tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39753224638436513042024-03-06T03:18:58.528-05:00Dewey B StrategicDewey B Strategic*: Risk, value, strategy, libraries, knowledge and the legal profession.Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.comBlogger370125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-76157292438918066152017-07-12T06:18:00.000-04:002017-07-12T06:18:23.340-04:00Lex Machina Launches Employment Analytics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lex Machina is launching the third new module in the past twelve months, following the release of Securities and Commercial Law products.The new employment litigation module includes over 70,000 discrimination, retaliation, and harassment cases pending in federal court since 2009. According to Lex Machina Chief Evangelist, Owen Byrd they plan to add Americans with Disabilities Act and labor union cases in the fall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New content added to Legal Analytics includes three million docket entries and 36 employment-specific tags for <span style="color: black;">damages, findings and remedies, including: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The press release provides some high level insights derived from Lex Machina's analysis of initial employment litigation findings uncovered by Lex Machina, b<span style="color: black;">ased on cases filed between January 1, 2009 through June 30, 2017:</span></span></span></span></div>
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Bloomberg Law has responded by bulking up the Corporate Practice Center with
resources designed to address the special needs of Chief Legal Officers, Chief
Compliance Officers and Chief Operating Officers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Earlier this year Bloomberg Law relaunched the
Corporate Practice Center with materials developed with extensive input from
corporate counsel at major U.S. Companies. The Corporate Practice at Center <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>includes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>practice pages covering: compliance, legal operations,
corporate governance, alternative business structures,
litigation and corporate news. In addition an “In Focus, “hot topics” section
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practical guidance. Section focuses on Risk Assessment & Benchmarking,
Codes of Conduct, The Role of Management, Chief Compliance Officer & Board,
and Due Diligence. The main focus of this practice page is ethics and
compliance. The Bloomberg Law <a href="https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8062531-bloomberg-law/">press release </a>reports that according to the
Association of Corporate Counsel Chief Legal Officers 2017 Survey, 74% of
respondents rated at ethics and compliance as the top challenge. In response to
this that Corporate Practice Center features a multitude of practical guidance
materials including overviews, checklists, annotated forms, model documents and
comparison surveys developed by attorneys at major U.S. corporations. It
incorporates compliance content developed by the in-house legal department at
U.S. Steel Corporation which provides users with step by step guidance for
maintaining a corporate compliance program. The corporate practice center also
includes sample form agreements and policies</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> for routine tasks facing in-house attorneys. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div>
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Officers and Chief Operating Officers. Content includes practical guidance on issues
such as, department structure, budgeting, operations as well as specialized
topics such as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>whistle-blowing and
privilege. Special features include a Foreign Corrupt Practices Tracker,
company profiles, agency filings and primary source statutes. General Counsel
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state and federal laws and regs, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>precedent
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Alternative Entities Practice Page</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> covers, S Corporations, LLCs,
Partnerships and Limited Partnerships. Content includes legal analysis, guidance,
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Litigation Page</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> offers a variety of trackers covering Delaware Chancery, US
Supreme Court, SEC Enforcement, FCPA and Securities Enforcement. Other content includes
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an important practice issue such as “Investor Activism” which provides
analytics for “proxy season” highlighting the sectors being targeted. We have seen a lot of products offering litigation analytics, it is refreshing to finally see some slick corporate analtyics</span></div>
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Practice Center was designed for in-house counsel, the content is available to
all Bloomberg Law subscribers and will have obvious appeal to outside counsel
in supporting the needs of their corporate clients.</span></div>
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competition.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Clearly these new enhancements are designed to enable Bloomberg
Law to compete with Thomson Reuters Practical Law/Practice Point, and
LexisNexis products Practice Adviser and Intelligize . Wolters Kluwer also
recently entered this workflow enhancement space with a series of corporate
workflow solutions branded as “smart tasks.” The past 5 years has seen a continuous
expansion of workflow and artificial intelligence tools for lawyers. The value
of current AI tools remains somewhat speculative, while workflow tools offer
more immediate benefits to both junior and more senior lawyers who are continually
pressed to maximize efficiency. Ironically, BNA (before being purchased by Bloomberg)
deserves the credit for creating the first practical guidance resources for
corporate lawyers. The BNA Corporate Practice Portfolios beat TR’s Practical
Law to the US market by about a decade. Bloomberg has taken that content to the
next level by enhancing it with custom authored content from in house counsel,
and integrating it with selected legal content from the Bloomberg Law platform.
The one limitation I saw in the platform<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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paste text. With all the models, precedents, checklists and templates in the platform, I just
hope that Word integration is on the "short list" of upcoming enhancements.</span></div>
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-74450454923740962192017-07-02T20:55:00.002-04:002017-07-02T20:58:00.114-04:00American Lawyer Highlights Rise of The CKO in 2017 Survey of Library, Knowledge Management and Research Professionals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Last year I <a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2016/07/american-lawyer-2016-library-survey.html">pleaded</a> with ALM to
change the name of their annual Library survey since they had been predicting
the end of Library's for about 14 years. It was time to stipulate that print
collections are shrinking and move on to exploring the dynamic organizations
which have emerged in their place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">This year The American Lawyer has finally
renamed the annual survey as the <a href="http://www.almlegalintel.com/ALISurveyDetail.aspx?id=Q/K8nmK4pG4=&type=fEFgIaD+grg="><b>Survey of Law Firm Management Library and Research Professionals </b>.</a> The accompanying articles have shifted gear as well. The articles are titled <a href="http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202791116149/Law-Librarian-Try-Chief-Knowledge-Officer?mcode=1382452932838&curindex=10&curpage=2&slreturn=2017060219400">"Law Librarian? Trying Chief Knowledge Officer"</a> by Mary Ellen Egan and '<a href="http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202791117753/From-Providing-Data-to-Providing-Insight">From Providing Data to Providing Insight.</a>" by Lizzy McLellan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The first article focuses on the morphing of librarians into knowledge management professionals who are focused on evaluating and introducing tools which provide new kinds of insights for
business and legal strategy as well as competitive intelligence which are central to law firm strategies for success. The survey indicates that these intelligence responsibilities
also include lateral candidate due diligence, research assisting with RFP
responses, participating in client satisfaction research and pricing
projects. It should not be surprising that with these expanded roles the survey reveals that law firms are willing to pay higher salaries.</span></div>
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Thought leaders in law firm knowledge management who are quoted in the article
include Greg Lambert the CKO at Jackson Walker, Marlene Gebauer the Director of Knowledge Solutions at Greenberg Traurig, Steve Lastres Director of Knowledge Management Services at Debevoise and Plimpton, Catherine Monte, CKO at Fox
Rothschild Elizabeth Chappieri, CKO at Nixon Peabody and Lucy Dylan CKO
at Reed Smith.<br />
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Lastres and Monte both highlight the challenge keeping up with the
complex ecosystem of emerging tools offering Artificial Intelligence and analytics. New products
can offer law firms real competitive advantage but there are so many new start-ups with interesting ideas, it takes time to sort through the offerings and
carefully assess the business case for each tool. Lastres explains the challenge "we
are on the front line of technological adoption of a firm we have to evaluate
each product and make recommendations to our attorney “ The challenge is made
all the more daunting by the universal imperative to contain costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><b>Can Firms Afford Not to Have A CKO?</b> Chiapperi and Dillon
highlight the transformation of the information professionals role. According to Nixon Peabody’s
Chiapperi "our role has evolved from providing data to really
providing insight you have to understand the business and understand what's
going on in the industry." Dillon suggests that law firms without a CKO
will be at a disadvantage: "it's important to have someone who is
responsible for knowledge at the table with all the Chiefs to manage other
function… If it [knowledge] was lower down in the hierarchy of the organization
we wouldn't benefit from all those synergies “</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">While Lexis was for Bloomberg
and Wolters Kluwer still represent an important share of spending for knowledge resources, I could not help but note in the full statistical report how large
the "other" categories were. Questions asking responders to identify other tools
ranged from 30 to 60% of the resources identified. The full ALM intelligence report includes a detailed list of important resources that are gradually being
adopted for competitive intelligence and analytics insights. I would like to
suggest that ALM incorporate these products by name into next year’s survey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><b>ROI Rules</b> Another important
insight from the survey is the wide adoption of tools to manage digital resources. 78% of responders
now use some tool to measure the utilization and calculate the ROI for each
resource. As new tools emerge knowledge professionals have leveraged tools
such as<a href="http://priorysolutions.com/researchmonitor/"> Research Monitor </a>and <a href="http://www.onelog.com/">Onelog t</a>o help them actively manage their
portfolios of digital resources . These tools provide custom law firm analytics and insight
to justify the cancellation of an under performing product in order to introduce
a more innovative and powerful new resource. That resource in turn will have to
demonstrate rapid adoption in order to survive ROI analysis to make it into the next year’s budget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><b>Understanding the Data.</b> Thanks to ALM for relinquishing
the print-centric survey and highlighting the important new roles played by
information professionals.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> There are what I would describe as some "transition pains." The change in billables hours changed so dramatically that one has to assume that there may have been a dramatic change in the number or responders or the size of the firms responding. The data regarding the volume of research requests handled is so variable that there may be a misunderstanding of the question by some of the responders. The Egan article highlights staffing ratios as a percentage? I could not find staffing or budget ratios in the full report at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">ALM Inte</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">lligence will be hosting a breakfast presentation to discuss the
results of the ALM survey at the upcoming AALL conference in Austin on July 16 at 7:30 AM
at the Hilton governors Ball room salon b.</span></div>
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-10409489806405170372017-06-26T12:00:00.001-04:002017-06-26T19:23:26.548-04:00 Lexis Answers: Artificial Intelligence Without the Hyperbole; No Robot Lawyers In Sight--A Fastrack to Legal Answers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span style="background: white; color: black;">Entering the
“no hyperbole” zone. No Robots in Sight</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDfJB4DzsSvM5IWVo1UqmACzBiKrMSWJ57fhTn5WrY1kkutpZFEH-ojotKW9rbzT6LOP8m9tc9sUoQdnXmwibT5yGFqCGwmfky2cbUJ7TrdDwloIOOhpriCMefCfjH5t9iSWGDjkjYnu5/s1600/logo-lexisnexis.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="36" data-original-width="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDfJB4DzsSvM5IWVo1UqmACzBiKrMSWJ57fhTn5WrY1kkutpZFEH-ojotKW9rbzT6LOP8m9tc9sUoQdnXmwibT5yGFqCGwmfky2cbUJ7TrdDwloIOOhpriCMefCfjH5t9iSWGDjkjYnu5/s1600/logo-lexisnexis.png" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: white; color: black;">I spent almost
an hour last Friday talking to Jeff Pfeifer, Vice President of Product
Management at Lexis Nexis about the upcoming release of a new artificial
intelligence enabled Lexis Advance feature called Lexis Answers. Instead of
the “robot lawyer” hyperbole that has characterized many recent AI
product announcements, Pfeiffer while enthusiastic for Lexis Answers, is
refreshingly restrained in discussing the product. Most importantly he does not
oversimplify the true complexity of legal research when applying AI to a
specific set of facts. Pfiefer describes Lexis Answers as getting lawyers to a
“well informed starting point,” speeding up basic research so lawyers can start
more complex research. He sees Lexis Answers the “next evolutionary step
in a journey with big data sets which is moving towards human like interactions
with machines using standard Dialog</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Press releaseLexis<sup>®</sup> Answers, a new artificial intelligence
(A.I.) enhancement within its flagship </span></span><a href="https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-advance.page"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><span style="color: blue;">Lexis Advance</span></span><sup><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">®</span></sup></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">offering. Using
powerful machine learning, cognitive computing and advanced natural language
processing technologies, Lexis Answers transforms legal research by
understanding the user’s natural language question and delivering the clearest,
most concise and authoritative answer, in addition to finely tuned,
comprehensive search results.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Learning is
based on a universe of 14 million case law opinions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">"Lexis Answers represents a paradigm shift in legal research. By delivering specific and actionable answers at the top of their search results, we’re saving users effort previously spent analyzing pages of search results and legal documents—enhancing their workflow and empowering them to get more done in less time,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, Managing Director of North American Research Solutions at LexisNexis.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span style="background: white; color: black;">The Answer Card</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lexis Answers - Answer Card</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">According to Pfeifer “With Lexis
Answers, our goal is to create a smarter staring point to legal
research. “ When a lawyer types in a natural language question they
see “The Answer Card” which displays delivers four key things: </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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smarter legal research</span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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case reference and date of the authority</span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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reviewed for complete and thorough research</span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A feedback feature – <i>Was this
information useful – Yes or No </i>– that helps LexisNexis train our
machine learning algorithms based upon user assessment of answer quality</span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Additionally, the result list
is specially compiled based upon our analysis of the user’s query and our
interpretation of the user’s query intent. The result list is uniquely
curated to emphasize additional authority that is relevant to the user’s
question. “</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">At this time Lexis Answers can
provide answers for five types of legal questions:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">According to Pfeifer, there are plans
to “expand the collection of questions that are supported and mine additional
content types as we further build out our machine learning system.” </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Lexis Answers
has been in development at Lexis’ Raleigh Tech Center for more than two years.
The Raleigh center was established in 2015 as a “congnitive computing center of
excellence.” The Lexis Answers questions were informed by anonymized user logs.
Specifically they looked at user queries that included input errors such as a
really bad query syntax or partial questions that were not fully articulated. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Jeff summed it
up as we have been sending The natural language processor to law school
"</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Several years ago I <a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2015/05/dear-watson-i-have-question-for-you.html">wrote</a> that the problem with the current state of legal AI was that so far
machines could only respond and couldn't "Ask" questions to help researchers refine and clarify what they need. I am happy to see that LexisNexis is moving toward the research dialogue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">They are
designing towards a dialogue. Such is suggesting that the user limit by
jurisdiction. They also anticipate voice iteration using clarifying questions
to help the user.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Pfeiffer if IBM 'Watson technology was part of the solution and he indicated
that it was not. Lexis/Nexis had internal knowledge which they combined with a
variety of open source AI and machine learning technologies as well as programs
available from Google and Amazon. These various pieces of technology were
customized to meet the requirements of legal research.“ The main goal was to
provide immediate utility for standard case law researchers. ”Lexis Answers
will be available to all subscribers at no additional cost.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Additional Features to Come –
“Ravel Answers”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Although the
LexisNexis acquisition of Ravel Law was only announced two weeks ago, they are
already exploring how Ravel’s technology can help them extend Lexis answers.
Pfeifer anticipates that the Ravel technology should allow them to extract
phrases and legal expressions and enable them to add new kinds of questions and
answers. In the future, they hope to be able to answer questions about judges,
experts and provide various kinds of profiles.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: white; color: black;">They will
provide post search filters so user can limit by jurisdiction</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> in the near future. The only concern I see
is that there could be a “legislative gap.” It is not clear to me how a
major legislative change which modifies or nullifies caselaw precedent can be
reflected in machine learning results “overnight.” For example if there
were sweeping tax reform which they changed the statute of limitation for tax
fraud, it is not clear to me how this change would be immediately reflected in
the results. Pfeifer indicated that they are well aware of this issue and they
are using the Lexis Shepherd’s statutory analytics to identify changes in
statutes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">I asked if
Lexis Answers will be available on any non-English platforms. At this time no
but Pfeiffer assured me that the technology they have built will be
extensible to non-English platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">No Robot Lawyers Just More
Efficient Lawyers<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Pfeiffer does
not make overblown promises that this technology will eliminate associates. He
talks like a man with a deep appreciation for the complexities and
idiosyncrasies of law would apply to a set of facts. In fact, he stated that
there is a rarely question where the first response from Lexis answers is the
end of the legal research process.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: white; color: black;">ThomsonReuters <a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2016/04/westlaw-answers-looks-lot-like-ai-to-me.html">released</a> a similar feature called Westlaw Answers in January 2016. However, that
feature covered mostly state answers. LexisAnswers covers or federal and state
case law answers. I am not aware of Bloomberg Law offering a similar feature-
they only added “natural language” query feature earlier this year and had
previously required Boolean queries. Wolters Kluwer has a google-plug-in for
their Tax product which enables researchers to enter a natural language
query and get an answer. Ross Intelligence also provides a natural language
response to queries – their product was limited to bankruptcy law and may
recently have expanded to cover Intellectual Property.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>Starting Today At No Additional
Cost to Subscribers<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Starting at
noon on June 26 LexisNexis will start to turn on Lexis Answers for each of
their accounts. Apparently, this has to be done on a client by client basis and
they expect the entire process to be completed by the end of Tuesday, January
27.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>Here is the full press release:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">LexisNexis Launches Lexis Answers, Infusing
New Artificial Intelligence Capabilities <br />
into the Company’s Flagship Legal Research Platform, Lexis Advance <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">common legal questions, plus tailored search
results for deeper research </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">New
York, NY—June 26, 2017—</span></b><a href="http://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/home.page" target="nw" title="Opens in a new window/tab"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;">LexisNexis<sup>®</sup></span><span style="color: blue;"> Legal & Professional</span></span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">today announced the
launch of Lexis<sup>®</sup> Answers, a new artificial intelligence (A.I.) enhancement
within its flagship<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-advance.page"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Lexis Advance</span></span><sup><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">®</span></sup></a><u><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">offering. Using powerful machine learning, cognitive computing and advanced
natural language processing technologies, Lexis Answers transforms legal
research by understanding the user’s natural language question and delivering
the clearest, most concise and authoritative answer, in addition to finely
tuned, comprehensive search results.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Unlike traditional search approaches,
which require users to translate their query into key words or use Boolean
syntax, the Lexis Answers service allows users to enter their query in the form
of a natural language question. With the input of a couple of words, the Lexis
Answers service can begin anticipating and recommending Suggested Questions to
the user. After analyzing millions of annotated legal documents and other
content, Lexis Answers delivers the single best possible answer via a Lexis Answer
Card. Each Lexis Answer Card links directly to the specific text within the
document—rather than just the document itself—significantly speeding up the research
process for common legal questions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"Lexis Answers represents a
paradigm shift in legal research. By delivering specific and actionable answers
at the top of their search results, we’re saving users effort previously spent
analyzing pages of search results and legal documents—enhancing their workflow
and empowering them to get more done in less time,” said Sean Fitzpatrick,
Managing Director of North American Research Solutions at LexisNexis. “Whether
users need answers to common legal questions or they seek deeper insights into
more complex queries, Lexis Answers makes it easier and faster to get the
specific information they seek.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Advancing more accurate and
complete research, this new A.I. capability suggests related topics that help
users logically and intuitively expand their search. It also delivers more
comprehensive “traditional” search results tailored to the user’s question and
can be further refined using robust filtering options. All of the words within
the search question, and added equivalents, are highlighted within the search
results and full-text results documents—making it easier for users to find
information and determine relevance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">“Today’s announcement of Lexis
Answers showcases the significant investments LexisNexis has made in pursuing
advanced technologies that transform legal research to better meet the needs of
the data-driven lawyer,” said Jeff Pfeifer, vice president of Product
Management at LexisNexis. “And our work with Lexis Answers is just beginning.
Over time we plan to refine and build this technology out to make it more
sophisticated, more inclusive and smarter—delivering a service that actually
learns from our users in order to surface the answers they need, save them time
and provide even greater actionable insights.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A.I. technologies have been an
important part of the LexisNexis product portfolio for many years. In 1990,
LexisNexis pioneered the use of machine learning, and in 1993, launched its
first data visualization application—decades before the mainstream use of these
technologies. Since these initial forays, LexisNexis has been actively pursuing
natural language processing, text-mining, machine learning and other advanced
capabilities to deliver state-of-the-art technology to customers and advance
legal research into the future. A.I.-enhanced products from LexisNexis include
Lexis Advance, Lexis<sup>®</sup> Litigation Profile Suite, LexisNexis MedMal
Navigator<sup>®</sup>, the Lex Machina<sup>®</sup> Legal Analytics<sup>®</sup>
platform, Ravel Law and Intelligize<sup>®</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Lexis Answers was developed by a
team of experts at the LexisNexis Raleigh Technology Center. LexisNexis created
its Raleigh, NC based cognitive computing center of excellence in 2015. This
group is dedicated to developing artifical intelligence solutions for
data-driven lawyers. A team of data scientists, computational linguists, advanced
engineering and product management professionals will develop a series of A.I.-powered
solutions releasing throughout 2017 and beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Lexis Advance subscribers at no additional cost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">About LexisNexis</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">®<b> Legal &
Professional</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">LexisNexis Legal &
Professional is a leading global provider of content and technology solutions
that enable professionals in legal, corporate, tax, government, academic and
non-profit organizations to make informed decisions and achieve better business
outcomes. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and
business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. Today,
LexisNexis Legal & Professional harnesses leading edge technology and world
class content to help professionals work in faster, easier and more effective
ways. Through close collaboration with its customers, the company ensures
organizations can leverage its solutions to reduce risk, improve productivity,
increase profitability and grow their business. </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">LexisNexis Legal
& Professional, which serves customers in more than 175 countries with
10,000 employees worldwide, is part of RELX Group plc, a world leading global
provider of information and analytics solutions for professional and business
customers across industries.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yesterday's post <a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2017/06/guess-whose-coming-to-aall-new.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">highlighted</span></a> seven
vendors which will be first time exhibitors at AALL in Austin next month.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Those vendors offer tools
which are primarily targeted at litigation, corporate and Intellectual Property
practices. Today's five vendors are more diverse. Several offer a wide range of
services which fall broadly within "workflow improvement." Voxgov is
the only vendor in today's group which focuses purely on providing a unique set
of content on a research
platform. I asked Voxgov founder Robert Dessau why he had decided to
exhibit at AALL this year.<span style="color: #454545;"> "
With expertise in the collection and management of a broad range of original
source material from</span> Federal and
State governments we view AALL as the ideal environment in which to introduce
our newest addition, <i>VoxGov Energy</i>, designed specifically for the
legal market.We look forward to assisting, collaborating with and
incentivizing those who need visibility into who in government is saying what
on any Energy related issue at any time. Visitors
to our booth will have the chance to win a free one year subscription to Voxgov
Energy. Look forward to meeting you Austin. "</span></div>
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the obvious Statutes at large and <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">CFR</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">VoxGov</span> scrapes over 9,000 US government <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">URL’s</span>, </span>including social media and has created
a massive database which can be searched and<span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">analyzed</span> </span>for
trends by agency, issue, political party.<span style="color: black;">The
government information that lawyers normally rely upon such as statutes and
regulations only represents about 10% of the VoxGov database. The vast majority
of government materials in VoxGov are collected from over 14,000
government websites. The document types include: Press Releases, News, Notices,
Columns, Articles, Op-Eds, Decisions, Opinions, Orders, Events, Media
Advisories, Fact Sheets, Newsletters, Bulletins, Recalls, Alerts, Reports,
Publications, Speeches, Statements, Remarks, Testimony, and Transcripts, along
with Social Media from official government sources, Twitter, Facebook, You Tube
and more. VoxGov only collects information authored or adopted by the U.S. Federal
Government and published on official government websites .All of the data
is enriched with extensive metadata which supports sophisticated
filtering and trending.</span></span></div>
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website states that Casebriefs offers “The Most widely used supplements for
higher education and newly minted professionals."</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Although they offer resources for a wide range of
professionals there is plenty of content for law students including,
Casebriefs, outlines, exam prep and video lectures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">InfoTrack</span></a><b> Booth814 </b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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offers a wide range of services including interactive forms for electronic
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government forms, an electronic signature tool called
"SignIT," court document retrieval and corporate services including,
corporate formation and entity searching. They also have a data visualization
tool called "REVEAL" which charts entity relationships.<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
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tagline "Organize your internet."</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They promote their product as "the only tool designed
for the academic research process." But after looking at the website- I
think this product has a broader audience including the law firm. government
and judicial markets. The product offer highlighting, categorizing and
note-taking on any website. The product organizes research into an outline
form. The product also saves the URL links for all the sources in the outline.
Frankly sounds like a great tool for any researcher no matter what their
environment.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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wide range of innovative library services including collaborative
cataloguing, inter library lending and end-to-end library management systems.
They also offer support for <span style="background: yellow;">digitization</span> and
information management projects, news monitoring, access to journals.</span></div>
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-3424623292924366082017-06-21T22:48:00.003-04:002017-06-22T14:11:38.126-04:00Guess Whose Coming to AALL?: New Exhibitors Part1: Litigation, Corporate and IP Vendors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">The AALL Conference Exhibit Hall gives </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> attendees the chance to take a long and
winding stroll thought aisles lined with vendors promoting the latest innovations
and offering a "first look" at new products.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is a festival of food, swag and serendipitous
encounters with old colleagues as well as the chance to meet new ones.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I especially value the opportunity for a
one-on-one engagement with vendors and a quick tutorial
on a on a hot new product.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> Since the major legal vendors dominate the Exhibit Hall at AALL, it is easy to overlook the first time vendors with unfamiliar names and unknown products. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought it would be interesting to take a peek at the
twelve new exhibitors at the 2017 Conference and provide some insights into
products. This post will be written in two parts. Part one focuses on vendors offering products for litigation, corporate and IP Practice needs.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I recommend that taking a close look at each of these
vendors.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even though you may have a product
which covers the same legal issues you are likely to discover that
each of these vendors is offering a unique type of service or analysis of an
old problem.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many of these vendors are
offering AI driven and custom solutions.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stop by and welcome these new exhibitors to the </span><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">AALL</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> exhibit call in Austin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://iebms.heiexpo.com/iebms/oep/oep_p1_exhibitors.aspx?oc=13&ct=OEP&eventid=5027">here</a> to see a complete list of exhibitors.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have only used the products of two of these new vendors Casetext and
VoxGov (which will be covered in Part 2 of this post).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Information for the remaining
vendors is taken from their websites.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.casetext.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Casetext</span></a></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiy7_HV8JY6NC3hrOcIHv6McjZ3tUiv_DF9HIngbgMRK8oduKaKnR0mf4RsdGEopZwm2h9luSQdRInwdhto7BZ-z1huTlLnMYpXhPc6qsJ8unOy1skECa9gfb2UVlnTYjCIik_0gJnNQiI/s1600/casetext.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="105" data-original-width="479" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiy7_HV8JY6NC3hrOcIHv6McjZ3tUiv_DF9HIngbgMRK8oduKaKnR0mf4RsdGEopZwm2h9luSQdRInwdhto7BZ-z1huTlLnMYpXhPc6qsJ8unOy1skECa9gfb2UVlnTYjCIik_0gJnNQiI/s320/casetext.png" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In what may be a first, the </span><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">AALL</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> "New Product of the Year" award went to a
start-up </span><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Casetext</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
CARA – a feat all the more remarkable since they had no official presence at
AALL in 2016.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last year many attendees
including myself met Pablo </span><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Arredondo</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,
who was walking the halls and providing on the fly demos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I asked Jake Heller, President of Casetext why he thought
it was exhibit at AALL. “Law librarians are the world’s true experts in all things
legal research and they have been an integral part of CARA’s development and
deployment.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Particularly considering
CARA being honored as new product of the year, we thought this was a great time
to launch our inaugural AALL booth.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We
look forward to seeing everyone there!”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Casetext which offers free caselaw research, access to
analytical memos from 150 law firms and a “crowd sourced “citator called
“We-cite” is launching their first “fee based” product:CARA.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Casetext currently includes over 7 million
primary documents including case law from all 50 states.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CARA stands for Case Analysis Research
Assistant.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CARA is very easy to use.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All a lawyer has to do is drag and drop a
brief into CARA.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of searching
with keywords, CARA uses the entire brief as the query.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CARA data-mines the brief by extracting both
the text and the citations from the document.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The CARA analysis looks at direct relationships and “implied”
relationships between the cited cases in the brief and related opinions in the
Casetext database.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CARA uses latent
semantic analysis to sort the results.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The CARA results report includes a list of “suggested cases” and a CARA
generated analysis of those cases.</span><br />
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strategies that transform levels of service.</span><br />
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professionals in the field with insight through historic and current geographic
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processes.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This information is valuable
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJlxiFccezMdECjilJvd89c9K3N2FkO-PuBcu3A_ySkYYreXMTXw-Px696nTsZd039wmqYsZXx_Jw2BxuT5vY_jL2cNcaoluYzDfnD1mG6sYeXiF5XBn04NufW_ueVArFOgpXXsiO3ZpT6/s1600/lexMachina_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="28" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJlxiFccezMdECjilJvd89c9K3N2FkO-PuBcu3A_ySkYYreXMTXw-Px696nTsZd039wmqYsZXx_Jw2BxuT5vY_jL2cNcaoluYzDfnD1mG6sYeXiF5XBn04NufW_ueVArFOgpXXsiO3ZpT6/s1600/lexMachina_logo.png" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Owen Byrd , the Chief Evangelist at Lex Machina is really excited about the latest module of legal analytics. Byrd provided me with a preview of the new commercial litigation product. While Byrd is proud of all of the Lex Machina modules, he sees the commercial product as providing lawyers with a truly unique set of insights . According to Byrd until today there was no easy way to isolate analytics for the most common types of commercial litigation cases:"breach of contract" and "business tort." Sophisticated docket researchers have been frustrated by the gaps in the federal NOS codes which frustrate the tracking and analysis of many important types of litigation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first question I asked Byrd was "How did you go about identifying commercial cases?"<br />After extensive interviews with commercial litigators, Lex Machina determined that Breach of Contract and Business Tort were the most important types of commercial litigation controversies. Using a combination of machine learning, natural language processing and human, attorney coders Lex Machina was able to create a "virtual NOS" code for this important subset of business litigation. This new set of cases required practice specific tagging for issues such as contract breach, existence, rescission and termination as well as contract defense and unjust enrichment. Business tort finding include conversion, defamation/trade libel and fraud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">According to the press release, of over 62,000 commercial cases filed since 2009, 80% include a breach of contract claim, and 57% include a business tort claim. PACER, the online platform containing federal docket entries and related documents, does not contain a Nature of Suit (NOS) code that captures all commercial cases. Lex Machina’s new offering resolves the challenge of defining “commercial” cases, which are often filed under multiple NOS and Cause of Action (COA) codes. Approximately 25% of commercial cases meet the definition of an intellectual property, securities or antitrust case, and are coded in PACER as such. Commercial litigation generated $6 billion in billings for US law firms annually.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hats off to the Lex Machina team. The new commercial module is an important achievement in leveraging technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing to identify, code and expose important new subsets of litigation which have been buried in the arcane coding of federal Pacer system. According to Byrd Lex Machina plans to release additional modules through the end of the year including, employment law, products liability and commercial bankruptcy.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Launch Event Webinar Today</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">: There will be a commercial litigation webinar today at 12 noon </span><a href="https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=40443"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">register </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Lex</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Machina’s commercial launch </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">webcast</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> entitled “</span><a href="https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=40443"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">New Legal Analytics for Commercial Litigation</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">.” The </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">webcast</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> will be moderated by Above The Law’s managing editor David Lat. Joining him will be David J. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Tsai</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">, co-managing partner at Vinson & </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Elkins</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">LLP</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">, Mark </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Herrmann</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">, vice president and chief litigation counsel at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Aon</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Corp., and Owen Byrd, general counsel and chief evangelist at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Lex</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Machina</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lex Machina Expands its
Award-Winning Legal Analytics Platform to Commercial Litigation</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Commercial offering is latest
step in Lex Machina’s rollout of Legal Analytics for all practice areas</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Menlo Park, CA — June 20, 2017
— </span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today announced the expansion
of its award-winning Legal Analytics® platform into commercial law, the largest
of all federal practice areas, and Lex Machina’s most ambitious expansion to
date. The new commercial module represents the company’s commitment to expand
Legal Analytics beyond patent, trademark, copyright, securities, and antitrust
law to cover every federal practice area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Commercial litigation is a
massive, high-stakes category, generating more than $6 billion in billings by
law firms in the U.S. annually. With the new module, commercial litigators will
be able to use Legal Analytics to make data-driven decisions based on detailed
information about more than 62,000 commercial cases pending since 2009. Lex
Machina is the only solution with practice area-specific tags that are key to
true Legal Analytics, which provide attorneys a distinct competitive advantage
in commercial litigation. Strategic insights include trends in case timing,
resolutions, findings, damages, and remedies, as well as actionable
intelligence on opposing counsel, law firms, parties, judges, venues, and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">As part of the product
development process, Lex Machina interviewed commercial litigators from top law
firms and major corporations to better understand their particular analytics
use-cases. The product team incorporated their feedback directly into the new
offering. To meet the needs of commercial litigators, Lex Machina has added new
features with unique, practice area-specific tags such as:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Expanded case timing analytics:</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> In
addition to time to dismissal, trial and termination, Lex Machina has added
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Commercial cases include contract damages, restitution, and other damages, as
well as tort compensatory damages and punitive damages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">New breach of contract and
business tort findings:</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> New tags have been added for contract
breach, existence, rescission, and termination, as well as contract defense and
unjust enrichment. Business tort findings include conversion,
defamation/trade libel, fraud/misrepresentation, misappropriation of trade
secrets, negligence, tortious interference, and tort defense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Commercial cases also have
relevant general litigation tags, including orders for contested dismissal or
summary judgment, declaratory judgment, multi-district litigation, class
action, jury trial, bench trial, and appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Commercial litigation is by
far Lex Machina’s biggest, most ambitions endeavor yet because its <br />
all-encompassing nature transcends so many other legal practices. Up to now,
this has made it extraordinarily difficult for commercial litigators to gather
critical insights they need to properly defend their clients,” said Josh
Becker, CEO of Lex Machina. “Legal Analytics plays a crucial role in helping
attorneys unravel the complexity of commercial litigation by providing them
with relevant data and information they can use to quickly make informed
business and legal decisions and provide better counsel for their clients.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Of over 62,000 commercial cases
filed since 2009, 80% include a breach of contract claim, and 57% include a
business tort claim. PACER, the online platform containing federal docket
entries and related documents, does not contain a Nature of Suit (NOS) code
that captures all commercial cases. Lex Machina’s new offering resolves the
challenge of defining “commercial” cases, which are often filed under multiple
NOS and Cause of Action (COA) codes. Approximately 25% of commercial cases meet
the definition of an intellectual property, securities or antitrust case, and
are coded in PACER as such. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“We’re excited to offer
commercial litigators the first platform that enables valuable strategic
analysis for commercial cases,” said Karl Harris, CTO of Lex Machina. “The high
volume of commercial cases along with the shortcomings of PACER have been major
obstacles for attorneys trying to get an accurate and comprehensive view of
commercial litigation. Legal Analytics now offers a solution to that problem,
and the addition of multiple tags specific to commercial litigation will unlock
a wealth of new insights that have never been available before.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lex Machina’s Legal Analytics
is a “must have” tool for litigators in many of America’s top law firms and
corporations. More than half of Am Law 100 law firms use Lex Machina to craft
successful litigation strategies, win cases and land new clients. For more
information about Lex Machina’s newest practice area, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_731259067">register
here</a> <a href="https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=40443">https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=40443</a>
for Lex Machina’s commercial launch webcast entitled “<a href="https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=40443">New
Legal Analytics for Commercial Litigation</a>” <a href="https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=40443">https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=40443</a>
scheduled for June 20 at 9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT. The webcast will be moderated by
Above The Law’s managing editor David Lat. Joining him will be David J. Tsai,
co-managing partner at Vinson & Elkins LLP, Mark Herrmann, vice president
and chief litigation counsel at Aon Corp., and Owen Byrd, general counsel and
chief evangelist at Lex Machina.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">About Lex Machina</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br />
Lex Machina’s award-winning Legal Analytics® platform is a new category of legal
technology that fundamentally changes how companies and law firms compete in
the business and practice of law. Delivered as Software-as a-Service, Lex
Machina provides strategic insights on judges, lawyers, parties, and more,
mined from millions of pages of legal information. This allows law firms and
companies to predict the behaviors and outcomes that different legal strategies
will produce, enabling them to win cases and close business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is announcing today that a former <a href="http://www.lexisnexis.com/">LexisNexis</a> executive Steve Errick will join
the company’s executive team as Chief Operating Officer. According to the
press release, Errick will be “responsible for executing the company’s
strategic vision, developing new editorial products, and developing the
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Errick will join Fastcase on July 1st. Errick most recently served as Vice
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In that role, Errick oversaw the Legal Research Information Product Division,
with a $1 billion P&L portfolio. He led LexisNexis’s development of
workflow tools such as Lexis for Microsoft Office, E-book Digital Lending,
Total Patent, and Litigation Suite which included MedMal Navigator. Errick also
shepherded LexisNexis’s acquisition of Law360, Securities Mosaic, and
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has an impressive resume with executive positions inside other legal publishing
giants. He previously served as Vice President and General Manager of Wolters
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Foundation Press division and Director of Acquisitions of Thomson’s Clark
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press release quotes Fastcase CEO Ed Walters: “We couldn’t be more excited to
have Steve join the team. Fastcase is an increasingly complex company, with
sophisticated legal data updating operations, multiple product lines, and more
than 100 employees in three offices – and we’re growing all the time. Steve’s
deep relationships in the industry and his experience in managing legal
publishing companies at scale will be important as we are growing into one of
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also announced that it would begin editorial publishing starting in 2018 to
expand its offerings beyond primary law (case law, statutes, regulations,
etc.). The company will launch its own imprint of treatises, secondary sources
and journals. It will also partner with bar associating in developing new state
workflow products. This is a smart move given relentless demand by clients for
efficiency. Will they attempt to erode the market share of high ticket workflow
tools offered by <a href="http://legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/westlaw-legal-research/">Thomson Reuters</a> (Practice Point), LexisNexis (Lexis Practice Advisor) and <a href="http://www.bloombergbna.com/">BloombergBNA</a> by offering a
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has worked in all facets of legal publishing so he is well positioned of navigate
this expanded landscape. “Early in my career at West, my challenge was finding
the best authors,” Errick is quoted in the press release. “Most recently at
LexisNexis it was acquiring the best companies and building a product team
to drive those businesses. And now, I get this wonderful opportunity to use
these diverse experiences to help accelerate the pace of the most innovative
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President Phil Rosenthal elaborated on Errick’s portfolio at Fastcase which he
describes as “developing the professional and management skills of the Fastcase
team as it grows. Steve is a dynamic, hands-on leader who will help us build a
world-class team and accelerate our growth. Everyone who has worked with Steve
knows that he is very loyal to his teammates and helps them to be their
best. Great teams win, and Steve is going to help us make a great
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Fastcase announcement comes just days after LexisNexis announced the
acquisition of one of their key competitors Ravel Law. In a phone conversation
Walters described how he and Rosenthal were determined to be one of the few
legal tech startups to “jump the chasm” .i.e. becoming a global enterprise
player rather than an acquisition target. Fastcase hopes to follow the lead of companies
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2017) </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">– Legal publishing company Fastcase announced today <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk484972795">that Steve Errick will join the company’s executive team
on July 1 as Chief Operating Officer. He will be responsible for executing the
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most recently served as Vice President and Managing Director for Research
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role, Errick oversaw the Legal Research Information Product Division, with a $1
billion P&L portfolio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He led
LexisNexis’s development of workflow tools such as Lexis for Microsoft Office, E-book
Digital Lending, Total Patent, Litigation Suite which included MedMal Navigator.
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is a veteran of the legal publishing industry, having previously served as Vice
President and General Manager of Wolters Kluwer’s CCH Publishing division, as
well as the Publisher of Thomson Reuters’s Foundation Press division and Director
of Acquisitions of Thomson’s Clark Boardman Callaghan division.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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couldn’t be more excited to have Steve join the team,” said Fastcase CEO Ed
Walters. “Fastcase is an increasingly complex company, with sophisticated legal
data updating operations, multiple product lines, and more than 100 employees
in three offices – and we’re growing all the time. Steve’s deep relationships
in the industry and his experience in managing legal publishing companies at
scale will be important as we are growing into one of America’s largest legal
tech companies.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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also announced that it would begin editorial publishing starting in 2018 to
expand the reach of its legal research service, which to date has focused
exclusively on primary law such as case law, statutes, regulations, court
rules, and constitutions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The company
will launch it’s own imprint of expert treatises, secondary material, and journals,
and partner with its bar association partners in developing new state workflow
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recently at LexisNexis it was acquiring the best companies and building a
product team to drive those businesses. And now, I get this wonderful
opportunity to use these diverse experiences to help accelerate the pace of the
most innovative company in legal tech.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in Washington, D.C., </span></span><a href="http://www.fastcase.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk484972795;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Fastcase</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk484972795;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> is one of the nation’s fastest
growing legal tech companies. Twenty-nine state bar associations have
subscribed to Fastcase, as well as scores of the nation’s largest law firms. More
than 800,000 lawyers have a subscription to Fastcase, many through their state
bar association. A recent survey of more than 2,100 subscribers to Clio showed
that Fastcase is in a “</span></span><a href="http://www.lawsitesblog.com/2017/03/survey-finds-virtual-dead-heat-lawyers-use-westlaw-lexisnexis-fastcase.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk484972795;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: blue;">virtual dead heat</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk484972795;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">” for the most-used legal research
service (Westlaw 20.58%, Fastcase 20.35%, and LexisNexis 20.21%).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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President Phil Rosenthal said that he was looking forward to Errick’s role in
developing the professional and management skills of the Fastcase team as it
grows. </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk484972795;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Steve is a dynamic,
hands-on leader who will help us build a world-class team and accelerate our
growth. Everyone who has worked with Steve knows that he is very loyal to his
teammates and helps them to be their best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Great teams win, and Steve is going to help us make a great Fastcase
team even better.”</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk484972795;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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legal software that democratizes the law. Using patented software that combines
the best of legal research with the best of Web search, Fastcase helps busy
users sift through the clutter, ranking the best cases first and enabling the
re-sorting of results to find answers fast. Founded in 1999, Fastcase has more
than 800,000 subscribers from around the world. Fastcase is an American company
based in Washington, D.C. For more information, follow Fastcase on Twitter at </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/fastcase"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: blue;">@Fastcase</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> or visit </span><a href="http://www.fastcase.com/"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: blue;">www.fastcase.com</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-76973298541553528392017-06-09T01:41:00.001-04:002017-06-10T15:25:11.219-04:00LexisNexis Acquires Ravel Law: A Tipping Point for Legal Analytics and the Second Wave of Legal KM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Hac9j9SN2qZi-valMUxh03MI3-E4HsIID1uUb2aQHY9HonxLeo7q46XHqysUOZHwr_VCKNCkmLchzOsVDqHUfHpQyl7SkkvysNaUQc6syAiPCMrBi3vqWk0NCFw16x8SuOxl1tWVH5NE/s1600/logo-lexisnexis.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="36" data-original-width="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Hac9j9SN2qZi-valMUxh03MI3-E4HsIID1uUb2aQHY9HonxLeo7q46XHqysUOZHwr_VCKNCkmLchzOsVDqHUfHpQyl7SkkvysNaUQc6syAiPCMrBi3vqWk0NCFw16x8SuOxl1tWVH5NE/s1600/logo-lexisnexis.png" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Back in March I
<a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2017/03/rumor-of-day-is-ravel-being-bought-by.html">reported</a> on a rumor that <a href="http://www.ravellaw.com/">Ravel Law </a>would be acquired by <a href="http://lexisnexis./">LexisNexis.</a> Today
LexisNexis and Ravel <a href="https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/about-us/media/press-release.page?id=1496247082681222">announced</a> that Ravel Law is in fact being acquired by LexisNexis. Ravel Law was developed by Stamford Law grads Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed and offered
a research platform which radically altered the way research results were delivered
and displayed. They later offered a series of innovative analytics tools which
provide insights into judicial precedential behavior, courts, motions and law firm litigation trends. Since Lexis acquired another
legal analytics company, <a href="http://www.lexmachina.com/">Lex Machina</a> in November 2015, I was curious to learn
why LexisNexis decided to acquire another product offering legal analytics.
Today I posed some questions to Ravel Law co-founder Daniel Lewis and
LexisNexis VP of product management, Jeff Pfeifer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I tried to pin
down Pfeifer and Lewis on the future of the Ravel Law product in the low cost
legal research market. Pfeifer responded by confirming that Lexis Nexis would
keep Ravel’s commitment to provide public access to the Harvard Caselaw archive
on the Ravel Law platform. The press release however refers to Lexis integrating
Ravel technology and designating content as "powered by Ravel Law."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p><strong> What's Next?</strong> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The press
release specifically indicates that Ravel content/ and or technology will be integrated
into these Lexis Analytics products:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Ravel Law’s
data visualization tool and access to Harvard case law PDF images will enrich Lexis
Advance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><strong>Retaining the Ravel Team</strong> Lewis and Reed the co-founders of Ravel have both been offered senior positions at Lexis Nexis and will report to
Pfeifer.They will focus on creating new solutions for the legal market.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Ravel will remain in its current San Francisco location in order to retain their existing team
which includes lawyers, data scientists and design experts. This will also enable them to, leverage the Silicon
Valley talent pool. According to Lewis the acquisition should not be viewed as "Ravel
having reached a finish line." To the contrary, he sees the Lexis acquisition as allowing
the impact of the Ravel technology to reach millions of lawyers through a
larger platform.<br />
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According to Pfeifer, Lexis has made $1 billion investment in re-architect the
Lexis Advance platform and Lexis content. They will integrate Ravel’s machine
learning technologies while also developing new machine learning and AI
applications.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">When will the analytics tipping point
occur?</b><br />
I estimate that in five years legal analytics will become a core competency
demanded by state bar associations - similar to the recent adoption of standards
for technology competence in many states.</span><br />
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Lewis believes that introducing analytics in a more familiar application such
as LexisAdvance <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will probably accelerate
lawyers’ understanding and embrace of analytics as a critical practice tool. Lewis
hopes that the Lexis/Ravel integration<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> will </span>create a platform in which analytics will simply evolve into an
intuitive dimension of case law research.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Driving the Second Wave of Knowledge
Management</b><br />
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According to Pfeifer, Lexis is rapidly moving towards leveraging content from
<a href="http://www.intelligize.com/">Intelligize </a>(which was previously acquired) to deploy analytics and language
analysis on firm data for transactional documents. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sees a similar opportunity for leveraging
the Ravel technology as well as other technology that Lexis is developing in
house. Pfeiffer suggest that the legal market is about to witness a second wave
of knowledge management. Lexis is in the process of creating tools which will
enhance internal law firm data with machine learning tools which will <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enhance the documents and extract firm data
and analytics which can be combined with external data and analytics. All three
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lexis recent acquisitions:
Intelligize, Lex Machina and Ravel support a Lexus Nexis vision to enrich data <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and drive access to data analytics conclusions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Ravel Legacy</b>. In the press
release Lewis cited the Harvard Law School alliance<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>which provides open access to all US caselaw: “we’ve digitized American law – a
contribution to society that will outlive all of us." </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Thoughts on Market Impact</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.fastcase.com/">Fastcase </a>is the company which competed
most directly with Ravel in offering a sophisticated research product to firms
in search of a lower cost alternative to Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law. I
asked Ed Walters the CEO of Fastcase if he had any thoughts to share on the
Lexis/Ravel deal: “ I can definitely see the fit. LexisNexis has been seeking
an injection of entrepreneurship – Intelligize, LexMachina, and now Ravel – and
Ravel gets to use the giant sandbox of data in LexisNexis. It’s a
validation of the importance of analytics in the next wave of legal research.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blaw.com/">Bloomberg Law</a> was the first of the major legal vendors to integrate comprehensive federal caselaw analytics for all types of litigation into their legal research desktop. (By contrast Lex Machina data is exposed in Lexis Advance for IP, Securities and Antitrust cases only.) In addition Bloomberg has added Compliance Rick Benchmarks and a Business Intelligence Center to their platform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ThomsonReuters
brought the first legal analytics product into the market over ten years ago. The
Thomson Reuters Intelligence Center remains a stand alone product which is used
primarily by marketing and research teams in law firms. I reached out to
Thomson Reuters today to determine if they are preparing to launch a legal analytics product which is integrated into the lawyers desktop in order to compete more directly with LexisNexis and Bloomberg Law offerings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>TR had no comment on their specific plans regarding analytics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Dear Ravel Law
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We
are pleased to share that today LexisNexis announced its acquisition of Ravel
Law, further extending our unparalleled capabilities in the analytics
space. This exciting acquisition strengthens the LexisNexis position as
the leader in legal analytics by expanding </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the LexisNexis Legal Analytics
suite of products through full integration of Ravel judicial analytics, data
visualization technology and exclusive case law PDF content from the Harvard
Law Library into </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexisnexis-profile-suite.page"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Lexis Litigation Profile Suite</span></span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u><span style="color: blue;">®</span></u></span></sup></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-advance.page"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Lexis Advance<sup>®</sup></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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LexisNexis will integrate content and capabilities from Ravel Law with Lexis Advance,
delivering new insights around judicial behavior that complement the product’s
current expert witness intelligence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lawyers and parties, enabling lawyers to craft successful trial strategies, win
cases and close business. Lexis Litigation Profile Suite, enhanced by
Ravel Law technology, will complement this offering by providing insight into arguments
that are likely to be persuasive to a judge. When combined with the behavior
analysis from Lex Machina, litigators have the ability to build judge-specific
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-9416369066279877372017-05-31T01:52:00.000-04:002017-05-31T09:02:55.363-04:00Wolters Kluwer Leaps to the Head of the Class with "SmartTasks" Customizable Corporate Know-How and Offers a Free Federal Legislative Knowledge Center<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wolters Kluwer must be offering free double espresso
shots every morning to their product developers and editors. Do they even sleep these days? Less than a month
ago I wrote a <a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2017/05/wolters-kluwer-on-roll-announces-new.html">post</a> on the release of their Cybersecurity & Privacy platform … the relaunch of their
International Arbitration platform and their alliance with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>IP analytics
provider ktMine. Today they are announcing the release of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Corporate SmartTasks” which follows on their <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May 18<sup>th</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>launch of a free Federal Regulatory Knowledge Center beta site.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Wolters Kluwer SmartTask Corporate Suite</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">SmartTask Corporate Suite –
Already at the Head of the Class –</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"> Offers Firms Customizable Know How. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://lrus.wolterskluwer.com/product-family/smarttask-free-trial-offer"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The SmartTask Corporate Suite</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is positioned to pitch to the Practical Law, Lexis
Practice Advisor audience by offering transactional workflow guidance with
analysis. I will cut to the chase. They have already outdone the competition by
allowing firms to customize the tasks and more importantly to add their own
documents to the workflow. If there is one consistent criticism I have heard from partners when they see existing products - it is not wanting their associates to model cookie cutter
documents. They ask- how do we add our own documents. It is a great question which I have been asking TR and LN repeatedly over the past few years. Every firm wants to believe they can add their own secret sauce--
when they are ready to do so. The SmartTask platform will give them a leg up
on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a serious KM initiative which all too
often can’t get out of the gate. WK provides a template on which firms can
build their own know how. Brilliant! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can’t yet compete with Thomson Reuters or
Lexis Nexis on breadth of content, but they could leaprfrog into the lead by
offering a lower cost and customizable alternative.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Customizable Law Firm Content</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">SmartTask offers step by step guidance for standard
transactional tasks such as amerinding bylaws, corporate formatting, drafting an
SEC filing or choosing a form of business entity. The SmartTasks were designed
with client demands for efficiency in mind.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Dean Sonderegger, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Vice President & General
Manager, Legal Markets & Innovation is guoted in their press release </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">“Attorneys
are facing increased pressure to find new ways to make their practice more
efficient…t</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">he
SmartTask Corporate Suite provides a full set of resources, including workflow
tools, which enables firms to standardize common legal practices, ensuring
consistency and efficiency<span class="apple-converted-space">.” </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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benefits of SmartTask include: <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Legal Guides — Easy to follow, interactive, practical legal guides with
practice notes and expert analysis<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></li>
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Access Point — SmartTasks are integrated with direct links to pointed
sections of laws and regulations, treatise materials and primary sources<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></li>
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step-by-step guides created by attorneys for attorneys.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unique <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Features Include:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">The ability to add your firm’s own practice notes, in-house documents or third-party content to any task </span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A complete list of smart task is listed at this</span><a href="https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=wolters+kluwer+smarttasks&spf=1496176679816"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> link</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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have now lived through 6 Presidential election cycles since moving to DC in 1993.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New Presidents and shifting Congressional
majorities always generate uncertainty – this year is no different—perhaps a
bit more shrill... Wolters Kluwer is seizing the opportunity to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>balm the collective angst <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>with data. They have launched a beta site for <a href="http://wolterskluwerlr.com/FDKC"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Federal Developments Knowledge Center.</i></a></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Federal Developments Knowledge
Center (FDKC)</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> – currently in Beta – provides an
easy to use site to survey the shifting legislative and regulatory
landscape. Content includes: </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Daily updates</span> of executive
actions, legislative and regulatory developments. </span></div>
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Breaking <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">news with rich analysis from
Wolters Kluwer’s attorney editors</span></span></div>
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Key Developments <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">SmartChart </span>organized<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span>by practice area to track changes,
provide current status and next steps, and offer insight on possible client impact.</span><br />
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in the summer. Additional content will be added which cover additional "hot topics such as <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Global Trade, Environment, Energy, and
Immigration</span>. Perhaps most importantly they plan to add predictive
analytics which will forecast the likelihood that legislation will be enacted</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wolters Kluwer will update the
platform with a system of scraping government web sites and databases which
will be enhanced with metadata to provide custom search filtering. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A staff of over 100 writers and legal analysts
will select and analyze the most
important developments each day. the Federal Developments Knowledge Center will
cover all federal agencies, all legislative actions, including actions by the
congressional committees, and all executive actions. Wolters Kluwer editors will assess which
actions are most likely to impact customers and their clients and provide a
summary of the primary source document with a link to the primary source, as well as the potential impact and next steps toward enactment or implementation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>The Market Context.</b> The Federal Knowledge Center is a logical development given Wolters Kluwer's deep expertise in the regulatory arena. The addition of predictive analytics is a smart way to introduce a practical AI application in a client advisory context. LexisNexis has already added <a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2016/04/lexisadvance-adds-predictive-analytics.html">predictive analytics for legislation</a> on their legal research platform. Bloomberg BNA which competes more directly with Wolters Kluwer in the regulatory space has added predictive analytics for litigation but not for legislative or regulatory activity. <a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2017/01/voxgov-veritable-goldmine-of-hidden.html">Voxgov</a> which scrapes a wider variety of materials from federal websites - does not include any editorial analyis of legislation or regulation.</span></div>
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-33935833255549553762017-05-24T15:28:00.000-04:002017-05-31T22:39:51.960-04:00Treatises Are Not Dead They Are Just Being Transformed: Lexis Launches First Video Practice Guide: Can the Gamified Treatise Be Far Behaind?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";">Today LexisNexis is releasing
a practice guide on federal civil practice<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <a href="http://www.lexisnexis.com/wagstaffe">TheWagstaffe Group Practice Guide: Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial </a></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that will be available in three formats:
print, online in Lexis Advance and eBook. (LexisNexis Digital Library.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This multimedia guide includes over 150 video
clips of two to five minutes in length. This is the first video offering from a
legal publishing market that I can recall since the release of Professor Robert
Berring<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’s Commando Legal Research </i>series
in 1989.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">
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enhanced with video “mini lectures” by the author James M. Wagstaffe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wagstaffe </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">former
co-author of The Rutter Group’s <i>Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial. </i>The
press release describes the author as </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">one of the country’s preeminent
First Amendment and defamation lawyers. Wagstaffe is also, <span style="color: #4d4d4d;">an adjunct professor in constitutional law and civil
procedure at Hastings College of the Law and in Media Law at San Francisco
State University</span> and co-founder of Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP. The
press release describes the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">videos<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as providing “</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">rich, explanatory tips and practical
insights … that enhance and complement the surrounding text in each chapter. “<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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product<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will not compete directly with
the iconic Moores Federal Practice. Since this product is more focused on
practice efficiency it appears to be positioned more in the LexisNexis Practice
Advisor/Thomson Reuters Practical Law space.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Gaming<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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Fitzpatrick, Managing Director of North American Research Solutions at
LexisNexis is quoted in the press release describes how the product is positioned: “With its release and the addition of embedded video content directly within
the legal research tools our customers use most, we’re bringing practical
guidance to life. Not only are we providing the smartest and most relevant
content to the market, but we are doing so in a manner that addresses the
changing needs of our customers.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I can’t
help but think that we already <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a generation of lawyers who’s hands itch for a
game controller when they hear the word “video.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it is time to think outside the
traditional treatise. I assume that video is only the beginning. I could see
gamification<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>having a place in
litigation strategy. As I always say, Lexis has bought so many amazing assets,
I can't help but meditate on amazing mash-ups. Imagine Professor Wagstaffe
illustrating a winning motion strategy and then enhancing it with an
interactive comparative outcome chart from Lex Machina.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Civil Procedure Before Trial </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that
will be available in three formats: print, online in Lexis Advance and eBook,
but will require a separate subscription.</span></span></span></span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-38256550432978723452017-05-24T12:00:00.000-04:002017-05-25T08:29:33.008-04:00Ravel Launches Law Firm Analytics: Offers Law Firm Rankings, Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Law Firm Analytics aggregates all of a firm’s cases and offers tracking, searchability, and analysis by practice area, court, judge, time period, and motion. An associate can analyze their firm's winning cases and also access winning arguments. Firm Analytics also provides a new Ravel framework for integrating with firms’ internal document management systems, and provide results which combine of public and private content in a seamless research experience.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Firm Analytics provides rankings of firms across key variables including practice area, case volume, venue experience, and motion win rates. These leaderboards allow comparisons across substantive performance metrics, a significant innovation to traditional revenue and size rankings. As part of this launch, we are releasing rankings of the top five law firms across employment, securities, antitrust, administrative law, and bankruptcy (more below).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Knowledge Management</b><br />
Lewis indicated that one ALM 100 law firm has integrated Ravel with documents from their DMS. This allows lawyers to simultaneously search both internal and external documents. They are now referring to this as a Knowledge Management Framework with they can develop as a custom solution for law firms.<br />
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<b>Law Firms Love Rankings: </b>Ravel Co-Founder Daniel Lewis points out that success rates in litigation are probably the better measure of a law firm value rather than profits per partner.<br />
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<b>Rankings of Firms by Case Volumes Since 2014</b><br />
Ravel’s data is created by mining millions of federal and state cases, across 30+ practice areas and 400+ top US firms. These rankings are based on activity since 2014.<br />
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<b>Employment</b><br />
Littler Mendelson<br />
Jackson Lewis<br />
Ogletree Deakins<br />
Seyfarth Shaw<br />
Morgan Lewis & Bockius<br />
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<b>Securities</b><br />
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd<br />
Weil, Gotshal & Manges<br />
Gibson Dunn<br />
Paul, Weiss<br />
Latham & Watkins<br />
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Jones Day<br />
Kirkland & Ellis<br />
Latham & Watkins<br />
Skadden<br />
Morgan Lewis & Bockius; Gibson Dunn (tied)<br />
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<b>Administrative Law</b><br />
Gibson Dunn<br />
Perkins Coie<br />
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer<br />
Jones Day<br />
Sidley Austin<br />
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<b>Bankruptcy</b><br />
Kirkland & Ellis<br />
Locke Lord<br />
Quinn Emanuel<br />
Bryan Cave; Jones Day (tied)<br />
Akin Gump<br />
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-53022085878214221202017-05-17T09:00:00.000-04:002017-05-17T22:06:19.372-04:00 Casetext's CARA Launches New "Brief Finder" Feature<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only weeks after receiving the prestigious <a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/IE/5CTQR2AK/AALL%20Selects%20Casetext's%20CARA%20Tool%20to%20Receive%20its%202017%20New%20Product%20Award_FINAL_5.9.17.pdf">2017 New Product Award</a> from the American Association of Law Libraries, CARA is announcing today the release of a new "Brief Finder" feature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Casetext's CARA (Case Analysis Research Assistant) launched with the promise of helping lawyers find the most relevant caselaw. Last August I reviewed CARA in a post: <a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2016/08/cara.html">Citation Fingerprint, Celestial Footnotes and Opinion Sourcing: Casetext Launches CARA</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> According to press release, the Brief Finder promises to surface the most relevant legal briefs filed in federal courts "by the county's best law firms... With no extra work, litigators gain unprecedented visibility into how world-class attorneys have argued the same issues they are working on, giving CARA users an extraordinary competitive edge."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jake Heller, founder and CEO of Casetext notes that “Every lawyer knows that the best way to find good arguments is to look to your peers — other great attorneys who have taken on the same issues and researched them thoroughly. But finding the right brief is hard and expensive. CARA Brief Finder makes finding these invaluable resources effortless. The Casetext VP of Legal Research Pablo Arredondo underscores the editorial effort they put in to selecting briefs from only the largest firms, specialty boutiques and government agencies. "We started with hundreds of thousands of briefs and culled this down to tens of thousands of briefs from highly reputable sources."</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Use Cases.</b> The press release highlights the following use cases:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Predicting
opposing counsel’s arguments based on what similarly situated litigants have
argued. By running drafts through CARA, CARA Brief Finder will surface
previously filed briefs that both oppose and support a litigator’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Making sure
litigators don’t leave out any arguments. Review briefs filed by peers in
the legal community to ensure you are not missing a key argument and that
you’ve articulated those arguments as effectively as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Helping
litigators draft the most compelling briefs efficiently. Quickly and
efficiently assemble the information litigators need to provide best-in-class
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>First Low Cost Provider to Offer Briefs.</b> Although premium services Westlaw, Lexis and Bloomberg Law have offered a Briefs database for years, Casetext maybe the first low cost provider to offer searchable access to briefs and they are certainly the first to offer access using an advanced algorithm to determine relevance.</span> <br />
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Access </b>Existing CARA subscribers will have access to "Brief Finder" for the duration of their subscription term at no additional charge. The CARA Brief Finder" will be a separate module which can be added for an additional charge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I recently had the opportunity to ask Arredondo a few questions about how CARA has evolved over the past year:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>How many firms are on board?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We currently have deals with ten large law firms and dozens
of smaller firms, in addition to hundreds of solo practitioners. Casetext
attracts over 1 million unique users to our site on a monthly basis. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What has your growth been like?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p>Casetext has grown substantially over the last several
months in three key ways: (1) we are growing our team, from engineers and data
scientists, to account managers, (2) we raised a $12M Series B round of venture
funding (the largest round ever by a legal research company) and we are
actively deploying those resources to continue to create innovative, effective
products that attorneys can immediately start using in practice, and (3) in a
short period of time we have sold subscriptions of our flagship product
offering, CARA, to key firms across the country while expanding our presence to
75 law schools across the country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We decided early on to make CARA freely available to the
courts. Judges and clerks all over the country, both federal and state,
appellate and trial, have started using CARA and we have been very encouraged
by the early response. At a training at one circuit court, the clerks
where emphatic that litigants almost invariably overlook relevant case
law. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>How has the product evolved?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The early and enthusiastic adoption of CARA by courts and
law firms has given us great user feedback, which has guided the evolution of
the product. One of the most critical improvements has been combining the power
of CARA with keyword queries. Currently CARA defaults to showing the top
fifteen recommendations for the brief as a whole. Attorneys interested in
just one specific issue can easily enhance the search with a keyword query
without losing all of the context-specific analysis that CARA provides. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other major improvement in the platform is that CARA now
returns briefs as well as case law. Our users are very excited about this
and so are we. Briefs can be one of the most expensive databases to
access on traditional platforms. We get these briefs from PACER; it is
important to understand that we never store, much less use, the briefs that
attorneys upload for research. In order to ensure quality, we have culled
our brief database (which updates regularly) down to briefs filed by leading
law firms, boutiques, non-profits and government agencies. You can filter
the briefs by jurisdiction or use narrow-by-keyword.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last year, I met Arredondo when he approached me in a meeting room at the AALL Conference in Chicago and asked me to see a brief demo of CARA. This year Arredondo reports that Casetext will have a booth in the Exhibit Hall at the AALL conference in Austin this July. Congratulations to Heller and Arredondo and all the folks at Casetext on the AALL award and the Brief Finder launch. I am reminded of an advertising slogan from the 70's: "You've come a long way baby."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Here is a </b></span><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170517005306/en/Casetext-Unveils-CARA-Finder"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>link</b></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to the the Press Release on the CARA Brief Finder.</span> </b></o:p></span></div>
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-79922691691554861982017-05-17T00:58:00.001-04:002017-05-17T10:49:34.295-04:00Will Law Firms "Opt In" to The PACER Fees Class Action?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_9S48BeyCesJebRgi_KMM-DVy5DZYe7Kunx142uU7hjmfNUBvByMXJn9FeiEVoDOuaBOsPTKON8sGR8mKc_WYF5dX1Cvm5e5l3Eol2F9m580FpGuUtBb9KlUa3clTP8_u8_B1RQq1v7W5/s1600/golddollarsign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_9S48BeyCesJebRgi_KMM-DVy5DZYe7Kunx142uU7hjmfNUBvByMXJn9FeiEVoDOuaBOsPTKON8sGR8mKc_WYF5dX1Cvm5e5l3Eol2F9m580FpGuUtBb9KlUa3clTP8_u8_B1RQq1v7W5/s200/golddollarsign.jpg" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN">Law firms have begun receiving class
action notices inviting them to join a class action alleging that the Pacer (Public Access to Court
Electronic Records) system has been overcharging for online access to federal court
dockets and documents. In April 2016, The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts which
oversees the PACER system was sued by three
nonprofits: National Veterans Legal Services Program, the National Consumer Law
Center and the Alliance for Justice. The <a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/IE/VIKE0WF4/Pacer-Complaint.pdf">complaint</a> alleges that the
government has violated the E-Government Act of 2002 – which permits the federal
judiciary to charge for PACER “only to the extent necessary.” Apparently someone
stretched the definition of “necessary” to include flat screen TVs and audio
systems. PACER charges 10 cents a page up to $3.00 per court record. In a large law firm with thousands of lawyers PACER fees can exceed hundreds of thousands of dollars per year and over six years - some firms could have paid over $1 million for PACER documents-- not exactly "chump change". It is yet to be determined what percentage of those charges would considered excessive should the Plaintiffs prevail in this suit.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN">Not Just for Non Profits</span></b><br />
<span lang="EN">Back in January U.S. District
Judge Ellen Huvelle in the District of Columbia granted<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jean/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/IE/3QGUAP61/D.D.C.-16-cv-00745-dckt-000033_000-filed-2017-01-24.pdf"> certification</a> of a
class comprised <b>of anyone who paid PACER
fees during the six years before April 21, 2016 </b></span><span lang="EN"><b>(but </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.2px;"> excluding class counsel in this case and federal government entities.)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">The Paradox of PACER.</b> For research nerds like me the complaint provides an interesting recap of the evolution or PACER. To anyone who uses PACER they will be appalled to hear that there were excess funds that were not applied to improving the PACER system itself --but were redirected to other uses. PACER is a monument to the best technology of the 1980's. It is a primitive system by 21st Century standards.... and yet it harbors veins of data which commercial enterprises are mining to use as the core building blocks of historical and predictive analytics. I welcome the innovators Lex Machina, PacerPro, Ravel Law, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Lexis Nexis, Docket Alarm, Justly come to mind... would be nice if they could donate some 21st Century technology and algorithms to the "mother of all docket systems" so that it can better serve its main constituency -- the American public.</span><br />
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-20478963220191217992017-05-08T05:00:00.000-04:002017-05-08T13:45:20.063-04:00PLLIP Summit Will Highlight Innovation and Analytics From Thought Leaders Teninbaum, Katz and Abraham<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Professor Gabriel Teninbaum</b>, of Suffolk University Law School where he is Director of Suffolk Law’s Institute on Law Practice Technology and Innovation. He teaches courses such as "Lawyering in the age of smart machines."<br />
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<b> </b><b>Professor</b><b><b> Daniel Katz</b> </b>of Chicago Kent Law School is a<b> </b>leading proponent of applying analytics to the law and legal profession.<b> </b>His bio describes him as "a scientist, technologist and law professor who applies an innovative polytechnic approach to teaching law. " Both his scholarship and teaching integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.<b> </b>He is the Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of <a href="http://lexpredict.com/" target="_blank">LexPredict</a> (a Legal Analytics company). <br />
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<b>V. Mary Abraham,</b> Law Firm Consultant extraordinaire. Since 2013 she has been a member of the faculty of Columbia University’s
Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy where she
teaches collaboration, facilitation, social capital, innovation, and
knowledge sharing. Mary is also famous for her Above and Beyond KM Blog.<br />
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Registration information listed under Pre-conference workshops <a href="https://www.aallnet.org/conference/get-there/registration">here. </a><br />
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<strong>Navigating the Critical Nexus of Knowledge and Legal Technology</strong><strong>Saturday, July 15, 2017, 8:30 am – 4 pm</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.7;">Hilton Austin – Austin, TX</strong></h4>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Friday July 14, 2017</strong></span><br />
<strong>Opening Reception</strong> 6:30 – 9:00 pm<br />
Bloomberg BNA is once again our generous sponsor for the PLLIP Summit Opening Reception on <strong>Friday, July 14 from 6:30 – 9:00 pm</strong> at a location to be announced soon. Stay tuned to this page for updates.<br />
As in past years, there will be a separate page for RSVP for this can’t miss event.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Saturday July 15, 2017</strong></span><br />
7:00-8:30 am – <strong>Registration and continental breakfast</strong> – <em>generously sponsored by LEXISNEXIS</em><br />
8:30-8:40 am – <strong>Welcome remarks</strong>: Alicia Pappas and Jeremy Sullivan, 2017 Summit Co-chairs<br />
8:40-9:25 am- <strong>Keynote Address</strong> – <a href="https://pllsummit.wordpress.com/2017-summit-speakers/">Professor Gabriel Teninbaum</a>, Suffolk University Law School – <em>generously sponsored by WOLTERS KLUWER</em><br />
Professor Gabriel Teninbaum will explore the legal innovation landscape and describe how that is impacting (and will impact) law librarians. Hear how large and small law firms are incorporating technology, responding to client demands and feedback, and how AI and other technologies and trends continue to impact the competitive legal landscape. Delve into the roles of librarians in innovation, efficiency initiatives, and development of potential new revenue streams.<br />
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9:30-10:05 am – <strong>Q&A w/ Professor Teninbaum</strong><br />
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10:05-10:20 am – <strong>Morning Break</strong><br />
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10:20-11:50 am – <strong>Can Librarians Help Legal Organizations Become More Data Driven?</strong> – Professor Daniel Katz, Chicago-Kent College of Law<br />
Data science is a growing field within the legal industry. As organizations within the legal industry attempt to become more data driven, the skills held by law librarians are well suited to help law firms, corporate legal departments, courts and non-profits craft and execute a legal data strategy. After some introductory comments, the session will begin with a hands-on session where teams will help draft a legal data strategy in response to a specific vignette. After working through the specific scenario, Professor Katz will conclude with a general discussion of how to bootstrap a data strategy within your organization using a blend of experts, crowd-sourcing and algorithms.<br />
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11:50-1:15 <strong>Lunch</strong> – <em>generously sponsored by THOMSON REUTERS</em><br />
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1:15-2:30 pm – <strong>The Librarian Speaks: Promoting a Technology Agenda</strong> – Panel session featuring Margaret Bartlett, Information Resources Librarian @ Locke Lord; Mark Gediman, Director of Research Services @ Best Best & Krieger; Gina Lynch, Director of Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence @ Paul Weiss; Nancy Rine, Director of Research Services & Conflicts @ Fried Frank<br />
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A moderated panel of your peers will share real life examples of how they work with the IT department to achieve and promote an agenda that leverages technology and knowledge to further the goals of the organization.<br />
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2:30-2:45 pm – <strong>Afternoon Break</strong><br />
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2:45-4:00 pm – <strong>Surviving – and Thriving – in a Period of Change</strong>, <a href="https://pllsummit.wordpress.com/2017-summit-speakers/">V. Mary Abraham</a>, Columbia University<br />
Are you a Change Guerilla or Guru? Guerillas work tactically to shape change from the middle. Gurus work strategically to lead change. Both approaches are useful (and sometimes necessary) when your law firm is undergoing change. In this interactive session we will explore key methods used by change guerillas and gurus that can enable you to survive and even thrive in the midst of change.<br />
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4:00 pm – <strong>Closing remarks</strong></div>
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-57263214730282435972017-05-04T22:59:00.003-04:002017-05-17T17:58:29.323-04:00Wolters Kluwer On a Roll: Announces New Cybersecurity & Privacy Suite, Enhanced Arbitration Platfiorm and ktMine IP Alliance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The <a href="https://lrus.wolterskluwer.com/">Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US </a>product development teams have been busy. In recent months they have announced a reboot of their International Arbitration product, launched a Cybersecurity product and entered into an alliance enabling them to offer KTMine. IP analytics through the Cheetah platform.</div>
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Wolters Kluwer has taken on one of the hottest topics in law and policy with the <a href="https://lrus.wolterskluwer.com/rss%20feed%20container/press%20releases/2017/04/20/14/35/wk-launches-cybersecurity-and-privacy-law-suite">launch</a> of a new Cybersecurity and Privacy Law Suite. The product tracks regulatory developments and provides a comprehensive overview of the global regulatory landscape. </div>
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The new cyber security product offers access to international, federal and state laws and regulations. The product is built on the Cheetah research platform. The very popular "Smart charts" allow lawyers to compare jurisdictional requirements and include expert commentary and procedural "know how." The Breach Notification Smart Chart is one of the most popular components of the product. International law comparison charts cover 66 countries enabling lawyers to select and compare the laws of multiple countries. "Useful links" provide direct access to important government agency websites. The <b>Cybersecurity Policy Report </b>a weekly newsletter tracks emerging policy developments. Expert guidance is available from 14 treatises and newsletters. Later this month they will be adding medical privacy statutes.<br />
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<b>Wolters Kluwer's International Arbitration</b> product is the leading international arbitration product. It was first published as a cd-rom in 1998 and was launched as a digital product in 2003. After 14 years it was due for a makeover. Last week the publisher announced the launch of a re-designed platform. The new design relied heavily on user feedback to improve user experience and to streamline the research process.<br />
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Search enhancements include:<br />
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<li>Footnotes can be viewed as a "pop up" rather than an endnote</li>
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The arbitration content has benefited from the publishers recent implementation of a comprehensive content management system which enhances publisher's ability to draw connections between a variety of content sets.<br />
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<b>KTMine </b>Wolters Kluwer also announced a new alliance with KT mine A provider of unique IP analytics. KT mine subscribers can now access the KTMine intellectual property analytics and documents on the Wolters Kluwer IP platform.<br />
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KTMine includes four apps:<br />
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The product enables a researcher to locate companies associated with specific technologies. Content includes, analytics ,royalty rates, licensees, SIC codes and links to full licensing agreements as well as recent IP news related to each company.</div>
Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-28314368569993731302017-04-28T12:57:00.003-04:002017-04-28T16:50:37.755-04:00Columbia Law Revue Posts Hilarious Video Parody Critique of Westlaw, Lexis and Bloomberg Law Wars<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The members of the Columbia Law Revue - these law students are not only smart, but they are also clever and some of them sing like Broadway headliners. Maybe we should invite them to perform at the American Association of Law Libraries Conference this summer. This is the best legal research video since Craig Runde and Bill Lindberg produced the <a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2013/04/when-law-books-ruled-video-celebration.html">dancing Westlaw Reporters</a> video back in the 1980's. The Westlaw Story video parodies music and scenes from the Leonard Bernstein hit play <em>Westside Story</em>... it is loaded with barbs about vendor booty to incentivize product adoption by law students but also offers some honest critiques on the stengths and shortcomings of Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law. (All I can say is that it is a good thing that Mike Bloomberg is no longer mayor of NYC where Columbia is located -- on the upper West Side.)<br />
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Thank you, thank you, thank you Columbia Law Revue!<br />
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-74154668567914939082017-04-20T22:53:00.001-04:002017-07-12T08:35:47.119-04:00Bloomberg Law Releases Data Compliance Risk Benchmark Tool and Report Identifying High Risk Countries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: left;">Yesterday Bloomberg Law released an important new feature in the Bloomberg Law: Privacy & Data Security product called the <a href="https://www.bna.com/bloomberg-law-crb-press-release/?promocode=BLAW654AM">Complaince Risk Benchmarks too</a>l.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: left;">The tool ranks the “burden” and compliance risks in 47
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Law also released a related report, <a href="http://images.about.bna.com/Web/BloombergBNA/%7B478c7f24-f919-49b5-9def-c2d72e4a7626%7D_LEGAL_WP_Compliance_Risk_Benchmarks_BRAVO.pdf">“Anticipating the Burden of Risk,”</a> which provides an overview of the international regulatory
environment and the risk landscape surrounding breach notification compliance.
The report features an analysis of the countries with the highest compliance
risk for breach notification, with write-ups on the top five countries, which include
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">The tool is designed to assist outside and inside counsel , and compliance professionals in assessing data compliance risk around the world. To accomplish this they have created a risk score based on 8 risk factors analyzed using a proprietary algorithm. </span><i style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Compliance
Risk Benchmarks </i><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">compares the </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">burdens and risks related to ten topics
impacting global businesses including data security, data transfer, online
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Risk Benchmarks incorporates expert analysis from data protection professionals
in each country as well as news and relevant laws and regulations from 55
countries with its robust data visualization feature Users can also go from
viewing multiple countries to a snapshot of each country’s risk factors. Comparative charts can be generated to show legal requirements for key issues such as: employee health information, online privacy, personnel records, electronic marketing, data transfer, employee background checks, employee monitoring and surveillance, data security, data collection and processing.</span></div>
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range of interactive comparative charts. Upcoming legislation charts displays the status of proposed legislation and regulation across jurisdictions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">All
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Today I am summarizing
the process<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>initiatives submitted by
readers responding to the Start Stop Poll.</span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4AkA_a7cOO-M_ueaWjge5EbM_CRvaE2afC01jTRP5_cag7-Lxd5ced4wVYFUHuOXt_uP70lTX-84K2ScUyumySvU7jOu5SJx-xG3WFcJktViVpnqv3hrXBtxa0MoUdV5tsMMX6NxYqoEf/s1600/stoplight.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4AkA_a7cOO-M_ueaWjge5EbM_CRvaE2afC01jTRP5_cag7-Lxd5ced4wVYFUHuOXt_uP70lTX-84K2ScUyumySvU7jOu5SJx-xG3WFcJktViVpnqv3hrXBtxa0MoUdV5tsMMX6NxYqoEf/s200/stoplight.png" width="145" /></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The 2016-17
initiatives focus on: visibility outreach, targeted marketing, lawyer training
and collecting attorney feedback and measuring value and satisfaction with
resources and services. The more surprising response was a plea for the
retention of print resources.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could we have reached the end of “the end of
print?”</b></div>
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I have been reading a book called “The
Revenge of Analog” which offers a fascinating catalog of “dead” analog formats
which are being revived and re-positioned in new higher end niche markets:
phonographic records, 35 millimeter film and yes… print magazines and books. Today
my <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday Washington Post – yes I read a
paper newspaper –included a new “ Weekly TV Guide.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought they eliminated the TV Guide over 10
years ago.</div>
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And then… there was in this year’s
survey responses <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I discovered a plea to
slow the relentless elimination of print.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Stop eliminating print treatises that lawyers want to read the
old-fashioned way. Enough of the architects and finance people driving this:
Our associates want print copies of the best books, and research shows that
full absorption of knowledge is best achieved when reading print media.”</div>
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While every firm is at a different
stage of migration from print to digital some firms may have reached the bone –
there is no more to cut. Other firms will continue to eliminate print – but perhaps
print will stabilize. There will be a core set of resources that will be deemed
by firms and practices as necessary and worth the cost and the overhead.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Describe any ORGANIZATIONAL (task/process/initiative) that you STOPPED
in 2016 or plan to STOP in 2017?</b> </div>
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>We stopped buying about 50% more of our print
collection.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>We stopped using ref tracker as we found it no
longer worked for us and are looking at other ways to track reference requests.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>KF call numbers</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Posting upcoming training sessions on our SharePoint
page (No one ever read them.)</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>We stopped creating a separate "classes
with online materials" page on the law school website</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Since we have reduced our collection, we no
longer have a need to outsource our filing.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>No longer keeping any ABA periodicals in print</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Retired our legacy news delivery home-grown
service.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Research team to focus on complex research. All Document
retrieval <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be handled by
paraprofessional team</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Stopped daily review of new cases files.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Stopped doing new client intake research for new
business department. </li>
</ul>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Describe any ORGANIZATIONAL
(task/process/initiative) that you STARTED in 2016</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>We began analyzing usage of Courthouse News and
its effectiveness in acquiring new business.</div>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Improved data tracking of invoices to better see
practice group allocation of resources.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Started tracking filing time/budget by title to
target high maintenance print resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Started to revamp desk book distribution methods
in effort to turn some titles digital.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Expanded the content and number of Lexis Advance
Resource Centers (eLibraries)</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>More streamlined accounting</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>We added several more custom curated newsletters
for practice groups</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Switched
news aggregation platform.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Systematic procedures to "market" the
library's services using "triggers" such as a new client, lawyer
promotion.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>We started getting in front of attorneys
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our plan is to do a ton of travel
in 2017.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Replacing Manzama with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EOS</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>We've started including the clinic in our
technology lectures</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Enhanced data Collection</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Supporting legal project manager</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Competitive Intelligence team moved from
marketing to Research and Knowledge team.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Litigation History Checklist Legal Research
Competencies Self-Assessment Tool (based on AALL competencies)</li>
</ul>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Describe any
ORGANIZATIONAL (task/process/initiative) you plan to START in 2017</b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst">
<br /></div>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Legal Research Platform RFP <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eLearning Modules</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Adding a 4-question survey to responses to
requests, encouraging customers to comment on our service.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>We are looking into KM and the also how to
possibly apply AI to our practices.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Re-vamp the intranet and increase the library's
offerings of practice-group specific resource links and suggested research
starting points.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Creating an internal knowledge repository for
the library.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Writing procedure and policy manuals and cross
training staff.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>We are starting to drive use to specific online
resources over print on a practice group <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>basis</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Improve real-time client pages using Thomson
Reuters Intelligence Center</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Knowledge platform revamp.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Focus will be on a number of knowledge
management tools that bring efficiency to the practice.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Launch a new firm Intranet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Launch SmartTasks</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Launch
LexisNewDesk and BNA Convergence dashboards</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Relaunch a newly envisioned Knowledge services
bulletin</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Move off of CNS dockets to Bloomberg Enterprise
dockets/Westlaw Dockets.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Install Research Hub</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>We plan to start including the incubatees in our
technology lectures</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Redesign our library's Intranet page</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Space planning</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Reboot KM</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Migrate from RefTraker to Quest</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>Making more presentations to practice groups and
surveying the attorneys to find out what they use the most and what they would
like to learn.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>GeniePlus [Lucidea product] library management
system. Upgrading from Inmagic DBTextWorks.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "times new roman";">
</span></span></span>All document retrieval shifted away from
research specialists and sent to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>document retrieval team in low cost center.</li>
</ul>
</div>
Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-72793648550328767882017-03-30T23:59:00.003-04:002017-04-03T09:48:44.940-04:00Start/Stop Poll Results: Ravel Law Analytics Voted Best New Product--Lexis Search Term Mapping Best New Feature--ROI Tracking and Research Workflow Tools Emerge as Leading Workflow Enhancement Products<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</xml><![endif]-->In December I offered readers the opportunity to respond to the 2016 Start/Stop Poll in which they could vote for the best new products and features and highlight the products that they planned to say good-bye to. The results of the process part of the survey are posted <a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-wisdom-of-colleagues-plea-for-print.html">here</a>.<br />
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in a row <a href="http://www.ravellaw.com/">Ravel Law Analytics</a> has won the Dewey B Strategic Readers "Start Stop Poll" for
best new product. <a href="http://www.lexmachina.com/">Lex Machina’s </a>New Securities Module placed second. Ravel Law tied for best product in 2015 with Wolters Kluwer's Cheetah search platform.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ravel Law's Court Analytics</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Additional products ( in alphabetical order)
nominated by readers include:</b></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Audit Analytics</li>
<li>D&B Onboard</li>
<li>Docket Navigator which is actually a patent analytics
product</li>
<li>CARA from Casestext which reviews documents for missing
precedent</li>
<li>Cheetah – Wolters Kluwer’s new platform replacing
Intelliconnect which tied for first place last year.</li>
<li>iPad Pro 9.7/Pencil</li>
<li>Lex Machina’s Securities Module</li>
<li>LitIQ – linguistic analysis of documents</li>
<li>Luminance for product review and due diligence</li>
<li>Newsdesk – the LexisNexis news aggregation and curation
platform.</li>
<li>Practice Point</li>
</ul>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What was the best
FEATURE/FUNCTION added to an information resource in 2016?</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-advance/search-term-maps.page"><b>Lexis Search Term Mapping</b></a> and navigation bar was voted best
new feature added to an existing product.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LexisNexis Search Term Mapping</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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</div>
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Additional features recommended by readers:</div>
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<br /></div>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>PDFs of significant complaints included in Court
Wire emails for attorney self-service</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>"GRAB A" from Bloomberg Professional<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Lex Machina Apps</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Westlaw Answers</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Practice Point</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Bloomberg Law's new business intelligence and
analytics platform</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Lexis Predictive Legislation</li>
</ul>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What PRODUCT did your
department/organization STOP using in 2016 or plan to stop in 2017?</b></div>
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The perennial products on the chopping block are print
materials as well as the high ticket Westlaw and Lexis enterprise contracts. As enterprise contracts for Lexis and Westlaw come up for renewal law firms grapple with the challenge of cancelling one
and relying exclusively on the vendor. Only one respondent reported taking the sole
online provider plunge by cancelling their enterprise Lexis contract in 2016. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Law firm budgets remain flat. The easiest way to bring in a
new and innovative product is to cancel an existing subscription. The variety
of products listed below suggests to me that resources monitoring platforms
have enabled the surgical targeting of under-performing products. Information
professionals are taking an active role in the strategic management of digital
resources.</div>
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<br /></div>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>VC Experts</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Hoover's</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>RefTraker</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>InfoNgen (news aggregation platform)</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>West KM</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>CCH Cheetah</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Practical Law</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Lexis Publisher (moved to NewsDesk)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Courthouse News Service Jumbo</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Checkpoint</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>ROSS</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Debtwire</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Intelligize</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Capital IQ<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></li>
</ul>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What NEW
INFORMATION/WORKFLOW PRODUCTS do you expect to be rolled out in your
organization in 2017?</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Electronic Resource Management products ( Research Monitor
and Onelog<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Research workflow
products<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( Quest and Reftraker)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were the two categories of products mentioned
most often as 2017 product implmentations to improve workflow.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Additinoal initiatives include:</div>
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<br /></div>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>We are looking at KM products</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>We have purchased a new intranet product and
will be rolling it out in 2017.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Enterprise Proview for desk books from Thomson
Reuters</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Adding more Law360 modules.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>BigSquare</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Single sign-on/SSO/SAML for a variety of our
legal research products, to eliminate the need for lawyers to have to enter
credentials.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Lex Machina Antitrust Smart Tasks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Kira<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Research Hub<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Clarion<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>BNA convergence dashboards</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>NewsDesk</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>I'm working on posting some of my technology
sessions online using Panopto's new quizzing feature.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Courtroom Insights</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>iManage -- Document management system</li>
</ul>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What product would
you most like to see developed in Legal information technology area?</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Improvements to access to litigation analytics from both
state and federal courts with enhanced coding to improve strategic insights emerged
as the leading product demanded by information professionals.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Access to all state court documents online,
similar to PACER.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But better, and
preferably free.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>I would love for a way to be able to search
across all the platforms we subscribe to, but I would even settle for a way to
locate specific titles or products via a search. As long as that search doesn't
require us to catalog a vendor's entire offerings!</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>State court complaints and dockets are coming
online too slowly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disruption would be
welcome in this category.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>More transparent search engines.</li>
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</span></span></span>We need a better financial system for tracking
our expenses that goes deeper than our firm's financial system allows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An invoice often contains many titles, a mix
of print and electronic, a mix of book versus subscription, and a mix of
individual and department users.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need
a system that enables us to track AND REPORT at the granular level, preferably
one that ties to Research Monitor usage and includes contract images, contract
terms, licensed user info and more.</li>
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</span></span></span>A litigation landscape tool that would allow you
to more easily identify the high value cases (as opposed to the commoditized
work) pertaining to a particular company. Lex Machina and Bloomberg are heading
in that direction.</li>
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</span></span></span>An easy-to-use "know your client"
product that can produce reports and be used by "non-researchers"</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Something that searches across all of our online
subscriptions.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>A low-cost news aggregator that provides info
law schools need (and that we can afford)</li>
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</span></span></span>I would like to see companies continue to
improve access to dockets that have not been electronically filed and at
reasonable cost.</li>
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</span></span></span>Easier classification of emails into the
document management system</li>
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</span></span></span>A biometric device that will eliminate
passwords.<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></span></li>
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</span></span></span>PocketCasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can organize podcasts by category (fun and work-related), sort and
play podcasts set at specific speeds.</li>
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</span></span></span>Words with Friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></li>
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</span></span></span>MTA bus time</li>
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</span></span></span>Waze</li>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
Dollar</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Google
maps</li>
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</span></span></span>Kindle app</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Selfie Editor</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tile <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>app</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Asana -online team and task management</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Pinterest</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Pokémon Go</li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>"Find my IPhone"<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Gas buddy locates gas stations and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prices on a map.</li>
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-82146958610411326012017-03-29T22:59:00.001-04:002017-03-30T09:18:00.097-04:00Augmented Intelligence as a Reference Librarian? Twice as Fast Half as Good... For Now...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last night I delivered the Gillard Lecture at the<a href="http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/schools-and-colleges/st-johns-college-liberal-arts-and-sciences/library-and-information-science"> St. John's University Graduate Division of Library and Information Science</a>. My presention was titled "<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Has the Librarian-ship Sailed<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">? <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Redefining the Profession</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in a Post Google World." </span></span></span></span> I want to thank the program director Professor James Vorbach for the wonderful reception. It was great to see a contingent of my LLAGNY friends who made the trek out to the Queens campus in the driving rain. And then there was the inevitable technology glitch. An encrypted flash drive that would not run part of my presentation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>So Here it Is....The Missing "Wow Moment" of My Presentation</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heqP8d6vtQ"><i>Ted Institute video of Dario Gil</i></a> on cognitive computing provides a jaw dropping scenario in which a Watson enabled computer is responding to the types of complex business research questions which are fairly routine in a "big law" research environment. In this video two business analysts are asking Watson to pinpoint companies matching specific criteria, industry, revenue, size. Watson can automatically populate a table with data after digesting a policy document. But there is one major difference... between Watson and research specialist.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">What About the Contextualizing Questions?</span></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">I intended to use the video to launch a discussion about how Watson's performance compared to a live researcher? What would the future role be for Watson? A replacement for the research team or an adjunct "member" of the research team?</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Complex r<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">esearch is a dia<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">log. Researchers not only a<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">nswer questions.. they ask them<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">!<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> This "socratic dialog" helps focus the request<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">e</span>r on <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">issues <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">which provi<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">de important context for narrowing and <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">focus<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ing the research. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Without Big Data Skill<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">sets - Big Data <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Could <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Generate Big <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Noise</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Large data sets will play an i<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ncreasingly import<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ant role in <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">making new strate<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">gic insigh<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ts available to <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">law firms.</span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">As illustrated in the video <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">augmented intellig<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ence will speed the analy<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">sis once the data is identified. But someone ha<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">s</span> to select and vet the data. Information professionals possess the skillset required for making sure that "big data" is also "good data."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Here is a short list of those skills: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ability to locate the best and most appropriate data at the lowest cost </span></span></span>
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information is not of equal quality. The temptation to harvest free open
source data could put a firm at risk especially if the data were to use
used in advising clients.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ability to assess the provenance of the data. Is the data from a
primary source? Or has it been handled and altered? By whom and how?</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Expert knowledge of or ability to determine the reputation of the data source. Is it known to be a reliable source? </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ability to interview the requester and help them to define the scope and limits of their need.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ability to query the data and uncover patterns which suggest
the need to ask more questions or pursue additional lines of inquiry.<b> </b></span></span></span></li>
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-42788678287558958702017-03-16T22:10:00.000-04:002017-03-30T09:16:06.973-04:00Securities Litigation Up 23% in 2016: Insights from Lex Machina's First Securities Litigation in Review Report<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Only seven months after launching the Securities analytics module, Lex Machina has published their first Securities Litigation Year in Review Report. The report examines key trends in securities litigation using data from 2009 through 2016. It also identifies the top plaintiffs, defendants their law firms and outcomes including damages.All cases are coded into one of the five categories of litigation:<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Securities Fraud
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<li>There was a 23% increase in securities litigation in 2016 over 2015.</li>
<li>Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sacks are the top defendants</li>
<li>Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse were subject to the highest damages (($5Billion each)</li>
<li>Approved Transaction settlement resulted int more than $32,5 billion in damages.</li>
<li>25% of all securities cases were filed in the Southern District of New York.</li>
<li>Exchange Act violations are the most common cause of action.</li>
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-26584501660996125602017-03-10T12:19:00.002-05:002017-03-10T19:54:09.862-05:00Rumor of the Day: Is Ravel Law Being Bought by Lexis Nexis? Another Acquisition Without Integration?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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LexisNexis has been on an extraordinary spree -- buying up companies that are almost always the brainchild of a former lawyer and always the product of entrepreneurial inspiration and grit.<br />
The latest opportunity? target? victim? May be <a href="http://www.ravellaw.com/">Ravel Law</a>...<br />
Sources in the legal publishing industry are whispering that LexisNexis is about to acquire Ravel Law. I reached out to Daniel Lewis, CEO of Ravel Law and he politely responded with a "no comment." <br />
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This would signal that LexisNexis is trying to dominate the legal analytics market the way they have grown to dominate the legal news market. Will<a href="http://www.justly.com/"> Justly</a> be next?<br />
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<b>Lexis Content Acquisition Strategy?</b> For the past few years LexisNexis has been collecting legal content gems - <a href="http://www.law360.com/"><span style="color: #bd8222;">Law360</span></a>, <a href="http://www.lexmachina.com/"><span style="color: #bd8222;">Lex Machina</span></a>, <a href="http://www.mlex.com/"><span style="color: #bd8222;">MLex</span></a>, Knowledge Mosaic. Instead of integrating them into the massive LexisNexis organization, each company has remained a stand alone operation retaining their entrepreneurial culture, their key talent and their client relationships. The company has stated that core Lexis content is being leveraged to enhance the offering of the smaller companies. This is a reasonable short term strategy. At some point Lexis should start aligning some of the content synergies to transform the old Lexis workhorse. Are they ready to do that?<br />
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The concern I have is that Lexis is collecting without integrating and streamlining. True they were showing of a limited integration of Lex Machina and Lexis at Legal Tech. This integration allows lawyers to see some analytics with their Lexis search results.<br />
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<b>Is the "Tan Book" Litigation a Canary in the Coal Mine? Has Lexis Extended Itself Too Far?</b><br />
I remember "Total Quality Management" business guru Tom Peters once commenting that companies must have a culture of quality. Coffee stains on the airline food trays suggest there might be something wrong with engine maintenance. Maybe not logical but the <a href="http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2017/03/lexisnexis-sued-by-law-firm-alleging.html">"tan book" litigation</a> issue does raise the flag of whether Lexis as a company can maintain the quality across their extended product lines. Most baffling is that Lexis asserted in an email to me that the "color books" are being created outside of Lexis. Think about that-- they are not using the massive Lexis data streams which include updates of state statutes and regulations to assure that their annual statutory codes are kept up-do-date. I have visions of people with glue sticks pasting amended regulations over the old ones. Not a 21st century process. It begs the question "why?"<br />
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<b>Why Don't they Integrate and Build the Ultimate "Legal Research Service?"</b><br />
This is the most baffling issue to me. LexisNexis has terrific assets that if combined could be game changing.... I understand wanting to keep the revenue from all of the legacy products but there is no evidence of an intent to integrate the products into a more powerful LexisNexis platform. <br />
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Jean P. O'Grady, J.D. M.L.S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05897454471006756122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975322463843651304.post-30364040349002119132017-03-09T23:04:00.004-05:002017-03-16T18:06:13.219-04:00Upcoming Event: Has the Librarian-ship Sailed? Redefining the Profession in A Post Google World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have been invited to give the William A. Gillard Lecture at my<i> alma mater</i>, St. John's University Division of Library and Information Science.<br />
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<i> "Has the Librarian-ship Sailed? Redefining the Profession in a Post-Google World"</i> will address the dramatic impact of intelligent machines on all professions including librarianship and highlight emerging opportunities for information professionals.<br />
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<b>Date: </b> March 28, 2017<br />
<b>Time:</b> 6 pm<br />
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St. John's University<br />
D'Angelo Activity Center Room 416A<br />
8000 Utopia Parkway<br />
Queens, NY 11439<br />
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<b>Directions</b> and transit options <a href="http://www.stjohns.edu/campuses/queens-campus/directions">here</a>.<br />
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Hope some of my New York colleagues and readers can make it. <br />
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