Lynn Lenart, Law Librarian, and Richard Cohen, Associate Professor & Director of the University of Akron’s Legal Writing program have written a “Guide for WestlawNext & LexisNexis Online” that should give a lot of you a good overview of the new legal research products (and tweaks to existing products). It is written from
While flipping through some of my daily BigLaw news feeds, I noticed a free service that Latham & Watkins offers all of us — The Books of Jargon on Corporate & Bank Finance, and Project Finance. So, if you need to know that in Project Finance, the term “LAER” actually stands for “Lowest
[We’re happy to have Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase, as our guest blogger]
Greg Lambert issued a dire proclamation here the other day: If Law.Gov remains an exercise in Academia . . . It Will Die. His post noted that there were no government officials in Law.Gov’s initial list of 33 co-convenors,
While I was at the AALL annual meeting in Denver last month, I talked with both of the major legal publishers and asked them if they could tie their online legal research tools (Westlaw & Lexis) to the print titles that their customers also subscribe. Of course, no one could give me a “yes” or
Let me start off by saying that I support the ideas, principles and declarations made by the 33 individuals that have placed their signatures on that statement. Putting the laws that we citizens live under in a format that is freely available, in a format that is not tied to a specific vendor or physical format,
Somewhere between reading Jason Wilson’s post on “Exploded Data, the Legal Web and What We’re Missing” and Toby’s post on “KM 3.0 = Analysis“, my brain started to smolder from all the ‘future of data’ discussion. Jason takes an example of a 33 word sentence and how 66 individual pieces of
While walking up and down the aisles of the vendor hall at the AALL annual conference, I saw a booth for an Indian company called Manupatra. I have to be honest, when I first saw the booth I thought that it was an outsourcing company and I avoided it on my first couple of
Alright, you can now stop calling the forthcoming Lexis platform “New Lexis” or “LexisNext”. I learned this morning that the folks over at LexisNexis have named their new platform “Lexis Advance”. Toby got an advanced peek at the product a couple of months back and seemed to be impressed. Here is a snippet of the
Thanks to Ed Walters at Fastcase for letting us actually install their new iPad application while it is awaiting final authority from Steve Jobs to be released through the Apps Store. I’ve been playing with it for the past hour or so and have taken a lot of screenshots from the iPad, and so far,
Fastcase is releasing an iPad version of their free legal research app (currently available on the iPhone), and announced the launch on Jeff Richardson’s blog iPhone J.D. Currently you can download the iPhone app to the iPad and run it in the 2x mode, but it is still an iPhone app and looks strange on