The American Association of Law Libraries has launched an online information center dedicated to promoting its new  Principles and Standards for Legal Research Competency within the legal profession. One of the most important aspects of  “the principles” is that they are a strong antidote to the increasing risk of malpractice which arises from the “everything on the Internet myth.” 

Update Dec. 11, 2013: This post was awarded the Technolawyer BIg Law Pick of the week:

Yesterday I reported on the ALM  General Counsel Survey. Today I looked at the data from the Amlaw 200 Law Firm Leadership Survey.  There is only a partial correlation  between two surveys.

Like corporate GCs, law firm leaders are overwhelmingly optimistic about their firms

ALM Legal Intelligence  released a report  this week “Corporate Counsel: Agenda 2014”. Many of the themes are familiar: controlling costs, driving efficiency, alternative fee arrangements. But I can’t recall any recent reports that repeatedly point to “the government” as a major source of anxiety for in-house counsel.
How The government is impacting In house counsel

Partners and associates competing for work

On November 14th, ALM Legal Intelligence released a new report “Turf Wars: Defining New Roles and Competing for Business.”  The report is yet another examination of the ongoing impact of the “Great Recession” on the transformation of large law firms. The report contrasts results with a similar 2011

I was an 8th grader when the school’s new public address system suddenly erupted. with crackling, fragments of a radio news

It is hard to believe that less that 20 years ago law firm partners followed a relatively safe and dignified trajectory from junior partner through retirement.. American Lawyer Media released a report this week: “Up or Out: When Partners Need to Go.”  which paints a grim and unsettling landscape of  partner termination practices in large

Last
week the Special Libraries Association and the Financial Times released a
report “The Evolving Value of Information Management.”  First of all, I want
to applaud SLA and the Financial Times for this innovative partnership which
obviously addresses a mutual need to foster the value of  both premium
content resources and sophisticated content advisers.

I
do

Rich Leiter the host of Law Librarian Conversations has invited the PLL Board  (including myself) to be guests on the show at 1pm est. today, October 23. The chat room will be available at the show’s website.

Here are some of the topics to be discussed: 

1.
The PLL Board has proposed that members consider

The latest issue of  Practice Innovations from Thomson Reuters was just released and it includes an interesting array of articles of interest to law firm executives. The lead article focuses on the  Global Practice of Law. The rest of the articles focus on various aspects of how technology, law firm economics and changing demands are impacting how we work