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EDITORIAL
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The big legal publishing story this week is the demise of the UK?s legal publishing group Incisive.
Ok it isn?t exactly a demise but it certainly is a big step back as APAX (the investment vehicle that allowed them to purchase the American Lawyer Group) take contol of the business in the US and RBS get control in the UK.
LLN/eu thinks it is somewhat of a shame that this short lived empire was built on such a mountain of debt.
Incisive, in our opinion, were actually doing something useful in the States. Some complained that they were bringing down the tone of legal reporting and legal news in the US, we believe the industry needed a shake up in this regard and the quality of reporting what?s going on in the US legal industry has improved since they took over the group. At least now we don?t start drifting off to sleep as soon as we open an American lawyer media newspaper, magazine or website.
APAX have started well by retaining the existing management team in the US. We presume it?ll be around Christmas and end of year figures when we?ll see if they intend to do a major rehaul of management and the company. If enough money isn?t being made we may well see other players snapping up various units. Will Lexis or West see this as a cheap entry into the legal news market. It wouldn?t surprise us if Martindale Hubbell saw the news element as a way of tying clients into their social networking business plan.
In the UK .. all we can say is that we hope that RBS let Legal Week and the conference businesses get on with it. We certainly wouldn?t feel confident taking advice from RBS.
Whilst on the subject of the American Lawyer?. Do take a moment to look at our 2nd LLN story. The American Lawyer magazine has published a survey of US law libraries which investigates the way in which the gklobal slowdown has affected biudgets and the way KM?s & Librarians are managing the supply of information to their firms on ever dcreasing budgets.
You?ll all know the severity of the cuts from personal experience.. this is how the American lawyer sums it up.
Last year only 9 percent of respondents said their budgets had shrunk. This year it was a whopping 46 percent. Staff reductions have also become the norm, with 57 percent of firms paring their library payroll, up from 18 percent in 2008.
In excited utterances this week Joy features a piece by Tom Baldwin at US firm Reed Smith entitled KM Implementation at Reed Smith.
She also writes in her piece Has ?IT? Killed ?KM?? ??I?ve commented in the past about how I think that Knowledge Management (KM) has become so overwhelmed with technology products that the individuals in KM have become ?tech support? rather than knowledge managers. Yesterday, I read two different articles that reinforced my conception of what I think is a major flaw in the idea of ?Knowledge Management? within law firms.
Finally take a look at our House of Butter blog post for Lexis?s latest faux pas.
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For once they had a chance to illustrate to their client base that they were a little smarter than West after West?s plainly stupid ?who needs law librarians ?email. But instead Lexis has managed to make a very poor choice on one of their rewards programme prizes. Yes.. you too can win the Asian girls calendar. Just what every legal library manager and KM needs.
Best wishes Sean & Joy
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excited utterances
News
Law Practice Technology Information Sources and Tools
Articles
KM Implementation at Reed Smith
Baking KM into Everyday Workflow: An Analysis of KM Survey Data
Manhattan BigLaw Libraries with a Smaller Footprint: the Analyses and Processes of Physically Downsizing the Law Library/Information Center
Has ?IT? Killed ?KM??
10 Things SharePoint Can Do for Your Firm
Books
Creating a Successful Law Firm Intranet
Standards and their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life
Financial Times Reports That Incisive Media To be Split In Two
The American Lawyer Publishes Survey & Article on Current State of Law Library Budgets In The USA
Ex Lexis Manager Starts His Own Legal Publishing Company In Hong Kong
Thomson Reuters And The Google Books Settlement: Information For Users & Authors
Ex Lexis Nexis CEO Australia, Max Piper, Finds New Job
Austlii Looking To Digitise Pre 1957 Victorian (Australia) Law Reports
Features / Vendor Articles
In our new section vendor articles/features we will feature pieces written by employees at legal publishing, legal technology, legal KM and legal web 2.0 companies. If articles have been paid for we will always let you know
Aspen Publishers USA ? History Of The Common Law
Conferences and Events
ACT KM
ASLIB – NEW INFORMATION LANDSCAPES,
BISG (Book Industry Study Group) BISG WEBCAST — Identification and Digital Publications: Exploring the Emerging Standards Landscape
CAVAL – PEOPLE IN THE INFORMATION PROFESSION Conference, 15 and 16 October
KM Group of the Society of Computers & Law – Thrift KM: Making the most of what you’ve got – 29 September 2009
LIANZA (Te Upoko O te Ika A Maui region) / NZLLA (New Zealand Law Librarians Association) New Zealand Knowledge Management Network – knowledge cafes.
SLA Europe Event
WebSearch Pacific – Power Searching with the Pros workshops in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney
Hitwise
Charon QC
BPP Law School
Blogs Du Jour
Article: Egregious Lawyer Misuses of Social Media
Article: 5 Things Law Firms Can Do To Participate in Social Media
Article LLRX: Legal Implications of Cloud Computing – Part One (the Basics and Framing the Issues)
Article: Lawyers? Social Media Horror Stories
Article: Know Where Your Lawyers Are At All Times ! – Where Are We Going? Talking Future of Location @ Y+30 Meetup
Article: Web 3.0 and the Law
Blog: CyberLawCases
Blog Article: Mallesons use of Web 2.0: PeopleFinder and Connect
Competition: International Association of Law Libraries 2009 Website Award Contest
Facebook: Facebook Goes Back to Basics With Facebook Lite
Search: CrowdEye Twitter Search Upgrades With Google-Like Features
Twitter: New Terms Of Service
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Trawling
Article LLRX: PACER Spending Survey
Article LLRX: Are Law Firms Ready for Transparency?
Article: Are all law librarians legal positivists?
Article: Online reference tools bring legal profession into the modern age
Article: Digital ways of reading at British Library
Article (Subscriber Access Only) Reed Elsevier Plans Unit Cost Cuts As Targets Pft Growth
Article: LexisNexis launches new supercomputer to address large data sets
Article / Law 21: The Electric Law Firm
Blog Article: Not a West! Moment: Hi, my name is Jen and I’m your Matthew Bender Account Manager
Blog Post: Comment on LexisNexis Shakeup
Blog Post: LOISLaw Gains Ground
Blog Post: Legal Research Instruction: Recent?Developments
Blog Post: More Congressional Tracking via Web 2.0
Blog Post: New Point-in-Time Legislative Databases from CanLII
Blog Post: Over $730,000 Spent by Law Libraries in PACER Fees Last Year
Blog Post: SLAW Business processes and KM
Book: LexisNexis Launches New Title Exploring 40-Year History of the Australian Law Librarian?s Association
Directory: 2009 UK Legal 500 Published & Online
Fun: League Of Librarians Trading Cards
Report: “Emerging Trends in New Zealand special libraries”, by Gillian Ralph and Julie Sibthorpe.
Research Article: Researching Korean Law
Legal Technology Insider News
Law Librarians, Legal KM & Legal Publishing Jobs Board
Law Librarians Of Leisure Jobs Listings (USA)
Assistant Law Librarian, Southern California Edison, Rosemead, CA
Market Intelligence Research Librarian, Faegre & Benson LLP, Minneapolis, MN
Information Resources Administrator, California Appellate Project, San Francisco, CA
Conflicts Administrator, Broad and Cassel, Orlando, FL
Director of the Law Library, Georgetown University Law Center, DC
Reference Librarian, Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz, NY
Research and Web Development Librarian, MPR Associates, DC
Jobs Board
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Librarian/Client Services Officer [SA] Federal Court Staff Level 4 South Australia
Want to work in a Know-How team that really makes a difference? Great Library Technician opportunity at Minter Ellison.
Vacancy – Knowledge Centre Reference Librarian Freehills , Melbourne
UK / EUROPE
Records Manager
Part Time Legal Information Professional
Records Assistant
Information Officer
USA
Head of Reference Services, Duke Law Library
Legal Editor – Home Based LexisNexis : United States-Colorado-Colorado Springs
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