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I Am Now An Alpaca™

September 29, 2011

By Jason Wilson I have a new post up on Slaw.ca, I Am Now An App™. I recommend it to you if you are at all interested in the the current discussions going on about software eating the world (of law). I would also recommend the fifth installment of Will Robots Steal Your Job? on [...]

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I’m sorry to say, but lawyers simply aren’t on the Twitters.

September 7, 2011

By Jason Wilson I’m (along with my boss and director of sales) going to be in Vegas for the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles Annual Convention this week, and yes, we are going to be sporting some controversial t-shirts and … wait for it … K-Swiss Tubes. That’s just because we are badass. And [...]

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Post No. 1 of 2: The Changing Tide

September 6, 2011

By Jason Wilson The first of two posts on disruption is up on Slaw.ca today: The Rise of the Programmers. I enjoyed Toby Brown’s initial take on it via Twitter today: http://twitter.com/#!/gnawledge/status/111138285023272960 [Image (CC) by Frenkieb]

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Read this: The Lanier Effect.

August 31, 2011

By Jason Wilson There isn’t much I can say other than telling you to put aside about 20 to 30 minutes with a cocktail and read (or listen) to Jaron Lanier extend his thoughts on ”Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism” in his most recent conversation for Edge. From the interview (per John [...]

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Typography for Lawyers: Kindle Edition

August 30, 2011

By Jason Wilson I’m pleased to announce that we have released Matthew Butterick’s Typography for Lawyers for the Kindle.  You can pick up your copy for the insanely ridiculous price of $9.99. Butterick has done an amazing job reworking the beautifully designed print edition for the Kindle, which has some pretty significant design limitations. But [...]

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What does {choose one: Westlaw, Lexis, Loislaw, Fastcase, Casemaker} know about you?

August 28, 2011

By Jason Wilson Several years ago, I was at a meeting with some high level marketing executives at a very, very large publishing company. We were discussing something or another that prompted the question: why do I get direct mail pieces that don’t really correspond to the databases I’m searching? (This was pre-federated searching.) After [...]

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Dear Law Students, Please stop biting.

August 25, 2011

By Jason Wilson Prof. Kim Chanbonpin of The John Marshall Law School recently posted her latest paper Legal Writing, the Remix: Plagiarism and Hip Hop Ethics on SSRN (to be published in the Mercer Law Review) with the stated purpose of placing “hip hop music and culture at the center of [the] discussion about plagiarism and [...]

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