I am hearing from multiple sources that David Perla has resigned as President of the BloombergBNA legal division. According to Bob Amrbrogi’s website Law Sites Perla is being replaced by Scott Mazorsky who will report to Greg McCaffery, the BloombergBNA CEO.Perla brought a lot of energy to
Speaking of comic, librarian stereotypes… while I was writing my prior post on the AALL rebranding… I watched the rebroadcast on HBO of Tracy Ullman’s new BBC show “Tracey Ullman’s Show,” which featured a tap dancing, operatic, production number complete with book dumpsters, shushing librarians and sleeping library patrons….
Trick or Treat?
Today the American Association of Law Libraries announced the adoption of a new logo that combines the organization’s acronym with a new tagline “your legal knowledge network.”
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Just in case you are not tuning out any mention of the 2016 Presidential Election– I recently learned that LexisNexis has posted an interactive 2016 Presidential Election News Tracker Page. The page shows coverage trends for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and the Vice Presidential Candidates Mike Pence and Tim Kaine. It also charts, share
Dewey B Strategic and I were recently honored with a “Legal Rebels” Profile and podcast on the ABA Journal website “Dewey B Strategic’s Jean O’Grady Leads Lawyers Through the Tech Maze.”
Here is an excerpt:
Most people see librarians as the quiet personification of technical obsolescence. Jean O’Grady is out to change that.
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Yesterday LexisNexis announced their intent to acquire Intelligize — one of those start up gems that came late to the SEC research party and became the “belle of the ball.” Well really, it was completely different kind of SEC research product that not only provided deep faceted searching of documents, but introduced powerful algorithms which produce unique insights into
Lex Machina is not a hard product to use. It is loaded with data and offers lawyers an infinite landscape of data permutations. As I have often said “lawyers don’t want research products that make them feel like they are wiring a powerplant. They want to flip a light switch.” In 2014 Lex Machina launched three desktop ‘” apps”: the early case assessor,
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Awards should not be announced over long holiday weekends. I almost missed the publication of the ABA Magazine 2016 Legal Rebels.
I was delighted to see that lawyer/ librarian and information provacateur Sara Glassmayer was at the top of the list. Glassmeyer who is currently a Research Fellow at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab