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American Lawyer Website Relaunched

Posted on May 27, 2008
AmericanLawyer.com gets a design makeover and enhanced site features. Visitors will have free unlimited access to to the website through July to spend time and get acquainted with the dynamic, new and upgraded features that include: News and information updated...

Blogging Trends at BigLaw Firms

Posted on May 27, 2008
LexBlog reports that as of mid-March, 53 Am Law 200 firms were blogging in some manner. Read more about BigLaw blogging at Cutting a Winning Edge in Law Firm Blogs (American Lawyer, May 2, 2008). Hat tip to Mitch Rubinstein,...

POD Publisher Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Amazon

Posted on May 27, 2008
On his blog Morris Rosenthal reports on a class-action lawsuit filed last week against Amazon by POD publisher BookLocker.com. The class action lawsuit was filed in response to Amazon?s threat to remove the "Buy" buttons of publishers who refuse to...

Opening: Head of Access Services, USC Law Library

Posted on May 27, 2008
USC Law Library is searching for a candidate to fill the position of Head of Access Services. Full-time academic, continuing appointment track faculty appointment with the rank of Law Librarian I. This position reports to the assistant director of the...

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Google to Link from Google Book Search to WorldCat Under New Deal with OCLC

Posted on May 27, 2008
From OCLC's press release: Under terms of the agreement, OCLC member libraries participating in the Google Book Search program may share their WorldCat-derived MARC records with Google to better facilitate discovery of library collections through Google...

Two Videos for Memorial Day

Posted on May 26, 2008
A Tour of Arlington Cemetery

CRS Reports on Iraq

Posted on May 25, 2008
Two new CRS Reports on Iraq via Federation of American Scientists: Operation Iraqi Freedom: Strategies, Approaches, Results, and Issues for Congress This report is designed to provide background and analysis of Operation Iraqi Freedom to support consideration of these short-term...

Iraq: Will We Ever Get Out?

Posted on May 25, 2008
Thomas Powers reviews the following books in his May 29, 2008 New York Review of Books article: The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes The Other Side...

The Sunlight Foundation's Fortune 535

Posted on May 24, 2008
For eleven years, lawmakers? personal financial data has been public information. Now, for the first time ever, that information has been compiled and visualized on a website where you can find out just how much your member of Congress is...

Early Adopters Still Spend More Time With Microsoft Apps

Posted on May 24, 2008
Interesting article from TechCrunch: "When early adopters sit at their computers, what applications and websites do they use the most? The answer: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, and MSN Messenger?just like most everyone else. At least according to data from RescueTime,...

Friday Fun: Dog Lawyer Ad

Posted on May 23, 2008
When the plaintiffs' bar runs out of human clients... [JH]

AALL's Day in the Life Photo Contest Winners Announced

Posted on May 23, 2008
The description for the winner of the Best Picture Overall (left) is "Vicenc Feliu gets caught in the act of taking a photo for the 'A Day In The Life' contest." Check out all of this year's winning photos by...

Reducing e-Discovery Processing Costs

Posted on May 23, 2008
Tim O'Connor, director of the Legal Electronic Document Institute, outlines a new approach to processing electronic files as documents, not as pages, for reducing costs in e-discovery processing in Defining Documents, Law Technology News, May 2008. See also What is...

Loyola Law School Launches First Monday Podcasts

Posted on May 23, 2008
Loyola Law School in Los Angeles has launched First Monday Podcasts, a program of free monthly podcasts on legal topics for the general public hosted on iTunes U. (iTunes U Path: Loyola Marymount University > Law School) [RJ]

2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report

Posted on May 23, 2008
New report from the U.S. Department of State: "The 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act. It describes the efforts of...

Professional Reading: Using the Law Review Article Type Indicator to Make Publishing Decisions

Posted on May 23, 2008
Does Yale Law Journal review "all manuscripts anonymously, without regard to the author's name, institutional affiliation, prior publications, or pending publication offers" as claimed? Apparently not according to Jack Chin's post on PrawfsBlawg, at least not after the initial screening...

Opening: Reference Librarian, University of Washington School of Law Library

Posted on May 23, 2008
The Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington School of Law, seeks an enthusiastic, self-directed, and flexible reference librarian. DEADLINE: Review will begin June 5, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. To ensure consideration of your...

Professional Reading: An Empirical Investigation of Justice Scalia's Ordinary Meaning Method of Statutory Interpretation

Posted on May 22, 2008
Miranda O. McGown (San Diego) has depostied Do as I Do, Not as I Say: An Empirical Investigation of Justice Scalia's Ordinary Meaning Method of Statutory Interpretation in SSRN. Here's the abstract for this very interesting article. Justice Scalia is...

Thomson Reuters' World IP Today: Technology Innovations and Patent Activity in 2007

Posted on May 22, 2008
Thomson Reuters has launched a new series of reports under the title, World IP Today. Here's the first two reports: Global Technology Innovations in 2007 (pdf). Key Study Findings: Four areas of technology are truly exemplary in protecting high volumes...

New Titles for Information Professionals

Posted on May 22, 2008
A sampling of recent publications. Details below the fold. [JH] Building Web-Scale Libraries: Libraries, Networks and Services, by Lorcan Dempsey and Brian Lavoie Blended Learning: Tools for Teaching and Training by Barbara Allen Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist; Effective...

Commercial Law Bibliography

Posted on May 22, 2008
Michael Hillinger's Commercial Law Bibliography has been published in the DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal. [Westlaw] [JH]

Opening: Project Software Manager/Database Administrator, Florida Bar Foundation

Posted on May 22, 2008
Overview: The Florida Bar Foundation is purchasing new integrated database software for its grantmaking, development, finance, and administrative activities. The various software modules are fully operational, although modifications are required to meet the specific needs of the Foundation...

Opening: Director of Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Posted on May 22, 2008
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is currently considering applicants for the position of Director of Library and Archives. The Director of Library and Archives reports to the Vice President of Exhibitions and Curatorial Affairs and is...

Just Released, Solove's Understanding Privacy, a Must-Read

Posted on May 21, 2008
About the Author When research privacy issues, Daniel Solove's publications are the works I turn to first. His monographs include The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (Yale University Press 2007), The Digital Person: Technology and...

Libraries and the Mega-Internet Sites

Posted on May 21, 2008
Produced by Primary Research Group, Libraries & the Mega-Internet Sites presents data from more than 120 academic, special and public libraries about how they use and relate to the mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, eBay, Amazon, and...

Study of Experts and Novices Reading the Law

Posted on May 21, 2008
Leah Christensen's (University of St. Thomas School of Law) The Paradox of Legal Expertise: A Study of Experts and Novices Reading the Law has been published in the Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal (2008 BYU Educ. & L.J....

2007 Report Card on American Education: A State-by-State Analysis

Posted on May 21, 2008
New report from the American Legislative Exchange Council: "This publication serves to gather and present in a quick-glance format helpful data for reviewing the condition of education among the states. The ?snapshot? pages reveal states? ?inputs? and ?outputs,? as well...

Openings: Two Law Library Positions at UC-Berkeley

Posted on May 21, 2008
The Law Library at the University of California, Berkeley is recruiting for the following two positions, details on the webpages: Reference and Research Services Director Collection Services Director

AALL Announces Recipients of Marian Gould Gallagher and Joseph L. Andrews Awards

Posted on May 21, 2008
From the announcements: The 2008 Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award will honor the outstanding career of Robert (Bob) L. Oakley. His service to AALL and the profession is well known. Besides chairing numerous committees, Oakley served on the Executive...

2008 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report

Posted on May 20, 2008
The first two volumes of the 2008 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report, the new-for-2008 Baseline and Budgets (Vol. 1) and Law Office Technology (Vol. 2), are now available. Highlights from the first two volumes include The 2008 survey observed a...

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