One of the big questions that rolled around in my head about WilmerHale’s centralization of their Administrative Departments into one Ohio office was “How can they afford to move all these people and relocate to a place where they don’t have an existing office??” Well, it turns out that the State of Ohio, Montgomery County,
I initially put this as a comment on yesterday’s post of “Hey Library! You’re Now in the Marketing Department!!“, but thought it actually deserves its own posting.
I’ve had some “off-line” conversations with other law librarians at big firms and there is a question that has been raised whether the people that have
I attended a wonderful conference in New York yesterday (and am subsequently writing this post from LaGuardia airport during a snowstorm and hoping to make it back to Houston today.) The Ark Group/Managing Partner Magazine’s 4th Annual “Best Practices & Management Strategies for Law Firm Library & Information Service Centers” focused on topics ranging from Libraries getting
When many of us took the 2009 calendar off the wall and hung up the new 2010 calendar, we said “Thank God that awful year is behind us!” I’ve been hearing that the ‘downturn in the economy’ will start to improve in the first or second quarter of 2010. Like most of us, I’m ready
Elaine Dockens, Library Director for Tressler LLP in Chicago, collected survey information from a small group of law firm librarians regarding their firms’ policies on computer usage. The 27 law librarians that took the survey help give us some insights on what is, and what is not acceptable usage as defined by the law firm
According to the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics survey on what companies are doing with social networking compliance, there are over 50% of companies that either do not have a social networking policy for their employees to follow, or do not know if they do. After running across a couple of law firm client
My good friend Emily directed me to a fascinating Forbes.com article called “The Odd Clever People Every Organization Needs.” As I was reading it, I was thinking that the type of person the authors were describing either fit me or were describing Sheldon from “The Big Bang Theory.” As I was reading this
It all started as an innocent project to find a cheap way to conduct an online panel discussion, but it turned out to be a lesson in work place rules that left me shaking my head. First, the backstory.
