Matthew Bender Online was one of the earliest digital successors to legal treatises on cd-rom. When it was released in the early 1990s, MBOnline offered an elegantly simple interface and eliminated the technical idiosyncrasies ( I almost wrote atrocities) of managing networked cd-roms. It allowed lawyers to have digital access to multi-volume treatises. But it was
Last week Bloomberg acknowledged that Bloomberg reporters had used the infamous “Z” and “UUID” functions on the Bloomberg terminal to access “customer data.” Reporters had access to the names of users at an organization, how long the account had existed, when the account was last used and what broad categories of data they had accessed, e.g.
This morning I attended a presentation at Bloomberg HQ given by Bruce “growth is dead” MacEwen. He has so many unique insights I definitely recommend reading his book to absorb them all. He showed some amazing slides on the configuration of the legal industry before and after the 2007 crash.
One interesting “aside,” focused on the corrosive
American Lawyer Media Legal Intelligence Released their report “2013 Alternative Fee Arrangements at Legal Departments and Law Firms”There is nothing simple about AFAs. There isn’t even a simple definition of what it means and in reviewing the inconsistent responses of law firms and legal departments, I couldn’t help but wonder how many of the
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| NY Times Mar. 20, 1969 |