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
  • While there is much disagreement about both the substance and policy behind the Affordable Care Act,  it can be universally stipulated that it is a complex law  which promises an increasingly complex implementation.  The law itself is about 1,000 pages long and to date  the implementing  federal regulations are reported to number in excess of

    

    The Calm Before Sandy

    

    According to a story in the New York Times and a Google blog post, Google rushed the release of Hurricane Sandy maps which aggregate publicly available data to create some powerful  emergency resources including alerts and  mapping tools which track the storm and point to relief services.  While some of these