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Appraising our Digital Investment: Sustainability of Digitized Special Collections in ARL Libraries – A Report from Ithaka S+R and the Association of Research Libraries. Nancy L. Maron, Ithaka S+R, Sarah Pickle, Ithaka S+R. February 2013 “Special collections have long been a vital part of libraries, offering users access to rare or archival materials and creating …
Frederic Filloux, guardian.co.uk: “Its official blog merely mentions “6 billion visits per month” sent to news sites and Google News claims to connect “1 billion unique users a week to news content” [see The press, Google, its algorithm, their scale]…But how exactly does Google News work? What kind of media does its algorithm favour most? …
How White & Case tamed its information overload, By Oz Benamram. See also Communicating Professionally Using Outlook, by Oz Benamram, last updated: October 2012.
American Banker/Bank Technology: “Social networking has become so common and broad-based in its use there are now more than 500 million Twitter users and more than 1 billion Facebook users that banks have no choice but to incorporate social networking into their marketing efforts.”
“The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor are pleased to present this 2013 Report on the State of the Legal Market highlighting the trends that we perceived in the legal market in 2012, as well as the factors that we believe will …
News release: “PwCs Annual Global CEO Survey, now in its sixteenth year, aims to inform and stimulate the debate on how businesses are facing todays challenges. Over the years, thousands of CEOs around the world have taken the time to share their views with us. In total, we conducted 1,330 interviews with CEOs in 68 …
2013 Client Advisory: “For the legal industry, the results in 2012, another turbulent year, were largely a repeat of trends that emerged over the prior three years. In fact, we think it is time to let go of any lingering notion that the industry will revert to the boom years before the Great Recession anytime …
Can Lawyers Stay in the Driver’s Seat? – Daniel G. Currell, Corporate Executive Board; M. Todd Henderson, University of Chicago – Law School. University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 629. January 16, 2013 “The law firm business is thriving, despite significant pain in the legal sector as changes take …
Highlights from the 2012 Am Law Tech Survey – Topics covered include: Money, Cloud, Social Networking, Smartphones, Tablets, Win8 Purchasing. [99% of survey respondents use iPhone iOS]
News release: “On November 15, 2012, the National Association of Women Lawyers Foundation released a report, entitled National Survey of Women’s Initiatives: The Strategy, Structure And Scope Of Women’s Initiatives In Law Firms, which details the results of its first ever survey of women’s initiatives in law firms. This groundbreaking study was conducted in an …
Rachel M. Zahorsky, ABA Journal: “More and more billing partners are knocking research costs off invoices before theyre even submitted to clients, legal consultant Rob Mattern of Mattern & Associates recently told me…This trend is apparent at firms that negotiate deals with research providers but historically havent passed along discounts they received to their clients, …
Thinking Like Your Client: Strategic Planning in Law Firms – A report from ALM Legal Intelligence, October 2012. “LexisNexis has spent the past few years highlighting the difference between the practice of law and the business of law; and the lackluster economic conditions over that same time span have only served to reinforce how important …
