“The new normal” in law firms demands a relentless focus on efficiency. Even complex transactional work offers opportunities for process improvement. Lexis is expanding the offerings of Practice Advisor and taking aim at market share now held by Practical Law Company (PLC) a UK company which was recently purchased by Thomson Reuters.Lexis Practice Advisor is

The March  issue of Thomson Reuters Practice Innovations is out. Articles focus on legal project management in various contexts, Litigation, Knowledge Management, Research, Process Improvement.
Here are links to the articles:
Process Improvement and Legal Work Product by Silvia Coulter, LawVision Group
Distressed Litigation and Legal Project Management by James Buckley and Aileen Levanton, Qlex 

Newsweek  Cover March 23, 1970
On March 16, 1970 Newsweek ran a cover story “Women in Revolt” about the nascent women’s movement. To the editors, it was a distant and exotic fringe movement. That same day 46  female Newsweek researchers  and their lawyer Eleanor Holmes Norton held a press conference announcing that they were filing an


20,000 pages of health care regulations



Just when  we all thought libraries were shrinking, along comes the new health care law . The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 clocks in at over 2,000 pages. I have always wondered about the ratio between the length of a statute and the volume of regulations it’s implementation will

Lexis Quietly Acquires a Collection for Oxford University Press
This past week Lexis quietly acquired the a collection of  55 titles  from Oxford University Press US Law Division.  Now before you get too excited here’s the bummer – the collection does not include one of my personal favorites, the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations by

Everyone is building their brand these days. Writing  articles for publication is a common form of marketing outreach which demonstrates the special expertise of the lawyer and firm. It  can put the lawyer and firm name in front of existing and potential clients  who read trade or specialized legal publications. In order to maximize the