Emerging Technology
Breakfast
SLA Legal Division
June 5, 2007
Program
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Welcome
Thank you sponsors
Introduce speakers
Nina Platt
Thomas Fleming
Nathan Rosen
Closing
Advanced Productivity Software
Program sponsor
http://www.aps-soft.com/
Scott Mulka
Director of
Marketing
Advanced
Productivity
Software
800-783-9231
Ext. 114
FactSet program sponsor
www.factset.com
Transforming Information into intelligence
Tom Quinn
FactSet Research Systems Inc.
toquinn@factset.com
(212) 973-5703
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business sponsor
www.wolterskluwer.com
Betsy Klampert, MLS, JD
Legal Training Consultant / New York
betsy.klampert@wolterskluwer.com
Nina Platt
Nina Platt
Principal/Consultant
Nina Platt Consulting
7210 165th St E
Prior Lake, MN 55372
612-280-4204
nplatt@ninaplatt.com
Thomas Fleming
Thomas B. Fleming
Director of Information Resources Management
Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP
1900 Avenue of the Stars, 7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067-4308
310-201-3519
TBF@JMBM.com
Nathan Rosen
Nathan Rosen, VP
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
General Counsel/Legal & Compliance Department
One Madison Avenue, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10010-3629
Phone 212 325-5672
nathan.rosen@credit-suisse.com
Wikis heavily cited in legal
materials
• Wikipedia widely discussed & cited heavily
• Since January 2006, both LexisNexis and
Westlaw include over 500 legal articles
and law reviews that mention wikis
Interesting articles on wikis
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Thomas Chesney, An empirical examination of Wikipedia’s credibility, FirstMonday,
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_11/chesney/
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Alan Cohen, Patent Office, IP Lawyers Wary of Wikipedia, Palm Beach Daily
Business Review, Vol. 53, No. 71, January 17, 2007, page 10.
Keith Ecker, Wiki Wonder: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, Inside Counsel, September
2006, page 66.
Keith Ecker, WIKIS RIVAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE AND E-MAIL IN
COST AND USABILITY, Inside Counsel, February 2006, page 40.
Marlene Gebauer, Why We Want Wikis, LLAGNY, Summer 2006, pages 18 & 19.
Deborah Ginsberg, A Wiki Wiki (Quick) Introduction to the Wide World of Wikis: Learn
how to use this powerful content management application for research & to organize
projects, AALL Spectrum, July 2006, page 8.
http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0607/pub_sp0607_ProDev.pdf
http://editthis.info/lawlibrary/Main_Page
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Dennis Kennedy & Tom Mighell, Wikis for the Legal Profession, Law Practice Today,
February 2007, http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/slc02071.shtml
Shari Lewis, WIKIPEDIA CREATES CONCERNS APLENTY ABOUT THE WEB’S
RELIABILITY, Internet Law & Strategy, Vol. 4, No. 5, May 2006.
Ken Myers, WIKIMMUNITY: FITTING THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT TO
WIKIPEDIA, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 20, Fall 2006, page 163.
Interesting cases mentioning wikis
Since 1/06 over 100 cases
• Estate of Shlomo Cyngiels, NYLJ, Vol. 237, Jan. 12,
2007, page 9 (Surr. Ct. Kings Co. 12/28/06) about
ketubah.
• Cali v Merrimack, Vol. 237, NYLJ, page 1, (Sup. Ct
Nassau Co. 11/30/06) about cause of earthquakes.
• Silverstre v De Loaiza, 12 Misc. 3d 492 (Sup Ct NY Co.
3/23/06) about Citigroup.
• Computer Horizons v Gay Financial, Vol. 233, NYLJ,
page 44 (Sup. Ct NY Co 3/8/05) about defining dot-com
companies.
• Noam Cohen, Courts turn to Wikipedia but Selectively,
New York Times, January 29, 2007, page C3.
Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/
Legal Information Institute – Cornell Law School
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Main_Page
US Court of Appeals – 7th Circuit
http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/wiki/
WikiLaw
http://www.wikilaw.org/
Wiki-Law
http://wiki-law.org
Lucent Legal Department
Internal Wiki
Patents wiki
http://www.wikipatents.com/
Law Librarian Vicenc Feliu created civil law terminology wiki
http://civillawdictionary.pbwiki.com/Civil%20Law
Wikitionary – english language dictionary
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page
Washburn’s Advanced Legal Research Wiki
http://washalr.pbwiki.com/
Legal education wiki by Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Scoiety & LexisNexis
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/legaled/Part_III._Teaching_New_Skills_to_New_Lawyers
English Lawyer Justin Patten‘s book on blogging and social media
http://humanlaw.pbwiki.com
SLA Toronto chapter
http://speciallibraries.pbwiki.com/
Deborah Ginsberg – Law Librarians
Wiki
http://www.editthis.info/lawlibrary/Main_Page
Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Library & Information Science Wiki
http://liswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Computers in Library 2007
http://cil2007.pbwiki.com/
Blogging Libraries Wiki by Amanda Etches-Johnson's
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki
SLA – CSU Libraries Public Wiki
http://lib.colostate.edu/publicwiki/index.php?title=Special_Libraries_Association
JurisPedia – international law school teachers - worldwide law, legal & political sciences
http://en.jurispedia.org/index.php/Main_Page
Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig's book,
"Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
http://www.socialtext.net/codev2/index.cgi?table_of_contents
TaxAlmanac - tax research resource for tax professionals
http://www.taxalmanac.org/index.php/Main_Page
Law students creating study outlines
http://www.wikilawschool.com/
Electronic Frontier Foundation summarizing the law related to the Internet
http://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Table_of_Contents
UK lawyer Andrew Keogh - UK criminal law
http://www.wikicrime.co.uk/
Legal week publshed by Incisive Media – insiders guide to UK/International
commercial lawyers & firms
http://www.legalweek.com/Articles/List.aspx?sArticleTypeIDs=15&liNavigationItemID=36&bAZSearch=true
WIKI BIBLIOGRAPHY
By Ellen Callinan
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Welcome, Wex - An Almost-Wiki for Legal Information
http://ziefbrief.typepad.com/ziefbrief/2005/11/wecome_wex_an_a.html
The More, The Wikier, Philip Ball Available at http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070226/full/070226-6.html
Next on the KM Horizon: Simplicity (We're Serious!), Adam Smith, Esq, An inquiry into the economics of law firms.
Bruce MacEwen, http://www.bmacewen.com/blog/archives/2005/05/next_on_the_km.html
FYI: Wikis ABA Legal Technology Resource Center, Helping Lawyers Solve the Technology Puzzle
http://www.abanet.org/tech/ltrc/fyidocs/fyiwikis.html Note: Good bibliography here
Enter the World of the "Wiki", Chris Hayes http://www.llrx.com/features/wiki.htm
When To Wiki: How To Decide If It Makes Sense For You Ezra Goodnoe, InternetWeek, InformationWeek, August
29, 2005
Nine Easy Web-Based Collaboration Tools Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek, Feb. 24, 2007, URL:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197008244
Is 'We' Really Smarter Than 'Me'? Wharton, MIT, And Pearson Will Find Out , Antone Gonsalves,
InformationWeek, Nov. 16, 2006 URL:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=194400708
The Tao of Law Librarianship: Becoming A Wiki Warrior, Connie Crosby, January 15, 2007,
http://www.llrx.com/columns/tao10.htm
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Presentation at ASIP in March 2007 - http://www.callinanthelibrarian.com/CTL/Wiki_presentation_final.ppt
http://callinanthelibrarian.blogspot.com/
http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/callinae/
Ms Dewey
http://msdewey.com/
Second Life
Handouts for Legal Division
http://www.slalegal.org/programs.htm
Advanced Productivity Software
Program sponsor
http://www.aps-soft.com/
FactSet program sponsor
www.factset.com
Transforming Information into intelligence
Tom Quinn
FactSet Research Systems Inc.
toquinn@factset.com
(212) 973-5703
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business sponsor
www.wolterskluwer.com
Betsy Klampert, MLS, JD
Legal Training Consultant / New York
betsy.klampert@wolterskluwer.com
Emerging Technology
Breakfast
SLA Legal Division
June 5, 2007