The American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar issued the most remarkable statement yesterday. It wrote to clarify its role of how it manages the collection and publication of jobs data. As readers well know,…
Posts Tagged ‘legal’
Legal Name Change Form
16
Oct
Legal name change form for a child, marriage, divorce and information regarding policy to change
your name or the name of your children. What’s necessary in your state?
Moneyball-ing Legal Services (and Law Schools and Law Libraries)
13
Oct
We shouldn’t be surprised that the new film, Moneyball, would lead to a discussion of the applicability of Moneyball-ing law firm hiring and retention, and the value of legal services provided to clients. Heck, seven years before the movie and…
Traffickers of Very Expensive Online Legal Search: How do we use and teach today’s legal search services when we don’t know how the search engines work?
12
Oct
One can go back to when the issue of CALR was first much debated in the late 1970s, to view what some might characterize as a “luddite” response to the advent of very expensive online legal search but many of…
What Was the Legal Status of "Wanted – Dead or Alive" in the Wild West Days? (Assuming those posters weren’t a creation of Hollywood)
07
Oct
Kenneth Anderson wants to know: First, to what extent was this actually a historical practice [in 19th century frontier days], or is it really just a creation of Hollywood westerns– any scholarship on this, or actual examples? Second, from the…
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…
TR Legal’s Mike Dahn on WestlawNext, WestSearch, and Haters
03
Oct
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…
Thomson Reuters Is Going to Win the Second Round of the Law eBook Slugfest
27
Sep
Looks like the first round goes to Lexis. While you can acquire a few TR Legal eBooks via Amazon (yawn) and you can acquire some CCH and ABA eBooks on their e-commerce site (ditto, yawn), by the end of the…
Reminder: Dewey B Strategic’s Survey on the Best and Worst Legal Publishing Mergers Closes Today
23
Sep
Here’s the post with link to the survey. Watch for Jean O’Grady’s forthcoming summary and survey findings on Dewey B Strategic. [JH]
