LawSites: “The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility today issued a formal ethics opinion providing guidance on virtual law practices. The opinion (Formal Opinion 498) makes clear that the Model Rules of Professional Conduct permit lawyers to conduct their practices virtually, but it urges caution, competence and diligence with regard to… Continue Reading
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The Richest Law Firms Are Hiring More Partners After Record 2020
Bloomberg Law: “Welcome back to the Big Law Business column on the changing legal marketplace written by me, Roy Strom. This week, we look at how the richest firms are bulking up their hiring strategies after a record year. Sign up to receive this column in your inbox on Thursday mornings. It was mid-August when… Continue Reading
Political Polarization: Challenges, Opportunities, and Hope for Consumer Welfare
Journal of Public Policy and Marketing [paywall] EXPRESS: Political Polarization: Challenges, Opportunities, and Hope for Consumer Welfare, Marketers, and Public Policy Show. T.J. Weber, Chris Hydock, William Ding. First Published January 12, 2021. “Political polarization is a marked political division in the population, characterized by multiple manifestations. We argue that it can impact consumer psychology,… Continue Reading
Emerging Roles for Libraries in Bibliometric and Research Impact Analysis
Hanging Together – the OCLC Research Blog: Lessons Learned from the University of Waterloo – “Library support for bibliometrics and research impact (BRI) analysis is a growing area of library investment and service. Not just in the provision of services to researchers, but for the institutions themselves, which increasingly need to quantify research impact for… Continue Reading
2021 Report on the State of the Legal Market
“The 2021 Report on the State of the Legal Market, issued January 12, 2021 by the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center and the Thomson Reuters Institute, concludes that “2020 may in retrospect be seen as an important inflection point for the redesign of the delivery of legal services… Continue Reading
The Next Social Media Frontier For Lawyers: Clubhouse
Via LLRX – The Next Social Media Frontier For Lawyers: Clubhouse – Clubhouse is an audio chat platform that is available as an iOS app and is invite only for now. It consists of user-created drop-in audio chat rooms. You can form your own chat room or join rooms created by others. These chat rooms… Continue Reading
Keynote: AI Transformation – Competing in the Age of AI #KMWorld
Via LLRX – Keynote: AI Transformation – Competing in the Age of AI #KMWorld – Knowledge sharing, social media and knowledge management expert V. Mary Abraham shares her readout and impressions of this timely and impactful keynote presented by Marco Iansiti, Harvard Business School Professor of Business Administration, and Coauthor of Competing in the Age… Continue Reading
How to Add a Link to an Instagram Story – 7 Inventive Ways
Bulkly – “There’s no way you haven’t heard of Instagram Stories; easily one of the biggest social media features in the world for both personal and social users and businesses alike. With the average Instagram user now using the IG app for an extra ten minutes, on average, since the introduction of the feature, this… Continue Reading
Do your neighbors want to get vaccinated?
MIT Technology Review: “As the coronavirus vaccines have rolled out across the US, the process has been confusing and disastrous. States, left by the federal government to fend for themselves, have struggled to get a handle on the logistics of distribution. Many, including Georgia, Virginia, and California, have fallen woefully behind schedule. But even if… Continue Reading
This is how America gets its vaccines
MIT Technology Review: The Biden administration has inherited a web of tech systems and policies that it must navigate to meet its goal of administering 100 million doses in the first 100 days. After just a week in office, the Biden administration is already under immense public pressure to fix America’s mangled vaccine rollout. Operation… Continue Reading
Surprise Ending for Publishers: In 2020, Business Was Good
The New York Times – “With people stuck at home and so many other activities shut down, a lot of reading — or at least a lot of book buying — happened this year. ” Like everybody else, book publishers will be happy to see the end of 2020. But for many of them, the… Continue Reading
Google launches Question Hub for US publishers
Search Engine Land: “Google Question Hub, accessible at questionhub.withgoogle.com, is now open for US-based publishers to sign up for. In 2018, Google launched Question Hub in regions where the company found it did not have enough content in its search index to answer searchers’ questions. Google then started showing this box to searchers last year… Continue Reading
