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Opening: Assistant Director for Public and Faculty Services, Oklahoma City Univ. School of Law Library Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Oklahoma City University School of Law Library is beginning the search for an Assistant Director for Public and Faculty Services. You can view the full job description and apply here
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Opening: Assistant Director for Public and Faculty Services, Oklahoma City Univ. School of Law Library
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved several measures that could, if ever signed into law, provide greater transparency in the federal judical system by introducing televised court proceedings, including SCOTUS hearings.
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Cameras in the Courtroom: Recent Senate Judiciary Committee Developments
“Government agencies have begun to open up their data to the public, and a surprisingly large number of citizens are showing interest” according to Pew Internet’s announcement of its recent Government Online survey.
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Online Government Data Usage and Attitutes Toward Government Openness from New Pew Internet Survey
After a two-year ban from sponsoring AALL’s Annual Meeting, Thomson Reuter returns this year but not as a top-ranked “Gold Sponsor.” Apparently TR couldn’t scrap up $75,000.01 for that status. Instead the Company is a “Bronze Sponsor” along with Innovative…
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Thomson Reuters Pinches Pennies in Sponsoring AALL and CALL/ACBD Annual Meetings This Year
The Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland School of Law seeks a Public Services & Outreach Librarian with responsibility for managing the library’s circulation services; assisting faculty with electronic and print course materials, including copyright clearance; and…
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Opening: Public Services & Outreach Librarian, Maryland’s Thurgood Marshall Law Library
A couple of weeks ago the Library of Congress announced that it will store the complete archives of public tweets, all of them, every last one. From the Twitter Blog post: It is our pleasure to donate access to the…
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Tweet Your Way Into History Books: On Twitter Historiography
InformationWeek’s Bob Evans lists Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s top 10 reasons why “the answer should always be mobile first.” Schmidt’s top two reasons given are personal carry-with-you connectivity and the information explosion. 1) The Fundamental Connection. “But getting back to…
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Top 10 Reasons Why Mobile Is #1
By India News , Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News – Times of India. Maura Moynihan, the daughter of former US ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan, said, ”India is trying to distance itself from the Dalai Lama
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'Beijing trying to demonize Dalai Lama' | CASSANO LAW FIRM
Last spring, a Long Beach law firm received an e-mail from a Hong Kong businessman seeking help collecting debts from American customers. An attorney with the firm saw it as a great opportunity to reel in more business during the …
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PI Newswire :: News :: Law firms are lucrative targets of cyberscams
03/19/2010 A legal blog is a safe place to build trust and credibility. This is the place from where an attorney or a law firm creates recognition.
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Legal Blogging 123! Why do lawyers need to blog? from Law firm web …
Pennsylvania Nursing Home Abuse Attorney Blog http://www.pennsylvanianursinghomeabuseattorneyblog.com http://www.pennsylvanianursinghomeabuseattorneyblog.com/index.xml Reports on nursing home abuse news, reports and cases in Pennsylvania. Published by Rosenbaum & Associates.
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Round-Up of Practitioner Blogs
Documents in the $1 billion Viacom suit were unsealed yesterday, and what a tale they tell. Viacom, for its part, alleges that YouTube founders deliberately allowed pirated content on the site and that Google was aware of this and continued…
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Viacom and Google Ugly Details Emerge in Court Filings
Yes, the loose-leaf set from Rutter Group/Thomson West you did not order is “free,” but the update that will be automatically shipped out soon will not be free. Apparently you can’t cancel the title by calling your West rep. You…
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How to Cancel the Unsolicited Copies of Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial, National Edition From West
In Amazon Threatens Publishers as Apple Looms, Motoko Rich and Brad Stone report on how Amazon.com is trying to pressure publishers ahead of the launch of Apple’s iBookstore. According to the New York Times story Amazon is threatening to stop…
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Amazon Plays Hardball With Small- and Medium-Sized Publishers Over eBook Pricing Model
Introduced by Rep. Steve Israel on March 16th to coincide with this year’s Sunshine Week events, the purpose of H.R.
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Public Equals Online: H.R. 4858, Public Online Information Act (POIA) Mandates Executive Branch Online Publication and Calls Upon Legislative and…
Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice (O’Reilly Media, Feb. 1, 2010) discusses the possible ways government can utilize the power of citizen engagement to become more efficient and transparent.
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New Book: Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
LLSDA’s great Legislative Source Book has added a new listing, Sources for Finding Mandated Reports to Congress by U.S. Federal Agencies.
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Sources for Finding Mandated Reports to Congress by U.S. Federal Agencies
The Menlo Park office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP seeks an energetic and service-oriented Reference Librarian who can manage its on-site legal research collection while participating as part of a team of research librarians worldwide. The Menlo Park office…
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Opening: Research Librarian, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Menlo Park, CA Office
A long time reader pointed me in the direction of this article in Broadcast & Cable, which is an account of a speech by Ambassador Philip Verveer, Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy….
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State Department Thinks Net Neutrality Could Give Other Countries the Wrong Idea
Earlier this week, C-SPAN launched the C-SPAN Archives containing every C-SPAN program aired since 1987 for historical, educational, research, and archival uses. All C-SPAN programs since 1993 are digital and can be viewed online for free
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C-SPAN Launches Searchable Video Archive: New Source for Legislative History Research
A sampling of WestlawNext user guides now available here include: Getting Started on WestlawNext Checking Citations in KeyCite Retrieving Cases on WestlawNext Retrieving Statutes on WestlawNext Your WestlawNext Registration Key Using Folders to Organize Your Research Comparing Westlaw and WestlawNext…
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WestlawNext User Guides, Monthly Email Newsletter and WestSearch for Dummies Brochure
Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress, will join Keith Ann Stiverson, Roger Skallbeck, Marcia Dority Baker, and Richard Leiter to discuss her vision for the Law Library. Friday, March 19, 2010 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CDT Space is limited….
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Reminder: Law Librarian Conversations, Friday, March 19: A Conversation with Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress
Here’s a short, helpful article that compiles recent ethics advisory opinions on the efficacy of attorneys “friending” judges and vice versa. The unforeseen perils of online communication and participation [in social networking] by judges and lawyers have been revealed in…
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Social networking guidelines for judges and attorneys
While the press release headline reads “Judiciary Approves PACER Innovations To Enhance Public Access” because the Judicial Conference has increased the number of documents members of the public can obtain free through PACER and, after its two-year pilot project, approved…
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Judicial Conference Launches Pilot Program to Make Federal Court Opinions Accessible via FDsys
The ranking is based on “a tabulation of fourteen objective design criteria.” including some truly significant ones, like: Favicon – 7 points: A favorites icon (or “favicon”) is a small graphic associated with a website, which appears in places such…
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Dear God, Not Another Law School Ranking Metric: Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2009
In Hate Abounds at University of Idaho College of Law, ATL’s Elie Mystal is reporting a series of distrubing actions against the gay and lesbian community in the College of Law building, including defacing pictures and placing threaten flyers on…
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Gay and Lesbian Hate Crimes Being Committed at Idaho Law
LaBovick & LaBovick, P.A. will hold a FREE Mortgage Modification and Foreclosure Defense Seminar for Homeowners at its office in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida from 6:00 p.m
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Mortgage Modification & Foreclosure Defense Help at Free Seminar on March 10th