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Wolters Kluwer must be offering free double espresso shots every morning to their product developers and editors. Do they even sleep these days?  Less than a month ago I wrote a post on the release of their Cybersecurity & Privacy platform … the relaunch of their  International Arbitration platform and their alliance with  IP analytics provider ktMine. Today they are announcing the release of  “Corporate SmartTasks” which follows on their May 18th  launch of a free Federal Regulatory Knowledge Center beta site.

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The Wolters Kluwer SmartTask Corporate Suite

Continue Reading Wolters Kluwer Leaps to the Head of the Class with “SmartTasks” Customizable Corporate Know-How and Offers a Free Federal Legislative Knowledge Center

Today LexisNexis is releasing a practice guide on federal civil practice TheWagstaffe Group Practice Guide: Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial  that will be available in three formats: print, online in Lexis Advance and eBook. (LexisNexis Digital Library.)  This multimedia guide includes over 150 video clips of two to five minutes in length. This is the first video offering from a legal publishing market that I can recall since the release of Professor Robert Berring’s Commando Legal Research series in 1989.

The LexisAdvance and Digital Library versions will be enhanced with video “mini lectures” by the author James M. Wagstaffe.  Wagstaffeformer co-author of The Rutter Group’s Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial. The press release describes the author as one of the country’s preeminent First Amendment and defamation lawyers. Wagstaffe is also, an adjunct professor in constitutional law and civil procedure at Hastings College of the Law and in Media Law at San Francisco State University and co-founder of Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP.  The press release describes the  videos  as providing “ rich, explanatory tips and practical insights … that enhance and complement the surrounding text in each chapter. “Continue Reading Treatises Are Not Dead They Are Just Being Transformed: Lexis Launches First Video Practice Guide: Can the Gamified Treatise Be Far Behaind?

Today LexisNexis is releasing a treatise on federal civil practice The Wagstaffe Group Practice Guide: Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial  that will be available in three formats: print, online in Lexis Advance and eBook. (LexisNexis Digital Library.)  This multimedia guide includes over 150 video
clips of two to five minutes in length. This is the

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In December I offered readers the opportunity to respond to the 2016 Start/Stop Poll in which they could vote for the best new products and features and highlight the products that they planned to say good-bye to. The results of the process part of the survey are posted here.For the second year in a

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Today the Courthouse News Service reported that  The law firm Himmelstein McConnell, Gribben  Donahue and Joseph LLP filed a class action lawsuit against Matthew Bender & Company a Member  of Lexis/Nexis Group Inc. in a New York State Supreme Court on February 23rd.

The complaint alleges  that the  annual publication, the New York Landlord Tenant Law book

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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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The latest issue of Practice Innovations  was the “technology” issue. Each article probes a specific  technological pain point known to every law firm.

Here are the articles from the current issue:

Too Much Computer Security? A request for Better Customer Relations by Conrad Jacoby, efficientEDO

Too Many Passwords by Bobby Kuzma, Systems Engineer, Security Technologies

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I have recently been  musing on the
powerful predictive insights that could be generated by  combining legal and business event data and mapping historic correlations between litigation and financial data. It is a terrible thing to be blessed with ideas and but lack the technical skills for execution.
 
Imagine my surprise when I came across a press release from
Thomson Reuters

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