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Do lawyers still advertise in the Yellow Pages in the age of Web 2.0?

Posted on September 30, 2009
That's the question being asked on the Lawyerist Blog. The Yellow Pages has never seemed like a particularly good investment?for me, at least. A colleague in a similar line of business?and therefore a good test case for the kind of...

Amount of time Americans spend on social networking sites up 6% from last year.

Posted on September 30, 2009
SiliconValley.com is reporting that according to a recent Nielsen survey, Americans are spending 17% of their internet time on social networking and blogging sites like Facebook and Blogger, respectively. This represents a 6% increase from last year. Further, the report...

Kudos to Jack Borden

Posted on September 29, 2009
Texas attorney Jack Borden, 101, has been practicing law for the better part of 70 years and still spends about 40 hours a week at his office handling estate planning, probate and real estate matters. Last month, Experience Works honored...

Rate Your Legal Resources Vendors: BNA, LexisNexis, West and Wolters Kluwer

Posted on September 29, 2009
The little survey I am about to ask you to take is just an attempt to see where the law library community stands with respect to our relationships with our vendors, the big two, LexisNexis and West, and the not...

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What Are "Online-Only Works"? Newspaper Association of America Comments on Copyright Office's Proposed Mandatory Deposit of Published Electronic Works Rule

Posted on September 29, 2009
As reported earlier in LLB, the Copyright Office is proposing to amend its regulations governing mandatory deposit of electronic works published in the United States and available only online. The amendments would establish that such works are exempt from mandatory...

Legal Journalism, Then and Now: ALT's David Law Interviews Steve Brill, His Generation's Lat

Posted on September 29, 2009
David Lat, founder of Above the Law, was interviewed as part of the ABA Journal's Legal Rebels series recently. His blog now receives 8-10 million page views a month, with roughly 600,000 unique visitors a month. I never made the...

New and Updated GlobaLex Legal Research Guides

Posted on September 29, 2009
The September release of GlobaLex research guides covering international, comparative, and foreign law includes the following: New: The Indonesian Legal System and Legal Research by Alamo D. Laiman, Ronald Lengkong, Sigit Ardiyanto, Dewi Savitri Reni Updated: Researching Cameroonian Law by...

Academic Libraries of the Future: Little More Than Special Collections and Study Areas in 7 to 10 Years?

Posted on September 28, 2009
Daniel Greenstein, vice provost for academic planning and programs at the University of California System, told a room full of university librarians last week at Baruch College of City University of New York that the university library of the future....

Demolishing PACER's Pay Wall One Brick at a Time

Posted on September 28, 2009
In case you missed it (sorry Erika, I did), check out Stanford Law School Library Deputy Director Erika Wayne's National Law Journal Article entitled What Public Access? Law School Libraries Should Not Have To Pay for PACER. Wayne argues that...

CRS Reports: The Long and the Short Takes on Federal Qui Tam Statutes

Posted on September 28, 2009
Qui Tam: The False Claims Act and Related Federal Statutes presents a "brief discussion" of the constitutional questions raised by qui tam provisions; of the history of such provisions; and of the three existing federal qui tam statutes?the False Claims...

Boston College Law Students Spoof Fitzgibbon's Anti-Gay Marriage Ad

Posted on September 28, 2009
And here it is: Hat tip to ATL's Elie Mystal who is also reporting that BC law prof Scott Fitzgibbon has not responded to calls for public debate about the matter, has refused to answer questions from the Eagleonline, a...

Response to a Reader Question

Posted on September 28, 2009
A reader writes: I don't know if you seen this yet, but the Wall Street Journal just published a great piece making an argument that Google -- considered a proponent of net neutrality -- isn't exactly an innocent bystander in...

The "Long Walk" to Learning Outcomes Standard: Discussion Draft of ABA's Assessment of Learning Outcomes Standard Fundamentally Flawed in External Assessment Metrics

Posted on September 28, 2009
The Discussion Draft of the 300 Standards prepared by the Student Learning Outcomes Subcommittee of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar's Standard Review Committee was made available at the Legal Education at the Crossroads Version...

Legal Information Institutes in India and New Zealand

Posted on September 27, 2009
The India Legal Information Institute's Talwant Singh provides a brief overview of the Institute's origins and services in Introduction to the India Legal Information Institute, International Journal of Legal Information: Vol. 36: Iss. 2, Article 11 (2008)...

Polanski Arrested on Statutory Rape Charge, Victim Now 45 Years Old

Posted on September 27, 2009
Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on a warrant stemming from a decades-old statutory rape charge, according to this CNN report. The director pleaded guilty in 1977 to a single count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, acknowledging...

Library of Congress Launches Read.gov

Posted on September 27, 2009
Hat tip to ResourceShelf for calling attention to the launch of LC's Read.gov, a multimedia website intended to promote books, reading, literacy and libraries. See also LC's news release. [JH]

Twitter set to raise $100 million in capital, valuing it at $1 billion

Posted on September 27, 2009
The New York Times is reporting that Twitter, a company with a total of 60 employees, has announced plans to seek $100 million in investment capital which will value the company at $1 billion. To date, Twitter has generated "no...

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Random Library News for Sunday

Posted on September 27, 2009
An essay by a 10 year, 10 month old Paul McCartney was found in the Liverpool Library, which plans to put the document on display in 2013. Why so long? The writing was for a contest in which McCartney won...

AT&T Protests Google Voice Discrimination to FCC

Posted on September 26, 2009
Friday ended with the opening of another battle between AT&T and Google. This time it's over Google Voice. The application/service (I'm not sure which label applies, and this may be important) allows users to aggregate existing phone numbers to receive...

Banned Books Week Begins Today

Posted on September 26, 2009
Since 1982, the ALA has sponsored this event to remind us not to take our intellectual freedom for granted. ALA reports that there were 581 challenges to books in schools and libraries in 2008; however,the Banned Books Week web sight...

Ah, the Good Old Days: Dedicated Legal Research Terminals, Keyboard Overlays ...

Posted on September 26, 2009
Along the way to completing an ILL request, look at what Sarah Glassmeyer found. I had one of these dedicated terminals on my desk. Thanks for the walk down memory lane Sarah. Note the generational gap in two comments to...

Round-Up of State Personal Injury Practitioner Blogs

Posted on September 26, 2009
Kentucky Injury Attorney Blog http://www.kentuckyinjuryattorneyblog.com http://www.kentuckyinjuryattorneyblog.com/index.xml Covers injury law reports, cases and opinions in Kentucky. Published by Miller & Falkner. Washington DC Injury Lawyer Blog http://www...

Friday Fun: Nouveau Poor Facing Discrimination From Old Poor

Posted on September 25, 2009
From The Onion, of course. [JH] Report: Growing Ranks Of Nouveau Poor Facing Discrimination From Old Poor

First Digitally Signed Order Issued by US District Court Magistrate

Posted on September 25, 2009
The order was executed by the John M. Facciola, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, and it took place on August 26, 2009 according to this press release which promotes the technology used with...

Google Doesn't Use Keyword or Description Meta Tags in Page Rankings

Posted on September 25, 2009
Just in case you didn't know and having been spending way too much time to get web page meta data "just right," Google ignores keyword and description meta tag data in its SE page ranking. Hasn't been using the meta...

Desperately Seeking Publicity: We Got Cited! We Got Seats!

Posted on September 25, 2009
So last June SCOTUS favorably cited a 13 year old article published in the Tulane Maritime Law Journal. Like Madonna desperately seeking publicity by pulling out her tried and tested move - a lesbian kiss - the Tulane Law School...

Justice Kennedy Shovels Dirt for New McGeorge Law Library

Posted on September 25, 2009
How many Universities break ground for a new Law Library, and how many of them get a Supreme Court Justice to help them when they do? Justice Anthony Kennedy did just that at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School...

Oregon Bar Offers Fastcase to All Oregon Lawyers Via License

Posted on September 25, 2009
Fastcase and the Oregon State Bar Association announce what amounts to a state wide site license to the Fastcase legal database. 16,000 Oregon attorneys will have access. This kind of makes me wonder how much a primary law online collection...

Top 10 Federal Agencies By Facebook and Twitter Subscribers

Posted on September 25, 2009
According to Federal Computer Week (links to reports embedded in column headings). Facebook Fans Twitter Followers White House: 327,592 Marine Corps: 83,144 Army: 49,416 CDC: 21,257 State Department: 16,386 NASA: 7,768 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: 6,536 Library of Congress: 6,520...

Attention Legal Research and Writing Profs: Example of How Not to Draft Court Filings Provided by Judge's Mark-Up of One; Note the Order

Posted on September 25, 2009
Hat tip to ATL's Elie Mystal for calling attention to this one! A local attorney in Daytona Florida, received "editing assistance" from U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell in the form of this order: This matter came before the Court without...

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