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The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) recently released the results of their fourth annual Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms. The survey tracks the progress of women lawyers at the nation’s 200 largest law firms and the results from this year’s survey show a troubling and continuing compensation gap between [...]
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There is nothing like a $15,000 fellowship award to make a law student’s day. This year we are happy to announce in today’s press release not one, but two winners for the 2009 LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Connected Fellowship Awards. Established through an alliance with the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), the $15,000 Fellowships celebrate the launch [...]
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The Law Librarians Blog (”LLB”) posted the first of their findings from the recent Rate Your Legal Resources Vendor Survey. In this “admittedly unscientific survey” the LLB found that LexisNexis excelled over West in both customer service and in the trustworthiness of literature about their products. Other areas were surveyed as well, which the LLB [...]
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If you are anything like me then you love your iPhone. In my opinion, what makes this device the best piece of mobile tech out there is the ability to add downloadable applications (Apps”). There are literally hundreds of thousands of them available in the App Store, many for free, which give you so many [...]
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Posted on behalf of the UK Martindale Team:
History tells us that now is the best time for any law firm to prepare for the next economic boom, argues Brian Coventry.
For law firm managing partners and marketing managers attending the recent “M-Club” seminars in Brussels and Madrid, Brian Coventry had a surprisingly up-beat message. Mr Coventry, [...]
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“I don’t have time for social media chatter “ is a claim often heard by many people, including lawyers “I don’t want to know what you had for breakfast, or that you took your dog out for a walk.” The perception of the information overload social media creates is fundamentally a misconception of social [...]
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Last week we released findings of our 2009 Networks for Counsel Survey, and it’s been gratifying to see the level of media attention those findings have generated.
Bloomberg reporter Cynthia Cotts wrote a really nice article about the survey, followed shortly thereafter by an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. A broadcast news piece aired [...]
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One year ago we worked with Vanessa DiMauro and her company, Leader Networks, to develop and field the 2008 Networks for Counsel Survey designed to study the legal industry’s use and adoption of online professional networking and social media. The survey was the first of its scope to examine the social networking practices of legal [...]
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Image by ~ Phil Moore via Flickr
A wave of texts has hit our shores this week. Hungry for knowledge and information, curious to hear our leaders’ thoughts, tips and experiences, the world’s need for some guidance on how to apply social media to business settings has not gone unnoticed by the social media world. Here [...]
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Two days ago, as Jon shared here, we released one of the biggest and most significant release in martindale.com this year, totally revising the Member Search experience, upgrading our blog platform, and enhancing many many more features on the site.
These exiting and frequent releases cycles which compose our daily work schedule, happen every few weeks [...]
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