand its role
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The theme of “self-help” has popped up in a number of my conversations lately. I’m talking about work that lawyers used to rely upon others to handle, that they are now handling themselves. Whether it is pulling PACER dockets, case law, Shepardizing, filing court documents, or typing up their own documents,
After seeing a recent seminar on legal industry stats, one stat jumped out at me. The stat was interesting not because it was new, but instead since it just keeps slowly trending in the same direction … down. The Stat: Productivity.
Productivity is essentially the number of hours billed per day per attorney. The ‘per