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Four Good Articles Today at Law.com

It's Time to Rise and Market
In the news: " It's a difficult time to be a law firm associate or new lawyer, so here is a networking road map to help guide you to success, from consultant Stacy West Clark. Included among her tips is the reminder to be thoughtful about how you treat your contacts and not to keep them at an impersonal distance. Clark uses a quote from Maya Angelou to demonstrate how important this step can be: "People will forget what you say, they will forget what you do, but they never will forget how you make them feel."

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At Trial, Don't Leave Technology Behind
In the news: "As you jump on the elevator with binders, records and writing boards in one hand and your entire case on a pull cart, you wonder: "Do I have everything I need for trial?" If it were 1999, the answer would be yes. In 2009, no, you're missing software like InData TrialDirector."

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Should Twittering Jurors Know Better?
In the news: "While the technological revolution may have enabled a lofty goal of "democratizing" ideas, as with the online mobilization of protests over Iran's elections, there are times and places where access to information must remain steadfastly controlled. Such times are jury trials and such places are courtrooms. It is wrong, indeed it violates a defendant's constitutional rights, to allow jurors to do their own research to uncover "the whole truth," write Joel Cohen and Katherine Helm."

 
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In-House Counsel Preparing for New Emissions Regulations
In the news: "In April the Environmental Protection Agency started a process that will allow it to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles, and it's expected to soon do the same for emissions from factories, power plants and other industrial facilities. But before any new regulatory scheme becomes official, businesses need to determine how their operations might be affected. So in-house lawyers are working closely with engineers and consultants to assess the size and scope of their companies' emissions."

 
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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 22 June 2009. Copyright 2008.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).