4th Annual Life Sciences Counsel Guide to Document Management, E-Discovery, and Litigation Readiness
Monday & Tuesday, March 31 & April 1, 2008 Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel 569 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022
K&L Gates partner David R. Cohen is a co-chair of this informative two-day conference. He and K&L Gates partner Martha J. Dawson will be among those presenting and participating on panels, offering practical advice on records management, e-discovery and litigation readiness issues relevant to the life sciences industry. Click here for additional information, or to register. Program Overview:The life sciences industry is particularly vulnerable to the inherent risk that arise...
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Electronic Discovery Law - March 27, 2008 Tags: Events
Federal Court Allows Plaintiff to Amend Complaint to Assert State Law Spoliation Cause of Action Based on Defendant's Failure to Implement Litigation Hold
Ed Schmidt Pontiac-GMC Truck, Inc. v. DaimlerChrysler Motors Co., LLC, 2008 WL 668267 (N.D. Ohio Mar. 11, 2008)
In this case, an automobile dealer brought suit alleging that DaimlerChrysler had breached a settlement agreement when it refused to grant the dealer a Chrysler franchise. During the two years of discovery that followed, Schmidt alleged that DaimlerChrysler knowingly and intentionally destroyed relevant evidence. Specifically, Schmidt alleged that DaimlerChrysler failed to implement a litigation hold to prevent the destruction of evidence after the complaint was filed in October 2004, and replace...
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Electronic Discovery Law - March 27, 2008 Tags: Case Summaries
Clay Shirky Roundup
Thank you to BoingBoing and all the other various blogs that have
linked to the videos of Clay Shirky's visit as part of the Berkman@10
speaker series in the past couple of days.
Here are the links to the two videos from Clay's visit:
* Clay's Book talk: Here Comes Everybody* Clay's talk on activism: how group forming networks change protestread more
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Berkman Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: ashar Tags: Berkman@10
StopBadware.org issues XP Antivirus 2008 alert
From the StopBadware.org blog:
Today we are releasing a badware alert about XP Antivirus 2008. Here’s the summary from the alert:read more
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Berkman Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: syoung
Berkman@10 Badges
Are you attending "The Future of the Internet" May 15-16? Help us spread the word to others who would be interested in joining us for our tenth anniversary celebration and conference.
Add one of the badges below to your webpage or blog and receive $50 off your Berkman@10 Conference registration. Simply register for the conference, and then email your name and the URL of your webpage/blog to ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu to receive the discount.read more
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Berkman Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: ashar Tags: Berkman@10
Berkman Awards
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is accepting nominations for the first Berkman Awards. The awards will be presented to people or institutions that have made a significant contribution to the Internet and its impact on society over the past decade.
The primary awardee will receive $50,000, and five smaller awards will be given in specific categories such as: human rights/global advocacy; academic and intellectual leadership; pro bono work; infrastructure/communications tools; arts/culture/media; and news/information/journalism.read more
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Berkman Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: ashar Tags: Berkman@10
Photoshop for Free
Photoshop has just launched its free photo editing service, Photoshop Express. A more basic version of the real thing for the web masses. Take a test drive here. [JJ]
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Law Librarian Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Products & Services
Opening: Reference Librarian, Utah State Law Library
POSITION: Reference Librarian HIRING RANGE: 48-57 / $18.50 - $23.61 LOCATION: State Law Library, Matheson Courthouse, SLC TYPE OF POSITION: Full-time with Benefits CLOSING DATE: April 7, 2008 at 5:00 PM APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO: Human Resources 450 S....
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Law Librarian Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Employment Opportunties
The Professor as Open Book
Stephanie Rosenbloom's The Professor as Open Book (New York TImes, March 20, 2008) observes that professors of all ranks and disciplines are revealing much more personal information than olde tyme profs because they are publishing on blogs, webpages, and social...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: News
Unconscious Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election
Cornell Law School profs Gregory Scott Parks and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski deposited Unconscious Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election in SSRN. Here's the abstract for their very interesting article: The 2008 presidential campaign and election will be historic. It marks...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: New Publications
Research Tips for Monitoring Litigation
Carol Bannen (Director of Information Resources, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Milwaukee) identifies some free and fee-based services for monitoring litigation in the March 2008 issue of Wisconsin Lawyer. See also Bev Butula's (Rreference Librarian, Davis & Kuelthau, Milwaukee) Online Access...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Legal Research
Gun Ownership and the Protection of Individual Rights Under the Bill of Rights
Hat tip to Douglas Berman (OSU), Sentencing Law & Policy Blog, for calling attention to Charles Lane's To Keep and Bear Arms (Washington Post, March 22, 2008). Lane's article presents an interesting historical perspective on mid-19th century gun control laws...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Litigation in the News
Thomson West's Law Librarians in the New Millennium Goes Digital
Thomson West's Law Librarians in the New Millennium is now being offered as an electronic newsletter. It will be no longer be published in print. To subscribe to the e-newsletter go here. [JH]
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Law Librarian Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: New Publications
Attorneys Tire of Second Life?
So says Carolyn Elefant at Legal Blog Watch (though if you check the comments, not all lawyers agree with the assessment): A little more than a year ago, I blogged about lawyers venturing into the virtual world, Second Life, either...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Information Technology
Parent Education Program Changes
Earlier this week, the Mass. Probate and Family Court issued Standing Order 4-08, which replaces Standing Order 1-03, Parent Education Program Attendance. According to the press release, "The change to the Standing Order requires that the parties pay $80.00 to the provider in advance of the class to offset the cost of materials and facilitators. This fee may be reduced to $5.00 upon a party submitting a copy of his or her allowed Affidavit of Indigency and Request for Waiver, Substitution or State Payment of Fees and Costs. Parties have paid $65.00 to the providers since 2003." The new order is effective April 7, 2008....
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Massachusetts Law Updates - March 27, 2008 Author: Meg
"Amicus Attorney - In house Intranet"
Posted by John Heckman: Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighells new book on collaboration tools and technologies got me thinking. They...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Internet
"Career Path From In-House to Firms Becomes Round-Trip"
In the news: Until recently, the path from law firms to in-house departments was usually a one-way trip -- but...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Career Paths
Podcast on Mediation, ADR & Marketing
Posted by Justin Patten: I have just conducted an interview with Cole Silver. His profile is here but as...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Mediation
"Practice Makes Management Perfect"
In the news: Did the practice management software you purchased fail to revolutionize your law firm overnight? Don't be embarrassed,...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
"Excellent Article by a Physician on the Uses of Hope"
Posted by StephanieWestAllen: THE MEDICAL USES OF HOPE by William M. Buchholz, MD Hope is the thing with Feathers That...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Uncategorized
"Productivity"
Posted by Michelle Golden: An endless number of tools exist to help individuals and organizations become more productive. Like weight...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
"The Power of a Good Vacation"
From the blog:
I think we constantly underestimate the importance of taking time off and unwinding from the daily...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 27, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Work-Life Balance
Interactive Vietnam Veterans' Memorial
The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Wall is now available in an online, interactive version created by Footnote.com and that National Archives. The online version was assembled from 6300 photos of the Wall, and includes 58,320 searchable names linked to each veteran's service record. Visitors may add photos and tributes.
The image that makes up the online wall is about 460 feet wide and measures 400,000 pixels wide by 12,500 pixels tall, making it the largest image of its kind, according to Wired.
I encountered a lot of glitches while trying to explore the online Wall, likely due to the fact that it is ...
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novalawcity - March 27, 2008 Author: Meg Kribble
