I first met Mike Dahn, who is now SVP Marketing & New Initiative Development at Thomson Reuters Legal, last January in Eagan during a beta preview of WestlawNext (WLN), and since then, we have kept up with one another over…
Archive for the ‘Legal Research’ Category
Have You Test Driven HeinOnline’s New Across-All-Subcriptions Search Engine?
23
Sep
And the Company isn’t branding it HeinOnlineNext and isn’t requiring a premium upgrade charge to use its search engine enhancement. Well, we wouldn’t expect Hein & Co. to do either or both… . From the HeinOnline blog post: This past…
The WestSearch Straitjacket For Legal Research – Thinking Beyond The Keyword: Part II
14
Sep
In Part 1, we examined evidence for two kinds of limitations on WestSearch’s effectiveness. Ron Wheeler has studied limitations related to how WestSearch ranks documents for importance and relevance. (Does WestlawNext Really Change Everything?, 103 Law Libr. J. 359 (2011))…
What Will Your Firm Stop Buying In Five Years? How About Vendor Content Tied to Their Search Engines
08
Sep
That’s the question asked and answered in another installment of 3 Geek’s Elephant Posts series. While all answeres were interesting, the response that got me thinking about the future was by Mark Gediman: Q. What will your firm stop buying…
The WestSearch Straitjacket For Legal Research – Thinking Beyond The Keyword: Part I
07
Sep
Thomson Reuters – Legal (TR Legal) advertises sweeping claims for the benefits of WestlawNext (WN) at Customers. WestlawNext.com. Given the scale of the advertising blitz, these claims merit careful examination. Though it remains too early to reach a conclusion, initial…
Resistance? No Doubt, but the Timing is Ripe to Make an Attempt: Reforming Legal Research & Writing Instruction Requires Transforming the Status Quo Model of Law School Curriculum and Faculty Governance
06
Sep
Alas, I seriously doubt any such reform will by mandated by the ABA’s review of accredition standards since not interfering with the how the legal academy should produce “pratice ready” grads beyond aspirational goals for “outcomes” appears to be the…
How Much Does Your Online Legal Search Vendor Know or Could Know About You and Your Clients?
01
Sep
Got any clue? Jason Wilson writes: I sometimes wonder how much these CALR vendors could know about you (lawyer/law firm) and your clients at any given moment. Sure, they might not know names, but they would know if related C/M…
Updated GlobaLex Research Guides
31
Aug
August 2011 updated guides available on GlobaLex: International Sports Law by Amy Burchfield Guide to Legal Research in Belarus by Tatyana Khodosevich & Nadia Shalygina; Update by Nadia Shalygina An Introduction to Colombian Governmental Institutions and Primary Legal Sources by…
