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185 ABA Journal Law Libraries articles.

Your Law Librarian Is Watching: ‘Hot Stuff’ Tracking Software Can Cut Costs

An increasing number of law firms are cutting their law library budgets, spurring some librarians to buy new usage tracking software to make decisions about resources.

Forty-six percent of law…

Tired of Paying for PACER Docs? Princeton Group Offers Alternative

Many federal courts make their case documents readily available online—for a price. And even though it’s only 8 cents a page, that can quickly add up for frequent users.

As…

Brick, Mortar, and High-Tech

In an age where law students are more familiar with digital books than bound ones, Pennsylvania State Uni­versity’s Dickinson School of Law is spending up to $140 million on two…

Finding Accurate Law Text Online Nearly Impossible, Panelists Say #ABAChicago

It sounded easy.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s counsel, Denley Chew, slapped down some $2 bills and challenged a room of lawyers and legal researchers with laptops and iPhones…

Users Ask Federal Courts to Improve PACER Document Access System

Led by a librarian from Stanford Law School, users are petitioning the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts in an effort to seek improvements in the PACER court…

Library of Congress to Archive All Sotomayor Confirmation Tweets

The Library of Congress intends to compile all tweets about U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor during the confirmation process.

The LOC announcement was made—where else?—in a tweet today on…

CasemakerX: New Social Network for Law Students

A new social network for law students has been announced by Lawriter, a subsidiary of Collexis Holdings Inc.

The free CasemakerX site will be launched this fall, as…

Advocacy Groups Among Contributors to New Legal Docs Database

About 200 lawyers and legal organizations have contributed legal documents to a website that launched at the end of February.

Contributors to the site, JDSupra.com, include the Electronic…

Law Firms Downsize Libraries, But Still Need Them

With the advent of Internet legal research, law firms have downsized their law libraries. But they still need them for some purposes.

Among them: providing a repository for materials that…

New Public Website for Lawyers: ‘Give Content. Get Noticed.’

Two years ago, as attorney Aviva Cuyler was working late, night after night, drafting and responding to motions in a demanding case, she had a brain flash.…

Reed Elsevier to Buy ChoicePoint for $4.1B

Legal publisher Reed Elsevier has announced an agreement to buy database company ChoicePoint Inc. for $4.1 billion in cash.

Reed…

Thomson Gets Antitrust Approval for Reuters Purchase

The U.S. Justice Department and antitrust regulators in Europe have approved legal publisher Thomson Corp.’s $17 billion acquisition of Reuters, provided that the company sells certain financial…

WSJ Law Blog Writer Passes Torch

Peter Lattman is passing the torch as the primary author of the Wall Street Journal Law Blog.

After two years on the assignment, he is moving to another beat at…

Blawg 100 Like TypePad & Blogger

Many of the law blogs listed in a recent ABA Journal cover story featuring 100 such sites reportedly used the same software and platforms.

TypePad and MoveableType,…

Fee Arb Bars Legal Malpractice Suit

A divorce client who unsuccessfully contests her matrimonial counsel’s bill in arbitration can’t then turn around and sue for malpractice over the legal fees the law firm charged her, a…

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