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ABA Releases New Guide to Professionalism Commissions

Posted on September 03, 2008
The ABA has released its second edition of A Guide to Professionalism Commissions (August 2008)[website | PDF]. The Guide describes the professionalism commissions now operating in 14 states and the types of programs and activities commissions can use promote professionalism...

doing more with less

Posted on September 02, 2008
on the heels of this post from Friday involving the trashing of a paper library in favor of digital resources we present two librarians who do more with less in small time settings. First is Susan Menagh, the sole librarian...

Congratulations Stina and Ben!

Posted on September 02, 2008
Our favorite former law library technical support staffer and one-time A View from the Stacks LLB columnist, Stina McClintock, went off and got married last weekend. [Click on image] She and her husband Ben are honeymooning in Hawaii but before...

Is FindLaw Gaming Google by Selling Links to Lawyer Websites?

Posted on September 02, 2008
The legal blogosphere has been buzzing about FindLaw allegedly selling text links in violation of Google's policies. Bob Ambrogi reviews the situation because "the facts are being misconstrued in a way that is distorting what should be the focus of...

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Does Sarah Palin Give Off a Naughty Librarian Vibe?

Posted on September 02, 2008
Craig Ferguson senses a naughty librarian vibe from Sarah Palin. Hat tip to Michael Dodson. Palin Photo Caption Contest The Volokh Conspiracy is running a photo caption contest using this image. Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page is hot as in fast...

Chrome: Google Launches Open Source Browser Today

Posted on September 02, 2008
Google will host a press conference today at 11 a.m. PDT to launch its new OS browser named Chrome. Webware's Rafe Needleman will be live blogging the event. More on The Official Google Blog including this comic book guide to...

Blogs I Read

Posted on September 02, 2008
In Spectrum to AALL Members: "What Blogs Do You Read and Why?", we reported on AALL's call for contributions, due tomorrow, about favorite blogs law librarians regularly read. Here's three I read with illustrations why I subscribe to their feeds:...

Click Enter: Does Privacy Exist Now That Anybody Can Disseminate Information Around the World?

Posted on September 02, 2008
The September issue of Scientific American is devoted to privacy. The best article is George Washington University Law School professor and Concurring Opinions blogger Dan Solove's Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy? Also very good, Data Fusion: The...

ABA Ethics Committee Issues Opinion Detailing Lawyer Responsibilities When Outsourcing Legal Work

Posted on September 02, 2008
U.S. lawyers can outsource legal work, including to lawyers or nonlawyers outside the country, as long as they adhere to ethics rules requiring competence, supervision, protection of confidential information, reasonable fees and not assisting unauthorized practice of law according to...

SoliComm's International Labor Movement Search Engine

Posted on September 02, 2008
The Solidarity Community Network (SoliComm.net), a project of the Workers' Activities Programme (ACTRAV) of the International Labour Organization, has launched a search engine for union and union-related sites. Currently 300 of the world's largest labor websites areincluded in the SE's...

A Labor Day Story: Connecting the Globalization Dots Between Trade and Migration, Wealth and Exploitation

Posted on September 01, 2008
Deep in U.S. forests thousands of immigrant workers plant and tend the trees that produce the tons of wood pulp that Kimberley Clark then converts into toilet paper. Why is this significant? Because Wisconsin Congressman James Sensenbrenner and his family...

Carnegie Middle East Center Think Tank Traces the Origin of Current Middle Eastern Policies

Posted on August 31, 2008
There have been many attempts by the international community to bring order to the chaos within the Middle East. To accomplish any significant and enduring change, Arab states must themselves ?overcome divisive ideologies, prioritize common interests, and develop a cooperative...

Sarah Palin's Wikipedia Page Is Hot

Posted on August 31, 2008
Hot as in fast and furious editing. Days before being selected as John McCain's running mate for the Republican Party ticket, Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page was being edited more frequently than those of any other Republican Party vice presidential candidates...

A Progressive Approach to U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century

Posted on August 31, 2008
The Olympic Games coupled an election year, have pushed U.S. policies towards China to the forefront. Realizing the potential of the U.S.-China relationship, while guarding against future uncertainties, will constitute a central challenge to the next President and of American...

Buckets of Obama- or McCain-Interested Voters

Posted on August 30, 2008
Peter Whoriskey's Candidates' Web Sites Get to Know the Voters (Washington Post) is reporting that both presidential campaigns are using "retargeting" to send ads to people who visited their websites but who didn't leave their name or e-mail address by...

The Looming Crisis: Displacement and Security in Iraq

Posted on August 30, 2008
The vast majority of debate on the Iraq war tends to center around U.S. troop reduction and withdraw. Lost in the discussion ?are millions of displaced Iraqi women, children, and men? according to a new report from the Brookings Institution....

2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic

Posted on August 30, 2008
From the press release: "According to new data in the UNAIDS 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic there have been significant gains in preventing new HIV infections in a number of heavily affected countries. In Rwanda and Zimbabwe, changes...

Friday Fun: Welcome Back 3Ls, Time to Start Your Job Search

Posted on August 29, 2008
Worried about applying for your first job out of law school? This 1996 Columbia Law Revue video clip shows you what to do to ace your interviews and get the job you want. On a serious note, check out the...

Justia's Lawyer Directory

Posted on August 29, 2008
It's "pre-beta" which means, I guess, post-alpha. Listings by state, metro area, and practice area. Check out Justia's Law Directory. A Martindale-buster? Probably not but it's good to have choices. [JH]

LC, Partners Will Preserve Bush Administration Web Sites

Posted on August 29, 2008
In an effort to preserve Executive materials on the Web, the Library of Congress along with the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas Libraries, the Internet Archive and the U.S. Government Printing Office announced a collaborative project to...

Google: An Intersection of Business and Technology

Posted on August 29, 2008
Google: An Intersection of Business and Technology is the symposium issue published in the Maryland Journal of Business & Technology Law (2008). For some Labor Day holiday weekend reading, check out: Google and Fair Use, Jonathan Band Information Policy for...

LC Summaries of Democratic and Republican Nominating Conventions

Posted on August 29, 2008
The Humanities and Social Sciences division at the Library of Congress is providing brief summaries of the Democratic and Republican national conventions dating back to 1832 and 1856, respectively. [JH]

The Colbert Bump in Campaign Donations

Posted on August 29, 2008
For some time now, Stephen Colbert, host of the Colbert Report, has touted the fact that candidates who appear on his show receive a significant bump in campaign donations afterwards. James H. Fowler (University of California) examines this recent phenomenon...

What Happened to Our County Law Library?

Posted on August 29, 2008
Neither Snyder County (Penn.) Commissioner Joe Kantz nor fellow Commissioner Malcolm Derk know who decided to toss the Synder County's law library collection into a dumpster last October but they're upset with the cost of going digital. How much? $10,000...

Best Practices for Online Learning

Posted on August 28, 2008
As Library 2.0 becomes part of the fabric of our lives and we develop ever more sophisticated collections video tutorials, the Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA) offers some some best practices in developing online content for students...

Is It Time for a Uniform Law on Digital Identity?

Posted on August 28, 2008
Recently TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld published his wish list for a digital bill of rights consisting of The Right to Use and Reuse Content The Right To Control Digital Property On Your Own Device The Right To The Free Flow Of...

SEC Unveils IDEA, Successor to the Commission?s 1980s-era EDGAR Database

Posted on August 28, 2008
Remember when Charles E. Simon & Company was the go-to information broker for SEC filings? Then came EDGAR. Now IDEA (Interactive Data Electronic Applications). Built from the ground up to make reported data interactive, the SEC's IDEA will at first....

Gaming Law School Rankings

Posted on August 28, 2008
Law schools gaming the US News ranking system made the front page of the Wall Street Journal earlier this week. At issue, the fairly common practice of schools herding lower-scoring LSAT applicants into their part-time programs so that their LSAT...

Traci Bryant, a.k.a. Anita Cannibal, Isn?t Exactly Your Typical Law Student

Posted on August 28, 2008
Thought it might be an aging punk rocker going to law school story? Sorry, it's just another porn star turned 1L story. This one's on Bitter Lawyer. The student is already licensed in Nevada ... for you know what. Traci...

Spectrum to AALL Members: "What Blogs Do You Read and Why?"

Posted on August 28, 2008
AALL Spectrum Editorial Director Mark Estes wants to know what blogs you read and why for the "Member to Member" section of Spectrum. Mark is looking for short (one paragraph) responses. Selection of responses will be made by Mark Estes...

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