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Friday Fun: More Muppets Music Videos, Beaker’s Ballad and Ode To Joy Friday, May 21st, 2010
We the editors of LLB, particularly Mark, can never get enough Muppets music videos. Perhaps because they oftentimes end with a backdrop full of books on shelves. Today’s Friday Fun features two, the first is Bleaker’s Ballad and the second,…
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Friday Fun: More Muppets Music Videos, Beaker’s Ballad and Ode To Joy
Looks like LSU may have had the most interesting speaker, political consultant James Carville, unless UC-Irvine Dean Erwin Chemerinsky brought up last summer’s dismissal of Dean Glen Weissenberger at DePaul’s hooding ceremony. See TaxProf Blog’s list of 2010 law school…
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Who Had the "Best" Hooding Ceremony Speaker This Year?
World News – Organized Crime – Tax Evasion – False Accounting. Home · Return to Practicesource. « FinCEN:Integrate Anti-Money Laundering Programs With Prevention – Wall Street Journal ..
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Pa. abduction hoax mom accused of law firm thefts – The Associated …
Not as funny although there is a Legal Laughs sections in LegalTube (didn’t see any Hitler video parodies).
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LegalTube, Like YouTube, Just Not as Funny; Like Match.com, Just Not as, Well, I Don’t Know…
In addition to a new look and added functions, Slaw.ca is publishing “a fresh column every day, written by experts on the topics — Legal Publishing, the Practice of Law, Legal Information, Outsourcing, Legal Marketing, Justice Issues, Legal Technology, and…
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Check Out Slaw.ca’s Make-Over, More Than Just a New Look
That means cutbacks, from 13 to 9 librarian relations consultants by Greg Lambert’s headcount. See Lambert’s Meet The Lexis Librarian Relations Consultants – What’s Left of Them…. post for LexisNexis Vice President of Customer Consultants Carol Lyons Weber’s explanation.
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LexisNexis "Streamlines" Its Librarian Relations Consultants Program
Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch have been very busy lately writing about Internet-based research for lawyers. Their most recent works have or are about to be published by the ABA (described below). Carol is President of Internet For Lawyers (IFL),…
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It’s About Internet-Based Research for Lawyers
On Sex and the City, Samantha was never seen scrolling through comments on news blogs to make sure her clients’ reputations weren’t being maligned. Instead, she attended fancy New York parties and talked up her roster of good-looking …
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Law Firm Wikipedia Wars « Above the Law: A Legal Tabloid – News …
Rob Myers, Associate Director for Collection Management, Acquisitions and Planning, Case Western, CRIV vice-chair and incoming chair of the Committee took a jab at TR Legal’s continuing practice of sending unsolicited shipments without consent and received a ham-fisted blow to…
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LLB Poll: The Ellis Statement on Unsolicited Shipments from TR Legal
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library is pleased to announce an exciting new professional position —Digital Content Services / Reference Services Librarian. The Digital Content Services / Reference Services Librarian will be responsible for: providing research, reference and instructional services to…
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Opening: Digital Content Services/Reference Librarian, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library
Details with a link to Kate Wilko’s self-characterized “rough draft” are available on Legal Research Plus. The endeavor will contribute to the LAW.GOV project.
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Wilko’s Draft 50 State Survey of Copyright Claims in State Codes and Court Opinions
Marcus Zillman’s guide, Knowledge Discovery Resources 2010 – An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation (LLRX) provides researchers with a diverse set of resources for knowledge discovery via the Internet. The only one listed that I could wrap my small brain…
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Zillman’s Annotated Guide to Selected Knowledge Discovery Resources and Sites
Stanford Law School is seeking a motivated, hard-working reference librarian for the Robert Crown Law Library. The reference librarians provide premier level reference desk service, and librarians receive a flood of requests for assistance from an accomplished faculty and student…
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Opening: Reference Librarian, Stanford Law School
Those incredibly popular, useful multifunction units (MFUs) that are nearly ubiquitous in corporations, hospitals and schools have a dark side – their hard drives.
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Your MFU (a/k/a photocopier-scanner) Holds the Secret(s) – of Everyone!
The Louisiana Chemical Association (LCA) is attacking the Tulane University Environmental Law Clinic on two fronts. The first is a call to members to contact donors and lawmakers for the purpose of cutting off funding to the University.
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Louisiana Bill Targets Tulane Enviromental Law Clinic
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Law Firm Marketing Consultants EXCLUSIVE Search Engine …
By India News , Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News – Times of India. The ‘truth serum’ has made many a terror accused reveal more than what he ever intended to, breathing breakthroughs into dead-ends. …
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Narco test: Only way to make 'terrorist' sing? | CASSANO LAW FIRM
By India News , Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News – Times of India. In ordering stoppage of work at the Maheshwar dam in MP, the MoEF overlooked the report of a committee set up by the Centre which noted that …
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MP's Maheshwar dam rehab report overlooked by govt? | CASSANO LAW FIRM
The election will be held November 1 – December 1, 2010, and successful candidates will begin their terms of office in July 2011. Vice President/President-Elect Jean M. Wenger, Government Documents/Foreign & International Law Librarian, Cook County Law Library, Chicago, IL…
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AALL Announces Slate of Candidates for Officers and Executive Board Election
As an aspirational goal. the Durham Statement on Open Access states: Repositories should rely upon open standards for the archiving of works, as well as on redundant formats, such as PDF copies
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Moving Beyond the Ubiquitous PDF for Durham Statement Compliance
Following up on Sarah Glassmeyer’s and Greg Lambert’s efforts to trace the shrinking legal publisher market by way of Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer and Reed Elsevier acquisitions, [links provided here] David Curle writes “I thought I’d add a revenue perspective…
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Curle’s Worldwide Legal, Tax, and Regulatory Information Sector Market Share Analysis
It’s easy to do – in fact we’ve all done it. Now you can take solace in the fact that Pulitzer Prize winning Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse made a legal research error too – and in print. On Saturday…
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Even Pulitzer Prize winning journalists make legal research mistakes
Maybe all of us need to re-think this Facebook thing. I mean, how rational is it, really, to blast so much private information about ourselves to a worldwide audience without retaining any control over how that information may be taken…
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The "Top 10" reasons why you should quit Facebook
With more than 130 attorneys in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, and West Palm Beach, McDonald Hopkins is a business advisory and advocacy law firm focused on business law, litigation, business restructuring, labor and employment, …
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McDonald Hopkins :: McDonald Hopkins Law Firm Alert: Focus on …
If it hadn’t occurred to anyone that Google doesn’t have to wait for a version of the Google Book Settlement to be approved before selling electronic books, then get ready for Google Editions. The new service will sell current titles…
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Google Enters The e-Book Sales Market
“We” meaning TR Legal not, for heaven’s sake, LLB.
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"We’ll be giving away an iPod touch each week for the next eight weeks for photos of the unique locations you use WestlawNext Mobile"
In a recent 3 Geeks and a Law Blog post about TR Legal moving editorial work performed in the US overseas, Greg Lambert writes: It seems that legal editorial work has gone the way of manufacturing and is making its…
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Offshore "Information Factories" in Legal Publishing