Legal Research

On Not Trusting Automatic Recommendations from Amazon

By Simon Chester

Before we leap to the assumption that advanced analytic programmes can really help suggest what we should be reading, I reproduce without sarcastic comment an email I got this morning:

“Dear Amazon.ca Customer,

As someone who has purchased or rated Knowledge Management and the Smarter Lawyer by Esq., Gretta Rusanow or other books in the Law Practice > General category, you might like to know that Set-Off Law and Practice: An International Handbook will be released on April 11, 2010. You can pre-order yours at a savings of 16% by following the link below.

Set-Off Law and Practice: An International Handbook
William Johnston
List Price: CDN$ 396.00
Price: CDN$ 330.76
You Save: CDN$ 65.24 (16%)”

I never realized that you couldn’t find Gretta without the prefix Esq.

For those KM lawyers who thirst to know what’s in Johnston’s book, the OUP website says that:

The 2nd edition of Set-Off Law and Practice – An International Handbook is an invaluable guide to the application and practice of the rules of set-off in over 30 jurisdictions spanning Europe, Asia and the Americas. The work provides an at-a-glance port of call for UK banking and finance solicitors and foreign lawyers who wish to establish the pitfalls of set-off in a foreign jurisdiction. Since the publication of the first edition the use of set-off as a mechanism for risk reduction in cross-border financial contracts has continued to increase and the global financial crisis has meant that cases of bankruptcy and insolvency are more common than ever.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).