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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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Legal research should be hard, shouldn’t it?

April 7, 2013

Last week I had the good fortune of being a guest of Thomson Reuters for the excellent Keynote speech given by the very entertaining David Pogue at ABA’s TechShow in Chicago. As I sat in the front row with several other fellow bloggers, the screens on either side of the dias showed videos of WestlawNext [...]

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Legal publishing is dead! Long live software solutions!

January 21, 2013

This was the proclamation from the Thomson Reuters’s bloggers summit last week, or at least the way I heard it. Others might disagree, however. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I’ve gathered all of the comments on the matter from my fellow attendees for your easy digestion. The bolded terms are my random emphases. From Bob [...]

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Citators & Compliance Algorithms: Some questions for the future. **UPDATED**

January 13, 2013

I read with some interest last week Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch’s paper Are all Citator Services Created Equal? A Comparison of Google Scholar, Fastcase, Casemaker, LexisNexis, WestlawNext, and Bloomberg (link to pdf). Their reasons for testing the services interested me because it dovetailed with some thoughts on citators I’ve been screwing around with. Here’s how [...]

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The “Next” Strategy: Does “Reuters Next” hint at changes for WestlawNext?

January 9, 2013

Yesterday Talking Biz News posted that Thomson Reuters was working on a “massive web relaunch” of reuters.com: “Known internally as ‘Reuters Next,’ the new reuters.com will be a ‘state of the art’ offering with a redesigned front-end and a proprietary content management system built from scratch, said … sources, who described the site as being [...]

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2013 is about workflow, not content

January 7, 2013

I’m looking forward to the inevitable round of new product offerings and enhancements from legal vendors around the country (e.g., Techshow, Legal Tech). I’m guessing that most of the changes we’ll see will be about workflow, and not content. While content (organic or acquired) will be pushed as a hook for user participation, the ecosystems [...]

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Adopting an eBook model is a terrible idea for legal publishers.

July 9, 2012

By Jason Wilson I was reading Jean O’Grady’s recent article The Future of eBooks in Law Firms and the Future of Libraries and noted that it only took her a year to go from bullish to optimistic on law eBooks: Having watched the legal eBook market evolve over the past year, I now am guardedly optimistic [...]

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Digital legal research: solo or collaboration folders?

April 24, 2012

By Jason Wilson From John Barker on the WK Intelligent Solutions Blog: Today’s professional workflows involve teams. Law firms do work on behalf of corporate legal departments. Lawyers and accountants from different practice groups - labor, tax, securities, etc., – work together on behalf on a single client. They share research. Of course, their research activities [...]

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