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Are a Public School Teacher's Personal eMail Messages Disclosable as a Public Record?

Posted on September 10, 2009
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide later this fall whether personal public school teacher emails are public records. The case involves a citizen request for the emails of Wisconsin Rapids School District teachers conducted at their work computers from the...

Are all law librarians legal positivists?

Posted on September 10, 2009
Or, put another way, should all law librarians acknowledge that their job is to be legal positivists? Legal Positivism is a school of Jurisprudence which holds that the only legitimate source of laws comes from written laws specifically enacted or...

After the Fact Verification of US News Clerkship Ranking Data

Posted on September 09, 2009
Two law school administrators have reported that the US News Clerkship Placement Ranking published incorrect data. The University of North Dakota School of Law Dean doesn't know where the magazine got the data for her school which resulted in North...

Satisfaction with BigLaw Career Correlated to Law School Ranking: Lower-Ranked Law School Grads Happier and More Motivated

Posted on September 09, 2009
It appears that BigLaw attorneys who graduated from less selective, that is to say, lower ranked law schools are more satisfied working in larger law firms than attorneys who graduated from top ranked schools. That's one of the conclusions Ronit...

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New FDsys Collections Include Retrospective Resources and Tools for Legislative Research

Posted on September 09, 2009
The GPO has added eight new collections into the Federal Digital System (FDsys). Legislative Resources: History of Bills (1983 to present) Congressional Record Index (1993 to present) Congressional Record (Bound) (1999 to 2001)(Authenticated digital signature) United States Statutes at Large...

Thinking Strategically Blog Launched by AALL

Posted on September 09, 2009
The AALL Executive Board Strategic Directions Committee is tasked with developing the Association's new game plan. To help it do so the Committee has created a new blog, Thinking Strategically, for member input. [JH]

Kudos to Claire Hand

Posted on September 09, 2009
Claire Hand, UNLV Wiener-Rogers Law Library Assistant, was awarded a scholarship this summer from the UNLV Office of the Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion-Multicultural Center to attend the third annual Women of Color Leadership Conference hosted by the MGM...

ALA, ARL, and ACRL Weigh In on the Google Book Settlement (One More Time)

Posted on September 09, 2009
The American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and the Association of Research Libraries have supplemented their May 4th filing with the District Court overseeing the Google Book Settlement. The supplemental filing is available from the...

New US News Law School Ranking: Judicial Clerkship Placements

Posted on September 08, 2009
U.S. News has published its first-ever ranking of which law schools are sending the largest proportions of their graduates on to local, state and federal judicial clerkships. The data was collected from each law school in fall 2008 and early...

"Website Business as Usual" Policy: Google Books Privacy Policy for Services Under Settlement Agreement Released Just Ahead of Deadline for Filing Objections

Posted on September 08, 2009
Resources from Recent Google Book Settlement Conferences On the left coast, check out Digital Koans for links to articles and posts on the UC Berkeley School of Information's Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access Conference. On the...

Recent Web 2.0 Developments for Monitoring Congress

Posted on September 08, 2009
The 111th Congress of the United States reconvenes today. In her LLRX article, The Government Domain: Tracking Congress 2.0, Peggy Garvin highlights some Web 2.0 resources to monitor legislation. The article features GovTrack.us, OpenCongress.org and two recently launched THOMAS feeds...

Opening: Head of Reference Services, Duke Law Library

Posted on September 08, 2009
The J. Michael Goodson Law Library, Duke University, invites applications for the position of Head of Reference Services. Responsibilities: The Head of Reference Services leads and works collaboratively with four law-trained reference librarians to coordinate the work of the Reference...

If someone steals your Kindle, don't expect Amazon to help

Posted on September 08, 2009
You can add this story to the recent bad press about Amazon's Kindle (i.e, the public relations snafu in July over Amazon's unilateral decision to delete certain titles from the device) - if someone steals yours don't expect Amazon to...

Musings on the ABA Questionnaire

Posted on September 08, 2009
It is that time of year when 1Ls flood the elevators and academic law librarians turn their eyes to the ABA Annual Questionnaire - an item on the "to do" list that never seems to be without controversy. This year...

And then there are the state judicial clerkships.

Posted on September 08, 2009
As a former clerk for the New Jersey Judiciary, I believe that a clerkship with a state judge is an invaluable experience. Perhaps it doesn't carry the prestige of the federal clerkship, but it was good enough for me. And...

Kirkland and Ellis Lays Off Attorneys

Posted on September 08, 2009
The recession affected yet one more law firm. Kirkland and Ellis laid off attorneys from its various local offices. Reports indicate the cuts came in the corporate and intellectual property departments. What, couldn't they find more clients who are willing...

University of Chicago Law Gets New Dean

Posted on September 08, 2009
The new Dean of the University of Chicago is Michael H. Schill, currently dean of the UCLA School of Law. The appointment takes affect of Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. Schill succeeds Saul Levmore, who had presided over the law school...

Where to Find Google Book Settlement Filings (Other Than Pacer)

Posted on September 08, 2009
Today is was the last day for comments to the District Court in the Google Book Settlement before the next hearing on October 7th. More objections have been filed at the deadline, including the French government, D.C. Comics and (finally)...

Federal Employment Forecast Offers Glimmer of Hope for Legal and Information Professionals

Posted on September 07, 2009
Based on a survey conducted by the Partnership for Public Service of 35 federal agencies representing nearly 99 percent of the 1.9 million federal workforce, the federal government needs to hire nearly 273,000 workers in mission critical jobs in the....

High Profile American Female JDs in Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women

Posted on September 06, 2009
Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women ranking include several high profile female JDs holding public office: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (36th place), First Lady Michelle Obama (40th, OK - not sure she counts as an official office-holder), Justice Ruth Bader...

Should Anyone Be Characterizing a Person's Death, even Dick Cheney's, as a "Blessed Day"?

Posted on September 05, 2009
See Jim Lindgren's Volokh Conspiracy post, Michelle Goldberg argues against heated rhetoric while mentioning that she "hated Bush so much" and talks of the "blessed day" when Dick Cheney dies. Lindgren's post title says it all. Here's the link to...

Staffing the Reference Desk Today?

Posted on September 05, 2009
God, I hope no one is stuck sitting at the reference desk today but if you are I bet you have plenty of time on your hands. Might as well take a quick look at a search engine list that...

BigLaw Attorneys May Have the Labor Day Weekend Off: Results of Above the Law's 2009 Billable Hours Poll

Posted on September 04, 2009
5,255 BigLaw attorneys had enough spare time to respond to ATL's billable hours poll asking for predicted hours for 2009. "Looks like 1600 minus billers are trending up and 2400 plus billers are trending down, writes ATL's Kashmir Hill. "We...

How "Fit" is Your Facebook Page? Florida Bar Examiners Single Out Suspected Stoners for Social Media Site Investigations as Part of Character and Fitness Review

Posted on September 04, 2009
On Legal Blog Watch, Carolyn Elefant reviews reports that the Florida Bar Examiners may search bar applicants' social media sites to hunt down evidence of suspected substance abuse. In particular the Florida Bar intends to single out the following applicants:...

ABA Journal's Legal Rebels Project

Posted on September 04, 2009
Recently launched, the ABA Journal's Legal Rebels Project will be profiling 50 of the profession's leading innovators over the course of the next three months. You can nominate a "legal rebel" you think the project should profile here. [JH]

The first "Internet addiction" center opens in the US

Posted on September 04, 2009
South Korea already has them. So does China and Taiwan. Now the US is going to get its own according to today's Washington Post. And how appropriate that it has opened outside Seattle, the same area that birthed Microsoft. The...

How to make your Facebook page "tenure-ready"

Posted on September 04, 2009
Here's some advice from the Chronicle of Higher Ed about how to tweak your social networking presence to enhance your career. The author is clearly trying to help career-minded people and is undoubtedly correct in many of his observations but...

The Future of Libraries: No Books

Posted on September 04, 2009
At least public libraries, and according to CNN. [MG]

Friday Fun: No Food In/From The Library?

Posted on September 04, 2009
A classic. [MG]

Ban on Word Stayed by Appellate Court

Posted on September 04, 2009
In an move that is hardly shocking or unexpected, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has stayed the lower court order forbidding sales of Word that violate the custom XML patent belonging to i4i. Microsoft's appeal is slated...

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