Subscription Update for Legal
Jinfo Blog

By Candace Cathey

Abstract

FreePint provides articles and reports on the latest trends for researchers in business, competitive intelligence, and knowledge management. This also includes legal information professionals who are managing and embracing change in law and in this blog we highlight relevant information on FreePint's Content, Community and Consulting.

Item

Content (Articles, Reports and Webinars)

Information professionals in the legal sector work in a variety of settings: law firms, courts, and academia and corporate in-house. They work closely with each other by attending conferences and events and viewing webinars to learn the latest trends in research, news, budget, content and news. 

FreePint's recent coverage of this area includes:

• Specialist News Offerings in the Legal Sector, an in-depth article on the most relevant resources law firms use to monitor news. James Mullan mentions products information professionals can use to monitor, index and disseminate news from sources such as Linex and Lexology

• In addition and continuation, Mullan points out in News in the Legal Landscape how law firms can find ways to monitor manage and disseminate news in a competitive market

• In Legal Research Apps Under the FreePint Lens, John DiGilio introduces FreePint's upcoming reviews of some of the most popular mobile applications for legal research as well as giving an insight into Reed Smith, his employer, and why this law firm has mobile apps firmly in its sights; John will be reviewing a number of mobile apps for the legal industry in the coming weeks

• There are existing, alternative and effective technology solutions legal professionals and law firms can operate such as LinkedIn, intranets and established developments including SharePoint, and James Mullan looks at existing technologies as well as looking ahead at nascent developments

• Business information consultant Andrew Lucas provided a product review of LexisNexis Publisher. The professional awareness solution allows access to LexisNexis via portals, websites, and provides critical information for those in corporate, legal, government, marketing and competitive intelligence

• In December 2014, LexisNexis released the newly enhanced Nexis to the US (UK users had it a few months earlier). Some of the enhancements included a refreshed interface and streamlined navigation, exclusion options, easier company selection, new results page view and more. Product review by Jan Knight

• Robyn Smith conducted a product review of global patent database Minesoft PatBase. Part one is an introduction of parent company Minesoft Ltd and the general audience is mainly intellectual property information professionals who conduct research on PatBase to retrieve patent information. Part two is a continuation, reviewing content and cover including more than 48 million patent family records in the database. Technology and value will be explored in later sections.

Information managers in the UK legal industry can listen to the recorded webinar, UK Legal Publishing Trends and Needs, presented by FreePint's director of research, Robin Neidorf. The one-hour session focuses on FreePint's original research into purchasing trends and needs in UK law firms.

An upcoming webinar in March, titled What We Learned about "News and Beyond", discusses questions on news and learning practical strategies. The 20-minute session is offered on multiple dates through the month. A guest voucher enables non-customers to register: enter "NEWS2015" on the registration form for guest access.

Legal information professionals can register for the webinar "News Strategy in Law Firms - A Perfect Storm of Sources, Technology and Value". The session will cover challenges, risks and strategies on delivering news content in the legal industry. The webinar takes place on March 23rd and 24th, and is restricted to FreePint Subscribers and registered guests. 

Community

As part of the FreePint Topic Series, "Making Information Visible" which delves into information discovery, an online teleconference for information managers (buyers) looks at the three essential components for making information visible: technology, content and user behaviour. Register here for the session on 12th March (10th March session now full). 

Consulting

FreePint has conducted market research on legal purchasing for several vendors, primarily in the United Kingdom. One of our goals is to help buyers and sellers of content and data better understand each others' perspectives, pain points and emerging needs. As a result, a recent consulting project resulted in the creation of an in-person workshop in October 2014 for law librarians, hosted by a vendor we had worked with on research.

User groups, workshops, needs analysis and other short-term consulting projects are an excellent forum in which librarians and information vendors can collaborate on the direction we'd all like to see the industry go.

A FreePint Subscription at the Content level gives access to all FreePint articles, reports and webinars, at the Community level gives access to all FreePint Communities of Practice (as well as all FreePint Content), and at the Consulting level adds a credit for up to six hours of annual consulting time. Find out more.

« Blog