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What Do You Do When You Are Losing Customers? Thomson Reuters Buys the Competition

08 Dec

Back in September, UK-based Pilgrim Systems, a provider of law practice management solutions called LawSoft, announced Another Elite site goes live with Pilgrim’s Lawsoft, noting: As well as the functionality and quality of the LawSoft solution, the firms’ selection was…

 

Free and Reliable e-Text Downloads for the New Federal Rules of Evidence (as well as 2012 editions of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Criminal Procedure)

06 Dec

The Restyled Federal Rules of Evidence, which became effective on December 1, 2011, are “[s]impler. Easier to read. Easier to understand. These [characterizations] describe the Federal Rules of Evidence after their first top-to-bottom restyling since they were drafted and enacted…

 

More Details On Your Phone Is Spying On You

01 Dec

The news on Carrier IQ software embedded in smart phones seems to be heating up. Carriers are starting to talk, a little, and Congress is taking notice. Senator Al Franken is asking pointed questions the company no doubt will not…

 

Lawyers and Firm C-Level Types Oftentimes are No Smarter Than the Ordinary Consumer: The Case of Mobile Phone Monitoring

01 Dec

Yesterday LLB’s Mark Giangrande reported on the hidden mobile phone montioring software provided by Carrier IQ that is installed in millions of mobile phones, including most modern Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones. See Your Phone Is Spying On You But…

 

Thank You LLMC. I Heart You!

28 Nov

Law journals seem to be taking the brunt of the space burden in the world of the shrinking library. My impression is that many libraries are tossing them, though there are some old fashioned librarians like me who are philosophically…

 

Hello Catalogers of Graham’s Federal Rules of Evidence in a Nutshell (2011)

22 Nov

Hat tip to NKU Law’s Carol Bredemeyer for calling attention to the fact that “evidence” was omitted from the title page for the latest edition of TR Legal’s Federal Rules of Evidence in a Nutshell. Quoting from her recent lawlib…

 

Providing Users with Search Algorithm Information

22 Nov

Matt Cutts, Distinguished Engineer, recaps ten changes to Google’s algorithm implemented during the last couple of weeks on Google’s official Inside Search blog including, for example: Snippets with more page content and less header/menu content: This change helps us choose…

 

The New Search Model: "Everyone plugs into the search engine, only a few understand how it works"

17 Nov

A definition of the algorithm: The algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions. And that is the problem today’s new legal search engines present for users and instructors of online legal research in the…

 

Yale Law Journal Joins the Ranks of Major Law Journals Issuing eBook Editions Published by Quid Pro Books

14 Nov

Yale Law Journal has joined Standford Law Review and Harvard Law Review in making available issues in multiple eBook formats published by Quid Pro Books. Starting with vol. 121, no. 1, dated October 2011, YLJ is now available for Kindle…

 

TR Legal’s Format Switcheroos: From Loose-leaf Sets to Pamphlet Editions to Bringing ProView eBooks to Market

09 Nov

Shaun Esposito, CRIV Chair, 2011-2012 and Head of Public Services at the University of Arizona College of Law Library, asked about the format change TR Legal has been executing from loose-leaf to pamphlet editions because “Several AALL members have asked…