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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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Thomson Reuters Law School Publishing Business Sold to Eureka Growth Capital

February 4, 2013

Paul Caron (TaxProf Blog) writes today that Thomson Reuters has apparently completed the sale of the law school publishing business to the private equity firm, Eureka Growth Capital, whose current holdings include college campus television and telecommunication services, floor coverings, digital photography services, home accent and decor products, engineered machined products, forensic toxicology labs, and [...]

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Lawyers, If you’re not on Vine now, it may already be too late.

February 1, 2013

This is not a joke. Lawyers, you MUST be on Vine now. If you aren’t producing 6 second looping videos about your practice, associates and their hipster attire, speaking engagements, ghost-written blog and marketing content, or the office cat, then you may already be too late. Wait any longer, and you’ll be behind the most [...]

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Procedure Nerd Alert: Erieblogging

January 11, 2013

This is just fantastic. Prof. Michael Steven Green (William & Mary) is celebrating the 75th birthday of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins through daily “Erieblogging,” where he tackles un- or under-explored Erie questions. Some of the sample questions include: In Swift v. Tyson, Justice Story said that a federal court could come to its own conclusion [...]

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Embracing non-lawyers as customers

November 25, 2012

I love controversial titles, and today’s CNN post from Gillian Hadfield titled “Lawyers, make room for nonlawyers” was just one of those that has sparked, as of the time of this post, over 300 comments. On a holiday weekend too! From the op-ed: Authorized nonlawyers and organizations could help ease our overburdened courts in many [...]

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The Making of Artrepreneurs

September 21, 2012

From John Maeda, President of Rhode Island School of Design, in a Wired Op-Ed: We want the products we buy to be made responsibly, sold truthfully, to have come from the mind of a human being just like us – not just from an algorithm. [¶] Art speaks to us as humans, not as “human capital.” [...]

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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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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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