Remember Ravel – that cool legal research system that was ever so generously scanning every book in the Harvard Law Library to make it all available online at no cost? In yesterday’s big legal news, LEXIS announced that it had acquired Ravel, and will incorporate Ravel’s offerings – both its free Harvard caselaw file and
As part of MyShingle’s recent facelift (more on that in a subsequent post), today, we announce the launch of our online job fair. Because the entire law school recruiting process and job fairs revolve around biglaw and the handful of students these firms hire, I got to thinking that it was time for a modernized
I’ve written previously about the concept of seasonal marketing for law firms – that is, offering limited-time services that have some connection with a holiday or season. So for example, around Memorial Day or Veteran’s Day, a law firm might offer discounted services to veterans. Of course, seasonal marketing can go awry also – as
Although legal analytics are all the rage in legal research tools, for many solo and small firm practitioners, these new developments don’t yet have much relevance. For starters, many of the analytics tools are priced out of solo and small firm budgets. Moreover, many of the courts where solos and smalls practice often involve unreported
I’m not sure how I missed it, but at the end of 2015, Google formally launched Primer , a free, sleek app that delivers bite-sized marketing lessons to help companies of all sizes build their businesses. Since then, Google has continued to update the app with new tutorials for small businesses developed by national experts .
Primer covers a vast menu of topics ranging from practical – such as understanding analytics or measuring engagements – to more strategic issues such as identifying a target audience or figuring out the best approach to selling products and services. Most of the content is interactive, with mini quizzes that ask users to identify the most effective web design or domain name and then explaining the correct answers.
Earlier this week, while I was running word searches though the legislative history of a statutory provision (using Hein Online, one of the many resources available through the amazing Jenkins Law Library ), I stumbled across some language that seemed awfully familiar. When I clicked on the term, I was taken to the written testimony
In just five days, Memorial Day weekend will herald the official start of summer – though recent events may have already put a damper on your plans. For example, with a ban on laptops in airport cabins still up in the air (pun intended), you may be fretting about how you can take that long-planned
Solo and small firm lawyers are notorious for never taking vacations. Some can’t afford the cost, others believe that they can’t afford the time away from the office and some are, quite simply, workaholics. That said, here are a couple of ways for solos and smalls to enjoy the coming summer a little more without
As I observed in PART I of this post, for decades, legal research — even with later innovations – has been flat and one-dimensional, mimicking the way that lawyers once hunted for cases in hard copy case reporters and digests. But the latest version of Casetext transforms the legal research experience into something at once
In a recent tweet, Ed Walters, one of the founders of Fastcase remarked:
To gain an understanding of how we got here, and why this time around, we’re finally seeing real innovation in legal research, you think back to the early ‘90s when the first websites came online. Not only were websites hideously ugly