Legal Research

Opening: Acquisitions Librarian, Florida Coastal School of Law Library

Posted on April 15, 2009
Florida Coastal School of Law (FCSL) is seeking experienced candidates for the position of Acquisitions Librarian. FCSL offers a professional and pleasant work environment for its employees in addition to offering a competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package...

Tax Day Trivia

Posted on April 15, 2009
Tax Astrology. According to a Money Management International survey reported here, tax time can be very different for taxpayers born under different sun signs. The findings: Aries (March 21-April 20) Those born under this Fire sign expect the smallest refunds...

Stanford's Paul Lomio on the Early Days of Computer-Assisted Legal Research

Posted on April 14, 2009
I've been doing this blogging thing for awhile now and have learned a thing or two along the way. First, dyslexia seems to get worse with age, or to put it another way, with the half-life of a blog post...

Ten Measures for Transparency Success

Posted on April 14, 2009
Andrew Rasiej (Personal Democracy Forum and the Sunlight Foundation) has put together a webcast describing ten factors for effective transparent governance. Ten Measures for Transparency Success from Gov 2.0 on Vimeo.

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Top Five Academic Pubishers in Law

Posted on April 14, 2009
The "top five" academic presses in legal scholarship according to Brian Leiter's recent poll: Oxford University Press Harvard University Press Cambridge University Press Yale University Press Princeton University Press Details on Brian Leiter's Law School Reports...

Separating State from Church: A Research Guide to the Law of the Vatican City State

Posted on April 14, 2009
Stephen Young (Catholic University) and Alison Shea (Fordham) have deposited Separating State from Church: A Research Guide to the Law of the Vatican City State in SSRN. From the abstract: Mr. Young and Ms. Shea discuss the unique situation of...

The WeFollow Twitter Directory

Posted on April 14, 2009
In a recent LLB post, Do Law Librarians Twitter? Results of the LLB Poll, I mentioned that one task at hand for law librarians might be to identify and communicate to library patrons helpful Twitter sources. In one comment to...

Should LexisNexis and Thomson West Be Worried About the Economy's Turbulence?

Posted on April 13, 2009
BetaNews is reporting that 96 percent of participants in the latest Future of Open Source 2009 Survey said they think the economy's turbulence is "good" for open source. According to the report, open source software will be "most disruptive" over...

FreeLegalWeb Project for UK Legal Resources

Posted on April 13, 2009
A project called ?FreeLegalWeb" seeks to provide free-of-charge access to UK primary and secondary legal materials, and a free legal citator. The project is led by Nick Holmes of Infolaw, Robert Casalis de Pury of UniRom Systems Limited, and Harry...

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on April 13, 2009
Reviews published in the April 6, 2009 issue of InSITE: Justice for the Poor National Commission for Women (India) Supreme Court of Japan Thailand Law Forum Justice for the Poor http://go.worldbank.org/SMIKY7M6O0 Justice for the Poor (J4P) is a global research...

New Online ABA Resource Helps Lawyers Survive Tough Economy

Posted on April 13, 2009
From the press release: In this difficult economy, lawyers can get help with their careers, their practices and their well-being with just a mouse click. The American Bar Association?s new Economic Recovery Resources Web Portal offers a wide range of...

Opening: Associate Director and Assistant Professor, St. Mary?s University School of Law Library

Posted on April 13, 2009
St. Mary?s University School of Law is hiring for the position of Associate Director/Assistant Professor. This is a University tenure-track faculty position reporting to the law library director. The tenure is within the University, not the law school...

HeinOnline's "Getting Started" Webinar Set for April 15th

Posted on April 13, 2009
New to HeinOnline or just want a refresher, check out the Company's "Getting Started" webinar on Wednesday, April 15th from 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. EST. The webinar will aid users in the following areas: Logging in to the database and accessing...

Today is Tax Freedom Day

Posted on April 13, 2009
According to the Tax Foundation, Tax Freedom Day arrives eight days earlier than in 2008, and two weeks earlier than in 2007 because the recession has reduced tax collections even faster than it has reduced income and the stimulus package...

Tracking Achievement, Attainment, and Opportunity in America?s Public Schools

Posted on April 12, 2009
Education Watch has released a series of reports offering a state-by-state snapshot of public education in in the United states. "These reports provide a sobering look at the challenging work that lies ahead,? said Kati Haycock, president of The Education...

Harper's Online Index

Posted on April 11, 2009
In celebration of their 25th anniversary, the Harper's Index is freely available for searching and browsing. Check it out. [RJ]

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

Posted on April 11, 2009
The Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts site was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web. You can search on specific terms, or use the "Search Manuscripts" link to search on particular fields, such...

This is the Way to Enforce the No Food in the Law Library Rule

Posted on April 10, 2009
From the 2008 GW Law Revue. [JH]

Google Loses Key Trademark Infringement Ruling

Posted on April 10, 2009
In a closely watched case, a Second Circuit panel on April 3 held that a trademark infringement suit against Google could proceed, on the ground that Google?s sale of the plaintiff?s mark, and use of that mark to display competitors?...

Federal Court Workload Outpaces Judges Pay Raises

Posted on April 10, 2009
Workload of the Federal Courts Grew in Fiscal Year 2008. From the Third Branch: "The work of the federal courts grew in all key caseload areas during fiscal year 2008. Appeals, civil, criminal and bankruptcy filings all increased when compared...

Search EFF's Compilation of FOIA Documents

Posted on April 10, 2009
EFF's Freedom Of Information Act project has gathered thousands of pages of material, mostly via EFF's Litigation for Accountable Government project. The documents obtained shed light on controversial government surveillance programs, lobbying practices, and intellectual property initiatives...

Facing the Learning Curve with These Online Drupal Resources

Posted on April 10, 2009
Drupal, the powerful open source CMS that can be used as a back end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large websites, has a fairly steep learning curve. So Sarah Houghton-Jan's excellent list...

David Brennen Joins the Ranks of Law Prof Bloggers Appointed Dean

Posted on April 10, 2009
Kudos to David A. Brennen (Georgia), co-editor of the Law Professor Blog Network's Nonprofit Law Prof Blog, for being appointed the University of Kentucky's next College of Law Dean. [Announcement] Brennan joins ImmingratinProf Blog co-editor Kevin R...

300,000-plus Headnotes Reclassified

Posted on April 09, 2009
Thomson West is reporting that its West Key Number System® underwent some significant editorial changes recently including two new digest topics, Privileged Communications and Confidentiality, and Protection of Endangered Persons. Complete revisions of four topics, Convicts, Prisons, Disorderly Conduct and...

Law Reviews: Do Their 'Paths of Glory Lead But to the Grave'?

Posted on April 09, 2009
John Doyle (Washington and Lee) has published an interesting article on the future of Law Reviews entitled: Law Reviews: Do Their 'Paths of Glory Lead But to the Grave'?. From the abstract: "Academics, who write most of the law review...

How Many e-Book Readers Make a Market?

Posted on April 09, 2009
In a brief piece Angela Gunn for BetaNews comments on the market demand and ponders what would happen if Apple announced its long-rumored tablet computer was going to be released as an e-book reader. What if e-books were sales were...

AIG Mess: Executive Contracts

Posted on April 09, 2009
Timely webcast from Legal Talk Network: "With outraged taxpayers reeling from AIG bonuses awarded to executives after a bailout, the question of executive contracts comes into play. Join Law.com blogger and co-host, Bob Ambrogi as he welcomes Franklin G...

LexisNexis Officially Launches Martindale-Hubbell Connected

Posted on April 09, 2009
LexisNexis has officially launched Martindale-Hubbell® Connected. In beta development since June 2008, the network launched with 3,000 members and six alliance partners - the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Lex Mundi, the Council on Litigation Management, Pro Bono Net, the National...

A Bookless Academic Library?

Posted on April 09, 2009
The need to tear down the seismically unsafe Meyer Library on Stanford's campus has produced faculty protests over the university's plans for the future library (or is it the future of the library). The preliminary proposal called for digitizing and....

Celebrating April 15 with Two New Tax Op Websites

Posted on April 08, 2009
"The Tax Daily for the Citizen Taxpayer." Launched by but not an extension of Tax Analysts, the editorial tone of Tax.com is a bit Lou-Doubsian but it's earlier and perhaps it's just an attempt to attract an audience. From Christoper...

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