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Nolo's Quick LLC

Posted on March 28, 2011
By Anthony MancusoNolo’s Quick LLC provides essential information for business owners in every state. It explains the advantages and drawbacks of forming an LLC including limiting your personal liability. Library Record • Borrow it • More Titles

The Library of Pennsylvania Personal Injury Forms

Posted on March 21, 2011
By Joel Feldman, Michael L. Barbiero, and Amber Racine Anapol, Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Feldman & Smalley, P.C.Library of Pennsylvania Personal Injury Forms contains hundreds of pages of forms and information needed to prosecute a personal injury case...

The U.S. Motor Vehicle Reference Book

Posted on March 14, 2011
By Michael L. SankeyThe 2011 edition of The U.S. Motor Vehicle Reference Book is a practical, national guide to the states’ procedures for licensing, safety enforcement, and title and registration issues. This comprehensive reference is filled with facts for professionals working with state motor vehicle agencies...

IBM's "Watson" to Assist Health Professionals

Posted on March 08, 2011
A recent IBM press release announced a  multi-year research initiative  between IBM and Nuance Communications to explore the use of the Watson computing system to assist doctors and other healthcare professionals in the treatment of their patients.  Watson, of course, is the super-computer who handily beat Jeopardy super-champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, in mid-February...

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Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Federal Practice Rules Annotated, 2011 Edition

Posted on March 07, 2011
By Peter F. VairaThis comprehensive, easy-to-use paperback volume includes:  an up-to-date guide to case law interpreting and applying the Court’s Local Rules, an analysis of the history and development of the Rules and their relationship to Pennsylvania state practice, practical tips on compliance with the Rules and on interacting with the Court’s ancillary officers [...

The Way of the Lawyer: Strategies and Tactics for Negotiations, Presentations, and Litigation

Posted on February 28, 2011
By Chris Scott Graham Author Chris Scott Graham shares the skills you’ll need to succeed in the battles you’ll undertake on behalf of your clients. In book’s fifty chapters, you’ll find concrete advice for negotiating, presenting, and litigating a case, many presented though fascinating real-world examples...

Pennsylvania Forms for the Rules of Civil Procedure, 2010

Posted on February 21, 2011
By R. Stanton Wettick, Jr.This respected and extremely popular treatise has been completely updated and revised for today's practitioner by the renowned author, Judge R. Stanton Wettick, Jr.  The book includes full text of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure (excluding Rules 3001-3313 governing post-judgment proceedings),  forms prepared by Judge Wettick covering the types [...

Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions

Posted on February 14, 2011
By Shae Irving J.D. & the editors of NoloThis book digests information offered in many other Nolo Press titles. Chapters answer basic legal questions pertaining to estate planing, domestic relations, landlords and tenants, employment, small businesses, money management and debt, neighbor conflicts, elder law, and automobiles...

Student Loan Law, Fourth Edition

Posted on February 07, 2011
By Deanne Loonin, Geoff WalshThis book details all rights of student loan debtors:  financial hardship and other loan deferments, affordable repayment plans, income-contingent loan consolidations, and loan rehabilitation, loan discharges based on school closure, fraud, failure to make lowed refunds, or disability, claims for proprietary school abuses and deception, and more...

Pennsylvania Law of Probation and Parole, 3rd

Posted on January 31, 2011
By Timothy P. WileThis single-volume complete guide to probation and parole in Pennsylvania provides an exhaustive analysis of the process and laws and covers everything from initial hearing through appeals. Includes extensive citations to case law and statutory provisions...

Piercing the Corporate Veil

Posted on July 06, 2009
By Stephen B. PresserThis treatise helps you interpret the “piercing the veil” doctrine in any state jurisdiction or federal court. It examines differences among piercing doctrines in various state and federal courts and analyzes each state's leading case law...

Google “Fairness Hearing” Set for October 7

Posted on July 06, 2009
U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin has set October 7 as the date for the “fairness hearing” for the Authors Guild-Google Books settlement. If the Justice Department wants to present its views in writing — and, according to the DoJ, “the issues raised by the proposed settlement warrant further inquiry” — they have until September [...

What Happens on Facebook Stays on Facebook (For a Lot Longer Than You Want)

Posted on July 06, 2009
Ars Technica (link via Lifehacker) reports that some social networking sites are better than others when it comes to removing your uploaded images. In Late May Ars staff deleted images from Flickr, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. Links to the deleted images were broken immediately for Flickr and Twitter...

Lori Drew Walks

Posted on July 06, 2009
Last December I posted about my ambivalence with the verdict in the Lori Drew cyberbullying case. On one hand, I think she did something pretty jerky. On the other, trying to equate her violation of MySpace’s Terms of Service with computer hacking is really scary...

At Least They Have Bing!

Posted on July 06, 2009
TechCrunch reports that from March-June 2009, Internet Explorer’s U.S. market share dropped 11.4% to 54.4%. Firefox has 27.6%. Looking at the data from StatCounter this morning, I see the following breakdown (which differs from that reported in the article): Browser U...

Understanding Medical Words

Posted on July 01, 2009
Although it may look a little juvenile, I think this is a useful tutorial from the National Library of Medicine which helps you understand medical terminology.  It shows how to put words together and how to break them apart into prefixes, suffixes, and word roots...

Facebook’s Gonna Simplify the Privacy Process

Posted on July 01, 2009
WSJ’s Digist blog reports that Facebook plans to streamline and simplify the privacy options on the site. About time, too — it was a pain to wade through all those settings just to make sure I locked down all the things I needed to. And I always had this nagging feeling that I missed something...

Is Anyone Else Having This Problem With Firefox Tabs?

Posted on July 01, 2009
In the new version 3.5, one of my tabs will pop into its own new window. Randomly. Or so it seems — I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why. It’s really annoying. Sheesh.

Firefox is Getting a Bit Plump

Posted on June 30, 2009
When downloading Firefox 3.5 (twice) this morning, I noticed that it’s 10.2 MB, about 33% larger than 3.0.11. I like the New Tab button. I haven’t, as yet, tested the Private Browsing feature. Nor have I tried to see how much speedier this version is...

China Cuts PC Makers Some Slack

Posted on June 30, 2009
China’s Xinhua News Agency reports that PC makers will not be required to install the “Green Dam-Youth Escort” filtering software on new PCs as of July 1. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that the “massive installation demanded extra time”...

The Pirate Bay Goes Legit

Posted on June 30, 2009
The Pirate Bay, the notorious file-sharing site, has been acquired by Swedish (woohoo, Sweden again!) software maker Global Gaming Factory X. TPB will clean up its act, come August 2009. According to the press release, “GGF intends to launch new business models that allow compensation to the content providers and copyright owners...

I Wish It Was Like This At My House

Posted on June 30, 2009
We have 4 different mobile phones at my house. (What better way to express our individuality!) This leads to a rat’s nest of incompatible charger cables by the kitchen electrical outlet. But if we lived in Europe — and I’m voting for Sweden, woohoo! — this vexing problem would be a thing of the past...

“Orderly Shutdown” for Clear

Posted on June 30, 2009
Last week I posted about how Clear, the airport VIP service, had ceased operations. Here’s how they are dealing with your personal data and their computer storage so that there aren’t any security oopsies. Your personal data - Plan A is to sell it, if they can...

American Indian Law in a Nutshell, 5th

Posted on June 29, 2009
By William C. Canby, Jr.The book covers the essentials of American Indian law with emphasis on the governmental policies underlying it. It includes chapters on Indian gaming and Alaska native law. The guide does not cover specialized problems of Oklahoma and New York Indians, urban Indians, or native Hawaiians...

Silence is Golden

Posted on June 29, 2009
Back in 1962, President Kennedy asked members of the press to sit on the story about the discovery of Russian missiles in Cuba. This gave Kennedy about a week to try and defuse the crisis privately with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, without the pressures of intense media scrutiny and public opinion...

Firefox 3.5 Available Tomorrow

Posted on June 29, 2009
Firefox 3.5 will be released tomorrow, June 30, reports PC Magazine. According to Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox at Mozilla Corporation, “the cumulative number of direct from our website Firefox downloads should surpass 1B [that's a billion, folks] shortly after we ship Firefox 3...

The Barcode Turns 35 today

Posted on June 26, 2009
And what was the first item scanned using the device that changed retailing forever? A 10-pack of Juicy Fruit gum.

Flash Coming for Smartphones (Except the iPhone)

Posted on June 23, 2009
Adobe has announced that mobile Flash will be coming in October for Android, Symbian, Palm Web OS, and Windows Mobile. Flash on the iPhone? Don’t hold your breath. My “clunky” T-Mobile G1 is lookin’ mighty good right now.

Gimme My Iris Scan Back. And My Fingerprints Too.

Posted on June 23, 2009
Clear, the screening service that would zip you through the airport check-in process, folded yesterday. According to the Website, “Clear’s parent company, Verified Identity Pass, Inc. has been unable to negotiate an agreement with its senior creditor to continue operations...

Misrepresentation in the Life, Health, and Disability Insurance Application Process: A National Survey

Posted on June 22, 2009
By Joseph M. Hamilton, EditorThe book is organized by jurisdiction and addresses how state common law and statutes address misrepresentations in the life, health, and disability insurance application context. In addition, there is a chapter for each federal circuit that provides an overview of misrepresentations in the context of an employee welfare benefit plan [...

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