185 ABA Journal Law Libraries articles.
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…
Sep 2, 2009 12:56 PM CDT
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…
Aug 14, 2009 6:34 PM CDT
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…
Aug 2, 2009 2:50 AM CDT
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…
Jul 31, 2009 6:38 PM CDT
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…
Jun 23, 2009 10:27 PM CDT
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…
Jun 18, 2009 10:01 PM CDT
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…
Aug 6, 2008 3:36 PM CDT
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…
Apr 28, 2008 4:52 PM CDT
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…
Mar 7, 2008 5:43 PM CST
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.…
Feb 26, 2008 3:17 PM CST
Legal publisher Reed Elsevier has announced an agreement to buy database company ChoicePoint Inc. for $4.1 billion in cash.
Reed…
Feb 21, 2008 6:22 PM CST
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…
Feb 21, 2008 3:07 PM CST
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…
Feb 5, 2008 10:28 PM CST
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,…
Jan 15, 2008 11:50 PM CST
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…
Nov 20, 2007 9:26 PM CST
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