Honestly, after what was a pretty hectic first day of LXBN’s LegalTech New York 2012 coverage, I simply forgot to put together yesterday’s roundup. But, we’re back today, and we have 162 posts from LexBlog Network. Let’s get right into it. Hung Jury in Trial of Second Group in the FCPA Sting Cases Means Mistrial… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: January 2012
LXBN TV at ALM’s LegalTech Show
LexBlog, in partnership with ALM (American Lawyer Media), is providing coverage of ALM’s LegalTech Show in New York this week. Using the LexBlog Network, LXBN, allows ALM to extend the reach of its LegalTech show beyond the walls of the conference center to LexBlog’s Network of over 7,000 lawyers around the world and to the… Continue Reading
Reed Elsevier denies reports that LexisNexis is for sale
Salamander Davoudi (@sdavoudi) of the Financial Times reports that publishing giant, Reed Elsevier, denies reports that LexisNexis is for sale. Management intends to pursue only small-scale merger and acquisition activity within its five divisions over the next 12 months, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans, and has no plans to sell its… Continue Reading
It’s not the consumers job to know what they want
That quote from Steve Jobs in a story entitled ‘The Yin and the Yang of Corporate Innovation‘ by Steve Lohr (@SteveLohr) in the New York Times this morning. Lohr was commenting on the different ways Apple and Google have historically approached innovation. The Google model relies on rapid experimentation and data. The company constantly refines… Continue Reading
Could LexisNexis and Thomson Reuter legal publishing model go up in smoke?
Tim Worstall (@worstall), a fellow at the Adam Institute in London, predicts in Forbes that Elsevier’s publishing model might be about to go up in smoke. Academic publishing is a very good game indeed if you can manage to get into it. As the publisher the work is created at the expense of others, for… Continue Reading
Search versus social : What’s preferable source of traffic for law blog?
Fred Wilson, a New York City Venture Capitalist and top notch blogger, writes this morning that many websites get more traffic from social than search. For Wilson’s blog, AVC – musings of a venture capitalist in New York, social is the hands down winner. …[I]f we break the top ten into three categories, direct is… Continue Reading
Social leads the pack in most trusted media
Brian Reich, SVP and Global Editor, Edelman, (@brianreich) reports social leads the pack when it comes to trusted sources of media. Referencing Edelman’s 2012 Trust Barometer: Social-networking, micro-blogging, and content-sharing sites (Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr) witnessed the most dramatic percentage increase as trusted sources of information about a company, rising by 88, 86, and 75… Continue Reading
New blogs joining the LexBlog Network for the week of 1/23-1/27
Another week flies by and it’s once again time to look back at the publications joining the LexBlog Network. We have one firm giving their blog a new look and a new name while another launches their first on the LexBlog Network. And, again, be sure to follow along on LXBN as we cover LegalTech New York… Continue Reading
Twitter to censor content by country
As reported by the Wall Street Journal’s Loretta Chao (@lorettac) and Amir Efrati (@Amir_Efrati), Twitter is going to exercise Twitter’s ability to to withhold content from users in a specific countries while keeping it available to the rest of the world. The effort underscores thorny issues for Internet companies as their websites become more global… Continue Reading
I will be in NYC next week : Welcome meeting you
I’ll be New York City next week, Sunday the 29th, evening through Friday, February the 3rd, afternoon. LexBlog, as a marketing partner of ALM’s, is providing coverage of ALM’s LegalTech Show on our LXBN Network. I’ll also be talking to law firms at LegalTech about the effective use of social media as well as meeting… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : January 26, 2012
The NLRB is once again chiming in on social media and Jason Shinn has his thoughts on their second official advisory report on the subject. Also, again, we have LegalTech New York coverage on LXBN; here’s Charlie Magliato of Biscom on data breaches and the many challenges surrounding data transfers in the legal industry. NLRB Releases Second… Continue Reading
ABA Committee : State ethics rules on advertising may not apply to blogs and social networking
The ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services is proposing changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (pdf) to take into account, among other things, the status of law blogs and social networks. Rule 7.1 (Attorney Advertising) and Comment 1 to the rule currently provide: A lawyer shall not make a… Continue Reading
Law blogs influence in-house counsel decisions on which law firm to hire : Survey reports
The 2012 In-House Counsel New Media Engagement Survey conducted by Greentarget, a strategic communications firm, InsideCounsel, a magazine serving general counsel, and the Zeughauser Group, legal industry consultants, includes powerful evidence on the impact of law blogs. Blogs, Executed Well, Influence Hiring of Outside Counsel: Seventy-six percent of respondents say they attribute some level of… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : January 25, 2012
Wednesday was another big day on the LexBlog Network as we hit a whopping 173 posts for the day. Also, if you’re at all interested in the details of the Costa Concordia shipwreck, really make sure you check out Cruise Law News—besides the post below, Jim Walker also has a recording of a ridiculous call between… Continue Reading
LexBlog kicks off its LegalTech New York coverage over on LXBN
I am excited to announce LexBlog’s extended coverage of LegalTech New York 2012 is off and running over on LXBN, with a LegalTech channel that will feature curated blog posts and video interviews with of presenters, exhibitors and attendees. To get things started, we begin with remote Skype interviews like those you’ve already seen on… Continue Reading