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Dear Customer

April 19, 2010

Enclosed is a copy of THE MOST IMPORTANT LAW BOOK EVER. Although you did not order this product, you have ordered similar products like it before, which means you also need to purchase this book. I could bore you with the details of the product and recount the many reasons why it will change your [...]

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Pooling: Should firms join to buy cheaper legal research tools?

April 9, 2010

There are some who argue that the cost of online legal research has gotten too high. There are others who disagree.
There are some who don’t care because they still enjoy a high percentage of cost recovery. There are others who say those others are foolish for thinking that will last.
There are some who curse the [...]

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Do not be ashamed of the 80s.

March 21, 2010

One of my directors insists that the 80s was devoid of good music. As a proper Gen Xer, I disagree. And if you are one, then you’ll know where you were when you heard this song:
Love My Way
by The Psychedelic Furs
There’s an army
on the dancefloor.
It’s a fashion
with a gun my love.
In a room
without a door,
a [...]

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The color of reading.

March 9, 2010

Two things happened this week that caused this post.

Ed Schipul, a good friend of mine, attended the Tools of Change Conference 2010 (TOC 2010) and told me that a lot of folks were talking about Nick Cave’s Death of Bunny Munro. It is “the shit.”
Don Linn posted his observations about TOC 2010 and said (among [...]

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Am I a better thinker?

March 7, 2010

I’ve been working my way through all of the responses to The Edge’s Question of the Year: How is the Internet changing the way you think? If you aren’t reading them, you should because the breadth of insight is truly amazing, and the observations will have you, at times, nodding your head and saying “yes, yes, [...]

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EXCLUSIVE: WestlawNext “Flash” Review

February 2, 2010

Well, my embargo has finally lifted, and I’m happy to be reporting on the newest extension of Thomson Reuters Legal’s (TRL) WestlawNext artificial intelligence technology, the WestlawNext “Flash.” Honestly, after having been able to spend a couple of weeks with this objet d’art, I have been blown away. And if you get a chance to [...]

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What is important?

January 21, 2010

Through a glass door you watched
the surf break in the distance
while someone told you confidentially
that what’s really important
is the way time passes in dreams
when you’re not dreaming.
Desperate Characters, Nicholas Christopher
[[Photo (cc) bortescristian]]

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