Slaw
A blog by and for the legal research and IT community in Canada. The name "Slaw" was chosen in deference to Salon and Slate and because "there's the notion that a cooperative weblog with many contributors is bound to consist of a great many (nutritious) small pieces in rather a jumble."
Author: This is a group blog, with Simon Fodden listed as the administrator. "Core contributors," all from Canada, include Steve Matthews, who authors Vancouver Law Librarian Blog and VLLB Linkblog and created Florida Lawyers Blog Watch and Law Firm Web Strategy; Jordan Furlong, who also authors Law21; Agnese Caruso, a research specialist at Tax Research Centre, PwC Management Services, in Toronto; David Cheifetz practices at Bennett Best Burn in Toronto; Simon Chester is a partner at Heenan Blaikie in Toronto; Connie Crosby is a consultant at Crosby Group Consulting in Toronto and also authors Connie Crosby and Connie Crosby Links; Elizabeth Ellis is a partner at Torys in Toronto; Dominic Jaar is counsel at Beaudin Legault, Bell Canada's legal department in Montréal; Mark Lewis is reference/information technology librarian at the Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University; Michael Lines is faculty and student services librarian at the Diana M. Priestly Law Library at the University of Victoria; Michel-Adrien Sheppard is reference librarian at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario and also authors Library Boy; Ted Tjaden is director of knowledge management at McMillan Binch Mendelsohn in Toronto; and Evan VanDyk is a law clerk at the Ontario Court of Appeal in Toronto.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Libraries • Law Practice Management • Legal Technology • International • North America • Canada • Dalhousie Law School • University of Victoria • Consultant • Librarian • Partner • Solo / Small Firm • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Slaw
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The Security of Judicial Information
On electronic discovery issues we tend to focus on the early stages – identification and preservation. But what happens at the end of the process? After all, the purpose of electronic discovery is to help…
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Kudos to Burnet, Duckworth: Put the Boots to Hunger
As Calgarians head into the Stampede, today’s Globe and Mail notes that the partners at Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer have decided to make a donation to their local food bank rather than hold their annual…
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More Federal Expenditures from Public Accounts volume III
Since Steve pointed the way, Slaw readers might well be interested to see from the Public Accounts volume III that Justice Canada appears to be a Lexis shop rather than a Westlaw-ECarswell. Page 71 of…
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DOJ Spends Over 24M in 2008
Thanks to a couple of well placed FOI requests & investigative journalism by Robert Todd over at the Legal Times, we now know that the DOJ spent over 24 million on outside counsel in 2008.…
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The Friday Fillip
The Beeb, home to much that is creative, has done it again. They’re hosting a site called Memoryshare, the title to which pretty much tells it all. The simple notion is that viewers log in…
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The Mobile Lawyer
We’ve talked about virtual law offices before here on Slaw. Well here’s a fellow who has an office but perhaps doesn’t use it much: click to see full image No, he’s not in Alabama. He’s…
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Court Room Furniture
Courts hold sittings — which demand chairs, for everyone except witnesses at least. Yet it’s surprising (okay: only mildly) how little attention gets paid to courtroom furniture, as if bums would be happy in any…
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Updates on KM in Law Firms
Two recent interesting articles on knowledge management in law firms you might find useful: Knowledge management: The number of knowledge management lawyers is on the rise, but the field is still working out some kinks…
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And How Does That Make You FEEL?
Synesketch feels your pain, and expresses it as an abstract drawing. Just feed it some text to start it off. Synesketch is a result of a research that spreads out through several diverse fields –…
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Michigan Supreme Court bans jury tweets
Hat tip to the National Law Journal for this news: The Michigan Supreme Court has laid the hammer down on gadget-happy jurors in banning all electronic communications by jurors during trial, including tweets on Twitter,…