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Associating unthinkable data collections

January 6, 2012

By Jason Wilson From David Worlock, The key trends of 2011 will always be, for me, the landmark strides made towards really incorporating content into the workflow of professionals, and the progress made in associating previously unthinkable data collections (not linked by metadata, structure and/or location) in ways that allowed us draw out fresh analytical [...]

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Firesheep & sidejacking: A year later, lawyers are no smarter.

December 12, 2011

By Jason Wilson In October 2010, Eric Butler released a small Firefox extension—Firesheep (a “man in the middle” program)—to show how session hijacking (or “sidejacking”) can work over public wifi. At the time, it garnered quite a lot of mainstream press resulting in several local news stories demonstrating the ease with which one could steal someone’s [...]

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Please, someone, make CALR Threads.

December 7, 2011

By Jason Wilson {I’m republishing this post from 2009 because two years later, nothing. I’m still waiting on someone to do this. Honestly, what good is all of our technology if we can’t take simple HTML and show historical versions of statutes? I swear to God if I ever get my hands on a primary [...]

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Why lawyers are fucked.

December 1, 2011

By Jason Wilson I’ve been off the blogging circuit for a while, but I simply couldn’t resist posting about Carrier IQ. Only one link will do, and it’s to Wired’s Threat Level article on the subject. The long and the short of it is this: if you are a lawyer using a “smart phone” you [...]

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On WestlawNext & More: Mike Dahn responds to your comments.

October 14, 2011

By Jason Wilson [The following remarks are Mike Dahn's responses to the comments and blog posts that were posted after our interview Parts One and Two, which principally addressed issues related to WestlawNext and WestSearch. I want to thank Mike and his team for preparing these remarks, and I hope you will find them informative. As [...]

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Part 2 on WestlawNext, WestSearch, and Haters: A Brief Interview with Mike Dahn of Thomson Reuters

October 5, 2011

[This is Part 2 and final installment of my interview with Mike Dahn. Part 1 is here. Mike's responses to the comments and blog posts following this interview can be found here.] JW: In his article, Does WestlawNext Really Change Everything: The Implications of WestlawNext on Legal Research, Professor Ronald E. Wheeler, Jr. states that [...]

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On WestlawNext, WestSearch, and Haters: A Brief Interview with Mike Dahn of Thomson Reuters (Part 1)

October 3, 2011

By Jason Wilson I first met Mike Dahn, who is now SVP Marketing & New Initiative Development at Thomson Reuters Legal, last January in Eagan during a beta preview of WestlawNext (WLN), and since then, we have kept up with one another over emails and the occasional beer when travel schedules permit. I recently caught [...]

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