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Healthcare Reform Legal Essentials

Posted on January 14, 2010
The American Health Lawyers Association's Healthcare Reform Legal Essentials is intended to provide a ?one-stop? source for accessing Association content on healthcare reform, including news on the latest developments, insights and analysis from AHLA members, information on state healthcare reform...

Please, Sir, May I Have Another Footnote

Posted on January 14, 2010
Hat tip to Paul Lomio on Legal Research Plus for calling attention to Duke law prof Joan Magat's Bottomheavy: Legal Footnotes [SSRN]. From the abstract: For decades, legal footnotes have been the deserving target of both ample criticism and self-mockery...

China Cyber Attacks Exploited IE Flaw

Posted on January 14, 2010
McAffee has analyzed some of the attack strategies allegedly from China on systems from Google and other companies. The hackers responsible used a new, unpublicized exploit in Internet Explorer to accomplish their intrusions. The flaw exists in all versions of...

Library Standards: Debating Reader Privacy Issues in a Digital World, UNC Law Conference Set for Jan. 22

Posted on January 14, 2010
Should we retain traditional notions of reader privacy in an ever-expanding world of electronic formats and communications mediums? Do traditional library standards still apply? In honor of Data Privacy Day, the University of North Carolina School of Law, together with...

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No Longer Willing to Censor Google.cn Search: Google Reviewing Business Operations in China After Attack on Its Infrastructure

Posted on January 13, 2010
Google reported yesterday that an alleged attack on its corporate infrastructure last month originating in China and targeted the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists. On the Official Google Blog, David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer,...

Taking the Proverbial Bull by the Horns: AALL as an Agent of Change

Posted on January 13, 2010
Looking back in LLB Turns Five Years Old: Another Day, Another Post, I mentioned that it was a fair assessment to characterize 2009 was the year the legal information professional blogosphere became the consumer advocate for legal resources users, individual...

Stuck in a Search Engine Rut?

Posted on January 13, 2010
Michel-Adrien Sheppard (a/k/a Library Boy) is dead on when he writes "we don't like to admit it, but we all have a favourite search engine we use all the time, despite the fact that numerous studies show that the results...

CRS Report: Amendments Between the Houses

Posted on January 13, 2010
In Amendments Between the Houses: Procedural Options and Effects (Jan. 4, 2010), the Congressional Research Service explains how the House and Senate resolve differences between versions of legislation. Excellent for an ALR course reading assignment. [JH]

Some Thoughts on Google's China Action

Posted on January 13, 2010
The blog post announcing Google's possible/likely retreat from the Chinese market due to cyber attacks on its systems has a number of repercussions on other technology companies doing business within China. Specifically, Microsoft and Yahoo will be forced to make...

Nominations Sought for AALL Emerging Leader Award

Posted on January 13, 2010
The AALL Leadership Development Committee is seeking nominations for the Emerging Leader Award. The award recognizes newer members of AALL who have made significant contributions to the Association or to the profession and have demonstrated the potential for leadership and...

Turning Law School Accreditation Over to the Corrupt?

Posted on January 12, 2010
In a knee-jerk reaction to the the current labor market, Mark Greenbaum, a DC attorney and writer, calls on the federal government to consider taking steps to "stop the flow of attorneys into a saturated marketplace" in a Los Angeles...

New Features Added to THOMAS

Posted on January 12, 2010
Several new features have been added to THOMAS. To increase visibility and accessibility of the GPO's PDF versions of bill text, PDF links on the bill version listing page have been added. Very helpful as is the increased timeout interval...

Does Social Networking Negatively Affect Students? Grades?

Posted on January 12, 2010
Apparently not, according to a new study by the University of New Hampshire School of Business & Economics. In Social Networking Usage and Grades Among College Students, 1,127students from all colleges at the university were surveyed. "The study found no...

Today is World's Fair Use Day

Posted on January 12, 2010
Today is the first annual World?s Fair Use Day (WFUD), all-day celebration of the doctrine of fair use. WFUD will take place at the Newseum in Washington D.C. It is organized by Public Knowledge, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit, consumer-advocacy group...

Defendant in File Sharing Case Asks For Retrial: Some Thoughts

Posted on January 12, 2010
Joel Tenenbaum, found liable by a jury in federal district court for copyright infringement by sharing files, last week filed a motion for a retrial and a reduction in damages. His lawyer, Charles Nesson, has characterized Tenenbaum's file sharing as...

Video Broadcasting of Propostion 8 Trial Set to Begin Today

Posted on January 11, 2010
Despite objections from Proposition 8 supporters, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R Walker's request for broadcasting Perry v. Schwazenegger, 3:09-cv-02292, was granted by the 9th Circuit Judicial Council last week. The historic trial of the lawsuit challenging California's ban on...

WEXIS Meets Web 2.0 & Web 3.0: Will Cobalt Satisfy the High Expectations of the Not-So-New Generations of Experienced Researchers?

Posted on January 11, 2010
Jason Wilson reports on what's known and unknown about Project Cobalt, the soon to be appearing new platform for Westlaw at Westlaw 2.0: Project Cobalt. This is a highly recommended post for its detailed information. Greg Lambert is reporting the...

AALL Call for New Product Award Nominations; Submissions Due by Feb. 1

Posted on January 11, 2010
The New Product Award honors a new and innovative commercial legal information product that enhances or improves existing law library services and/or procedures. New products may include, but are not limited to, printed material, computer hardware and/or software, or other...

"Blurry-Edged" Social Networks

Posted on January 11, 2010
Privacy, Free Speech, and 'Blurry-Edged' Social Networks [SSRN] by Stanford Law's Lauren Amy Gelman, 50 Boston College Law Review ___ (2009) discusses the technological, social, and legal regimes that have combined to create the tension between the positive benefits for...

Google Toilet Paper

Posted on January 11, 2010
It's a headline grabber, isn't it? See for yourself (via Mashable). [BA]

Here's a good idea: France considers a "right to forget law"

Posted on January 11, 2010
One of the unintentional consequences of the Web 2.0 is that once you, or someone else, has posted an embarrassing photo, gossip or other unwanted personal information, it's there forever. As a result, the French are considering addressing this problem...

Barnes & Noble to begin offering textbook rentals to students

Posted on January 11, 2010
From the Chronicle of Higher Ed: Barnes & Noble's college-bookstore division has entered the growing field of textbook rental for college students, the bookseller announced Monday. After testing the waters with a pilot program, the service has expanded...

News Organizations Support NU Innocence Project Students

Posted on January 11, 2010
The journalism students at the Northwestern University got a little help today in their battle with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office over evidence they colleted in the case of Anthony McKinney. The State challenged the motive of the students...

How Piracy is Distroying the Book Publishing Business on the Colbert Report

Posted on January 10, 2010
On the Colbert Report, author Sherman Alexie rails against digital technology, eBooks and how "piracy" was destroying the book business. "The whole thing was odd not just because of how uninformed it was, but also because he seemed to contradict...

Are Your Senators and Congressional Representatives Just Scraping By?

Posted on January 10, 2010
Who are the richest members of Congress and who are cutting coupons out of the Sunday paper? Check out the Center for Responsive Politics database for your lawmakers' personal finances: net worth, assets, liabilities, and the always interesting outside income...

New Year's Deans

Posted on January 09, 2010
Gail Agrawal has be appointed Dean at Iowa [Press Release] and Mark Niles Dean at Seattle [Press Release]. Hat tip to Brian Leiter's Law School Report for both. [JH]

Round-Up of State Practitioner Blogs

Posted on January 09, 2010
Silicon Valley Immigration Lawyer Blog http://www.siliconvalleyimmigrationlawyer.com http://www.siliconvalleyimmigrationlawyer.com/index.xml Analyzes immigration law opinions, matters and reports in California. Published by The Gee Law Firm. Fort Lauderdale Injury Lawyer Blog http://www...

Job Search Advice for Terminated West Library Relations Staffers: Send Resumes to Legal Publishers Who Are Interested in Maintaining Goodwill with Their Law Library Clients

Posted on January 08, 2010
Greg Lambert is breaking the news that five of West's Thomson Reuter's Library Relations Program 15 staffers will be laid off by the end of January, reporting that the layoffs affect staff in the small to mid-size regions of the...

Friday Fun: The Really Big Picture

Posted on January 08, 2010
Welcome to the first Friday Fun post of the new year, clearly LLB's most popular regular feature. Yes, we skipped last Friday because, well, it was a holiday, and I was cogitating on other matters. Seems fitting that we start...

LexisNexis (But Apparently Not Westlaw) Resources Indexed by Bing

Posted on January 08, 2010
In Using Bing Search Engine for Foreign Legal Research, Sergio Stone notes that Bing appears to be indexing some LexisNexis resources, free material and resources behind the LexisNexis pay wall. You will find both from his search for "russia lexis...

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