Lexis-Nexis
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LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
LexisNexis Acquires 'Legal Analytics': Lex Machina
Legal technology columnist Sean Doherty analyzes LexisNexis's acquisition of legal analytics provider Lex Machina. -
Money, Technology
Show Me Other People's Money, Fast
What are some of the tools available to attorneys for billing clients and getting paid? Technology columnist Sean Doherty investigates. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Conferences / Symposia, Technology
A Scattering: Legal Tech Startups, IPOs, Fax, Time Matters And OpenOffice
Based on the world of legal-tech startups, there is hope that a legal technology industry will flourish and help lawyers and law firms provide efficient and cost-effective legal services.
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LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Technology
Are Collaboration Tools Overrated Or Just Misdirected?
Just because the technology is there doesn’t mean it’s the most efficient way to accomplish a task, according to tech columnist Sean Doherty. -
LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Technology
Flash Bulletin: Lawyers Are Tech First-Adopters
Technology columnist Sean Doherty identifies notable updates from leading legal tech companies. -
Conferences / Symposia, Technology
ILTACON Exhibits: The End of Fairy Tales (Part 2)
The news out of the big ILTA conference in Las Vegas keeps on coming, as chronicled by tech columnist Sean Doherty. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.31.15
* Ugh, you throw one stinkin’ party that infringes on the Pokemon copyright and the lawyers shut you down. Buzzkills. [Vice]
* You know what Ryan Phillippe loves to do? Run around without his shirt on and talk about how his Stanford Law girlfriend is awesome. Dontcha love it when a piece of man meat has respect for the T-14? [Daily Mail]
* Are you
gambling in Vegasattending the ILTA conference today? Come Hear Legal Bytes play favorites of the legal industry like Old Technology Blues and Lawyers Love Lexis. [Business of Law Blog]* Just in time for OCI season — what should you do if your Biglaw dreams go pop? [Underdawg Law]
* You’re not alone feeling the Biglaw burnout after a few years, but maybe technology can help? [Bloomberg BNA]
* Greeeeeaaaat… Now employers can deny employees birth control for non-religious reasons. [Think Progress]
* Opening lines to opinions can really set the tone. Take a look at this forceful start from an old Ninth Circuit decision. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* Podcast with the curmudgeon of the legal profession, Mark Herrmann. [Hsu Untied]
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Technology
CRM For Legal: Relationships Are Not Easy
Please welcome Above the Law's newest legal technology writer, Sean Doherty, who today discusses platforms for customer relationship management (CRM). - Sponsored
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.28.15
* Trying Meredith Grey for wrongful death. Can we put her on How To Get Away With Murder and then have Hydra massacre them all in an all-purging ABC Network fire? [Lowenthal & Abrams]
* If the Supreme Court dismisses a case as improvidently granted, it’s a DIG. If they did it in the past, was it DUG? Professor Carissa Byrne Hessick ponders the linguistics that we’d never ever have considered. And that probably bodes well for us. [PrawfsBlawg]
* Did you hear about that two-way mirror that a bar installed to watch the women’s room? Police say no privacy rights were implicated, because apparently women understand that the bathroom door was unlocked so they expected guys to walk in on them. Stellar legal analysis. [Jezebel]
* NYC moves into the 20th Century with its summons process. No, that’s not a typo and yes, that’s still a good thing. [LFC 360]
* It’s important to remember that the revelation that David Messerschmitt may have led a double life doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen all the time. And we’re not talking about a Matt Murdock-style double life here, which doesn’t happen much. [Law and More]
* Nice shout out to Lexis-Nexis Blog for getting into the content production game. [Forbes]
* In the post-Jenner announcement world, here’s what employers can do to help transgender employees. A good start would be “don’t be Saks.” [LXBN]
* Interviewing people waiting in line for Supreme Court oral arguments and lamenting how much of their day is wasted because we can’t have a goddamned camera in the room. [Fix the Court]
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Libraries / Librarians, Technology
Libraries Are For Hobos: New Resources For Legal Research
Even people who consider themselves current with technology trends don't think about legal research beyond the basics, but the truth is that there are many good tools out there. -
Google / Search Engines, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Technology
How Legal Marketing Is Changing The Way We Do Legal Research
How can you use free online resources to initiate your legal research (before diving into Westlaw or Lexis)? -
Conferences / Symposia, Lexis-Nexis, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Technology
Stats Of The Week: #ILTA14 Edition
A round-up of the top statistical tweets from the ILTA conference. -
Google / Search Engines, Legal Research, Lexis-Nexis, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Small Law Firms, Technology, Westlaw, Wikipedia
Is Wikipedia A Reliable Legal Authority?
Small-firm columnist Keith Lee looks at how widely courts are citing Wikipedia.
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2nd Circuit, 8th Circuit, Lexis-Nexis, Trademarks, Westlaw
On Remand: Lexis Drives West, Sues Toyota
Years before Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center built the forty-foot high “Tower of Law” (or, as Stephen Colbert called it, “the building blocks of boring”) out of unused legal reporters, Lexis started the books’ march to obsolescence when it debuted on April 2, 1973. “Lexis,” a term the company’s president coined by combining the Latin word […] -
Law Schools, Lexis-Nexis, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Small Law Firms, Summer Associates
(Don't) Think Like A Lawyer
How can law students and young lawyers best prepare themselves for success at a small law firm? -
Layoffs, Lexis-Nexis, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Media and Journalism, Technology, Westlaw
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Large Layoffs at LexisNexis
If the estimates are accurate, LexisNexis laid off enough people to staff a sizable law firm. -
Barack Obama, Lexis-Nexis, Non-Sequiturs, Patton Boggs, Politics, Racism
Non-Sequiturs: 07.19.13
* USDA requiring a magician to develop a disaster plan for his rabbit. I don’t think this is such a bad idea — have you ever seen Bullwinkle? [Lowering the Bar] * The Middle Class is disappearing in the country. Why can’t we get a disaster plan for them like we have for that rabbit? [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * Patton Boggs is rebooting. Just like when a TV show adds a long-lost cousin in season 8, this isn’t a sign of weakness at all. [Politico] * President Obama, speaking of the Trayvon Martin case, notes: “There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they are shopping at a department store. And that includes me.” See, he was uniquely prepared for the job of being followed by security guys EVERYWHERE. The difference, of course, is he knows these guys aren’t going to shoot him. [NBC Politics] * A Miami firm is suing LexisNexis for “deceptive” fees. If they’re going to litigate this case, they’d better hope their Westlaw bill is paid in full. [Miami New Times] * The reporter’s privilege had a bad day. After all that’s been revealed in the last couple months, let’s all agree it’s only newsworthy when the reporter’s privilege has a good day. [PrawfsBlawg] -
Lexis-Nexis, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Shopping
Bar Admission 'Anniversary' Plaques? Don't Be That Guy
These plaques are just kind of embarrassing. -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Lexis-Nexis, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Music, Rap, Videos, Weirdness, Westlaw, YouTube
Yo! ATL Raps
A former Dewey & LeBoeuf associate started a company that just received $15 million in venture capital financing. But can it compete with Westlaw and Lexis? -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, Lexis-Nexis, LexisNexis / Lexis-Nexis, Small Law Firms, Wall Street Journal
Size Matters: Billing Sucks, But Small-Firm Lawyers Need To Do It Better
While billing is an awful experience, small-firm attorneys need to do it better, according to columnist Valerie Katz.