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2017 Trends In Law Firms and Legal Publishing: Pure Speculation From the Serious to the Fantastic

By Jean O'Grady on January 9, 2017

A few ideas on what we might or might not see develop in 2017…. Thomson Reuters Predictive. 2017 has to be the year when Thomson Reuters launches a predictive product for lawyers. Early in 2016 Thomson Reuters rebranded itself as “The Answer Company.” They entered into a relationship with IBM to gain access to

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Manzama Developing Signals Platform: Predictive Business Intelligence For Law Firms

By Jean O'Grady on December 14, 2016

In 2004 I was interviewed by EContent magazine and asked — if I could accomplish anything in my career, what would it be. Here is my answer:

“I’d like to be an information climatologist. I’d work with vendors to design information services for determining what is likely to happen next by pulling trends together.

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Perla Out at Bloomberg BNA

By Jean O'Grady on November 1, 2016

I am hearing from multiple sources that David Perla has resigned as President of the BloombergBNA legal division. According to Bob Amrbrogi’s website Law Sites Perla is being replaced by Scott Mazorsky who will report to Greg McCaffery, the BloombergBNA CEO.
( I hate when Bob scoops me!).

Perla brought a lot of energy to

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BloombergBNA: Maybe the Fault Is not in the Gatekeepers But in Your Product Strategy?

By Jean O'Grady on September 1, 2016

On Tuesday BloomberBNA’s President David Perla published a post on Above the Law lashing out at law firm “gatekeepers.” I am a big fan of the Bloomberg products and I think Perla brought a necessary entrepreneurial perspective to BloombergBNA. But Perla’s post was uncharacteristically condescending and well… snarky…which made me wonder if BloombergBNA

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Bloomberg Law: Tax Launches Offering A Portfolio Centric Product Loaded With Workflow Tools

By Jean O'Grady on August 9, 2016

Anyone who has worked with tax lawyers knows that tax lawyers are different. They have a very exacting and demanding expectations for their tax resources. BloombergBNA recognized these high expectations when they undertook the development of a new tax platform. The tax product team spent two years and thousands of hours observing exactly how tax lawyers solve tax

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Law360 Celebrates Launch of 50th Newsletter and First “In Depth” Weekly Magazine

By Jean O'Grady on July 11, 2016

Law360 just announced that they will be breaking out the
champagne to celebrate their “Golden Tour” at the AALL Annual Meeting and
Conference in Chicago July 15-19, 2016. The festivities will mark the release
of Law 360’s 50th specialty newsletter as well as the release of
their In Depth news publication.

Law 360’s Newsletters 2004-2016

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It Didn’t Take Long…The First Legal Newsletter Dedicated to Brexit is Published By… MLex(LexisNexis)

By Jean O'Grady on July 1, 2016

Several publisher’s responded to Tuesday’s
“Brexit” post by providing me with information and links to their specialized Brexit resources which I share below. Let me first say that I never meant to imply
that the major legal publishers were ignoring Brexit. Of course they are not –
in Tuesday’s post I was simply speculating on

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Bloomberg Law and LMA Issue Report on the State of Marketing in the Legal Profession

By Jean O'Grady on April 15, 2016

Bloomberg Law and the Legal Marketing Association have just issued a joint report on the state of marketing in the legal profession. The report “Are We There Yet: Revealing the Latest Trends in Legal Marketing and Business Development is available at this link.

The report focuses on the evolving and expanding roles of marketing

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“Westlaw Answers” Looks A lot Like AI to Me. Westlaw Releases Major New Features – And It’s All in Your Contract!

By Jean O'Grady on April 1, 2016

Westlaw Adds 6 New Features: “Westlaw Answers,”
Research Recommendations, Snapshots, and Folder Enhancements… At No Charge to
Subscribers!

There has been great anticipation surrounding the recent
announcement that Thomson Reuters was entering into an alliance with IBM to use
their Watson technology. Westlaw’s new features especially “Westlaw
Answers” caused me to assume that this must

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Start/Stop Survey Product Results: Ravel Judge Analytics and Wolters Kluwer Cheetah Voted Best Products. Lexis and Westlaw Face “Sole Source” Cancellations

By Jean O'Grady on March 13, 2016

In December, I offered readers the opportunity to respond to a survey on products and processes that they started or stopped using in 2015 or planned to stop or start in 2016. Readers were also asked to describe products or features they are waiting for vendors to invent.

What s the best NEW PRODUCT you

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