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11 Mar

March 11, 2019

We are living in a golden-age of new uses for old film. The growing appearance of old film in new media has prompted interest in its uses and effects. In fact, CBS Sunday Morning recently featured a story on the "golden…

11 Mar

March 11, 2019

Effective collaboration is a necessity and goal in every organization. Get it right, and you gain a strong operational and competitive advantage. Mess it up, and the consequences could be dire. As a growing company with a highly distributed workforce,…

05 Mar

March 5, 2019

If you peruse the LAC Group blog, you'll see many articles on the growing need for law firm librarians to demonstrate their value. My colleague Ron Friedmann, a highly-respected expert in legal technology and knowledge management, recently presented on how…

01 Mar

March 1, 2019

The 2019 Knowledge Management (KM) Summit was a meeting of senior knowledge management professionals from large US, UK, and Canadian law firms. I organized the event with KM consultant Mary Abraham and Chief Knowledge Officer Oz Benamram from White &…

19 Feb

February 19, 2019

On Friday February 8th, LAC Group sponsored and presented at Catholic University’s Bridging the Spectrum Symposium for the fourth consecutive year. We’re always proud to support this day-long conference for working professionals and students to share their knowledge from across…

12 Feb

February 12, 2019

Everyone is familiar with the age-old adage that “information is power.” I will tweak that to read, “Information is both power—and profit.” And that will be the theme of my upcoming session at the Ark library conference on February 21…

06 Feb

February 6, 2019

One of the ways that LAC Group’s librarians and information scientists add value to our clients is through their advice and recommendations for improvements. An example of this is the work of Acquisitions Metadata Librarian Amanda Xu, on assignment at…

04 Feb

February 4, 2019

Many law firms focus primarily on the managing partner or the management committee when it comes to succession planning and leave the various departments to work with human resources or to fend for themselves when it comes to planning for…

23 Jan

January 23, 2019

As 2019 gets underway, law firm librarians find themselves at a crossroads. The explosion of technology, the downsizing or elimination of library space and the new normal of fewer and leaner Big Law firms likely means that law librarians will…