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Please mark your calendar for a Private Law Librarians and Information Professionals (PLLIP) Webinar from the Education and Professional Development Committee: Feb 6, 2019 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST Start It or Stop It? Jump Starting Initiatives and Innovation in 2019 Description: Listen in on a lively conversation that will help you jump start |
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guidance on assessing products and vendors. The book is a handy tool to help focus your time and your budgets on the best products for your firm’s practice needs. Enhance your understanding of technology trends, product releases,
Bloomberg Law has added attorney analytics to their suite of litigation analytics which has included analytics for companies, law firms and judges. Product Manager, David Kleiman provided me with a demo and responded to my 
questions. As law firms embrace analytics for business intelligence, pitches and litigation strategy it is more important than ever for have a clear understanding of the parameters of all analytics. How complicated that it be – as you will see below – there are lots of issues which impact the results delivered by every analytics product.
What attorneys are covered?
The attorney analytics includes analytics for 100,000 attorneys from 775 law firms. The analytics in Bloomberg Law are limited to cases involving the representation of companies in federal courts from January 1 2007 to the present. Attorney names are extracted from docket sheets. There is a “type ahead” feature when typing a lawyer name a list
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In recent months Bloomberg BNA has been introducing changes to the format, timing and delivery of their various publications and platforms. Some newsletters are being discontinued, some newsletters are being merged into channels, other newsletters will only be available in a practice center, some practice centers will only be available on the Bloomberg Law platform. For a company that wowed the market with their promise of simplified, standard pricing, the Bloomberg Law acquisition of the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) has become a multi-year content migration
Continue Reading Bloomberg BNA Editor in Chief Outlines Reorganization and Layoffs– Shifts in Content Strategy
I will be doing a presentation with colleague Stacy Pangilinan entitled: Why Are We Paying for That? Reinventing the Budget Process with Project Management and KM Principles.”
The conference has assembled a roster of well known legal KM experts. who will focus on the intersection of KM with AI, Blockchain, cybersecurity, gamification,
I have lately been puzzling over the fact that LexisNexis has through acquisition and alliance, built a virtual monopoly on legal news (Law360. ALM, Wall Street Journal, MLex, Newsdesk). Now here’s the irony their main competitors Thomson Reuters Westlaw and BloombergBNA are both owned by news companies! Both companies also publish legal news. 
BloombergBNA has
One of the great things about living in a place like Washington, DC is that you get to meet members of Congress and Department Agency Heads in the course of an ordinary day. You meet them at parties, you ride with them in elevators, they are
American Lawyer Media just released a new report which highlights the importance of AI in providing firms with the opportunity for market advantage. The re
port which is entitled Law Firms Need Intelligence to Stay in the game.” provides a general overview of AI in law. The report costs $299 and can be ordered
If you are at the Special Libraries Association Conference in Baltimore next week, I will be speaking on the following panels sponsored by Lucidea:
SLA Convention Location:
SLA Conference (Baltimore Convention Center) June 11 – 13. Link: https://www.sla.org/attend/sla-2018-annual-conference-2/
I have the honor of being the Chairperson of the 2018 Gillard Lecture which is sponsored by the St Alumni of . John’s University Division of Library and Information Science. I will be introducing this year’s speaker, Brian Kuhn, the Founder and Co-Leader of the IBM Watson Legal. Brian is responsible for defining the intersection