Emerging Technology Breakfast

SLA Legal DivisionJune 5, 2007

Program• Welcome• Thank you sponsors• Introduce speakers• Nina Platt• Thomas Fleming• Nathan Rosen• Closing

Advanced Productivity Software Program sponsor

http://www.aps-soft.com/

Scott MulkaDirector of MarketingAdvancedProductivity Software800-783-9231 Ext. 114

FactSet program sponsorwww.factset.com

Tom QuinnFactSet Research Systems Inc.toquinn@factset.com(212) 973-5703

Transforming Information into intelligence

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business sponsor

www.wolterskluwer.com

Betsy Klampert, MLS, JDLegal Training Consultant / New Yorkbetsy.klampert@wolterskluwer.com

Nina Platt

Nina PlattPrincipal/ConsultantNina Platt Consulting7210 165th St EPrior Lake, MN 55372612-280-4204nplatt@ninaplatt.com

Thomas Fleming

Thomas B. FlemingDirector of Information Resources ManagementJeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP1900 Avenue of the Stars, 7th FloorLos Angeles, CA  90067-4308310-201-3519TBF@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• Thomas Chesney, An empirical examination of Wikipedia’s credibility,

FirstMonday, http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_11/chesney/

• 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

• 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.

Wikipediahttp://www.wikipedia.org/

Legal Information Institute – Cornell Law Schoolhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Main_Page

US Court of Appeals – 7th Circuithttp://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/wiki/

WikiLawhttp://www.wikilaw.org/

Wiki-Lawhttp://wiki-law.org

Lucent Legal DepartmentInternal Wiki

Patents wikihttp://www.wikipatents.com/

Law Librarian Vicenc Feliu created civil law terminology wikihttp://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 chapterhttp://speciallibraries.pbwiki.com/

Deborah Ginsberg – Law Librarians Wiki

http://www.editthis.info/lawlibrary/Main_Page

Library Success: A Best Practices Wikihttp://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Library & Information Science Wikihttp://liswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

Computers in Library 2007http://cil2007.pbwiki.com/

Blogging Libraries Wiki by Amanda Etches-Johnson'shttp://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=

Welcome_to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki

SLA – CSU Libraries Public Wikihttp://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 professionalshttp://www.taxalmanac.org/index.php/Main_Page

Law students creating study outlineshttp://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 lawhttp://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 BIBLIOGRAPHYBy Ellen Callinan

• 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

– 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 Deweyhttp://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 sponsorwww.factset.com

Tom QuinnFactSet Research Systems Inc.toquinn@factset.com(212) 973-5703

Transforming Information into intelligence

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business sponsor

www.wolterskluwer.com

Betsy Klampert, MLS, JDLegal Training Consultant / New Yorkbetsy.klampert@wolterskluwer.com

Emerging Technology Breakfast

SLA Legal DivisionJune 5, 2007