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Treatises offer interactive Table of Contents

Today Thomson Reuters is announcing the release of re-designed Westlaw Secondary Sources  experience. The marketing materials promise that researchers will “start  stronger and finish faster.” Secondary source content includes more than 4,000 treatises encyclopedia and serials, including titles such as the iconic Wright  and Miller on Federal Practice and

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Earlier this year I reported on  the New York Law Institute’s dramatic transformation into a national membership library offering an unprecedented eBook collection including over 85,000 titles. This month they have added two important new legal collections from
Lexis Matthew Bender and the American Bar Association to their eBook offerings.
The Matthew Bender and ABA

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In 2008, just as the recession was shaking the foundations of law firms across New York, the Board of Directors* and the Executive Director of the New York Law Institute were undertaking a reassessment of their library and their services. In 2008 law firms were cutting partners, eliminating summer associate programs and deferring fall associate

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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

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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

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There are two things that surprised me about the Fastcase release of advance sheets which was announced last week.

1. Faster to the ebook market. Once again  Fastcase has leapfrogged over many well established legal publishers by jumping into the eBook market. Last year at AALL, only the two largest  legal publishers LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, were

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