My boss has been prepping for an ITLA presentation on “Reducing Costs of Legal Research: Best Practices Onshore and Offshore” where she’s discussing the pros and cons of online vs. print legal research. This is not a new issue, in fact, it has been discussed seriously since about 1994, and I had the
I like the ingenuity of a group of law librarians to petition the Adminitrative Office of the US Courts to improve some of the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) services. (For those of you outside the US legal industry, PACER is the US Federal Court’s online Docket system
I spent the weekend presenting at Lexis’ Advance Management in Private Law Libraries (AMPLL 2009). Even though the weekend started out by my missing the flight to Dallas, and then having to scramble to make the 5 hour drive (I did it in a little over 4) to make it to the conference
It is no secret that out of the Three Geeks, I’m viewed as the cheap one (“thrify” my wife calls me.) It isn’t that I don’t mind spending money, it is just that I hate wasting money. And, if I find a nice way to save a few bucks here and there, I’d like to
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“The Florida Supreme Court has erected a safety fence outside its building and is beginning repairs to its basement, where water seepage has destroyed some 12,000 books during the last two years.”
Two years?? Really??
This is one of those stories that just beg for the question of “what did they think they were
We here at the Geeklawblog discuss a lot on the topics of Knowledge Management, Marketing, Research and Competitive Intelligence. On the surface, these ideas tend to mean the “repackaging of existing data into usable information for the benefit of those in our firm.” In other words, we attempt to create a way to make our
First off, I’m going to let you know that I am very biased on this topic, and believe that it is the goverment’s express duty to make its laws known to the people they affect. So, when I was at the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and managing the court’s public website, OSCN, we made every
While at the AALL annual meeting, I met Stephen Foley, the Chief Tech Officer of a new company called iCyte. iCyte is beta testing its product which is designed to help the researcher better compile the information he or she gathers on the web, and to house copies of the original version
My hat is off to the library at Thompson Coburn in St. Louis for putting a spin on getting rid of their entire National Reporter Set (you know those tan books with all the cases in them….) I had to read this article twice when I read how they announced that they had a “completely