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The future of law librarians

May 6, 2013

I followed the #callacbd2013 tweet stream today, and I had the pleasure of looking over Sarah Glassmeyer’s slidedeck before the session even began. I have to say  I was intrigued by what the community would say about Jean O’Grady and Sarah’s talks today, and I was a bit disappointed. So that means that people were [...]

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In publishing, the little things do matter.

May 6, 2013

Today, one of my editors was kind enough to send me an email that read simply: Go to the Texas Supreme Court website. So I did, and guess what I saw? This: Now, I happen to know that Justice Hecht told a CLE crowd a few weeks back that Thomson Reuters’ West Texas Rules of [...]

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Treatises are dead{!/?}

May 2, 2013

This Summer, I have the pleasure of participating on a panel discussion at AALL’s Annual Meeting titled Off the Page and Beyond the Book: New Models for Buying and Selling Legal Information. I’m certain it will be a lively and interesting discussion devoid of any off-color commentary. In preparation for the panel’s discussion, I was [...]

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This. Is. Depressing. The future of law schools. [Video]

April 29, 2013

Bloomberg Law produced a video of last week’s ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education. There are so many pull quotes from this thing, and you know plenty of gems were left on the digital production floor: “If there’s anyway this task force could put U.S. News out of business, I would urge [...]

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Building a citator through indirect crowdsourcing: Fastcase’s Bad Law Bot

April 25, 2013

Fastcase announced today the impending release of a new algorithm enhancement to their Authority Check system—dubbed Bad Law Bot (BLB)—whose job is to identify other opinions that indicate the case you found has been treated negatively. I won’t go into the particulars (go see Greg Lambert’s post over at 3 Geeks this morning) other than [...]

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ABA TechShow 2013: Vendors I’d like to see

March 21, 2013

If I were painting technology-oriented trade shows for lawyers with a broad brush, then I’d say ALM’s LegalTech is mostly iPad carrying, big law CIO/CTOs and ediscovery vendors and ABA TechShow is mostly iPad carrying, small law practitioners and practice management software vendors. For each show, the vendors trot out refreshed technology that will undoubtedly [...]

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“The only thing that grows in your hand is a dick.”

March 7, 2013

The title is a euphemism that is new to me, courtesy of a dear friend of mine. I would have thought after 43 years I had heard just about every colorful metaphor, but as it turns out I haven’t. The point of mentioning it didn’t become relevant until this morning after I read Jean O’Grady’s [...]

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Westlaw Analytics: Mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery

February 4, 2013

So, I was perusing this month’s edition of Thomson Reuters’ PracticeInnovations (pdf), and was about to dive into the piece on Westlaw Analytics when I caught a glimpse of the screen cap.   And then I thought, here we go again.   [Image from Google Analytics] At the end of the day, mimicry of what we know [...]

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