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Last Entry: March 30, 2011 at 10:54:56

In Bow to Authors, Baidu Scrubs Document Sharing Site

Posted on March 30, 2011
Chinese search giant Baidu, according to the Wall Street Journal, has removed 2.8 million files from its document sharing site. Here's an excerpt: Company spokesman Kaiser Kuo said that Baidu removed most of the files suspected of being unlicensed ?....

A ?Small Bounce? in Job Stats Chronicles a Better Year for Law Students

Posted on March 14, 2011
From the ABAJournal Law News Now: Things are looking up?ever so slightly?for law students looking for law firm jobs. A new NALP research report (PDF) reveals a ?small bounce? in job recruiting numbers in the summer and fall of 2010,...

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Posted on March 10, 2011
From ABAJournal Law News Now a class action suit against Groupon's expiration dates. Here's an excerpt: The latest suit was filed yesterday in federal court in Washington, D.C., according to The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times. It contends Groupon?s...

Supreme Court Rules First Amendment Protects Westboro?s Funeral Protesters from Tort Suits

Posted on March 02, 2011
From the ABA Journal Law News Now, the Supreme Court has ruled on the Westboro Funeral Protesters Suit: Here's an Excerpt: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 that the First Amendment protects anti-gay picketers at military funerals from tort...

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President's Budget of the United States Goverment

Posted on February 15, 2011
President's Budget of the United States Goverment for Fiscal Year 2012 has been posted in electronic format on the GPO website here. Posted by Jon Lutz

ABA Launches New Website

Posted on February 07, 2011
The ABA has launched a new website, found now at americanbar.org. Posted by Jon Lutz

Watch Your Social Media Posts Because Lawyer Regulators, FTC May Be

Posted on February 01, 2011
From the ABAJOURNAL Law News Now a caution to attorneys to not inflate the numbers of followers on Twitter or other social media. Here's an excerpt: Lawyers engaging in hyperbole on blogs, artificially inflating the number of followers they have...

The Watchdog

Posted on January 27, 2011
A new blog called The Watchdog has been launched. It will discuss regulatory agencies. Here's an excerpt from their introduction: Today marks the launch of a new blog, "The Watchdog," which will keep a close eye on regulatory agencies and...

2010 Sees a Huge Dropoff in BigLaw Layoffs

Posted on January 25, 2011
From the ABAJournal Law News Now: A blog that tracks layoffs at major law firms chronicled only 745 job losses in 2010, a huge drop compared to 2009 when 12,259 were laid off. According to the tally by Law Shucks,...

Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition

Posted on January 24, 2011
The Legal History and Rare Books Section (LH&RB) of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with Cengage Learning, announces the third annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. The competition is named in honor of Morris L. Cohen,...

2011 Princeton Review Top 50 Law Schools

Posted on January 04, 2011
Posted in TaxProf Blog, Princeton Review's survey of 18,000 students at 172 law schools plus school statistics provided by administrators ranked Florida State Law School at #30. Read the post here. Posted by Jon Lutz

FCC Acts to Preserve Internet Freedom and Openness

Posted on December 22, 2010
The FCC has approved net neutrality rules. The Jurist Legal News and Research has a comment here. Read the FCC's news release here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Healthcare Law

Posted on December 13, 2010
A federal judge has declared a key part of President Obama's healthcare law unconstitutional. Read the opinion here. Posted by Jon Lutz

FSU law professor honored for work on behalf of children

Posted on December 09, 2010
Here's an excerpt: The Youth Law Center (YLC), a national leader in helping children in the foster care and justice systems, has named Florida State University College of Law Clinical Professor Paolo Annino a Loren Warboys Unsung Hero for 2010....

Tech's Biggest Winners and Losers: 2010

Posted on November 23, 2010
Excerpt: The year's winding down, which means it's time to take stock of the companies, technologies and product categories that had big years, and those that did not. Read the article here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Why the job market is changing

Posted on November 16, 2010
Published in the November issue of the National Jurist this article analyzes how the job market is changing for law school graduates. Here's an excerpt: The law firm world that we have all known is changing. Fueled by new economic...

The Evolution of the Legal Profession

Posted on November 08, 2010
A Conversation with the Legal Community's Thought Leaders on the Front Lines of an Industry in Transition: INTRODUCTION Over the past 50 years the legal industryhas experienced an unprecedented shift from atightly knit profession into a global enterprisedriven by the...

Microsoft adding Acer, Asustek to Android Lawsuit

Posted on October 26, 2010
IDG News Service - Microsoft may be looking to add to its existing patent infringement case related to the use of Google's Android mobile phone software by targeting phone makers in Taiwan, according to a Chinese-language news report. Taiwan's Commercial...

?Many Small Steps? Lead to Happy 20th Birthday for ABA Rule of Law Initiative

Posted on October 14, 2010
Two decades ago, volunteer lawyers staffed an American Bar Association project to help rebuild legal institutions in central Europe, following the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Today, that project has morphed into the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, which administers...

Jailed Chinese Dissident Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Posted on October 12, 2010
Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo probably won?t be told that he is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, his wife observes, and it?s unclear how he will receive the $1.46 million prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is recognizing Liu...

Finding Regarding the Market Events of May 6, 2010

Posted on October 01, 2010
A single trade may have sparked the 'flash crash' of the market on May 6. Read the Report of the Staffs of the CFTC and SEC to the Joint Advisory Committee on Emerging Regulatory Issues. Posted by Jon Lutz

What is your private information worth?

Posted on September 21, 2010
From the PikeResearch Blog a good post on the RSA Online Fraud Report for August 2010. Read the blog post here. Read the report here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Exploring Oracle's Lawsuit Against Google

Posted on September 01, 2010
Oracle has sued Google over it's use of the Java Micro Edition in its Android phones. Here's an excerpt from a recent article in the Mac Observer: There are some who claim that Oracle?s lawsuit against Google, which claims that...

Subscribing to Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property

Posted on August 12, 2010
The North Carolina State Bar has issued a proposed 2010 Formal Ethics Opinion on cloud computing and other issues that have to do with the electronic storage of confidential client information. Here's an excerpt: Proposed opinion rules that a law...

Android is Now Mobile Developers' Favorite Platform

Posted on August 10, 2010
Android has become a very popular platform for mobile app developers? Read more here. Posted by Jon Lutz

The Hill Android App

Posted on August 06, 2010
The Hill which covers the latest political news from Washington is now available as an Android app. Read more here. Or download it to your Android phone from the Market. Posted by Jon Lutz

Possible FTC Probe of Apple's Anti-Adobe Rules

Posted on August 05, 2010
Apple may be being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for its refusal to allow iPhone apps made with Adobe Flash authoring tools. Here's an excerpt: The Federal Trade Commission has nearly 200 pages of records related to a purported...

Photo Tampering Throughout History

Posted on August 03, 2010
Digital images can be easily edited or even changed significantly, but photo tampering is not new. You can see an interesting collection of altered photos throughout history posted here. Posted by Jon Lutz

The iPad as e-book reader

Posted on July 30, 2010
Cnet Reviews has a good report on the iPad as e-book reader. Here's an excerpt: At first glance, the new Apple iPad includes most of the features we've been complaining are missing from the current generation of specialized e-book readers,...

Legal Implications of Cloud Computing

Posted on July 21, 2010
Excellent post on cloud computing from InformationLawGroup. Here's an excerpt: Terrific, so how is this any different than a typical outsourcing relationship? Why is this a Cloud? One of the key differences between a traditional outsourcing relationship and cloud computing...

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