Legal Research

Eagan?s Eight Rules for Success in Legal Information

By Simon Chester

Find a niche with growth potential
Organize information to make it useful
The internet is a distribution channel — not a product
Turn words into maths
Separate the signal from the noise
Computers can’t do everything
Treat content like patented material
Print’s not dead, it just needs online help

Rules that wouldn’t have been recognized by the distinguished figure below:

They’re the distilled wisdom in a well-researched piece entitled Westlaw rises to legal publishing fame by selling free information - St. Paul company outprofits Gannett, McGraw Hill, New York Times

And it started here:

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).