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
Interesting discussion going on over at Law Office Management Assistance Program (LOMAP) today regarding low-cost legal research providers Fastcase and Casemaker. Casemaker lays out a claim that Fastcase is chock full of missing case citations, and even gives out a list of the first 50 cases missing a correct citation (A.3d, P.3d, ect.) from all
I thought I’d do a follow up to last week’s post where I crowned Casemaker as the “King of State Case Law Coverage.” There are two reasons behind the follow-up. First, Nina Platt brought up an assumption that many people might have about state case law coverage and the idea that the vendor
I took a look at the state case law coverage from four of the low-cost legal research providers (Fastcase, Loislaw, Casemaker and Google Scholar) to see who has the most coverage. When I started this project, I assumed that Loislaw would be the hands down winner. After all, they have the
I finally found something on WestlawNext pricing from a Thomson Reuters document called “WestlawNext: Pricing Guide for Commercial Plans“. The pricing seems a wee-bit steep on my initial view, especially if you take the per minute charge and multiply them by 60 to get the hourly charges (like I did in the chart
In case you don’t know what free legal research product your bar association provides you, here’s an interactive map to help.
Great read over at LOMAP on Research Trails: Breadcrumbs for Recovering (the) Most of Your Research Buck. This is a good follow up read to the post we did here on 3 Geeks asking if a lawyer really needs premium tools like Westlaw to practice. Jared Correia at LOMAP points out that there are
With all of the fuss surrounding the launch of new premium legal research tools and the increased pricing, or ‘modest premium’, that comes with these resources, it got me to thinking whether a practicing attorney really needs to use one of the Wexisberg products in order to practice law. I’m sure there are thousands of
I had a great conversation with Darrell Huntsman, VP for New Lexis Innovation Initiatives, yesterday along with a demonstration of the new LexisNexis for Microsoft Office product. This is ‘Phase I’ of Lexis’ two phase project to rebuild their legal research product ‘from the ground up.’ The second phase will be the ‘New Lexis’ online
Now that the awful year of 2009 is over, let’s take a guess at what to expect for 2010. My initial thoughts are that we really need to hit the “Refresh” button [F5] and look at how we operate our business processes. Here are my predictions for 2010: