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Just when it appeared that
Lexis was about to corner the legal news market (ALM, Law360, WSJ Law Blog),
Bloomberg BNA is announcing today the release of a new open access community
platform called “Big Law Business.”   Big Law Business  
delivers  articles, podcasts, videos, twitter feeds,  polls and white
papers focused on the unique

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In November  when I wrote Lex Machina Provides Bigger Data “Custom Insights Raises the Analytics Bar for IP Litigators it was clear that the product would continue to evolve. Last week Lex Machina added a new “high value”  tranche of litigation data from the Patent and Trademark Appeals Board and the  International Trade Court. The PTAB data

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Smartphones as the New 'Swiss Army Knife'
c.Thomson Reuters

The idea of the “Swiss Army Knife” has become a kind of shorthand for
compact, handy, and versatile devices with functionality limited only by
the imagination of the developers. According to Wikipedia, this
ingenious little device was invented for the Swiss Army with a limited
goal of providing a tool which could be

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In 2008, just as the recession was shaking the foundations of law firms across New York, the Board of Directors* and the Executive Director of the New York Law Institute were undertaking a reassessment of their library and their services. In 2008 law firms were cutting partners, eliminating summer associate programs and deferring fall associate

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The January Issue of Thomson Reuters Practice Innovations has been released. The latest issue is focused on cutting edge legal technology issues impacting the business and practice of law.

Deconstructing the Myth of Low Technology Adoption in Law Firms
By Conrad Jacoby, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Paralegal Studies Program,
Washington, DC.

Safe Travels in the

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Now in its sixth year, the PLL Summit
continues to be a vehicle for examining the impact and opportunities presented
by change in the legal industry. The PLL Summit 2015: The Innovation
Imperative will explore how librarians can help provide innovative
solutions to the business challenges which law firms and legal information professionals
are facing

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