Re-Hashing the Hash Tag – Crowd Competition and Community Standards at the #AALL2009 Conference: Roger V. Skalbeck and Meg Kribble describe how the majority of social media activity during the 2009 AALL conference took place on Twitter, and how this technology impacts the profession and the free exchange of information, moving forward. Continue Reading
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Who Represents America's Biggest Companies
AmLaw Litigation Daily: “Corporate Counsel magazine’s annual Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies survey is out this week, and it tells a familiar story: For the most part, the same giant corporations have been hiring the same giant firms, and making the same demands for alternative billing to reduce their giant fees.” Continue Reading
Report: Despite the Recession, Many High Potential Employees Jump Ship
News release: “High potential employees arent afraid to strike out for greater opportunities despite the continuing recession, according to a study of how the best and brightest of high potential talent have weathered the global recession over the past 18 months. The report released by Catalyst, Opportunity or Setback? High Potential Women and Men During… Continue Reading
Despite Law Firm Efforts, Women of Color Still Face Workplace Challenges
News release: “Are law firms putting their bottom lines at risk? According to Catalysts Women of Color in U.S. Law Firms, women of color face complex barriers compared to other groups that may significantly decrease job satisfaction and increase the intent to leave their current firmfactors that affect a firms bottom line. The study is… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Law Practice Technology Information Sources and Tools
Law Practice Technology Information Sources and Tools – Ken Strutin identifies core sources to learn about new technologies that apply to legal research and law practice. In addition, he has identified specific tools that will contribute to managing research, communication and information-based tasks. Continue Reading
American Lawyer Associates Survey 2009
Associates Survey 2009: “In our annual midlevel associates survey, third-, fourth-, and fifth-year associates rate their firms as workplaces. We examined 12 areas that contribute to job satisfaction.” To find out how third-, fourth-, and fifth-year associates rate their firms as workplaces, our annual midlevel survey examined 12 areas that contribute to job satisfaction. They… Continue Reading
Twitter 101 for Business – A Special Guide
Twitter 101 for Business: “Every day, millions of people use Twitter to create, discover and share ideas with others. Now, people are turning to Twitter as an effective way to reach out to businesses, too. From local stores to big brands, and from brick-and-mortar to internet-based or service sector, people are finding great value in… Continue Reading
Five Things Lawyers Should Know About Social Media
Five Things Lawyers Should Know About Social Media: Lawyer, writer and blogger Nicole Black advises fellow professionals about important core techniques and goals to consider before jumping on the social media bandwagon. Continue Reading
Cornell Research Study: Optimizing Web Traffic via the Media Scheduling Problem
Optimizing Web Traffic via the Media Scheduling Problem. Lars Backstrom, Jon Kleinbergy, Ravi Kumar, 15th ACM SIGKDD Intl. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2009: “Website traffic varies through time in consistent and predictable ways, with highest traffic in the middle of the day. When providing media content to visitors, it is important to… Continue Reading
Reports: Fortune 100 CEOs and Social Media
UberCEO: Fortune 100 CEOs and Social Media – “…top CEOs in the country appear to be mostly absent from the social media community. That’s the result from research we conducted over the past several weeks. We looked at Fortune’s 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs to determine how many were using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Marketing Yourself with Webinars
Marketing Yourself with Webinars – Attorney Wells H. Anderson recommends presenting periodic webinars as an effective, direct and efficient technique to attract new clients and professionals who refer business to you. Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service
The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role For Libraries – Stuart Basefsky advocates broadening the concept of institutional repositories (IRs) to serve as full-fledged electronic libraries and documents how they can then serve the greater purpose of collecting, disseminating, analyzing and exchanging useful digital information for… Continue Reading
