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Key legal-education, research, practice, and law-library news, including but not limited to items of particular interest to Maricopa County and Arizona.
By Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

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Lawyers in Fiction, part 1: Introduction and Comics

Posted on April 18, 2010
Lawyer fiction abounds, but it’s usually just that. John Grisham’s courtroom dramas frequent the New York Times Bestseller List, and almost all of us had to read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird at some point in high school. But what about other branches of fiction, the ones that aren’t about lawyers but have lawyers in [...

Construction and Road Closures

Posted on April 16, 2010
Sometime in April or May construction will begin near the Law Library and Law School on the new Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building. There will be street closures around Terrace and McAllister that may last two years. Check out the details here...

American Law Reports: a.k.a ALR, a.k.a. ?Already Done Legal Research?

Posted on April 15, 2010
American Law Reports (ALR) is an attorney written, multi-series publication with objective, in-depth analysis of your specific legal issue, together with a complete list of cases ? in every available jurisdiction ? that discusses that issue. Quickly get up to speed in an unfamiliar area of law ? every article delivers an impartial, in-depth analysis of [...

Diane Halle Center for Family Justice Featured on Local News

Posted on April 13, 2010
Local Phoenix news television station ABC 15 reported on the Law School’s new Diane Halle Center for Family Justice on the news last night. Dean Paul Schiff Berman was featured in the report. You can watch the report by clicking on the link below...

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Arizona May 18th Special Election

Posted on April 09, 2010
On May 18, 2010 registered voters in Arizona will have an opportunity to address Proposition 100 at the polls. This ballot measure would temporarily increase the sales tax for all Arizonans by 1%. After three years, on May 31, 2013, the additional 1% would be automatically repealed...

Supreme Court Justice Stevens Announces Retirement

Posted on April 09, 2010
After serving 34 years on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens has announced his retirement. Read his official letter to President Obama here.

From the New Books List

Posted on April 06, 2010
Check out some of the new titles recently added to the Law Library’s collection: Thinking like a writer : a lawyer’s guide to effective writing and editing / Steven V. Armstrong, Timothy P. Terrell. Fuck : word taboo and protecting our First Amendment liberties / Christopher M...

Top ten lawyer lists

Posted on April 05, 2010
Top ten lists abound on the internet and off. How could there fail to be top ten lists regarding lawyers? Some are just fun, some are useful, and some are just a little strange. Here are a few that I was able to find: Ten of the Best Bad Lawyers from the Guardian The Ten Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of [...

Rules of Procedure- What Are They Good For?

Posted on April 05, 2010
Each court has a set of rules that govern how the court is run. They provide guidelines that the lawyers and parties must follow in litigation. There are federal rules of procedure that set out the rules for litigation in Federal court. There are state rules of procedure that set out the rules for litigation in state [...

A California Law School Will Raise All Students? Grades

Posted on April 02, 2010
Sounds like a law student fantasy, but it’s for real. Find out why in this article.

What are the Restatements of Law & Why are They Important in Arizona?

Posted on March 29, 2010
Restatements are a secondary legal source published by American Law Institute (ALI), formed in 1923. The committee, consisting of prominent judges, attorneys, and law professors, has undertaken to restate certain areas of the common law of the United States...

Lawyer Artists

Posted on March 28, 2010
If anyone has ever told you that lawyers are a dull lot, this article about a lawyer who has decorated his basement in cartoons done with sharpie is all the evidence that you need to prove them wrong. From the grandfather clock with a real clock as its centerpiece to the garbage can turned R2D2, Charlie [...

Yale Law Library selected as official archive of Supreme Court Bobbleheads

Posted on March 23, 2010
The Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale has been selected to house The Green Bag’s collection of Supreme Court Bobbleheads. An exhibit showcasing the dolls is on display outside Yale’s Rare Book Room through the summer. Read the NY Times article about the collection...

Why Would You Use Treatises for Your Legal Research?

Posted on March 22, 2010
Why reinvent the wheel? Treatises are vital legal research tools, even though courts are not obligated to follow them. These resources benefit your research in a variety of ways: Treatises provide in-depth commentary and scholarly analysis of areas of law Treatises provide a starting point for your research...

Lawyer jokes

Posted on March 21, 2010
After last week’s post, I thought it only appropriate to follow up with a post about lawyer jokes. We’ve already got a pretty good list of websites where you can find lawyer jokes posted here, but did you know that Ross-Blakley Law Library has an entire shelf full of lawyer jokes and essays in the treatise section? Look at anything [...

C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web

Posted on March 19, 2010
The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, covers 23 years of history and five presidential administrations. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, now totaling over 160,000 hours, is contained in the C-SPAN Archives and immediately accessible through the database and electronic archival systems...

Law Student Spring Break Tweets: Is Anyone Having Any Fun?

Posted on March 19, 2010
Read some tweets from other law students across the country. How does your spring break compare?

Law Comics

Posted on March 15, 2010
As a general fan of webcomics, I couldn’t help wondering what sorts of law comics were out there. It turns out that there are at least a few. Here’s a small list: Law Comix by Charles Pugsley Fincher, J.D. Stu’s Views: Law and Lawyer Cartoons Juris Comic Courtoons: Daily Legal Cartoons by David Mills There are also law comics to [...

Spring Break Library Hours

Posted on March 12, 2010
The library is open during spring break. To view our hours click here.

For-Benefit Corporations

Posted on March 09, 2010
How do corporations balance social and environmental commitments with maximizing shareholder profits? It may be difficult under current corporation law in most states, but a bill has been introduced in the Vermont legislature allowing for the formation of ‘for-benefit corporations,’ companies which fall somewhere between for-profit and non-profit...

Court Rules, Forms and Dockets

Posted on February 16, 2010
Looking for online court rules, forms and dockets? Check out this database from the Law Library Resource Xchange website, LLRX.com. It contains more than 1,400 links to federal and state court rules, forms and dockets for all 50 states, plus the U.S...

Starting a research project

Posted on February 15, 2010
It’s been my experience that most law students begin legal research projects by using Google or by searching a case law database on Westlaw or Lexis. That is NOT the best way to begin a legal research project. Your goal when you are doing legal research is to find the relevant law without wasting too much [...

Bar Exam Prep Materials

Posted on February 12, 2010
With the bar exam just weeks away, don’t foget about all the great bar prep materials the library has. Check out our Bar Exam Resource Guide for a complete list of bar exam information and study aids. Best of luck!

No Social Networking for Jurors

Posted on February 10, 2010
The Judicial Conference of the United States is proposing that judges clearly inform jurors they must not electronically discuss cases they are hearing. To read about the model jury instructions released by the Judicial Conference in late January to the federal judiciary, please click here: Jurors: Stop Twittering from Wired

Attorney Advertising

Posted on February 09, 2010
Radio station KJZZ aired an interesting segment on Here and Now this past Friday. The discussion on Here and Now: Impact of Attorney Ads by Steve Goldstein centers around the 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case Bates vs. State Bar of Arizona, 433 U.S. 350, which challenged the State Bar’s rules restricting attorney advertising...

Legal research workshops

Posted on February 08, 2010
Do you need to improve your legal research skills? If so, please attend the following workshops that we are offering for free for ASU law students. All workshops begin at noon in the law library classroom. Wednesday, Feb 17 - Getting started with your research Friday, February 26 - Researching federal and state statutes Wednesday, March [...

Participatory Government Made Simple!

Posted on February 04, 2010
There are two great new websites that allow citizens to easily comment on and track proposed regulations. GOVPULSE is designed to electronically search the Federal Register and facilitate public participation in the public comment process. Regulations...

New LexisNexis/Microsoft Partnership

Posted on February 02, 2010
The ABA Journal Online recently reported that LexisNexis unveiled at LegalTech in New York this week its newest offering: a partnership with Microsoft. Lexis will now be integrated into Microsoft Office products, allowing users to do legal and general research directly while working in Microsoft Word, Outlook and SharePoint...

Early Draft of the Constitution Found in Philadelphia

Posted on February 02, 2010
Researcher and lawyer Lorianne Updike Toler was intrigued by a centuries-old document at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. She found an ealrier draft of the Constitution among James Wilson’s papers at the Historical Society’s vault, rather than with other drafts of the Constitution...

Inside the New Westlaw, Lexis & Bloomberg Platforms

Posted on January 25, 2010
You may find the following article recently posted on the ABA Journal’s website interesting. Among the articles topics are the retooling of Westlaw and LexisNexis’s platforms. Inside the New Westlaw, Lexis & Bloomberg Platforms

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