The latest edition of Practice Innovations from Thomson Reuters was just released and it includes an interesting array of articles of interest to law firm executives in a wide ranges of areas including, strategic sourcing, business development, alumni relations, knowledge and library management, professional development and project management. Below you can link directly to articles of
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In the past decade we witnessed the acceleration of law libraries morphing from print to digital collections. In response librarians needed usage data to determine the ROI for high ticket digital resources. They needed a tool
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Today I came across a story in Wired “A Place for Burning Questions” describing what may be a new model for the future of research support: Pearl.com . It uses the tag line ” Wisdom when you want it.” At this point they offer the services of only a
Today CNN posted a Timeline for Computing Power. Being a librarian and a blogger on information issues, I collect timelines related to all aspects of information history. Last week I attended a meeting where someone said that the Internet will double every 11 months. What have we wrought with these computers?
Competitive Intelligence is hot and the competition among vendors of CI monitoring services keeps getting hotter. Today American Lawyer Media announced that they had acquired Rivaledge, which currently produces FirmWatch and LateralWatch. ALM becomes the newest entrant into the legal “listening platform” wars.
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RivalEdge will be part of ALM Legal Intelligence, the
When Bloomberg acquired the Bureau of National Affairs in 2011, many legal information professionals wondered if this was simply another takeover that would obliterate the identity, the products and culture of yet another venerated legal publisher. Would Bloomberg Law crush the deep and well cultivated relationships that BNA had developed with law firms and law librarians over the years?
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A Lesson From The 17th Century
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In response to an earlier information explosion caused by the proliferation of printed books, 17th-century writers began compiling indexes, bibliographies, compendia and encyclopedia
Jordan Furlong’s keynote address “Climbing the Value Ladder” at the recent PLL Summit outlined the critical forces reshaping the legal market. Furlong concluded his talk with an optimistic array of emerging roles and responsibilities which obliterate the cliche of “library as administrative cost center.” In my experience it is rare moment when a lawyer/consultant escapes the prison of “librarian conventions” and