Each author in The Library at LexBlog has an Author Record. Ten fields establishing their authority. Every library needs to have author records to track identity. The Library of Congress keeps one, called the Name Authority Record, and we modeled The Library on theirs.
An Author Record is more important than ever in the days
In today’s world of algorithms and AI, emails are an increasingly essential part of publishing—vital for maintaining and nurturing a direct relationship with your audience.
A work isn’t truly “published” until it’s been distributed to the publication’s dedicated subscribers.
Lawyers and law firms have long relied on these lists, going back the entire 20-year lifespan
How will we be consuming insight and commentary in the next two or three years? With AI it’s hardly going to be the same.
Look at the history of the net, something that advanced much slower than AI is advancing.
Twenty plus years ago no one was reading online. Law firms told me it was
The Library at LexBlog, on the back of AI, is preserving and structuring the published insight of legal professionals worldwide as citable secondary law.
Over one million published works from 73,000 professionals and 4,400 publications already. The publishing is expanding from blogs to articles, alerts, whitepapers and the like.
We’d be remiss if we did
Clio’s CEO Jack Newton shared the importance of context in AI in a post today. “…[E]ven the most powerful model operates in a vacuum without proper context.”
Jack continued: “In legal that context includes statutes, cases, documents, emails, billing records, deadlines and countless other sources of information.”
Jack’s right that the model isn’t the point,
A leading legal publishing and technology executive, whom most of you would know, told me Friday that the strongest thing the Library at LexBlog has going for it is authority. The authority a legal professional would receive via their digital publishing being included in the Library and the authority the publishing itself would receive by
Well done Clio. The launch of skills in Clio Work is a real example of knowledge integration across a law firm.
Skills, just launched as part of Clio Work, not only enables a lawyer to retain their work and style working with an AI-driven solution, but also enables an entire law firm.
The way a
For the first time, we’ve put the roadmap for the Library at LexBlog out in the open.
If you write for the Library, operate at a firm that publishes on it or partner with us on the data, you can now see where this is headed. Not because we finally got around to it, but
Yesterday it was Legal Data Hunter, today it’s Trellis Law. I’m beginning to see how legal tech companies are enabling lawyers to work with legal data through Anthropic’s Claude.
Trellis Law is an AI-driven legal research and analytics platform designed specifically for state trial courts. While traditional platforms focus heavily on appellate opinions, Trellis structures
From Legal Data Hunter, “Every country has its own laws. Every court publishes its own decisions. Every government buries its statutes in its own portal, its own format, its own language. The result? A legal world fractured into thousands of silos — and AI that can only think inside one of them at a time.”