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Glassmeyer's Using Technology to Work Collaboratively

Posted on October 27, 2010
Early in her ORALL annual meeting presentation entitled Using Technology to Work Collaboratively, Sarah Glassmeyer mentioned that all the information she was providing was posted on her blog. Good thing because that meant I could pay attention to what she...

Is the Legal Academy "Big But Brittle" in the New Economy?

Posted on October 27, 2010
In ABA Weighs Required Disclosure of Law School Job Stats, More Rigorous Reporting, Debra Cassens Weiss reports that ABA President Stephen Zack says potential law students lack awareness about lawyer jobs and salaries, and the association is considering ways to...

Opening: Assistant/Associate Dean for Library and Information Services, Roger Williams School of Law

Posted on October 27, 2010
The Roger Williams University School of Law seeks applications for the position of Assistant/Associate Dean for Library and Information Services. Roger Williams University is a private academic institution located in the historic seacoast town of Bristol, Rhode Island, minutes from...

Oct. 18, 2010: The Day Bloomberg Law Got Its First Parallel Citation in a Federal Court Opinion?

Posted on October 26, 2010
Apparently so, reports eagle eye Greg Lambert on 3 Geeks. If not, meaning if interested in searching for earlier ___ BL ___ cites, add them as comments to Greg's post! [JH]

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Take It or Leave It from RIA: No More 1st Supplement Only Standing Orders

Posted on October 26, 2010
RIA stopped accepting "first supplement only" standing orders to their print titles (some, all?) sometime this year. News to me because for the few remaining RIA print titles we still have, we've retained them on full supplement. News to you?...

Essay Contest Launched by Public.Resource.Org to Promote LAW.GOV

Posted on October 26, 2010
On Oct. 21st, Carl Malamud announced the Law.Gov Report contest with two categories of submissions: written essay or video essay and the winner in each category will receive $5,000 with funding provided by Public.Resource.Org. From the announcement: The topic is...

North Carolina Tax Request to Amazon Shot Down by District Court

Posted on October 26, 2010
North Carolina lost a summary judgment motion to Amazon today over requests for customer data on purchases made by North Carolina residents. The case involves successive data requests from the North Carolina Department of Revenue. Amazon first turned over details...

Vendors Flock to ORALL Annual Meeting

Posted on October 25, 2010
At last week's annual meeting of ORALL in Canton, OH, my headcount of vendor representatives came in at 4 (5?) from TR Legal, 3 from LN (was supposed to be 4 but one had a last minute conflict), 1 from...

TRI President and CEO Tom Glocer Video on the Thomson Reuters Legacy

Posted on October 25, 2010
From the TR YouTube Channel description: "What can each of us do to help leave this place in a better state than we inherited it? Watch our Chief Executive Officer Tom Glocer talk about how, for many decades, people have...

Show Me the Money

Posted on October 25, 2010
Last Friday Forbes blogger Adam Gordon posted Libraries are Showing the Way for Everyone. The title of the post might make you think that the article is about all the great things librarians are accomplishing on behalf of the greater...

Once Upon (Many) a Time There Was Talk about a Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer Combo

Posted on October 25, 2010
I've lost track of the number of times there has been either speculation or a distinct possibility that Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer would merge. Let's see... . In the 1980s, Reed launched a hostile takeover attempt to acquire Wolters...

U.S. News Rankings Info and Law School Applications Are Up

Posted on October 25, 2010
I was wandering around the NALP (The Association for Legal Career Professionals) when I came across this interesting fact about the U.S. News Law School Rankings: 40% of a school's score in the latest survey was determined by the 646...

The White House Goes White Board to "Explain" the Tax Cut Debate

Posted on October 24, 2010
You can view the Sept. 29th "White House White Board" video featuring recently appointed Council of Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee on The White House Blog here. Don't know if the Republican leadership has produced a blackboard video response (yet)...

Founders Online: National Archives and UVA Press to Create Website of Founding Fathers' Annotated Published Papers

Posted on October 23, 2010
From the press announcement: The NHPRC [National Historical Publications and Records Commission] and UVA Press will create a new web site which provides access to the fully annotated published papers of key figures in the nation?s Founding era. The project...

Friday Fun: For Your Inner Old School

Posted on October 22, 2010
A big hat tip to LLB's former co-editor Ron Jones (Cincinnati Law) for this one. He writes "Gotta get this for my dad!!!" My inner old school likes it too as long as I can get one with a touch...

Embrace Anxiety: What would you do to help prepare law grads for the real world?

Posted on October 22, 2010
It's a good question and good answers from a number of perspectives are provided in this 3 Geeks blog post. Solo / Small Firm Perspective: You'll Have Enough Debt From Law School, Don't Add To It! By Jim Calloway Client...

Let's Crown the Bluebook Champion of 2011! A call to Bluebook geeks to organize a "Cite-Check Battle" one evening at Philly 2011

Posted on October 22, 2010
Having long since, as in decades long since, given up any real hope for interesting AALL annual meeting programming, I stated that I would not make any suggestions on how to reform this mess: This rapidly aging and decrepit Baby...

FYI: RIPS Blog Has Moved

Posted on October 22, 2010
About a week ago, AALL's Research Instruction & Patron Services SIS announced that its blog has moved to here. As folks say, "please update your feeds accordingly." [JH]

A New Model for Case Briefs

Posted on October 22, 2010
One of our students at LMU, Christian Stadler, has developed a new model for briefing cases. Below is his "case brief" for the Property Law case of Pierson v. Post - it has a certain Dr. Suess flair to it....

"Consumer Surplus" Can Make You Happy: High Annual Print Upkeep Increases as the Selling Point for Long-term Print Commitments

Posted on October 21, 2010
So the Blog Widow went back to complete her BA after a 23 year break in large part because she had two children to bring up while working full-time. Not so now. Add my advancing mental decriptitude made her realize...

Sign of the Times: State Digests for the Cost of Postage

Posted on October 21, 2010
Tuesday the below offer was posted on law-lib. I doubt even a start-up law school library like Belmont needs any of the listed state digests including TN Digest 2d. Considering the upkeep costs for West's Ohio Digest (and Ohio Jurisprudence,...

Blue and Red Brands: The Most Powerful Corporate Colors on the Web; Law Schools, Too (?)

Posted on October 21, 2010
"The web landscape is dominated by a large number of blue brands... but Red occupies a large amount of space as well" writes COLOURlover in The Most Powerful Colors in the World (Image right, click to enlarge, but due check...

BC Student Wants Tuition Back Because of Bad Job Market

Posted on October 21, 2010
In one of the more imaginative reactions to the lack of jobs for law graduates, an unnamed third year law student at Boston College wrote an open letter to the Dean asking for his or her money back. Keep the...

To Be Avoided: The Biases Over-Reliance on Expensive Commercial Online Services Can Create When They Dominate Access to Public Information

Posted on October 20, 2010
In Bloomberg Plans a Data Service on the Business of Government (NYT Oct. 10, 2010), Jeremy W. Peters reports that Bloomberg aims to make Bloomberg Government "an indispensable tool for lobbyists, Capitol Hill staff members and government contractors" by basing...

Zimmerman's Research Guide: Subscribe to The ZRG Blog's RSS Feed for Legal Research Alerts

Posted on October 20, 2010
Everyone knows Zimmerman's Research Guide: An Online Encyclopedia for Legal Researchers right? For the past couple of months Andy Zimmerman has been alerting legal researchers to new resouces he has uncovered that will be added to Guide by way of...

Class Notes Site Under Fire in California

Posted on October 20, 2010
CNET is reporting that state universities in California have sent a cease and desist letter to the NoteUtopia web site, a place where students can buy, sell, or share class notes with others. The legal basis of the demand is...

Michelle Wu Appointed Georgetown Law's Library Director

Posted on October 20, 2010
We all know the untimely passing of Georgetown's Bob Oakley of cardiac arrest on Sept. 29, 2007 at the age of 61, was an irreplaceable loss to the law library community generally and to the Georgetown Law community specificaly. Recently...

Blinded by the Light - New Lexis, New Coke?

Posted on October 20, 2010
I work in a building that many people believe is haunted. It was once a civil war hospital. I've never seen a ghost here, though I've heard some strange things late at night. Today, however, when I logged onto Lexis,...

Who Is the Most Scandalous Graduate of the No. 1 Ranked Law School?

Posted on October 19, 2010
See David Lat's Who Is Yale Law School?s Most Disgraceful Graduate? A gallery of seven rogues and a poll on Above the Law. [JH]

Cambridge Books Online, a Law eBooks Model for WEXIS?

Posted on October 19, 2010
With its new interface design and features, one has to ask, will we see anything similar to Cambridge Books Online from WEXIS for library acquisition of eBook content with IP authentication for access by library patrons? If so, in which...

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