Defense Counsel's Unilateral Modification of Parties' Stipulated Privilege Screening Process Results in Additional Expert Costs and Over-Exclusion of Email
Henry v. Quicken Loans, Inc., 2008 WL 474127 (E.D. Mich. Feb. 15, 2008)
This Fair Labor Standards Act overtime collective action was brought on behalf of approximately 422 plaintiffs who worked as "loan consultants" for defendants. After defense counsel objected to plaintiffs' requests to produce emails of the several hundred individual plaintiffs and their 32 team leader managers, plaintiffs agreed to limit the relevant time period to the months of April, May and June of 2004. They proposed that, after they reviewed all the emails and narrowed them down to those they thought were relevant, they ...
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Electronic Discovery Law - February 26, 2008 Tags: Case Summaries
BC Supreme Court Ruling ? Emergency Surveillance Illegal Without Judge?s Approval
R. v. Six Accused Persons 2008 BCSC 212
Justice Barry Davies ruled that Section 184.4 of the Criminal Code, allowing police to intercept private conversations without a judge?s authorization, is unconstitutional because it violated Section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms of six people accused of kidnapping.
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - February 26, 2008
Article: Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
With so many great resources available on the Internet at no cost, you may wonder how content creators can afford to offer them for free. Wired magazine has a very useful article which explains Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business.
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - February 26, 2008 Tags: Data & Databases
GPO to Digitize All FDLP Legacy Materials
According to a GPO Request for Information:
The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) plans to digitize the entire collection of legacy materials that have been disseminated through the Federal Depository Library Program. The estimated size of the collection is approximately 2.2 million documents, which amounts to about 90 million pages.
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - February 26, 2008 Tags: Digitization
Internet Outage in Pakistan
From the OpenNet Initiative blog..."This was a dark weekend for the Internet community in Pakistan. A series of unfortunate events started with an order for ISPs to block YouTube in Pakistan, which naturally riled citizens and advocates of free speech. Making things worse, the implementation of the block by one of the ISPs made YouTube inaccessible to most of the Internet around the world for two hours. Inadvertently, much of the global Internet audience has now experienced filtering..."From the AP...John Palfrey, executive director for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, said that whil...
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Berkman Blog - February 26, 2008
"Can Poor Writing Skills Overshadow Good Content?"
Posted by Daniel Scocco: Can poor writing skills overshadow good content? Considering that I am not a native English speaker,...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Blogs & Blogging
"How Paralegals Can Stay in the Know"
Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi: Can you name the country's 10 most influential paralegals? Which famous TV stars began their...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
"JD Supra Launches Tomorrow"
Posted by Robert Ambrogi: I first wrote in August about the planned launch of JD Supra and then told...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Websites worth a look
"Recommended Blogs for Those Involved in Law Firm Management"
Posted by Tom Collins: Im in the process of preparing my handout materials for a presentation I will be making...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Blogs & Blogging
"New Free Legal Databases"
Posted by Matt Steinke: There have been number of new, free online legal databases that have come out recently....
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Legal Research
"Are Timesheets Really an Effective Management Tool?"
Posted by Allison Shields: My previous post on the issue of timesheets (Do You Need Timesheest to Determine Profitability?) talked...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
"KM for Legal Apps"
Posted by Dennis Kennedy: Judith Lamont's KM World article "KM for Legal Apps: Time is Money" gives a good picture...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Knowledge Management
Loan repayment assistance programs - ABA
This ABA article outlines some of the substantial changes in student loan repayment options recently proposed for lawyers. Legal aid lawyers with three years of service, public defenders, and prosecutors may benefit.
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novalawcity - February 26, 2008 Author: Robert Hudson
JD Supra is Now Live!
As noted over on my Stem blog, JD Supra launched this morning, and is now open for business!Please drop by & check things out. And please help spread the word! It's not just lawyers who benefit from work product sharing. Librarians also benefit from great repositories like JD Supra. Any website that provides access to authoritative legal documents, filings, decisions & research is another wrench in the law librarian's toolbelt!As Bonnie Shucha mentioned a while back, websites that take document ownership seriously also provide a mechanism for authority evaluation & trust. Having the opportunity to see the l...
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Vancouver Law Librarian Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Steve Matthews
Opening: Reference Librarian, Ogletree Deakins, Greenville, SC
The national law firm of Ogletree Deakins is interviewing for a reference librarian position in its main office in beautiful Greenville, South Carolina. The full listing and contact information can be viewed on the SEALL Job Postings webpage at http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/seaall/jobs.htm.
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Law Librarian Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Employment Opportunties
Professional Reading: Tamanaha on What the Rule of Law Requires, What Liberalism Wants
Brian Tamanaha's (St. John's) The Dark Side of the Relationship between the Rule of Law and Liberalism is now available from SSRN. Here's the abstract: Liberalism, democracy, and the rule of law are often thought to constitute a seamless unity,...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Professional Readings
Law Schools Fight Proposed Limit on Judges’ Travel
Interesting article from Inside Higher Ed: "The “good government” movement in Washington has taken aim at fat-cat lobbyists, free spending campaign donors, and earmark producing lawmakers. Its latest target: judge-inviting law schools? An association of law deans and the Judicial...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: News
Fourth Edition of The Refugee Law Reader Now Online
The Fourth Edition of The Refugee Law Reader is now online. The Reader, created by a group of international refugee law specialists and published by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, is the first comprehensive on-line model curriculum for the study of...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: New Publications
Worldcat's New Facebook Plug-in
We reported on the launch of Worldcat.org in 2006, but the program has recently become more social by integrating with the popular social networking site, Facebook. The Facebook plug-in complements Worldcat's search plug-ins for the Firefox and Google Toolbars. As...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Web Communications
A Portrait of Early Internet Adopters
A recent Pew/Internet survey asked early Internet adopters why they first went online. The majority of respondents noted "to communicate with colleagues." In other words, to network via a new communications medium. "Social networking is nothing new. Remember BBSs and...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 26, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Web Communications
