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CIC04 Certificate Course, CI Published Source Collection: Research Techniques, Part I Thursday, July 29th, 2010
CIC04 Certificate Course, CI Published Source Collection: Research Techniques, Part I, starting 8/2 – register today at www.sla.org/content/learn/certificates/CI/cicertificateprogram/CIC04.cfm How do I conduct effective research to answer Key Intelligence Questions, as well as support human intelligence & analysis? What are effective…
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CIC04 Certificate Course, CI Published Source Collection: Research Techniques, Part I
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) will have their annual conference in Denver this year in July. Each year the bloggers get together for an informal meeting
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AALL 2010: Bloggers, Tweeters and Social Networkers Get-Together at AALL
COMPANY NEWS: For only the third time since 1985, Ruth will not be going to the AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) conference, which is being held in Denver this year. However, just because she can’t be there in person…
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Off the Shelf – JUNE, 2010: Vol. 25, No. 6 – Selections
Advanced Internet Intelligence Training – June 18th! Dear Friends, As investigators, are you: – Perplexed as to what to do after Google? – Thinking that getting into Facebook is a total mystery? We invite you to attend this MUST-SEE presentation….
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Advanced Internet Intelligence Training – June 18 – Denver, CO
C3 Business Information is a provider of Global company information. C3 publishes US company reports on-demand and distributes SkyMinder, an aggregated product that delivers multi-sourced information on over 60 million companies in over 220 countries.
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Vendor Spotlight: C3 Business Information
There is no question the economy has affected law firms. This report offers a qualitative analysis and explores how firms have dealt with cost pressures, staffing and outsourcing, as well as attorney and staff reactions to this new environment. Don’t…
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2010 Report: Changes in the Staffing Structure of Law Firms
New from ALM Legal Intelligence: Find your next Fortune 500® client. Use the 2010 In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies as a resource when prospecting new business. Updated for 2010, the best-selling guide includes information on: General Counsel…
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2010 In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies
WHAT’S NEW: From Wiley: Wiley handbook of technology for homeland security (1 vol., $1650) (http://www.wiley.com/) From Nolo Press: Making it legal: same-sex marriange, domestic partnerships & civil unions (1 vol. $29.99); The sharing solution: how to prosper while sharing resources,…
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Research Off the Shelf – FEBRUARY, 2010: Vol. 11, No. 2 – Selections
WHAT’S NEW: From Wiley (not so new but a client recommends it): iProperty: Profiting from Ideas in an Age of Global Innovation (1 vol., $45, also e-book, http://tinyurl.com/yl256ad) From Oxford: Internet Crimes, Torts and Scams: Investigation and Remedies (1 vol.,…
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Off the Shelf – FEBRUARY, 2010: Vol. 25, No. 2 – Selections
“In September The American Lawyer and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) jointly surveyed 587 ACC members who have the title “chief legal officer” or “general counsel.” In that group, 149 head departments at companies with annual revenues of $1…
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Alternate Law Firm Fee Arrangements Continue
ac·ri·mo·ni·ous di·vorce (ăk’rə-mō’nē-əs dĭ-vôrs): A legal dissolution of a marriage accompanied by a request that the former spouse’s breast implants or donated organs be treated as marital assets. Okay, I made that definition up, but you must admit that things are getting a bit out-of-hand in divorce proceedings when the husband demands that the $5,500 spent on his wife’s breast implants be counted as marital assets, entitling him to additional property in the breakup (and then takes this claim to the state’s Supreme Court when the lower court mocks him).
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Are Breast Implants and Donated Organs Marital Assets?
There are many adjectives I would use to describe the tenor of three-time ABA Blawg 100 nominee Above the Law — snarky, funny and even depressing come to mind — but happy isn’t one of them. That said, happy is a word one could safely use to describe ATL’s creator, lawyer-turned-professional blogger David Lat, who is the subject of this interview with Happiness Project author/blogger Gretchen Rubin, herself a former lawyer. From the interview, here’s what David had to say about his current state of mind: These days I’m exceptionally happy, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I love what I do.
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Happiness Is a Warm Law Blogger
Out of Lincoln University in rural Pennsylvania comes the type of story you just can’t make up, and that is sure to end in some kind of terribly bitter dispute. The Consumerist blog alerts us here to an unusual requirement that Lincoln University instituted in 2006: Upon matriculating at the school, each student’s “body mass index” (weight in pounds divided by height in inches squared) is measured.
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University Requires Obese Students to Take Gym Class in Order to Graduate
Artist Andy Warhol died more than two decades ago, but his notoriety continues well beyond the 15 minutes of fame he predicted everyone would someday have. Now, a federal lawsuit claims Warhol and his associate, film director Paul Morrissey, violated federal child pornography laws and engaged in torture when they used a teenage boy named Richard Toelk in a series of films. Filed in federal court in Philadelphia by the children of the deceased Toelk, the complaint names as defendants the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which owns the rights to Warhol’s estate, Morrissey, and two film distribution companies
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Andy Warhol Sued for Child Porn, Torture
Martin Gore, a member of the brooding British electronic band Depeche Mode and the group’s chief songwriter, once described the focus of his lyrics as “anything that appeals to really dysfunctional people.” So if you happen to be the plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging that the defendant’s product has caused you to suffer severe social alienation, who better to call as an expert witness on alienation than the selfsame Martin Gore? I know what you’re thinking: What about Winona Ryder? Well, this particular plaintiff, Erik Estavillo, says he plans to subpoena both Gore and Ryder in his lawsuit against the company that produces the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, “World of Warcraft.” Regular readers of this blog may remember Estavillo as the California agoraphobic who sued Sony on First Amendment grounds after it banned him from participating in multiplayer games on its PlayStation Network.
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Subpoenas Target Rocker, Actress as Experts on Alienation
Posted by Kevin O’Keefe: “Everything I’ve learned about blogging and social media, I’ve learned by reading, talking with people, attending conferences, and, of course, trial and error. The lions share of my learning has come from reading lots of blogs. Blogs I subscribe to in an RSS reader where I can browse headlines by folders I set up by particular subjects
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"25 Blogs to Help Law Firms Stay up to Speed with Social Media"
One sure sign of the holidays is the arrival of the latest holiday humor album from lawyer Lawrence Savell. The lawyer, musician and humorist — not necessarily in that order — just released his latest compilation of legally themed holiday songs, “Season’s Briefings from the LawTunes.” It joins the musically prodigious lawyer’s earlier collections of holiday recordings, “The Lawyer’s Holiday Humor Album,” “Legal Holidaze” and “Merry Lexmas from the LawTunes,” and his rock ‘n’ roll album, “The LawTunes: Live at Blackacre.” This year’s album differs in tone from his prior recordings, “a reflection of the circumstances over the past two years that have affected everyone, and our profession in particular,” Savell tells me in an e-mail. The songs are less peppy and more introspective, while still providing a humorous diversion, he says
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A Musical Motion to Show Claus
From the site: “What effect has the economy had on in-house counsel’s role, specifically with regard to managing electronically stored information? In this edition of the ESI Report, Kelly Kubacki , Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent fills in for Gina Jytyla and welcomes Everett Upshaw , Senior Litigation Counsel with Nokia and Lisa Spinelli , Legal Consultant for Kroll Ontrack, to discuss the expansion of corporate counsel’s roles and responsibilities as a result of economic pressure and the need to streamline existing processes.
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"The Economy’s Impact on In-House Counsel & Metadata as a Public Record"
Attention all hack golfers: It has now been judicially decreed, in Nova Scotia, at least, that the “Happy Gilmore” golf shot is a breach of the standard of care required of a golfer playing on a course with other golfers. As a refresher, this is what the “Happy Gilmore shot” looks like (from the Adam Sandler movie “Happy Gilmore,” of course): The Slaw blog wrote on Friday that in the recent case of Bezanson v. Hayter, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia had no trouble concluding that the Happy Gilmore shot was, as Carl Spackler similarly said about gophers in “Caddyshack,” a menace to the golfing industry.
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‘Happy Gilmore’ Golf Shot Breaches Duty of Care
Posted by Rita Handrich “‘Everybody lies’–or so says the protagonist on Fox TV’s popular medical drama, ‘House’. Gregory House is Vicodin-addicted, self-centered, and a brilliant diagnostician–and he does indeed discover–that most of his patients lie about something which makes his task of discerning the real from the deception just a bit more difficult.
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"Inviting Jurors to Actually ‘Speak the Truth’ in Voir Dire (and Why They Often Don’t)"
Yesterday on the Legal Writing Prof blog, Professor James “I am the scholarship dude” Levy flagged an interesting blog article from The New York Times on some of the words and phrases that are becoming despised in our society. The author of the article, law professor Stanley Fish, gets the ball rolling by offering up some examples from the “class of utterances that, when encountered, produces irritation, distress and, in some cases, the desire to kill.” These include: “To Be Continued” at the end of a TV show in which you have become invested; “Closed for Private Party,” when you’ve been looking forward to a meal at your favorite restaurant all day; “Register Closed,” when you’ve been waiting not-so-patiently behind a fellow customer with 25 items; “This may hurt a little” when you know that pain on a massive scale is just around the corner; and “Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed.” Fish’s article seems to have struck a chord with his readers judging by the over 1,100 comments (and counting) offering additional suggestions for this “most hated” list. Readers’ suggestions include: “This flight has been oversold;” “No problem” (instead of “you’re welcome”); “You have committed a…
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A ‘Most-Hated’ List of Modern Phrases
“If my husband has a right to have guns in the house, I have a right to hang laundry.” So says Carin Froehlich of Perkasie, Penn., who likes to hang her laundry to dry on clotheslines strung between trees outside her home. Her small town, however, does not like it so much, and she has had requests from a town official and at least two anonymous neighbors that she keep her laundry to herself. “They said it made the place look like trailer trash.
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Communities Battle Over the ‘Right to Hang’
In the news: “In the last year, several Am Law 100 firms have announced that they have shifted to, or will shift to, a performance-based compensation program for associates. Dan DiPietro, Lisa Keyes and Laura Saklad write that designing and executing a successful performance-based system aligned to a particular firm’s strategy takes time, and the changes can require major cultural shifts and can even run the risk of costing, rather than saving, the firm money
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"How to Shift Law Firms to a Performance-Based Compensation System"
Ken Auletta’s new book, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, ponders whether the 1,000-pound Gorilla of the Web is pursuing an altruistic endeavor to offer all the world’s information for free or is a marauding monster on a mission to dominate the media and information landscape. With Google in command of my e-mail platform, my blogging platform, my search platform, my RSS reader, my photo-storage platform and even my document collaboration platform, I certainly should be worried that Google could become the Big Brother I never wanted. But I am lulled into complacency by the simple fact that Google does what it does so well.
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The Google Gorilla Enters the Research Game
There has been plenty of talk over the past year or so about how the billable hour at law firms is under attack, and how changes may be in store. Of course, most of it is just talk so far, and precious little action, as law firms cling to their traditional ways. One firm that claims to have completely done away with the billable hour, however, is the Shepherd Law Group, which states that it hasn’t billed or even tracked a single hour since 2006
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Must Law Firms Know the Cost of Each Matter They Take On?
Last month, an article in The New York Times observed that for people being squeezed by the recession, a summons to perform jury duty holds a new fear: financial ruin. In Bonneville County, Idaho, for instance, the jury commissioner said that while she typically summons 400 people for a two-week term of service, she has lately had to “pop it up to 500” because of rising numbers of economic hardship claims.
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Recession Prompts Wave of Volunteers for Jury Duty
Seattle University School of Law professor Joaquin Avila says he was the primary author of the 2002 California Voting Rights Act, drawing on advice from Robert Rubin, legal director for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, and others. Since then, all of the $4.3 million collected in settlements under the law has gone to Avila, to Rubin’s committee and to lawyers working with them, The Associated Press found in its review of these cases. So far, all of the cases have been initiated by Rubin’s committee or by Avila, who is also a member of the committee.
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Law a Jackpot for Lawyers Who Wrote It, AP Says