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Lexis Nexis's Judy Vezmar To Take Responsibility For Lexis Nexis Australia
Written by Sean Hocking

An interesting update from one of our Canadian sources has come through this week.......

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SLAW Says "Vagueness Not An Acceptable Standard"
Written by Sean Hocking

Gary Rodrigues  posted an article to the SLAW blog network on on December 29th arguing that ....

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Law Librarians Blog Reaches 4th Birthday
Written by Sean Hocking

Just a quick note of congratulations to the US based..

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CLIG (UK) To Present Workshop On Information Units & The Credit Crisis
Written by Sean Hocking

The UK City Legal Information Group is presentin a workshop on 27 January entitled...

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Law Librarian Arrested For Robbing Attorney's Home
Written by Sean Hocking

A perfect story to start HOB's 2009 reporting.  California's Lompoc Record ( Santa Barbara) reports that the  law librarian at…Read more...

Kevin O'Keefe Blogs On Martindale Issues
Written by Sean Hocking

Kevin O'Keefe of legal blog network LexBlog has a few interesting things to say about Martindale...

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More On Martindale & Ratings
Written by Sean Hocking

Just for records sake here is a links to an article highlighting Martindale's response to the news that they had sacked members of their law firm…Read more...

Martindale Hubbell Fights Back
Written by Sean Hocking

Now Martindale Hubbell say they aren't getting rid of their lawyer ratings service..

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The Blawggies For 2008
Written by Sean Hocking

Dennis Kennedy awards his annual Blawggies..

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Martindale Hubbell's AV Rating System Dead As A Dodo
Written by Sean Hocking

It seems fitting that the year is ending with yet another blow to the once mighty MH empire..

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Pdf : The Case For Collaborative Tools
Written by Sean Hocking

This presentation subtitled " Long Distance Teamwork On A Shoestring Budget" authored by Lucie Olejnikova  and Jessica de Perio…Read more...

Nominate For Best Canadian Legal Blogs
Written by Sean Hocking

Steve Matthews of Stem Legal writes:

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Pageflakes.com Legal Feeds Page
Written by Sean Hocking

It's a little bit messy for us but worth a look at..

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All The Westlaw Updates in 2008
Written by Sean Hocking

Thanks to BIALL for highlighting this page  at the UK Westlaw site..

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Legal: Fragile Ecosystem
Written by Sean Hocking

We like this post from Law21 that popped into our inbox yesterday..

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Latest Globalex Research Guides
Written by Sean Hocking

Usually we'd publish this in LLN/eu but as we aren't publishing until January here is the latest on Globalex Research Guides

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Webcast: What Publishers Need To Know About Digitization
Written by Sean Hocking

We just came across this you tube video posted on the Law Librarian Blog..

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Social Media & Business In 2009
Written by Sean Hocking

We wrote our editorial in LLN/eu yesterday .. and although it wasn't quite as evangalistic as the following... 

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Tennessee State Supreme Court To Close 3 Libraries
Written by Sean Hocking

We know this is a fairly localised piece of news but it's the first we've seen of multiple state funded law libraries closing in the US.. we…Read more...

Lexis Nexis Layoff Staff In Asia Pacific
Written by Sean Hocking

We've been contacted by a source in Hong Kong who has revealed to us that..

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The American Association of Publishers Publishes Latest Monthly Book Publishing Data
Written by Sean Hocking

We just received the following data from the BNP Paribas professional publishing research division..

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ABA's 2nd Annual Legal Blog 100
Written by Sean Hocking

Ok we didn't make it into their list..but it's worth a quick look.

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Austlii Release Two New Products
Written by Sean Hocking

We've just learnt via the PLLAO list that Austlii..

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SLAW Publishes Article: Dialogue on the future of legal publishing: Is it time?
Written by Sean Hocking

At long last somebody else is asking the same as us.. and we're not surprised that it's SLAW one of the few blogs/networks of individuals…Read more...

As Times Get Tougher How Will LII Fare
Written by Sean Hocking

We just came across this instructive post on UL LIS News...

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PRC Authorities Tightly Control Sanlu Trial

An unsurprising but interesting post from China  Digital Times highlighting the fact that the..

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ANZ Bank Looking For New Head Of Legal For NE Asia

We noticed that this vacancy was posted Christmas eve..for this new HK based position...

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Indian LPO's To Benefit From US Trouble Asset Relief Proposal (TARP)

CIOL India has yet another report on how the Indian LPO industry will yet again benefit from the economic downturn in the US.

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Sanlu Enters Bankruptcy Process In PRC

Sanlu, the Chinese company at the centre of the melamine milk contamination disaster is facing tough times ahead with executives in the dock and…Read more...

China Drafts Law On Social Insurance

China Daily has reported that the country's  top legislature made public on Sunday a new draft law on social insurance, the first of its kind…Read more...

China's King & Wood Plans Merger With Swiss Firm SG Fafalen

We noticed a few weeks back that there were hints of China's biggest law firm creating a JV with a European or US law firm..

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Can the Law Prevent Another Financial Crisis?

Philip Wood, Allen & Overy's (UK) Special Global Counsel,has published an article debating whether the law can prevent another…Read more...

Law 21 Publishes Post On Changes Coming To The Legal Industry

In our opinion Jordan Furlong of Canadian Law Blog  ... Law 21 is becoming the most interesting legal blogger out there. Here is his…Read more...

Conference: Experiential Education In Chinese Law Schools

The University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in conjunction with the China University of Political Science and Law, is …Read more...

Another US Firm Fails

The third US law firm in as many months has announced it will be closing its doors in early 2009..

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Clifford Chance In Talks With Indian Firm

The Indian Economic Times is reporting that Clifford Chance.....

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Legal Recruiting To Contract In China in 2009

The Recruiting in China blog has just posted an article saying that legal recruiting boom times in China are over for the moment..

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Financing New Ventures in China - Regulatory Changes and Implications for Foreign Investors

Jing Li  of the Tilburg University  Faculty of Law has published the following paper to SSRN..

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Litigation The Future For Law Firms In Asia

A piece in the Am Law Daily published Friday suggests..

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USA Law Firm Layoff Tracker

Law Shucks blog has employed i- charts technology to create a chart (bar table) showing

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Washington Post Publishes Article: "In China, Justice in Reverse"

James V. Feinerman a professor at Georgetown Law School and co-director of its Asian Law and Policy Studies program has published the following…Read more...

Norwegian Centre for Human Rights Presents Seminar On Rule Of Law Development In China.

We doubt many of you will be in Oslo mid January.....but... for the record.

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Wang Jing & Co (China) Produce End Of Year China IP Report

We've taken to reporting Wang & Jing's concise pdf reports on IP issues in the PRC. Here's their end of year round up and links to the full…Read more...

End of Year Story: The Year's Strangest Cases

One advantage of the Times (UK) being owned by News Corp is that they aren't scared at the end of the year to have a few top tens...

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Postcard: More Legal Jobs Go In The States

Not much of a surpise really. Although doing it just before Christmas seems more than unfair to those concerned.

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ALB Articles Says Business Still Strong For HK Firms In PRC

This article published by ALB yesterday is well worth a quick read...

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Mumbai Lawyer Says He Will Take On Terror Suspect

This story reported by ABC News (America) gives one faith in the dedication of some of those in the legal profession..

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HK & Singapore Law Socities Extend Helping Hand To Members

Here's a nice un-scrooge like Christmas story to warm the cockles of your heart...

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