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Tetris is 25 Years Old

Posted on June 06, 2009
And Time Magazine has the details. Google celebrated with a custom Tetris-like logo. Expect cards and letters protesting that Google didn't acknowledge the 65th anniversary of D-Day. Silly me, "cards and letters." I meant email and instant messages. [MG]

Controversial Airport Security Scanners Get House Attention

Posted on June 06, 2009
One of the more controversial programs run by the Transportation Security Administration is the use of backscatter x-ray technology that sees under clothing. In fact, it sees very well under clothing, enough that critics call it a virtual strip search...

More Lawyer and Staff Reductions at a Major Chicago Firm

Posted on June 06, 2009
McDermott Will & Emery issued a second memo announcing layoffs, this time affecting 25 lawyers and 47 administrative staff. This is the second set of layoffs from the firm. 60 attorneys and 89 staff got similar treatment last February. Details...

New Twists to Law School Outsourcing

Posted on June 05, 2009
Law school deans are meeting secretly this summer to consider outsourcing their faculty relations and administrative duties following examples set by American workers and parents who are outsourcing their work. From the Onion. [JH] Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child...

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Researching Sotomayor

Posted on June 05, 2009
As we get closer to the Sotomayor confirmation hearings, many of us are being asked for more information about the first Hispanic nominee to the United States Supreme Court. We should give a shout out to Georgetown University Law School...

New Edition of Fundamentals of Legal Research Now Available

Posted on June 05, 2009
A new edition of a classic, Barkan, Mersky and Dunn's Fundamentals of Legal Research, 9th ed. (West 2009) $75.00 is now available from Thomson West. [JH]

The American Lawyer's First Women in Law Firms Study

Posted on June 05, 2009
Emily Barker reports on the findings of American Lawyer's first Women in Law study in Stuck in the Middle: Women now make up a healthy proportion of lawyers at large firms. "The mean proportion of women at large firms [remains]...

Reminder: Managing Electronic Titles and Materials This Afternoon

Posted on June 05, 2009
Richard Leiter and Brian Striman discuss the challenges of electronic titles in law libraries on their BlogTalkRadio program, The Law Librarian, today at 3:00 pm (Eastern). The call-in phone number for Managing Electronic Titles and Materials is 347-945-7183...

Friday Fun: Sotomayor From the Fake News Angle

Posted on June 05, 2009
John Stewart covers the announcement of her nomination. [MG] The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c P.R. Move thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Economic Crisis

SC Supreme Court Orders Governor to Apply for Stimulus Funds

Posted on June 05, 2009
Here's a strange case coming out of the stimulus package passed by Congress. The South Carolina Supreme Court has issued an opinion and a writ of mandamus ordering Governor Mark Sanford to apply for stimulus money. This comes on the...

Stepping into the Future: Digital Versions of Arkansas Appellate Decisions Declared Official

Posted on June 04, 2009
"[The Arkansas Supreme Court] and the Court of Appeals will soon step into the future: effective July 1, 2009 the electronic version of appellate decisions posted on the Arkansas Judiciary website [link] will the official reports of those decisions. Arkansas...

ICC Legal Tools on International Criminal Law and Justice

Posted on June 04, 2009
The ICC's Office of the Prosecutor has developed the ICC Legal Tools website to serve as an electronic library on international criminal law and justice. The website contains comprise at present over 40,000 documents in several databases, together with four...

Deegan & Sutherland's Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print

Posted on June 04, 2009
Mats Dahlstr�m (University of Gothenburg) writes "using case studies such as hypertexts, newspapers, critical editions and libraries, Deegan & Sutherland [in Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print (Ashgate, April 2009)] elegantly and pedagogically make us aware of...

Opening: Assistant Director of Technology Services, Jenkins Law Library

Posted on June 04, 2009
Axelroth & Associates is working with the Jenkins Law Library to identify candidates for the new position of Assistant Director of Technology Services. Established in 1802, Jenkins is the nation?s oldest law library. Jenkins is a membership library and also...

Findings from Law Librarian Employment Status Survey

Posted on June 04, 2009
Over 180 law librarians responded to Christine Sellers' recent survey of employment status and concerns. 30% of the respondents reported being laid off and three-quarters of those had worked in law firms. Of the 129 law librarians who are currently...

Senator Complains LOC Hinders Inpector General

Posted on June 04, 2009
In one of those "what the..." moments, news comes out of the Washington Post about a letter written by Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) to, James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, complaining that Billington's office interferes with Inspector General investigations...

Digital Audio Recordings of Chrysler and GM Bankruptcy Proceedings on PACER

Posted on June 03, 2009
The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York is making digital audio recordings of court proceedings relating to Chrysler LLC, 09-50002, and General Motors Corporation, 09-50026, publicly available online on PACER. [JH]

Washington & Lee Launches LexOpus, Free Online Law Review Submission Service

Posted on June 03, 2009
This looks very interesting and Washington and Lee's John Doyle must have had a hand in its conception. LexOpus is an online law review submission service that should save authors time in finding a law journal that will publish their...

New Earmark Disclosure Rules and Statutory Interpretation

Posted on June 03, 2009
Rebecca M. Kysar's (Brooklyn) Listening to Congress: Earmark Rules and Statutory Interpretation, 94 Cornell Law Review 519, [SSRN] reviews the new disclosure regime adopted by the 110th Congress that requires broad disclosure of spending earmarks and tax provisions that benefit...

Dealing with the Economy?s Impact on Law Libraries

Posted on June 03, 2009
AALL's Hillary Baker reports on how different types of law libraries are grappling with the consequences of the current economy in Battling the Economic Bully: How Tough Times Are Affecting Law Libraries and How You Can Fight Back in the...

The 2009 Am Law 200

Posted on June 03, 2009
American Lawyer's ranking of the 101 to 200 highest-grossing law firms, with charts depicting gross revenues, revenue per lawyer, profit by partner, etc. now online. (registration required). [JH]

Sotomayor In Action: Audio Availble in the Ricci Case

Posted on June 03, 2009
The Wall Street Journal posted the audio of the Second Circuit hearing in Ricci v. DeStefano, the New Haven firefighter case in which Judge Sotomayor presided. There are links to download the MP3. The Christian Science Monitor has an analysis...

Is the Google Books Settlement Better Than Orphan Works Legislation?

Posted on June 02, 2009
On LibraryLaw Blog, Peter Hirtle says "yes." The in-copyright but out-of-print books whose authors are "inactive rights holders" have been wrongly characterized as "orphan works." This group actually consists of two separate groups. There are true orphan works whose copyright...

Guide to Criminal Justice Reform Resources

Posted on June 02, 2009
Ken Strutin, Director of Legal Information Services at the New York State Defenders Association and author of The Insider's Guide: Criminal Justice Resources on the Internet and ALI-ABA's Practice Checklist Manual on Representing Criminal Defendants has published Criminal Justice Reform...

New Edition of Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians Published

Posted on June 02, 2009
ALA has published the second edition of Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians by Lesley Ellen Harris. Covering licensing issues for librarians in the US, Canada and around the world, the second edition of this popular one-stop resource...

Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology for Self-Serving Contributions

Posted on June 02, 2009
From Section 8 of Scientology Controversies in Wikipedia: In an effort to adhere to Wikipedia policy, Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee decided in late-May 2009 to restrict access to the site from Church of Scientology IP addresses, to prevent self-serving edits by...

How Bad is the Job Market for New Lawyers?

Posted on June 02, 2009
Mayer Brown is telling some associates that they will be working in-house for clients at a salary of $60,000, down from $160,000. There is no guarantee of continued employment after one year of this arrangement. The alternative is no job...

Supreme Court Action from Yesterday

Posted on June 02, 2009
The Supreme Court issued two opinions yesterday. The first is Bobby v. Bies (08-598), which decided the question of whether the Double Jeopardy Clause barred relitigation of a defendant's mental capacity. Bies received the death penalty in an Ohio case...

Will Google Wave Redefine Web Communications?

Posted on June 01, 2009
Google has announced Google Wave, an open source real-time communications and collaboration platform that will launch later this year. It combines features of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management in one in-browser communication client...

Is It Time to Retire Listservs?

Posted on June 01, 2009
Not yet, according to Greg Lambert, library and records manager for King & Spalding LLP in Houston and blogger at one of my newest favorite blogs, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog. See Lambert's Where Do Listservs Fit in a...

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