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Law | Business | Information | Research | Surveys |
January/February 2006 |
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ALM Research is a business
within ALM Media, Inc. separate from the
Editorial Division. ALM Research does not play a role in the surveys
published by ALM's publications such as The American Lawyer and The
National Law Journal, but works with the data from their surveys after it
is published. ALM Research conducts and publishes other independent research identified
as ALM Research products. NewsLine is a free bi-monthly electronic newsletter
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ALM Research Online Celebrates 1st
Anniversary by Getting New Power Tools |
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ALM Research
Online is celebrating its first anniversary. Launched a year ago at ALM's
Legal
Tech show, the subscription and pay-per-view web site was designed to
provide the legal market with the ability to search, access and analyze a
comprehensive database of industry-leading lists and rankings which are
annually published by ALM's many magazines and newspapers, including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, IP
Law and Business, The
New York Law Journal, and Corporate
Counsel. For our key surveys, including the Am Laws
and the NLJ 250, our archives go back more than twenty years. The site also
offers new research products developed by ALM Research, including the 2005
survey of law firm business development practices. Custom Searching:Is there a better way to celebrate
an anniversary than getting something new? Kate
Daisley, marketing manager for ALM Research, has been working with Alacra, the data aggregation company
which partnered with ALM Research on developing the site, to add new tools
and to upgrade some of the existing capabilities. The most popular feature,
Kate says, has been the expansion of our custom searching capabilities, which
allow subscribers to search across all the different surveys and data. The
enhancement features a new search screen where researchers can pick and
choose from different data points, including: §
firm
financials (revenue, profits, compensation, rankings); §
corporate
representation (deals, suits, rankings); §
demographics
(firm size and rankings, branch offices, diversity statistics and rankings); §
laterals
(firm or organization hired by and departed from, practice specialty); §
technology
(purchases, rankings); §
billing
information (by firm and lawyer status for many firms) §
pro
bono information (hours worked, rankings) §
clients
(type of representation; salary and compensation for many GCs) §
contact
information (MP/Chair, administration, marketing, IT, recruitment, and PR). Law Firm Articles: On the home page, there is a new engine for searching
for stories and articles about specific law firms. This feature is not a
replacement for searching archives of our individual publications; instead,
the stories that are included in the database are chosen specifically for the
depth of their focus on a firm or inclusion in an article covering one of our
key surveys. The law firm stories will be sold on a pay-per-view basis Web Spider: Another brand new feature will be the "law firm web
spider," a search tool that allows users to create a highly focused search of
the web sites of 800 law firms. For example: You want to find information
specific to patent prosecution and fraud. You plug in the key words "patent
prosecution" and "fraud," and the search engine will crawl the 800 law firm
web sites, as well as the ALM Research database, looking for information. As
Kate points out, perhaps a partner somewhere has written a white paper on the
topic, or perhaps a press release has been issued by one of the 800 firms. Or
perhaps there's been a story in one of ALM's publications about a firm
specializing in just such a case. Now with the law firm web spider, with one
search you can more easily find the information you need from among that
posted on the law firm web site and of course from the ALM Research database. Corporate Representation: Another enhancement is the expansion of data
related to corporate representation; law firms and their clients and the
types of representation law firms do for the clients. There are 290 different
types of representation to choose from at present. Information for this body
of data is all sourced, coming from ALM's many national and regional
publications, from Verdict Search, and from press releases from the firms. Free Stuff: There have also
been additions and enhancements to the features of ALM Research Online that
are free to anyone accessing the site. In addition to the web spider which
will be added in the first quarter of 2006 there
is a link to a surveys editorial calendar, with dates for survey reports
published by ALM's national and regional publications, and a few pertinent
industry surveys. A new calendar has been added that will track events, conferences,
seminars, and the like, sponsored not only by ALM Events, but also those sponsored by
significant industry organizations, such as LMA and SLA. The most important free-per-view addition in the last
year, however, has been the ALM Research
Blog. Added last fall, and written and edited by Chuck
Lowry, Director of Client Relations, the blog is gradually developing a
readership. The purpose of the blog is to provide sources, including, but not
restricted to, those produced by ALM, for business and competitive
intelligence, not only for subscribers to ALM Research Online, but for anyone
in the legal market whose job it is to research, market, and develop
business. Design Changes: We're working on it, Kate says. How the site looks has
taken a back seat to how it works until now, but you can expect to see design
changes gradually rolled out in the first quarter of 2006. Any and all
feedback about the design is always appreciated. Please contact Kate Daisley
at kdaisley@alm.com with your comments. |
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