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If Supply Grows Faster Than Demand,…

Sometimes it’s the quiet, seemingly unremarkable, things that  ultimately rear up and bite you.   Here may, or may not, be one. Let’s start with this chart from Thomson Reuters redoubtable annual Report on the State of the US Legal Market (here, the 2024 edition... read more +

“Given Enough Eyeballs, All Bugs Are Shallow”

by | Nov 4, 2004 | 0 Comments

So said the famous Eric Raymond about quality control in open-source software. And thanks to a reader who took pity on me for my screed against IE and suggested a fix, it is now rendering correctly.  Rick (and you know who you are), guest-blogging privileges any...

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Bill Gates, Master of the Dystunctional Universe

by | Nov 3, 2004 | 0 Comments

Some readers have emailed that Internet Explorer does not seem willing to display some graphics on this site.  (It also offsets the calendar archive, but that's relatively minor.)  I have two reactions:  First of all, the site renders correctly under...

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EDD: Look Who’s Not Coming to Dinner

by | Nov 3, 2004 | 3 Comments

Electronic Data Discovery may, according to this piece, harbor a rich, hidden revenue and profit opportunity for firms—just bring the capability to perform EDD in-house. Would that it were so simple.  My instincts to reject grafting this foreign body into a...

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“Knowledge Counsel Forum” Recap: One Man’s View

by | Nov 1, 2004 | 0 Comments

Thanks to the good folks at Baker Robbins & Co., I was able to guest-blog the Knowledge Counsel Forum here in New York this past Thursday and Friday, October 28 and 29.  Rather than act as a virtual transcriber of the mountain of information presented, I will...

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“Adam Smith, Esq.” In Orange and Black (Not Halloween)

by | Oct 31, 2004 | 0 Comments

My Princeton classmate, outstanding friend, strategic thinker par excellence, and all-around consigliere Malcolm Ryder, now with Pilot Software in Mountain View, schemed without my knowledge to get the following into the Princeton Alumni Weekly's class notes: MALCOLM...

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