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Westlaw Canada + Litigator Service + Bored Lawyers = Copyright Class Action

June 2, 2011

By Jason Wilson If you haven’t been paying attention, the proposed Canadian class action of Lorne Waldman v. Thomson Reuters Corp. & Thomson Reuters Canada Ltd. is continuing its slow trek to the certification hearing scheduled for late September. You might recall that this case is seeking $50m for copyright infringement of lawyers’ briefs that were [...]

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Jones McClure Publishing: Well, they finally got their blog back.

June 2, 2011

By Jason Wilson Well, congratulations to my staff at Jones McClure Publishing for finally redesigning and relaunching the company blog, which is now called Annotations. All the editors are now contributing content, and it looks like there will be daily posts related to the law (and other things they might find interesting). I have no [...]

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California Law Students: Respond to this post, get free procedure guides.

May 9, 2011

By Jason Wilson If you’re a California law student and you just missed passing the February Bar (results out this Friday) or are sitting for the July Bar exam, I’ve got a deal for you. The first 50 of you to respond to this post (no names will be published) or email me at jason@jasnwilsn.com [...]

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BREAKING: SEAL Team Six rumored to take operational control over Lexis

May 5, 2011

By Jason Wilson There may soon be a changing of the guard inside LexisNexis. Sources have told rethinc.k that SEAL Team Six is preparing for a corporate takeover. Last April, Team Six was apparently spotted conducting operations in the Banks-Baldwin building in Cleveland, Ohio, which West Publishing abandoned in 2010. Sources say that inside the building was an [...]

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Friday: The Ed Schipul Distraction Hour

April 28, 2011

By Jason Wilson It’s Friday and you need to make some time for art. Here is a collection of videos from Ed Schipul (if you don’t subscribe to him, you should) that I think you’ll find entertaining or captivating. Love Sick in Slo-Mo. Absolutely fantastic. Mad World – Gary Jules video. This song is still [...]

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Anonymous Publishers & Editors: a call for stories, insight. *UPDATED*

April 25, 2011

By Jason Wilson I’d like to publish a post that is a compendium of stories and advice from legal publishers and editors from across the world, whether current or former. I think there is great value in what we’ve learned as a class of individuals, and I’d like to be able to share your thoughts [...]

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BREAKING NEWS UPDATED: Law students addicted to WestlawNext. Won’t know how to research in real world.

April 23, 2011

By Jason Wilson From Lisa D. Kinzer, a law student at the University of Texas School of Law, comes an abstract of a working paper titled, The ‘Next’ Generation: Measuring First-Year Student Response to WestlawNext: When Thomson Reuters debuted its WestlawNext legal research platform a year ago, many predicted that law students would prove to [...]

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