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Today Lex Machina is announcing the launch of  “Custom Insights”  functionality which will add two new high-voltage analytics tools: Caselist Analyzer and Motion Metrics to the  Lex  Machina platform. These interactive tools will put customized competitive insights within  reach of every subscriber. I found the variety, flexibility and granularity of Lex Machina’s  new offerings to

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Big Data Hits a Wall c. J O’Grady

The disruption of access to court dockets through Pacer has implications beyond the retrieval of dockets and documents.

The  Administrative Office of the US Courts announced on August 11th that archival dockets from 5 federal courts would no longer be available through Pacer. I contacted the Office

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It is an understatement to say that Ravel Law is not your father’s research platform.
You are not just using a new product, you are entering the “world of Ravel”… and you need to check all your preconceptions about legal research at the door.

Ravel Law makes me feel old. It has some similarities to

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The July Issue of Thomson Reuters Practice Innovations has just been released. Great mix of articles on cutting edge law firm management issues.

  • By
    Janet Accardo, Director of Library Services at Skadden
    Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY
  • Paying Attention to the Canaries in

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    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

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    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.

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