Entries from April 2009

April 27, 2009

Black’s Law Dictionary goes Mobile!

Black’s Law Dictionary is now available as an iPhone app! This is the first iPhone app from West, and they promise in this blog post that more will be coming.
To learn more about the app and its development, click here.

April 22, 2009

Vendor News and New Resources

LexisNexis/Reed Elsevier

Reed Elsevier Names New Chairman
LexisNexis Releases Technology Gap Survey
LexisNexis Agrees to Settlement with Florida AG
LexisNexis Sues Data Mining Pioneer Henry Asher
LexisNexis Officially Launches Martindale-Hubbell Connected

Thomson/Reuters

Westlaw Business Expands: Introducing Securities-UK Center
300,000-PlusĀ  Headnotes Reclassified
One Year Later: Thomson Reuters, Legal
Law Professors Sue West; Say Sham Pocket Part Identified Them as Authors

Other News and Resources

CCH Revamps Tax Research [...]

April 15, 2009

Happy National Library Week!

Further proof of the importance of libraries in our culture? When Entertainment Weekly wishes everyone a happy National Library Week!
Enjoy the clips, and have a great week!

April 13, 2009

Seeking Advice…

This letter to the Jobs page recently appeared in a Washington post advice column:
I’m in middle management at a small law firm. Of every three associates we hire, we inevitably part with two within a year. The pattern is always the same: The associate is hired, struggles with his hours for the first few months, [...]

April 3, 2009

Are you a hero?

Not everyone can be a hero, and when I saw the high scores that some have achieved…I knew I never would be.
Have some fun this Friday by playing Shopping Cart Hero…although not at work of course!