As I mentioned in Mad Men, Lawyers and … How Big is Your Sandbox, Episode 5 was so rich with content, I was going to have to write two separate posts. Part deux focuses on Don Draper’s interactions with Ted Shaw … the competition. I’m going to focus on the importance of competitive intelligence/research
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Google Scholar Launches: Legal Research Enters a New Millennium
By Heather Morse on
Posted in Web 2.0 & SEO
Google Scholar launched last night. Wow. I know the sales reps at LexisNexis and Westlaw are not having a good morning.
What is Google Scholar? Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles,
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Fulbright Litigation Study: Interpret with care
By Heather Morse on
Posted in Uncategorized
(I’m going to take my own advice and blog my response rather than send an e-mail, especially to a closed network.)
I know that everyone loves the Fulbright Litigation Trends Survey, and I do too. Lots of great information in there. But there are points, such as companies choosing litigation over arbitration, 55%…
Open source and text-mining legal research
By Heather Morse on
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“There are pros and cons to each side of the closed versus open source issue in legal informatics, just as in other disciplines like software development. For instance, closed sources provide added value in editorial services, quality control and currency. Although these endeavors should be rewarded, one can argue that the legal system is publicly…