What Happened in Vegas Should Also Happen in AALL's Annual Meetings
3 Geeks' guest blogger, Ayelette Robinson, reports on her assessment of the International Legal Technology Association recent meeting at What Happened in Vegas Shouldn't Stay in Vegas: "With hundreds of truly high-quality sessions, and networking opportunities live and virtual galore,...
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Law Librarian Blog - September 2, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Education & Professional Development Library Associations Meetings
Law School Launches Pilot Program Using iPads
Monterey College of Law has launched a pilot program with BAR BRI that provides iPads to student who enroll in the BAR BRI supplemental curriculum program. Students use the iPads while attending school and in preparation for the California Bar...
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Law Librarian Blog - September 2, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Information Technology Law School News & Views
When are eReaders a Good Deal? How about when eBooks are updated to fix production errors
On the WSJ ROI blog, Brett Arends provides advice on personal finance matters. Recently, he offered several tips on whether eReaders are a good deal. He recommends that casual readers should save their money simply by not joining the eReader...
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Law Librarian Blog - September 2, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Electronic Resource Products & Services Publishing Industry
Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup
BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Upcoming events and digital media // September 1, 2010
[1] [TUESDAY 9/7] Berkman Center Fall Open House (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/09/openhouse)
[2] [CONFERENCE 9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have
Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA
(http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/)
[TUESDAY] BERKMAN CENTER OPEN HOUSE
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Tuesday, September 7, 6:00 pm
Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Campus (Map: http://bit.ly/poundmap)
Free and Ope...
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Berkman Blog - September 1, 2010 Author: ashar
Contractors at Westlaw: How Many, Doing What and For How Long?
So for sometime, every time TRI CEO Tom Glocer's name was mentioned in an LLB post, someone would rant and rave under a pseudonym. In general, LLB does publish comments posted this way but these were not published because they...
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Law Librarian Blog - September 1, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: News Publishing Industry
Practicing Law in NOLA Five Years After Katrina
A snip from Leigh Jones' NLJ story, Beyond Katrina: Five years later, New Orleans lawyers are finding their way: Four months after the hurricane, 5,352 attorneys had offices in New Orleans, according to Martindale.com. That number has dropped by 19%...
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Law Librarian Blog - September 1, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Current Affairs Law Firm News and Views
"E*trade" for Legal Services: "Because Good Enough Isn’t Yet Good Enough"
David Curle, Director & Lead Analyst at Outsell, an information industry consulting firm, has been thinking out loud on his blog, Lex Disruptus, and that's what blogging is about. If you don't know who he is, here's a link to...
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Law Librarian Blog - September 1, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Current Affairs Electronic Resource Library Associations Meetings Publishing Industry
Citizen Media Law Project & Center for Sustainable Journalism Conference on Media Law in the Digital Age
Citizen Media Law Project and Center for Sustainable Journalism Announce Conference Focused on Media Law in the Digital Age
Cambridge, MA – August 31, 2010 – The Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University are co‐hosting a conference on September 25, 2010 entitled Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You? in Atlanta, Georgia.
Designed for journalists, bloggers, and lawyers who work with media clients, the conference will be an opportunity to learn first‐hand the latest legal develo...
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Berkman Blog - August 31, 2010 Author: syoung Tags: newsroom
The Debate, Again, On Teaching Lawyering Skills In Law School
The National Law Journal site published an article yesterday on one of my favorite topics: practical legal education. The article focuses on the article Preaching What They Don't Practice: Why Law Faculties' Preoccupation with Impractical Scholarship and Devaluation of Practical...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 31, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Law School News & Views
Legal eBooks and the Institutional Buyer: An LLB Poll on Use, Acquisition Interest and Market Penetration
Since the advent of full-text search in the late 1970s-early 1980s, law libraries have tended to be at the forefront of technological innovation in the provision of resources to its users. When one reads what general public libraries are doing...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 31, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Academic Law Libraries Collection Development Electronic Resource Law Firm News and Views Law School News & Polls Products Services Public Law Libraries Publishing Industry
LexisNexis Launches Another Integration with Microsoft Applications
Following up on the Spring launch of Lexis for Microsoft Office, comes LN's InterAction 6.0 for Microsoft Outlook. The service will launch in December 2010 and provides users with access to their firm’s InterAction CRM data directly within the e-mail,...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 31, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Products & Services
There is Still Time to Propose an AALL Program
I have bemoaned the lack of suitable AALL programming for private law librarians. So this year instead of just submitting my one program and leaving it at that, I have become a member of both the PLL Program Committee and...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 30, 2010 Author: Law Librarian Tags: Education & Professional Development Library Associations Meetings
OED May Be Going All Digital
Reports are that the next editions of the venerable Oxford English Dictionary will skip the print stage and go directly to subscription based online access only. As this article in PC World notes, the second edition weighs in at 137.72...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 30, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Books
A TR Legal Print Format Switcheroo: More to Come?
From last Friday's mail: Dear Valued Subscriber As a current subscriber you will notice a change in format with the update of this product. This shipment contains a brand new pamphlet that replaces your current looseleaf binder and contents. [Yada...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 30, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Products & Services Publishing Industry
U.S. News & World Report's measures compared
The Chronicle of Higher Education kicked off a series that will explore quality in higher education over the next few months. One of the accompanying pieces includes a fascinating interactive map demonstrating that each ranking entity has its own emphases...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 30, 2010 Author: Law Librarian
Round-Up of Practitoner Blogs
Tax Controversy Lawyer Blog http://www.taxcontroversylawyerblog.com http://www.taxcontroversylawyerblog.com/index.xml Examines tax law cases, news and opinions in South Carolina. Published by the Turner-Vaught Law Firm, LLC. Jacksonville Immigration Attorney Blog http://www.jacksonvilleimmigrationattorneyblog.com http://www.jacksonvilleimmigrationattorneyblog.com/index.xml Covers immigration law news, legislation and reports in Florida. Published by...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 29, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Web Communications
"Good Earner" Joins the TR Legal "Family:" Launch of Findlaw UK
Findlaw UK was launched earlier this month. On Binary Law, Nick Holmes writes: [I]t’s uninspiring and unoriginal and will add little to human web-happiness. Let’s be honest this site exists to churn out “good” content which will be well regarded...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 28, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Products & Services Publishing Industry Web Communications
In "'David-And-Goliath-Like' Struggle for Electronic Discovery", Court Orders Adverse Inference, Monetary Sanctions for Spoliation and Delay
Harkabi v. Sandisk Corp., 08 Civ. 8203 (WHP) (S.D.N.Y. Aug, 23, 2010)
For failing to preserve the laptops issued to plaintiffs while working for defendant, the court found defendant was “at a minimum” negligent and indicated that an adverse inference would be crafted after all the evidence had been received. For “prolonged delay” in producing relevant emails the court denied terminating sanctions but ordered monetary sanctions in the amount of $150,000.This opinion begins: “Electronic discovery requires litigants to scour disparate data storage mediums and formats for potential...
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Electronic Discovery Law - August 27, 2010 Author: K&L Gates Tags: Case Summaries
Archive of Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel Articles
Thanks to Bev Butula on her Wisconsin Law Journal blog for sharing that the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel now offers an archive of articles from 1884 - 2007. The search box is located on the JSOnline homepage on lower right.
Coverage includes the following, although there do appear to be some gaps:
Milwaukee Journal - 1884 to 1995
Milwaukee Sentinel - 1909 to 1995
Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel - 1995 to 2007
The user can search by specific date or keyword. This is nice if you want to see the headlines from a specific day or have a very specific keyword in mind. But, there was no way to combine the two search type to sear...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - August 27, 2010 Tags: Data & Databases
Berkman Fellow Lewis Hyde interviewed on his new book, "Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership" at Creative Commons...
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Berkman Blog - August 27, 2010 Author: ashar
Top 10 Law Faculty Based on American Academy of Arts & Sciences Membership
Chicago Law School's Brian Leiter reports on the ten law schools with the highest percentage of faculty elected to one of the scholarly sections of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences here. The list ranges from #1 Yale with...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 27, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Law School News & Views
Firday Fun: "Just Don't Ever Make a Mistake:" Control-Self-Delete
Advice from Stephen Colbert ... get rid of your friends, family, and everything you have ever searched on the Internet using Google after you have surgically disfigured your appearance. Sound like good and pretty comprehensive advice circa August 24, 2010....
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Law Librarian Blog - August 27, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Friday Fun
Northwestern Law's Dean Van Zandt Appointed President of The New School
Yesterday, The New School announced that David Van Zandt, dean at Northwestern's School of Law since 1995, has been appointed its eighth president, effective Jan. 1, 2011. Hat tip to Chicago Law's Brian Leiter who writes Van Zandt was going...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 27, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Law School News & Views
Beyond the Walled Garden of Very Expensive Online Legal Research: Glassmeyer's Law Student Guide to Free Legal Research on the Internet with a no opt-out required offer to TRI's Tom Glocer
If you missed Sarah Glassmeyer's recent law-lib post, do check out her Law Student Guide to Free Legal Research on the Internet. It is sponsored by Cornell's Legal Information Institute and Justia and is hosted by CALI. It is meant...
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Law Librarian Blog - August 27, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Electronic Resource Legal Research Instruction Publishing Industry
VALL Loses Pioneer Law Librarian
Some very sad news this week via current VALL President Elizabeth Kinersley. Marjorie Keddy, one of VALL's most beloved members and our Association's first honoured member passed away on August 12th, 2010.A copy of her obituary is available in the local press. To do proper justice, however, I'll point you to this tribute published in the VALL Review (pg. 2 of the PDF). Over the course of a 38 year career, Marjorie had a hand in many of the law libraries in Vancouver. Most of the older major firms in the city have her finger prints somewhere on their collections.As Diana Inselberg describes Marjorie in her tribute, "she...
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Vancouver Law Librarian Blog - August 27, 2010 Author: Steve Matthews
Friday Fun Part 2: Welcome the New 1Ls and First Year Associates with This "I Can Read You Mind" Test
And an explanation of how the test works here. [JH]
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Law Librarian Blog - August 27, 2010 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Friday Fun
Despite Negligent Preservation, Failure to Establish Relevance of Lost Emails Results in Denial of Motion for Sanctions
Siani v. State Univ. of New York at Farmingdale, 2010 WL 3170664 (E.D.N.Y. Aug. 10, 2010)
In this employment discrimination case, the court denied the pro se plaintiff’s motion for spoliation sanctions, despite finding defendants were at least negligent in their preservation efforts, where plaintiff failed to present extrinsic evidence “tending to show that the destroyed emails would have been favorable to his case.” Plaintiff alleged that defendants failed to preserve electronic evidence and requested an adverse inference. Specifically, plaintiff alleged that emails were deleted by both na...
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Electronic Discovery Law - August 26, 2010 Author: K&L Gates Tags: Case Summaries
New Rules for Gift and Credit Card Now in Effect
This past Sunday, August 22, certain changes relating to gift cards went into effect thanks to the Credit CARD Act of 2009. Now @ MPL highlights some of the changes:
Store gift cards and gift cards with a Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover brand logo sold on or after August 22, 2010 will be good for at least five years from the date the card is purchased. You can still be charged inactivity fees, but only if you haven't used your card for at least one year. Additionally, if the physical card expires before the five years is up you can get the balance transferred to a replacement card for free. For more deta...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - August 26, 2010 Tags: Life
US Dist Ct Holds that Content on Social Networks Visible Only to Restricted Users is Protected
From Law Technology News via Law.com:On May 26, a federal court issued an opinion in a discovery dispute that applies outmoded federal electronic privacy laws from the 1980s to Facebook and MySpace. The ruling could permanently change the way "social networking" sites are viewed by businesses and those involved in litigation. The decision also appears to offer the first in-depth analysis on the effect of "privacy settings" found on many social networking sites and whether information is protected from discovery by federal privacy laws.
Read the full article for more on the implications of the 1986 Stored Communications...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - August 26, 2010 Tags: Courts
Program on Researching Patent and Trademark Information
Milwaukee Public Library will be hosting a program presented by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office on Researching Patent and Trademark Information. The program will cover:
Overview of Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade Secrets / Making the Best Use of the USPTO Website
Conducting a Patent Search, Step by Step
Invention Promotion Firms: How to Ask the Right Questions
Conducting a Trademark Search, Step by Step
The all day program on Wednesday September 8 is free, but registration is required. To register, contact Judy Pinger - Business and Technology Coordinator at 414.286.3247 or email jeping@milwaukee.gov.
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - August 26, 2010 Tags: Presentations & Workshops
