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Ravel Law: Visualizing Legal Research
Ravel Law incorporates the age-old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” into legal research. Visualization is fundamentally incorporated into Ravel Law’s software design. When users conduct a search on a legal topic, or a prior case, Ravel delivers an interactive graphic displaying cases associated with this topic or prior case; the cases that…
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Inforuptcy: Enhanced & Cost Effective Bankruptcy Docket & Document Retrieval
Interfacing with PACER is just a fact of life, especially for those of you working in Bankruptcy practice groups. Our country’s Bankruptcy courts, of course, are electronically accessible via PACER, and feature cases with massive dockets comprised of thousands of filed documents; many trees are destroyed during bankruptcy proceedings. So, the ability to locally store dockets…
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PacerPro Unveils DocketShare
I have been lucky enough to give a few presentations that usually require a brief explanation of cloud computing. I am intrigued by the concept, of course, but am always terrified I am going to lose the interest of my audience as I ramble on about private clouds, software as a service, security concerns, and…
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iBraryGuy & Pinhawk Team Up for the One-Two-Punch!
Our goal at iBraryGuy is to keep you in the know when it comes to news, trends, and cutting edge technology in the library and information professions. To that end, we are excited to announce a brand new collaboration with a partner that is just as committed to the vitality of this industry as we…
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Searching Social Media | Part 1: Googling Facebook
Have you experienced an increase in social media search requests? As attorneys become more likely to turn to social media during their informal discovery processes, I have found an uptick in questions like: “could you please do a social media background check on this person?” This is a growing information need I believe law librarians are excellently suited to fill,…
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The Empirical Value of Special Librarians: An Australia ROI Study
One of the biggest difficulties with the law librarian profession—and really, this is true of any profession with a strong customer service and/or pedagogical component—is gauging the empirical value of what law librarians do. There is not a one-step, direct, easily definable correlation between a law librarian task, and how much revenue that task generates…
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Heartbleed bug makes internet users heartsick!
Two whole years! That is how long it took experts to uncover what may be the biggest security flaw to ever affect the internet. It’s big. It’s bad. It’s out there. Worst of all is that you have probably already been a victim.
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Gmail Turns 10
As a fan and admitted abuser of Gmail accounts (I have one for each personality I guess), I have to pass along this CNN Money article about Gmail turning 10 yesterday. To summarize, CNN Money points to these particular Gmail features as the reasons why Gmail became the industry dominant e-mail provider: Size of space offered:…
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Et tu, ALM? Another Provider Up for Sale.
When the news broke a few days ago that ALM, formerly American Lawyer Media, was going to put up for sale, reaction from legal information professionals seemed subdued at best. Yet we cannot help but wonder what this means for an industry that is still struggling to find its footing in the wake of one of the…
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