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US News Agrees to Rank Law Schools Using Non-manipulable and Meaningful Metrics for Job Placement, Faculty and Student Quality

Posted on April 01, 2011
Details at US News to Adopt Leiter Methodology for Ranking Law Schools. [JH]

Friday Fun: Google Offers Solution to Privacy Concerns

Posted on April 01, 2011
It's opt-out village! Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village Well, thanks to the FTC's unprecedented privacy settlement with Google over the Google Buzz fiasco, it's now opt-in. But remember, May 1-7, 2011 is...

Dear SCOTUS FOIA Officer

Posted on April 01, 2011
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act as amended and regulations thereunder, this is to request copies of all emails into and out of the official federal government email accounts of Justice Scalia, Justice Thomas, and Justice Alito from March...

The Law through the Lens of Superheroes and Supervillains

Posted on April 01, 2011
I must have had a deprived childhood because I wasn't into comic books. Not that my parents wouldn't let me read them. I just wasn't into all that supperhero-supervillain stuff. Could it have been because as a kid in the...

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Google Buzz: FTC Reaches Unprecedented Privacy Settlement with Google

Posted on March 31, 2011
As paidContent's Joe Mullin reported in his March 30, 2011 article, In Unprecedented Move, FTC Will Make Google Get Users? OK To Share Data: [T]he FTC has reached a settlement with Google, forcing the search giant to meet a privacy...

40% of Internet Users Have Accessed Raw Government Data

Posted on March 31, 2011
From the Overview of Pew Internet's Government Online (2010) Government agencies have begun to open up their data to the public, and a surprisingly large number of citizens are showing interest. Some 40% of adult internet users have gone online...

Virginia Law - $40,000 a year and no job

Posted on March 31, 2011
ATL's Elie Mysal is reporting that "unemployed students at UVA Law School are protesting, blaming the law school administration for their wretched fate. Tipsters report that a number of UVA 3Ls have been menacing the 0Ls at UVA admitted students?...

RIPS Teach-In Kit Now Available: Remember National Library Week is April 10-16, 2011

Posted on March 31, 2011
Each year in conjunction with National Library Week, April 10-16, 2011, AALL's Research Instruction and Patron Services Special Interest Section publishes via its website a Teach-In Kit containing fresh materials for use in institutional, promotional and instructional activities submitted by...

Opening: Research & Faculty Services Librarian, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Posted on March 31, 2011
Research & Faculty Services Librarian IIT Downtown Campus Library Chicago-Kent College of Law & other IIT graduate programs Environment: Located in a state-of-the-art building in the heart of downtown Chicago, the IIT Downtown Campus Library primarily serves the Chicago-Kent College...

Want to Read More Than Your Monthly Quota of Free New York Times Articles?

Posted on March 31, 2011
Digital Inspiration explains how to get past the New York Times paywall. [JH]

Morris Cohen Memorial Service Scheduled for May 1, 2011

Posted on March 30, 2011
A memorial service for Morris Cohen will be held in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School on Sunday, May 1, at 2 p.m. Information regarding hotels and other matters pertaining to the service are available here. Morris Cohen was...

WestlawNext Redux

Posted on March 30, 2011
Professor Ronald E. Wheeler, Jr., Director of the University of San Francisco Law Library, has a recent paper posted on SSRN titled Does WestlawNext Really Change Everything: The Implications of WestlawNext on Legal Research. He raises some interesting questions, including...

New Marketing Analysis Software, LexisNexis Client Analysis, Launches April 1

Posted on March 30, 2011
Gone, long gone, are the days of researching Standard & Poor's, Hoover's, SEC filings and Nexis for business press news for client development purposes. On April 1, LexisNexis Client Analysis will launch. Looks like this deep analysis application could be...

Not Just Timely for Private Sector Law Librarians: Registration for the PLL-SIS Summit II: Change as Action, Change as Opportunity, Due by June 17th

Posted on March 30, 2011
Registration is now open for the Private Law Libraries SIS Change as Action Summit being conducted on Saturday, July 23, 2011, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, just before the regular 2011 AALL Annual...

New and Updated Research Guides from GlobaLex

Posted on March 30, 2011
New Guide Introduction to Eritrean Legal System and Research by Luwam Dirar and Kibrom Tesfagabir Updated Guides ?One Country, Two Systems? of Legal Research: A Brief Guide to Finding the Law of China?s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by Roy....

Opening: Reference Librarian, North Carolina Central University School of Law Library

Posted on March 30, 2011
This is an EPA (Exempt from the State Personnel Act) Position. The person in this position will serve as a member of the team of reference librarians that provide research and instructional services to the law school faculty, students and...

Supreme Court Action Today

Posted on March 29, 2011
The Supreme Court issued two opinions today and dismissed one case on the ground that certiorari was improvidently granted. The first of the full opinions is Astra USA, Inc. v. Santa Clara County (09-1273). The case is notable because it...

The Folks in the Land of 10,000 Invoices Really Love Their NDAs

Posted on March 29, 2011
From TR's Emailed Survey Solicitation: Thomson Reuters values your opinion and would like to include you in an online research survey regarding the products and services they offer. Your feedback is extremely valuable and will help us better meet the...

Landmarks in Law Reporting

Posted on March 29, 2011
In connection with Lillian Goldman Law Library's Rare Book Collection Spring 2009 "Landmarks in Law Reporting" exhibit at Yale Law School, Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian & Lecturer in Legal Research, published a series of wonderful posts on the Yale...

The Long-Term Benefits of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Model

Posted on March 29, 2011
John W. Houghton, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Australia, recently published The costs and potential benefits of alternative scholarly publishing models. From the abstract: Analysis. We examine the costs and potential benefits of the major alternative models for...

Opening: Digital Resources Librarian, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Posted on March 29, 2011
Digital Resources Librarian IIT Downtown Campus Library Chicago-Kent College of Law & other IIT graduate programs Environment: Located in a state-of-the-art building in the heart of downtown Chicago, the IIT Downtown Campus Library primarily serves the Chicago-Kent College of Law...

Justice Breyer Hopes Someone Will Read His Dissenting Opinions

Posted on March 28, 2011
During oral argument in the case J.D.B v. North Carolina last week comes the following SCOTUS exchange from the bench: ?You know the sentence I?m referring to in my dissent, presumably?? Breyer asked. ?Some people don?t read the dissents -...

Just Say "No" to the Republican Party of Wisconsin: Academic Freedom in the Public Sector vs. State FOIA Request for Prof's Emails

Posted on March 28, 2011
Hat tip to Ruthann Robson, Professor of Law & University Distinguished Professor at CUNY School of Law for calling attention to this politically motivated skulduggery, my characterization, not Professor Robson's, on Constitutional Law Prof Blog. The Wisconsin Republican Party is...

Monday Morning Fun for IT Cats: Microsoft Sam Reads Windows Errors

Posted on March 28, 2011
A big "thank you" to our our IT Cats. Here's a new Monday Morning Fun feature for them -- naughty language alert for the easily offended -- before they attack all the work orders, email messages and voice mail messages...

Opening: Research Librarian, Harris Breach PLLC, Pittsford, NY

Posted on March 28, 2011
Description: Reporting to the Director of Libraries and Research Services, the Research Librarian will conduct legal, business and other non-legal research on behalf of legal staff and clients. This position is also responsible for developing and maintaining the Library?s technology...

Gadgets in the Library: A Practical Guide to Personal Electronics for Librarians

Posted on March 28, 2011
Jason Griffey, associate professor and head of library information technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, will be conducting a two-part ALA TechSource Workshop, Gadgets in the Library, next month. From the announcement: From the iPad to eReaders, gadgets...

No Surprise: Online Research Beats Manual Research

Posted on March 28, 2011
There is a study called A Day Without A Search Engine: An Experimental Study Of Online and Offline Search, and it's getting some press. It basically compares online and manual research as conducted in a library and highlights the differences...

Round-Up of Law Practitioner Blogs

Posted on March 27, 2011
Miami Beach Injury Law News http://www.miamibeachinjurylawnews.com http://www.miamibeachinjurylawnews.com/index.xml Analyzes injury law reports, cases and news in Florida. Published by Esquenazi Law. The Employer Handbook Blog http://www.theemployerhandbook...

Cutting the Red Tape: Finding and Using E-Government Tools and Resources eCourse

Posted on March 26, 2011
Between April 4 - April 29, 2011, ALA will be conducting a four-week eCourse (accessible 24/7) lead by Diane Kovacs, who has been honored as 2000 Documents to the People Award from ALA?s Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT). Kovacs will cover...

Going Viral on Criticizing Wake Forest Law Librarians

Posted on March 25, 2011
"Someone ? claiming to be a Wake Forest law student, and calling himself or herself 'Wes Law' ? apparently woke up this morning with a bug up the ass. The object of pain was apparently the law librarians at Wake...

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