The Vendor Colloquium resulted in two documents, A Statement of Shared Principles and an Action Plan. Follow-up work has commenced. The October 2011 issue of AALL’s eNewsletter included an announcement that our President has recently established two task forces to…
Posts Tagged ‘Business’
Bloomberg v Thomson: Playing Risk for World Domination
29
Nov
In The Daily Beast article titled Bloomberg’s Plan for World Domination, Nick Summers profiles media giant Bloomberg (the company) while observing that It’s impossible to talk about the aspirations of Bloomberg the business without addressing Bloomberg the man: it is…
TR/Westlaw China Gobbles Up iSinolaw
22
Nov
Sadly, I must report about the latest so-called merger of online publishers. I just received a letter from Stephan Yao, CEO or Thomas Reuters Legal, China and Gordon Wong, Business Director of iSinolaw. According to this letter, the two companies…
Browsing On A Sunday: Borders Books, The Health Care Law, And The Search Market
14
Nov
Bloomberg Business Week has a lengthy analysis on the failure of Borders Books called The End of Borders and the Future of Books. The pull quote is “Borders seems to have been in the business of making mistakes.” The article…
Librarians, Vendors and AALL: Is anyone really asking (or expecting) AALL to do their jobs for them when conducting business with vendors?
31
Oct
In calling upon AALL to doing something in terms of consumer advocacy for its institutional buyer members in the commercial marketplace, some, well at least one, professional law librarian, apparently thinks law librarians are not performing their jobs: Asking AALL…
Is the Legal Profession, Is the "ABA-Legal Academy Cartel," as Future Ready for Alternative Business Structures as "Professional Legal Services" Vendors Are?
06
Oct
Readers of Richard Susskind’s The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology (OUP, 1998) and The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services, Revised Ed. (OUP, 2010) can already see forecasted changes in the provision of…
Round-Up of Law Practitioner Blogs
04
Sep
Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Blog http://www.pennsylvaniamedicalmalpracticeblog.com/ http://www.pennsylvaniamedicalmalpracticeblog.com/index.xml Discusses medical malpractice news, cases and reports in Pennsylvania. Published by Beasley Reiff Law Group New York Business Litigation Attorney Blog http://www.newyorkbusinesslitigationattorneyblog.com/ http://www.newyorkbusinesslitigationattorneyblog.com/index.xml Discusses business litigation cases, news and updates in New York. Published…
Creating a Total Package to Compete with Wolters Kluwer in the 21st Century: BLaw+BNA and BGov+BNA in the Specialist Law, Regulatory and Business Marketplace
26
Aug
Assuming a majority of BNA former and current employee-shareholders tender their shares, an assumption that must take into account that many current employees are union-represented, Bloomberg, a company not known for acquiring other companies, will have made its largest acquisition…
Positioning "One’s Self as an Insightful Chameleon Rather Than as an Isolated Purveyor of Facts and Figures"
15
Aug
I guess that’s the gist of Ari Kaplan’s Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, June 8, 2011) [Amazon]. I haven’t read it yet but perhaps I should. “This book expertly showcases the multitude of opportunities…
Opening: Business Development & Research Specialist, Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP
12
Aug
Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, one of the Rocky Mountain region’s most prominent law firms, enjoys a strong national reputation for its corporate finance, natural resources and energy law practices, with emphasis on securities and M&A transactions, complex commercial litigation…
