ALM Legal Intelligence has released the 2018 Survey of Law Firm Knowledge Management, Library and Research Professionals.
It appears that most of the largest firms opted out of this survey or missed the deadline to participate. The median law firm size of participating firms was down from 500 attorneys in 2017 to 376 in 2018
Today Casetext is launching CARA AI which offers significant changes to both the CARA and Casetext research experience. Today CARA is being transformed from a citation analysis tool into a full fledged legal research engine.
I had a chance to talk to Casetext co-founders Jake Heller and Pablo Arredondo about the launch . Heller, the CEO of Casetext describes these enhancements as “helping attorneys at any phase of their research find better authorities faster.” Arredondo, who is the Chief Legal Research Officer described CARA AI as offering a solution like Google, Apple and Amazon Prime — “CARA AI gives you only what you need.”
Key features include:
Speed The press release states that these enhancements make Casetext the “fastest research platform.” They did not provide any data to back this statement up, but the demo I saw showed the new platform delivering near immediate search results and document retrievals. I have to agree –CARA AI is lightening fast.
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For years I have been heaping praise on Thomson Reuters for producing one of the first marketing pieces that took a 
crack at quantifying the time savings delivered by one of their workflow products. The chart offers a simple comparison of several tasks and shows the time it takes to perform each task and with and without the use of the Practical Law Resources. See Illustration below.
It is probably five years since I saw that first chart and I recently began investigating whether Thomson Reuters has moved from producing a marketing piece to delivering a real tool that could actually help a customer determine or even estimate the time savings or efficiency delivered by Practical Law. I am picking on Thomson Reuters but the truth is that none of the large legal information publishers ( LexisNexis, Wolters Kluwer or Bloomberg Law) which have enhanced their research products with workflow solutions are offering any resource to measuring the ROI of their products. For
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The members of the Columbia Law Revue – these law students are not only smart, but they are also clever and some of them sing like Broadway headliners. Maybe we should invite them to perform at the American Association of Law Libraries Conference this summer. This is the best legal research video since Craig Runde and Bill Lindberg
It does seem as if there was an unusual number of “iconic achievers”
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