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| Jean O’Grady and Nancy McKinstry |
Risk, value, strategy, innovation, knowledge and the legal profession.
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| Jean O’Grady and Nancy McKinstry |
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Is Lexis the Next Acquisition for Bloomberg? January 12, 2012
Life After Leverage: New Staffing Trends in Law Firms January 23, 2012
Welcome to Bloomberg Law: No Deals No Discounts No Apology February 12, 2012
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I’d like to think I was brilliant. More likely I was just lucky. When I started as a first-year associate at Covington & Burling more than sixteen years ago, I was very fortunate to discover the library, and to discover that it was the secret to survival as a junior
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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
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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 …
The ALM research staff has worked closely with the Private Law Library community to improve the precision and relevance of the questions presented in this survey. I look forward to the release of the American Lawyer article interpreting the data and the commentary received
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Today Dow Jones released a routine “snooze” of a press release on executive changes. A roster of names I had never heard before were appointed to key positions reporting to CEO Lex Fenwick . Toward the bottom of the list there was a name familiar to the legal community.
“Dan Hayter has been named head
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