Google Scholar is adding a new feature that allows researchers to conduct a search within the documents that cite to a specific case. This takes its “cited by” function up a notch by allowing you to limit the search to cases or secondary resources that have all cited the same document. I got a note
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,
In the recent Law Technology News Vendor Satisfaction Survey, it seems that the users of the low-cost legal research service Fastcase give it an 87.5% “Excellent Price for Value” approval rate. Compare that with the users of Westlaw (12.7% “Excellent Price for Value”) and Lexis (14.3% “Excellent Price for Value”). Granted, there were a lot more
A couple weeks ago I mentioned that “the more I know… the more I know I don’t know.” Apparently, I could use that quote on just about anything I post on this blog. Over the weekend I was catching up on some reading when I found a reference to something called the Public Library of
When I’m asked what I do all day, I usually answer that I monitor changes in information and relay those changes to the appropriate people, at the appropriate time. Perhaps I could put an anagram on this process and call it JITI (Just In Time Information). The key to JITI is a combination of human knowledge
It seems that I’m finding out lately that “the more I know… the more I know I don’t know”. Yesterday was a prime example of how I learned about two things that I probably should have know about well before yesterday.
New PACER “Look & Feel”
First up… PACER is launching a new “look and
Just to prove that Thomson Reuters isn’t alone in its quest to gobble up the legal publishing market, I thought that I’d put together a list of Reed Elsevier mergers (LexisNexis’ Parent Corp.) Again, the mergers are uploaded to a Google Docs spreadsheet for anyone to download and add play with in your own
Hats off to Sarah Glassmeyer for graphing out the shrinking legal publisher market in a way that really shows how much consolidation has been going on over the past 30+ years (see the full graph). Glassmeyer lists out the three big publishers (Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer) and show how much of
Brian Harley, LLM at Columbia, is writing an interesting multi-part article entitled “Semantic Lawyering: How the Semantic Web Will Transform the Practice of Law“, where he discusses the potential to use advanced and emerging technology to analyze information in order to create “smarter information” that assists lawyers in how they conduct legal
