Legal Niches

Final Call for the iBarista Shuffles
Just a final reminder of that we ended up having some iPod Shuffles left over from the BIO2008 International Convention.  In the new Patent Baristas iBarista contest, everyone has two new chances to pick up one of the iBarista iPods...

Predictions on the Future of Book Publishing
This collection of assorted predictions would make a great start for a good debate. I agree with some and some are pretty obvious. Others are quite silly to my mind and understanding...

The Future of Legal Academic Publishing
What is the future of legal academic publishing in Canada? I ask for two reasons. First, as the leading publisher of Canadians legal casebooks I?d rather be on the cutting edge than on the trailing edge of new developments in publishing...

At Any t > 0...
Jay Lake points to some interesting, if ultimately incomplete (and therefore unlikely - but not impossible! - to be correct) comments on the dubious future of the publishing "industry"...

eBook Trends That Will Change the Future of Publishing Sooner Rather Than Later (excluding, perhaps, WEXIS eBooks)
Philip Ruppel, president of McGraw-Hill Professional, identifies five eBook trends that will change the future of publishing: Enhanced E-Books Are Coming and Will Only Get Better The Device War Is Nearly Over The $9...

Jason Epstein on the revolution in publishing
This article is making the rounds and getting a lot of discussion. It’s worth the read: From ResourceShelf: New York Review of Books Volume 57, Number 4 · March 11, 2010 Publishing: The Revolutionary Future By Jason Epstein “The transition within the book publishing industry from physical inventory stored in a warehouse and trucked to retailers to digital files stored [...

Ram Publishing
alleging phone book advertising contract fraud.

Options Backdating
Former Broadcom executive settles $1.3 million stock option backdating lawsuit.

Contract Extortion
County Executive Robert Janiszewski ordered to pay Hudson County a $650,000 racketeering settlement.