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Task Force on Discovery Releases Final Report

Posted on March 20, 2009
ACTL?s Task Force on Discovery and the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System released their final report on proposed principles designed to treat the nation?s ailing system of civil justice. The report includes a set of 29...

2009 Comprehensive Guide to Bar Admission Requirements

Posted on March 20, 2009
Published each each in conjunction with the National Conference of Bar Examiners, the Comprehensive Guide to Bar Admission Requirements sets out the rules and practices of all U.S. jurisdiction for admission to the bar by examination and on motion. Copies...

Library Journal Announces Class of 2009 Movers and Shakers

Posted on March 20, 2009
LJ has published its latest list of "movers and shakers" at Library Leaders Creating the 2.0 Library of the Future. LJ writes "they represent a Who's Who of creativity and library trends in the field." "These individuals comprise the coming...

Court Information Standards: Request for Comment

Posted on March 19, 2009
The Joint Technology Committee (JTC) of the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) and the National Association for Court Management (NACM) solicits comments, to be submitted no later than May 15, 2009 to Paul Embley of the National Center for...

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Berkman Launches Media Cloud

Posted on March 19, 2009
Harvard?s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, teamed help from Thomson Reuters, has launched Media Cloud to track news content comprehensively with free, open and flexible research tools. The objective is to provide a means to map the interaction between...

Using the Consumer Transaction Model for Legal Research Instruction

Posted on March 19, 2009
In Step Right Up: Using Consumer Decision Making Theory to Teach Research Process in the Electronic Age, 60 S.C.L.Rev. 123 (2008) Amy Sloan (Baltimore) advocates for conceptualizing legal research as a consumer transaction rather than a professional skill...

Where Current Law Faculty Went to Law School

Posted on March 19, 2009
Using underlying data from Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate, Brian Leiter (Chicago) has ranked the top law schools whose graduates are law professors, See Where Current Law Faculty Went to Law School on...

Papers from TREC 2008 Conference Available

Posted on March 19, 2009
Law librarians may be interested in the papers and presentations from the 2008 Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), now available here, particularly the "Legal Track" papers, and the many papers on retrieval of blogs. [Robert Richards].

Electronic Case Filing 4.0 Guide Available

Posted on March 18, 2009
A guide to the new Electronic Case Filing 4.0 specification is now publicly available from the OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee. This and related specifications are available here. [Robert Richards].

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on March 18, 2009
Reviews published in the March 9, 2009 issue of InSITE: ARDA: Association of Religion Data Archives Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP) Recovery.gov Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914 ARDA: Association of Religion...

Analysis of Legislative Proposals Addressing Guantanamo Detainees

Posted on March 18, 2009
New CRS Report (via OpenCRS): "Several bills introduced during the 111th Congress address the detention of suspected enemy belligerents held at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On January 22, 2009, President Obama issued three executive orders affecting...

AALL's Advocacy Toolkit for the 111th Congress

Posted on March 18, 2009
AALL's Advocacy Toolkit for the 111th Congress: 2009-2010 offers a review of the issues and bills AALL is currently working on, making it an excellent resource for familiarizing yourself with AALL's information policy priorities. It also provides advice on the...

Opening: Law Library Director, Univ. of the District of Columbia

Posted on March 18, 2009
The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law is seeking candidates for the position of Director of the Law Library for the Charles N. and Hilda H.M. Mason Law Library. The Director reports to the...

Times Tidies Up Tuesday's Mistrial Tweet

Posted on March 18, 2009
(Yes, I'm really going overboard with the T's.) Ron's and Gretchen's posts indirectly alerted me that sometime after my post at 5:47 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, the NYT changed the headline on this article from "Mistrial by iPhone: Juries' Web...

The Twittering Press in Federal Courts

Posted on March 18, 2009
Jurors do it. Reporters do it. The National Law Journal has an interesting article entitled "What's that you're hearing in federal court? It's 'Twittering", discussing how some Federal Judges are allowing members of the press to "Twitter" directly from their...

Is the Jury Googling?

Posted on March 18, 2009
Today's New York Times has a very interesting story, "As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials are Popping Up." The use of the web, iPhones, Blackberrys, by jurors is causing some serious problems with trials all over the country. And in...

Do You Twitter?

Posted on March 18, 2009
Online Surveys & Market Research Yesterday LLB reported on the use of Twitter by law schools and law libraries to communicate with their communities. I thought it might be interesting to follow up on the story with a brief poll...

Judicial Conference Adopts Revised Code of Conduct for Judges

Posted on March 18, 2009
The Judicial Conference adopted a new revised Code of Conduct for U.S. judges at its biannual meeting yesterday. This is the first substantial revision of the Code of Conduct since 1992. The Code of Conduct which addresses judicial impropriety, disqualification,...

Violence Against Women Database

Posted on March 18, 2009
From the U.N. Pulse: General Assembly Resolution 61/143 called for the Secretary-General to establish a database "on the extent, nature and consequences of all forms of violence against women, and on the impact and effectiveness of policies and programs for,...

E-Discovery Tool Comparison

Posted on March 17, 2009
The E-Discovery Application Matrix s a free resource that enables comparison of e-discovery software tools, and identification of those tools by feature. The matrix is the work of Greg Buckles, a legal information consultant. Hat tip to Law.com?s Legal Technology...

What First-Year Law Students Should Learn in a Legal Research Class

Posted on March 17, 2009
Nancy Johnson (GSU) has posted Best Practices: What First-Year Law Students Should Learn in a Legal Research Class on SSRN. (Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 2009). Observing that 1L legal writing instructors rarely have "adequate class time to teach students the...

Claims Agent to Be Acquired

Posted on March 17, 2009
Kurtzman Carson Consultants, a major claims agent in the U.S. bankruptcy field, announced on March 16 it has agreed to be acquired by Computershare Limited an Australia-based provider of computing services to financial market participants. See the press release here...

Opening: Law Library Director, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law Library

Posted on March 17, 2009
Texas Wesleyan University, founded in 1890 in Fort Worth, is a United Methodist institution with a tradition of integrating the liberal arts and sciences with professional and career preparation at the undergraduate level and in selected graduate areas...

Mediator in the 9/11 Victim Settlements Interviewed

Posted on March 17, 2009
Settlements in 92 of the 95 lawsuits brought against airlines and aviation-related companies filed on behalf of those injured or killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks were recently approved by federal judge Alvin Hellerstein. [Text of order with mediator report...

March Madness is Upon Us

Posted on March 17, 2009
March Madness is about to take control of offices all across this great land of ours. With 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 possible ways to fill out a tournament bracket, it's by no means a simple task. So if you're looking for some insight...

Law School and Law Library Twitter Feeds

Posted on March 17, 2009
"Rex Gradeless" at Social Media Law Student has identified some law schools and academic law libraries that are using Twitter feeds to communicate with students. Mr. Gradeless reports that the feeds are used to inform students about snow delays, on...

Trials Tainted by Twitter

Posted on March 17, 2009
It was just a matter of time, really. As many as nine jurors in a recent federal drug trial disregarded a Florida judge's instructions not to do their own research. Today's NYT has the story, Mistrial by iPhone: Juries' Web...

Libraries & Facebook: What do students want?

Posted on March 16, 2009
Many academic law libraries have created Facebook profiles in an effort to reach out to students, but is this an effective way to reach students? Until now, there has been little if no published research on this topic. Portal: Libraries...

National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Training: Call for Papers

Posted on March 16, 2009
A call for papers, with deadline of March 31, 2009, has been issued for the 2009 National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) National Training Event, to be held Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2009, at the Hilton Baltimore, Baltimore, MD. For more information,...

New Resources from the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.

Posted on March 16, 2009
The Law Librarians' Society of Washington D.C., Inc. (LLSDC) is added to its Legislative Source Book (http://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook/) the work by Donald Hirsch entitled "Drafting Federal Law" (2d Ed. GPO, 1989 in PDF) as well as the "House Legislative Counsel's Manual...

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