Last July, while traveling home from the AALL Annual Meeting, I had a layover in St. Louis. During this travel break I checked Twitter from my phone to see if anything conference-related had happened while I was in the air. Well, the best I could find was a vendor who had used a hashtag that some of my friends and I had used to identify our clique that week. Full Story »

As I mentioned in my previous post, I traveled to Eagan, Minnesota (on Thomson Reuters' dime) earlier this week along with several other writers to get a sneak peek at Thomson Reuters' new legal research product, West Full Story »

Thomson Reuters invited a group of legal information professionals, writers and thinkers to Eagan, Minnesota on Monday and Tuesday for a preview of its new product, WestlawNext. I was among those who made the trip. Full Story »

Last night while grading student assignments for my legal research classes, I encountered an anomaly in the text of California Jurisprudence 3d. I'd asked students to locate a secondary source discussing California's criminal charge of Unlawful Sexual Intercourse with a Minor. (Yes, I used the Roman Polanski case for my fact pattern.) For those who chose to use Cal. Full Story »

Being on the west coast, and a late riser to boot, I often wake to discover interesting debates about library issues well underway — or even winding down — among my law librarian colleagues on Twitter. Full Story »