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Posts Tagged ‘Sector’

How Libraries Can Go High-Tech on a Tight Budget

24 Jan

It may not be as big an issue in the private sector which knows how to justify the costs associated with using 21st century tech but it can be a fairly big deal in the academic and government sectors. In…

 

Thank God the World is Going to End on December 21, 2012: The Coming Deluge of Law Firm Blogs

26 Dec

Reporting in Watch Out: A Deluge of Legal Blogs is Approaching, Bob Ambrogi reviews some of the findings of a recently released survey of social media in the legal sector that was conducted by LexisNexis and Vizibility. Bob writes: Better…

 

Industry Sector Analysis of Big Data Harvesting

29 Oct

“‘Big data’ refers to sets of data whose size surpasses that of what data storage tools can typically handle. As the amount of digital data grows exponentially each year, big data has the potential to become the next frontier for…

 

"A picture is worth a thousand words" for illustrating law grads’ corporate sector career paths in the "New Normal"

16 Aug

The caption for the image, right, in Vanessa O’Connell’s WSJ story, Cut the Law Firms, Keep the Lawyers, reads “Dargie Anderson Bowersock had expected to go to a law firm—the “traditional path”— but now works in H-P’s legal department in…

 

In The News: Jobs, Books, Babies, Stupid Lawsits, Cable Porn, and Data Caps

01 Aug

Things I’ve read in the news lately: The dismal market for law school graduates may be the public sector’s gain, if this story out of Virginia is to be believed. Cash strapped public sector offices are hiring unpaid summer interns….

 

Legal Project Management Books for Lawyers (and Private Sector Law Librarians and Members of the Legal Academy, Too)

21 Jun

Slaw’s Ted Tjaden writes that there are relatively few substantive books on project management geared specifically to lawyers. In his recent Slaw post, he recommends two recent works because they complement each other. Levy’s Legal Project Management – Control Costs,…