When does your firm’s culture trump potential innovations you want to put in front of them?
Idea came from a quote in Craig Roth’s Knowledge Forward post, Technology After Culture? Not in a Million Years.
So basic technology evolved before the basic social construct – the family? No wonder I still encounter people spending
The Elephant Series Brainstorming over beer – we came up with a new blog concept and we’re calling it The Elephant. The concept is tackling a topic from multiple points of view. On the first pass, these POVs will come from our stable of bloggers. But then the real fun will come engaging others POVs
I hear many law librarians complain that the foot traffic in a library has shrunk to that one guy that grabs the morning paper… heads out to the bathroom… then brings the paper back a few minutes later. (Does that guy even work here??) Anyway… I found this little tidbit from a “60’s Girl Group/Beat
Obviously, everything we need is on the Internet, right??
That’s what Josie D. Schoolcraft wrote to the Editor of the Bullard Banner Newspaper. Ms. Schoolcraft believes that Cherokee County Texas is wasting the $4,176 in annual salary that goes to the person that maintains the books in the county’s law library. Is she right? Is
As I was purusing the news yesterday, a comment from the SayAnythingBlog caught my attention. Apparently, University of North Dakota’s Law School asked for a $10 Million to expand their courtroom setting, and the request was rejected. The rejection of the courtroom wasn’t the comment that caught my eye, however, it was the alternative
[We’re please to have Jill Strand as a guest-blogger]
So do you want to be transformed or help direct the transformation? This was my primary thought after reading “Law Libraries Transformed” on LLRX by Eleanor Windsor and Ron Friedmann are executives with Integreon, a legal process outsourcing firm with offices around the
I got things stared off with a bang yesterday when I discussed a couple of blog posts where I said that the status of law firm librarians has diminished over the past 15 years or so. In those posts, I laid the blame at the feet of the current leadership (AKA “baby-boomers”) and the law
One of my friends (who also happens to be a Westlaw Rep) mentioned that she had some clients that were confused when I discussed “Cost Recovery” in the past:
They are on flat rates, and are small 3 or 4 atty firms….so they were relieved to learn that oddly enough, usage has nothing
A couple months ago we wrote a post about “Inefficient Westlaw Searches Causes One National Firm to Hold Mandatory Training for Associates”. Well, the firm that took on this challenge was Dykema, and I think that they took on an issue that most firms need to address. Pat Orr, Dykema’s Manager of Library Services,
We’ve all probably received those “continuation notices” or “reminder notices” from vendors that look amazingly like an invoice statement. After a while you get used to seeing them, and quite frankly you just get a little numb to the practice. It isn’t until you see someone else’s comments after they were confused by these ‘notices’ that you