I have a few questions to ask AALL members that are inspired by both the SLA project I wrote about yesterday, and from Joe Hodnicki’s post on New Year’s Day that takes AALL to task about using blogs to get information out more quickly to its membership. Hodnicki specifically focuses on the Committee on Relations
A good friend of mine pointed me to this video that lays out where we seem to be with client vs. vendor relations right now. Bad economies, bad relations, and unrealistic expectations (on both sides) lead to what’s being said in this hilarious video.
Enjoy… and remember… “yeah… cow.”
When Reed Elsevier announced the retirement of its current CEO, Andy Prozes, it also outlined a change in how the LexisNexis business will be organized after January 1, 2011. LexisNexis will be split into two different units, each with its own CEO. There will be a “Risk Solutions” group with Jim Peck as
We mentioned last week that Thomson Reuters Legal is going to double-down its efforts to sell its products to the one- to three-attorney law firms. From some of the people I’ve talked to, it appears that the majority of these efforts are going to take place through an increase in phone sales focused on these
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
We’ve all probably received those “continuation notices” or “reminder notices” from vendors that look amazingly like an invoice statement. After a while you get used to seeing them, and quite frankly you just get a little numb to the practice. It isn’t until you see someone else’s comments after they were confused by these ‘notices’ that you
Yesterday, I relayed a message from Tamara Acevedo from Moore & VanAllen where she was told by a Thomson Reuters representative that the June 1st roll out of the OnePassID system would mean her attorneys would automatically have access to WestlawNext (even without a contract). However, it seems that perhaps there was some “misinformation” about
Tamara Acevedo from Moore & VanAllen alerted the law-lib listserv about a new ‘feature’ that will be available to everyone with a OnePassID starting June 1, 2010.
Good morning,
I am writing this message to give a heads up for those who may not be aware of what Thomson Reuters is now doing with WestlawNext.
I’ve always said that the law firm world is one of “Monkey See… Monkey Do.” Turns out that the big legal publisher world follows that same mantra. If you look at a cached list of Lexis Librarian Relations Consultants, you’ll see the list has six names on it that don’t appear today. Seems that Lexis
Today’s my last day in New York and I’m ready to get back to Houston where the bathtubs don’t sit in the middle of my living room, surrounded by two walls of plate glass windows, overlooking a park full of joggers. As I mentioned earlier this week, a few bloggers were asked to come to