Legal Research

"Preserving Born-Digital Legal Materials - Where to Start?

http://www.llrx.com/features/borndigital.htm

Sarah Rhodes discusses the monumental challenge of preserving our digital heritage. She argues that law libraries specifically have a critically important role to play in this undertaking as access to legal and law-related information is a core underpinning of our democratic society. Our current digital preservation strategies and systems are imperfect but tremendous strides have been made over the past decade to stave off the dreaded digital dark age, and libraries today have a number of viable tools, services, and best practices at our disposal for the preservation of digital content.

Ethics of Legal Outsourcing White Paper

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The practical reality for US and UK attorneys engaging in or contemplating Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is that the outsourcing of both core legal and support services across the legal profession is nothing new. What is different today with the emergence of the LPO industry is that both core legal and legal support related services are being outsourced to lawyers, law firms and corporations located offshore in countries such as India, South Africa and the Philippines. Mark Ross analyzes how the outsourcing of legal work by a law firm or legal department to a legal outsourcing company or an entity located offshore raises specific issues pertaining to the outsourcing lawyer's ethical obligations to his or her client.

Effective Project Management: the Art of Creating Scope Statements

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Carol A. Watson's discussion of how well-defined scope statements are the key to successful project management continues with this article focused on how all written documentation should be clearly and concisely written, avoiding ambiguities at all costs.

Business Intelligence Online Resources

http://www.llrx.com/features/busintellguide.htm

This extensive guide by search expert Marcus P. Zillman includes a wide range of sources designed to serve as a foundation for knowledge discovery specific to business intelligence resources on the Internet.

The Government Domain - Congressional Documents on FDsys: Advanced

Techniques

http://www.llrx.com/columns/govdomain44.htm

Following up on a previous column in which she introduced FDsys and explained the site's simple search and navigation, Peggy Garvin provides an update and introduces more advanced search techniques for the congressional information available on FDsys.

Wrongful Conviction and Attorney-Client Confidentiality

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Interpreting Rule 1.6(b)(1) of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct in the context of wrongful convictions is complicated by evidentiary and practical considerations surrounding the potential use of such information. This article by Ken Strutin examines resources about several notable cases and the scholarly literature analyzing different approaches to resolving this dilemma."