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OverDrive, the leading eBook and audiobook platform for schools, announced that nearly 13,000 schools and districts representing more than five million students from 41 countries have access to digital books this school year. More schools and educators...

In a book about his championship Lakers teams, basketball guru Pat Riley explained the difficulty of winning back-to-back championships by calling it the “Disease of More.” This is descriptive of the tendency of individuals on a successful...

As law librarians know, the library industry has been transitioning toward a primarily digital existence. A profession centered on managing a physical collection has shifted toward managing digital resources. Librarianship has a crisis of perception because...

This year the IBA Law Students’ Committee presented an award to a law student who has not only shown distinction in their academic achievement to date, but also shown a longstanding commitment to promoting human rights and rule of law. Read more...

E-readers rejoice: Amazon and Google are rolling out new fonts designed not only to look better on screen but to make reading easier on the eye. Both companies have developed custom fonts specifically for e-books. Read the full article from The Wall Street...

The SLA Awards and Honors Committee is seeking nominations of extraordinary individuals who have made a significant impact on, or notable strides in, the information profession and SLA. Selected nominees will be honored for their achievements at the SLA...

On October 4, 2017, the LexisNexis Legal department was awarded the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Award 2017 . This highly prestigious award recognizes the work that the Global Legal team has done to advance the Rule of Law and Access to Justice...

Boing Boing: Radical Librarianship: how ninja librarians are ensuring patrons' electronic privacy This blog post by Boing Boing tells the tale of librarians in Massachusetts and how they are working and learning about the freedom of speech and...

​ Guillaume Deroubaix, Jean Jacques Uetwiller and Nigel Roberts The Union International des Avocats (UIA) and LexisNexis celebrated their new partnership in the presence of Jean-Jacques Uetwiller, President of the IAL and Guillaume Deroubaix, LexisNexis...

Fingerprinting, watermarking and social DRM, oh my! Framed in the context of the release of Digimarc Guardian Watermarking for Publishing, this Copyright and Technology blog post by GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies discusses the practical differences...

The ABA recently conducted the 2014 Legal Technology Survey Report . One finding was that half of all firms allow access to firm networks from personal mobile devices. Perhaps interesting too is the finding that nearly 1/3 of firms allow access to their...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team You’re in a police cell. It’s dark, and it reeks of sweat and urine. If you’re lucky, you aren’t hurt. Even if you are injured, provided it’s not serious, you might have...

On Thursday, December 8 th , Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Ian McDougall spoke on a panel at the World Bank’s Law, Justice and Development global forum. The panel addressed Working Smart in Second Generation Rule of Law Assistance...

Agreement provides exclusive third-party aggregation rights for critical legal news and information ALM , a leader in specialized news and information for the legal, consulting, insurance, finance and real estate industries, and LexisNexis® Legal...

When a new e-reader is released people normally don’t upgrade to the latest and greatest every year. Certainly e-paper technology does not improve at the breakneck speed that smartphones and tablets do. e-Readers are one of those things that receive...

"Wearables" are coming...or are they already here? Law Technology News reports that an estimated 90 million wearable mobile devices will make there way into our lives in 2014. Are there a uses for this technology for lawyers? Other legal...

At a press conference in the Vatican on Wednesday, a new online digital library was launched, offering access to over a thousand papal documents on communications from the first to the twenty-first century. The initiative, known as the Baragli Project...

Textbook makers, bookstore owners and college student surveys all say millennials still strongly prefer print for pleasure and learning, a bias that surprises reading experts given the same group’s proclivity to consume most other content digitally...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Steve Jobs once quoted Wayne Gretzky: “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” Both men showed that you could beat bigger, faster, and more powerful opponents by...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Thomas Edison was an astute businessman. He is repeatedly credited for things he did not actually invent , which by itself attests to his capacity for improving on the impractical or undeveloped ideas...

There are certainly a lot of misconceptions about ebooks—that they can’t be nicely-designed, that they are worth less than print, that reading them is a “less-than” experience. None of these things are true. But they will become...

A digital platform that makes cultural and literature works available to anyone with an internet connection will grow its collection to include materials from all 50 states by 2017, thanks to $3.4 million in grants from Miami’s John S. and James...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Is there a different solution you would recommend? Be sure to add your comments at the end of the article . There are plenty of quirky laws in America. For example, in Maryland, you are not allowed...

LexisNexis Legal & Professional EVP and General Counsel Ian McDougall, was privileged to have the opportunity to address Harvard Law School students on the importance of the Rule of Law at Harvard University earlier this week. Ian was asked to speak...

More and more reading we do today is from a screen, and increasingly those screens are on smart phones or tablets. Another thing that changes is peoples' eyesight. Over time, we all experience some degree of change in our eyesight. A story today...