Legal Research

Acrobat 9 to Host Flash Files: Imagine the Possibilities

Posted on June 05, 2008
Adobe has announced that the upcoming release of Acrobat 9 will include the capability to embed Flash animation and videos. An article in PC World wonders whether this "weakens" the PDF format. Most of the article comments agree that this...

City Appeals Ruling From Civil Suit That Became Confidential Records Issue

Posted on June 04, 2008
Yesterday, in a court hearing before a panel of the the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the City of Chicago appealed a ruling this past Summer by Judge Lefkow that the Chicago Police Dept. was required to release records of...

Government Web Site For Fuel Economy

Posted on June 03, 2008
While the melting of the artic ice may provide future access to huge oil reserves for the US and the other countries bordering the region, (The Race To Own The Arctic, Parade Magazine, June 1, 2008 ) most consumers who...

Librarian - one of 2008 Best Careers - US News & World Report

Posted on May 30, 2008
Librarian is recognized this year (as well as last year) as being one of the best careers in 2008 according to the U.S. News & World Report. According to Marty Nemko, "Librarians these days must be high-tech information sleuths, helping...

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New Website for US House Library

Posted on May 30, 2008
The library serving the U.S. House of Representatives has a new website at http://clerk.house.gov/library/. The House Library provides services to the public as well as to members of Congress, congressional committees, and congressional staff. The library is a division of...

Center for Latino Research Lecture - Federal Courts and Immigration Appeals

Posted on May 29, 2008
Anna O. Law Faculty Home Page

Four BAR/BRI Law Suits - Two To Pay Out, Two Dismissed

Posted on May 27, 2008
Anthony S. Park, et al., v. The Thomson Corporation and Thomson Legal and Regulatory, Inc., Case No. 05 Civ. 2931 (WHP) PARK BAR/BRI Settlement Website (estimated $30 - $40 per class member) Settlement Agreement >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rodriguez, Ret...

Latest OCLC/Google Agreement Should Improve Visibility of Libraries? Holdings On Web

Posted on May 23, 2008
As Google has moved from web search into more diverse information services & applications (More Google Products) the library community has been working to become a part of some of these developments rather than standing on the sidelines. As what...

Sharing Legal Docs - Do You Know Where Your Metadata Are ?

Posted on May 21, 2008
A May 19 posting from the Legal Profession Blog ( part of the Law Professors Blog Netrwork) entitled, ?Cautionary Tale of Leaving the "Track Changes" Unaccepted. Or, I Never Metadata I Didn't Like", by Alan Childress, reminds legal practioners of...

Alumni Focus:Latasha Thomas, 17th Ward Alderman & Former DePaul Law Grad Speaks About Her Community

Posted on May 20, 2008
After law school at DePaul (1990) , Latasha Thomas, worked in the city?s corporation counsel?s office, became a staff attorney at a legal aid organization, engaged in some private practice and then joined the Dept. of Human Services where she...

MAC & PC Co-exist With ?Boot Camp?

Posted on May 16, 2008
We?ve seen those rather amusing ( if you?re a Mac fan) television commercials with the casual, hip Mac dude and the uptight, suit-wearing PC geek, trading competitive banter. They seem to always be at adds. But Apple has made it...

DePaul Researcher Co-authors Study On Chicago Sex Trafficking

Posted on May 13, 2008
On May 7 The Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center at the DePaul University College of Law held a press conference at the downtown campus to announce the release of an important research study on Domestic sex trafficking of...

Law Professor Roy M. Mersky, Dead at 82

Posted on May 12, 2008
Many folks who attended law school may recall the name Mersky from the classic book ?Fundamentals of Legal Research? first published in 1975 (with J. Myron Jacobstein) that may have been used as part of their legal writing and research...

Attention: Faculty Research Assistants

Posted on May 09, 2008
The Rinn Law Library will be conducting orientation sessions for faculty research assistants on May 21 at 1 p.m., and May 27 at noon. These sessions will introduce faculty research assistants to the special library services and wealth of resources...

State statutes: copyright vs. public access

Posted on May 09, 2008
Once upon a time, the only way to access cases, statutes, and regulations was in hardcopy at a library, or via subscription databases like Westlaw and Lexis. Over the past decade or so, sites like Justia, the LII, and others...

Selected April 2008 Law Library Acquisitions

Posted on May 09, 2008
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?Long May It Live:? New CEO Sounds Off on (What Used to Be Known As) West Publishing

Posted on May 07, 2008
?Long May It Live:? New CEO Sounds Off on (What Used to Be Known As) West Publishing By Dan Ursini On April 17th, Thomson completed its acquisition of Reuters. The new name of the resulting corporate entity is Thomson Reuters....

Summit on Wrongful Convictions to be held May 8 at Texas State Capitol

Posted on May 05, 2008
In the last few days there have several news stories about the growing number of exonerations of prioners in Texas who were convicted for serious crimes. Due to the work of the Innocense Project of New York City and the...

Attention: Faculty Research Assistants

Posted on May 02, 2008
The Rinn Law Library will be conducting orientation sessions for faculty research assistants on May 21 at 1 p.m., and May 27 at noon. These sessions will introduce faculty research assistants to the special library services and wealth of resources...

Reconciling Law Day and May Day ?

Posted on May 01, 2008
Today on May 1ST in Chicago, thousands of people are expected to march dowtown for immigrant rights. Over the last couple years these marches in major U.S. cities have almost become a tradition. This harkens back to the historical links...

Hidden Treasures at the DePaul Richardson Library ?

Posted on April 30, 2008
A current posting on the DePaul University Libraries blog entitled ?I ? the Special Collections and Archives? entices DePaul users to check out the special collections that we may have heard about but have never explored. Here is an excerpt...

Copyright Law Exhibit at Ryerson Library of The Art Institute

Posted on April 29, 2008
Why Are These Pictures in the Public Domain? The short answer is that it?s complicated. Several layers of copyright law, some going back to the 1909 Act, may need to be addressed to determine the copyright status of many works....

Local Law Student Fortuitously Contributes to Work of International Tribunal

Posted on April 29, 2008
This past Friday, DePaul?s International Human Rights Law Institute ( IHRLI ) co- sponsored a conference on the role of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ), ten years after its creation. (See blog posting: Midwest Regional Conference on International...

Theatre Piece:"Sanitation Workers Strike of 1968"

Posted on April 24, 2008

EPA Report To Congress On Re-opening EPA Libraries

Posted on April 24, 2008
In a previous blog posting earlier this year, it was reported that after considerable lobbying by EPA library employees, library associations, practicing scientists and public users, Congress provided for the re-opening of EPA libraies that were closed by EPA management...

"Your Witness" Book Gives Expert Insight Into Art of Cross-examination

Posted on April 22, 2008
"In YOUR WITNESS, fifty of the nation?s top trial lawyers share the secrets of the most engaging, difficult, and dramatic aspect of their work ? cross-examination. These secrets are revealed through richly told courtroom ?war stories? with a point. While...

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases Now Available

Posted on April 21, 2008
?The culmination of eight years of editorial work, the four volumes of The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases present a representative assortment of Lincoln's most important and most interesting cases in a form that both scholars and...

Lawyers,Law Firms & the Legal Profession Symposium

Posted on April 18, 2008
Topics : Lawyers in a Fee Quandary: Must the Billable Hour Die? Luncheon: The Roberts Court, the 2008 Election & the Future of the Judiciary Lawyers in Transition: Ghosts from the Old Firm Haunting the New Firm Lawyers in the...

CIPLIT Program With Visiting Artist Zach Helm

Posted on April 18, 2008
( Source: DePaul College of Law Student Newsletter, April 18,2008 )

"CLEAR Initiative" Symposium On Revision of Illinois Criminal Code

Posted on April 18, 2008
Today the the ?CLEAR Initiative? is sponsoring a day-long symposium on the comprehensive revisions for codification in Illinois' Criminal Code at the John Marshall Law School, 315 S. Plymouth Court Chicago, IL . ?Illinois' Criminal Code was last rewritten 45...

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