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Deadline for AALL Research Grant Applications is March 28th

Posted on February 21, 2011
The AALL Research and Publications Committee is accepting applications through Monday, March 28, 2011 for research grants from the AALL Research Fund, totaling up to $400. From the official announcement: The committee will award one grant to library professionals who...

Data Sets for Everyone

Posted on February 21, 2011
Data sets seem quite popular in the legal academy these days. Seems we are just catching up to the other disciplines who have been digesting data while we were all digesting cases. (A data set is merely acollection of data...

Comparative Criminal Procedure Guide to English-language Resources

Posted on February 21, 2011
U of Chicago law profs Ginsburg and McAdams have compiled a list of selected English-language resources on comparative criminal procedure. The guide was produced for their Comparative Criminal Procedure Seminar. The "Resources by Subject" page contains materials organized by: 1)...

What is 4G? ITU Standard and Wireless Carriers' Marketing Myth

Posted on February 20, 2011
The ITU has defined 4G as a network capable of download speeds of 100 megabits per second. In his CNN Money article David Goldman reports that not one wireless carriers pitching 4G is coming close to that transmission speed. See...

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Marybeth Peters Appointed to CCC's Board of Directors

Posted on February 19, 2011
See the Copyright Clearance Center?s press release, Former US Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters Named to Copyright Clearance Center's Board of Directors, for details. [JH]

Friday Fun: Earlier Adopters Prepare for Latest Must-Have Apple Gadget, the iHand

Posted on February 18, 2011
First adopters are already cutting off their hands in preparation for the release of the latest must-have Apple gadget, the sleek new iHand, reports the Onion News Network. [JH] Apple Fans Chopping Off Hands In Anticipation Of New iHand

What's Wrong with One of These WEXIS Screen Captures?

Posted on February 18, 2011
The following screen captures from two very expensive online legal search vendors also known as Westlaw and Lexis were taken at 1:00 PM Eastern time, February 17, 2011 CE. [JH]

FCIL-SIS Now Accepting Applications for the 2011 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians

Posted on February 18, 2011
The Foreign, Comparative and International Law-Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2011 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians. The FCIL Schaffer Grant for the http://www...

Remember When Automated Factories Were Considered Far-Fetched: IBM's Watson, the Law Firm's New "Digital Associate" (and Digital Librarian)?

Posted on February 18, 2011
In a recent NLJ think piece titled Why 'Watson' matters to lawyers: Computer's artificial intelligence could be a boon to legal research ? and might even come in handy in the courtroom, Robert C. Weber, IBM's senior vice president, legal...

Getting That Law Job is Not Enough Anymore

Posted on February 18, 2011
The legal employment market has even more insecurity associated with it, according to this article in Fortune. It appears that getting that law job in a down market doesn't make one set for life. Firms are beginning to adopt merit-based...

49 Conn.Supp. 613: Accurate Case Law on Westlaw?

Posted on February 17, 2011
In case you missed Chris Graesser's late yesterday afternoon heads-up on law-lib, here it is: FYI, Westlaw changed the text of this Conn. Case [49 Conn.Supp. 613] even though the official reporter has not. Someone petitioned to have their name...

Making Mobile Services Work for Your Library: ALA TechSource Workshop on March 9th

Posted on February 17, 2011
Cody Hanson, Web Architect and User Experience Analyst at the University of Minnesota Libraries, will be the instructor for an upcoming ALA TechSource workshop on providing library services for mobile devices. It sounds like an interesting follow-up to LawLibCom's Feb...

Top Law Schools for SCOTUS Clerkships and Tenure-Track Faculty Appointments

Posted on February 17, 2011
From Leiter's Law School Rankings: SCOTUS Clerkships: "This study covers the 2000 through 2010 terms (the 2000-2007 results are here), and reports the total number of clerks hired from each law school by a justice of the Court." Law School...

Kindle eBooks Get Pagination While Keepers of Official Citation Style Offer Advice on How to Cite eBooks

Posted on February 17, 2011
"To provide guidance for the e-book world, the three major keepers of academic-citation style?the Modern Language Association's MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, the American Psychological Association, and the University of Chicago Press, publisher of The Chicago Manual of...

Print Format Switcheroos: Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis Respond to CRIV Questions

Posted on February 16, 2011
Check out the written replies to the below-listed questions in CRIV chair Rob Myers' Reasons behind the Rise of Print Format Changes Implemented by Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis, The CRIV Sheet, Feb. 2011 at 5. 1. What is the main...

Guide to Stripping DRM from eBook Formats for Personal Use

Posted on February 16, 2011
Tired of eReader-dependent DRM-ed eBook formats? Ebook Formats, DRM and You ? A Guide for the Perplexed identifies the tools and steps to execute to strip out DRM using Calibre. Not hard to do. Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6...

Borders Releases List of Stores Closed in Bankruptcy Proceeding

Posted on February 16, 2011
Just sad. Here's the list of locations and addresses: Download Borders-closings. [MG]

ABA Tells States to Lay Off Legal Clinics

Posted on February 16, 2011
The ABA House of Delegates passed a resolution on Monday supporting the independence of clinical education programs. Resolution 100A was passed as a response to attempts by the Maryland and Louisiana legislatures to limit the activities of legal clinics associated...

News Flash: AALL Officially Announces When the Vendor Colloquium Will Take Place

Posted on February 15, 2011
Yup, in about two weeks from now. The Vendor Colloquium is set to take place on February 28 - March 1, 2011 at the "Lodge in Oak Brook." Being a born and bred Chicagoan, I think our association is referring...

New Edition of Legal Research Methods in a Modern World

Posted on February 15, 2011
Legal Research Methods in a Modern World: A Coursebook, 3d ed., by J. Paul Lomio, Henrik Spang-Hanssen and George D. Wilson (DJ�F Publishing, Feb. 2011) has been published. This coursebook is the first legal research guide that addresses the internationalization...

Why is someone going to pay $700 to have a lawyer prepare a will when they can get it for $49 online?

Posted on February 15, 2011
That question was asked by Frederic Ury, president?elect of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, during the American Bar Foundation-sponsored panel discussion on "The Future of Lawyering" at the ABA Midyear Meeting in Atlanta last Saturday. Quoting from Mark Curriden's...

There is No Constitutional Right to Cite Unpublished Opinions

Posted on February 15, 2011
The federal courts liberalized their rules several years ago by allowing citation to unpublished opinions released after January 1, 2007. Opinions prior to that date are still un-citable in the federal courts. The states, on the other hand, still have...

CALI Dues Goes Up -- and Up Again (but at least they told us)

Posted on February 14, 2011
The Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction, popularly known as CALI, announced a dues increase for its members this past week. In July of this year, dues will jump $1250 from $5000 to $6250. There will be another jump of...

Beltway Broken Promises on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: A Three Act Play About This Month's Extension of the USA PATRIOT ACT

Posted on February 14, 2011
Last week the House spent a fair amount of time on legislative manuvering on how to proceed with bringing up the matter of extending the USA PATRIOT ACT. Quoting from Donny Shaw's Open Congress Blog post, House spends 2 days...

Life Without Westlaw or Lexis: An Issue that Extends Well Beyond the Law Library World

Posted on February 14, 2011
On 3 Geeks, Greg Lambert recaps the HALL-sponsored panel discussion he moderated last week. The theme was "Life Without Westlaw or Lexis." He writes ""[The event] wasn't set up as a bash Wexis session, but rather to highlight what's good...

Opening: Assistant Director, Educational Technology, William Mitchell College of Law

Posted on February 14, 2011
William Mitchell College of Law seeks an Assistant Director, Educational Technology, to lead a creative, accomplished group of professionals, and to join the Information Resources management team. Information Resources is a valued partner in the College?s curricular innovations, and a...

Harvard to Train Milbank Associates

Posted on February 14, 2011
News came from Cambridge last week that associates at prestigious firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadly & McCloy will be sent to Harvard Law for yearly training on business, finance, law, management skills, client relationships, and other practical aspects to the business...

Round-Up of Family, Estates and Tax Practitioner Blogs

Posted on February 13, 2011
Maryland Family Lawyer Blog http://www.marylandfamilylawyerblog.com http://www.marylandfamilylawyerblog.com/index.xml Analyzes family law news, reports and opinions in Maryland. Published by Linzer Law, LLC. Mercer Bucks Divorce Lawyer Blog http://www...

Age Demographics of Gadget Owners

Posted on February 13, 2011
In Generations and Their Gadgets, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project found that only 5% of all adults own an ebook reader such as a Kindle and just 4% of adults owned a tablet computer such as...

Real Time Texting OKed by UK Supreme Court

Posted on February 12, 2011
Hat tip to Slaw for calling attention to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom's policy statement on The Use of Live Text-Based Communications from Court. Subject to the exemptions which are outlined below, any member of a legal team...

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