Last summer, LexisNexis began tying access to standalone products such as Law.com to subscriptions to its Lexis Advance platform. In response, the American Association of Law Librarians has argued that these tactics are anti-competitive and violate AALL guidelines. Greg Lambert, past president of the AALL executive board and chief knowledge services officer at Jackson Walker, explains what is at stake.

For generations technology has been replacing human manual labor. But today’s innovations are capable of doing increasingly complex “intellectual” tasks. Technology has already reshaped the practice of law, but will it ever make lawyers obsolete? Randy Gordon of Crowe & Dunlevy provides an analysis.