Earlier this
week readers were introduced to a whole new Law.com website. It is clean,
contemporary, graphic and well… glossy. In January ALM rolled out 18 redesigned
websites for its regional and national publications. ALM’s content has always
outshined it’s technology and finally they seem to have developed a slick new
“eye-candy” platform which

                  
Bloomberg
BNA has released a new app for iPhones and Android phones designed to provide
Bloomberg Law subscribers with timely, personalized content. The app is
available to Bloomberg Law subscribers at no additional charge from the App
Store and Google Play.
Unlike
other legal apps, this Blaw app doesn’t attempt to support the legal

The PLL Summit is still going strong. It  has grown from an experiment born of the financial crisis  and the “new normal” in law firms which was hammering law firms into  a “must attend” program for private firm librarians and information professionals who want to stay on the “cutting edge” of issues impacting their firms.

Thomson Reuters recently released  the long awaited Westlaw Analytics tool that
will ultimately   now available to any subscriber law
firm of  30+ attorneys.  In several weeks they will
be releasing a new eLibrary platform which enables  subscribers to create and control
“non-billable zones.” One product should enable firms to improve cost recovery
and the

While there is much disagreement about both the substance and policy behind the Affordable Care Act,  it can be universally stipulated that it is a complex law  which promises an increasingly complex implementation.  The law itself is about 1,000 pages long and to date  the implementing  federal regulations are reported to number in excess of

On January 1st Anne Ellis a former Chair of the Private Law Libraries, SIS and the first Director of Librarian Relations at Thomson Reuters retired after a long and distinguished career as a professional leader. I thought it would be interesting to get Anne’s thoughts on her career and the challenges facing law librarianship.Tell