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Habitat for Profanity: Broadcast TV?s Sharp Increase in Foul Language

Posted on November 14, 2010
The Parents Television Council has documented a sharp rise in the frequency and harshness of profanity being used on prime-time broadcast television in a special comparative analysis of the fall 2010 and 2005 seasons reported here. [JH]

Court Voids Jury Verdict: Evidence Does Not Support Woman "Going Wild" in "Girls Gone Wild" Video.

Posted on November 13, 2010
So ruled a St. Louis judge who thrown out a jury verdict in an involuntary nudity case, finding that the evidence showed a woman did not consent to appearing topless in a "Girls Gone Wild" video by dancing flirtatiously for...

Friday Fun: Shelving Books on the Night Shift Music Video

Posted on November 12, 2010
By Reina del Cid. See her YouTube Channel for more. [JH]

Law Firm Hiring Model Adjusting to New Economic Reality of Legal Services Industry

Posted on November 12, 2010
Indiana-Bloomington Law prof and Legal Profession Blog co-editor William Henderson observes that the traditional law firm hiring model that focused on law school pedigee and grades did a "poor job of selecting candidates who will succeed in today's marketplace...

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Prosecutorial Power and Accountability

Posted on November 12, 2010
Hat tip to CrimProf Blog for calling attention to the following two articles: Ronald F. Wright (Wake Forest) & Marc L. Miller (Arizona), The Worldwide Accountability Deficit for Prosecutors [SSRN] From the abstract: In democratic governments committed to the rule...

Veterans Day 2010: Most Every Family Has a Story to Tell as We Recognize Our Stakeholders in America

Posted on November 11, 2010
For LLB's Veterans Day 2008 post I reported that "there are about 23.3 million living veterans (war and peacetime) and about 37 million dependents of living veterans and survivors of deceased veterans. Together they represent 20% of the US population...

Friday Fun on Wednesday: Heroic Librarians Who Have Saved Worlds

Posted on November 10, 2010
In view of tomorrow's Veterans Day Holiday which our little county law library observes and which means I'm parlaying that by taking Friday off for a four-day weekend with the best of intentions of not turning on my computer for...

Looks Like the 112th Congress May Examine Facebook's "Breach of Privacy" for Consumer-Tracking Technologies

Posted on November 10, 2010
Let's file this under "When the Wall Street Journal writes, Congress listens". See LLB's Oct. 18, 2010 post, Despite Applying Facebook's Strictest Privacy Settings, Popular Facebook Apps Transmit Personal Information to Advertising and Data Collection Firms...

State Workers' Compensation: Social Networking Sites as Evidence to Resolve Civil Disputes

Posted on November 10, 2010
Gregory M. Duhl (William Mitchell College of Law) and Jaclyn S. Millner (Fitch, Johnson, Larson & Held, P.A.) have uploaded Social Networking and Workers? Compensation Law at the Crossroads to SSRN. The authors examine how social networki sites, meaning postings...

New GAO Reports Focus on EPA Library and NARA Operations

Posted on November 10, 2010
A recent report from the Government Accountability Office show that more effort is needed from the EPA regarding its library strategy. The EPA has a checkered history when it comes to online and physical access to public documents. Regional libraries...

Sharing Software License With Third-Party Attorney for Licensee's Benefit Violated License Agreement

Posted on November 09, 2010
I have hear and read but have no direct knowledge of instances where a corporate GC who has retained outside legal counsel has provide outside counsel with user name/password login information for WEXIS legal search. Don't know how widespread the...

Blogger Survey: Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2010 Report

Posted on November 09, 2010
Since 2004, Technorati's annual State of the Blogosphere study has followed growth and trends in the blogosphere. From the Introduction to Technorati's very informative 2010 report: For 2010, we took a deeper dive into the entire blogosphere, with a focus...

Opening: Catalog Librarian, Yale Law School

Posted on November 09, 2010
Catalog Librarian Lillian Goldman Law Library Yale Law School New Haven, CT Rank: Librarian I-II www.yale.edu/jobs Schedule: Full-time (37.5 hours); Standard Work Week (M-F, 8:30-5:00) The Lillian Goldman Law Library is located within the heart of the Yale Law School...

New York Internet Sales Tax Law Constitutional, But...

Posted on November 09, 2010
The saga of state taxation of purchases made on the Internet continues with last week's decision by the New York Appellate Division, First Department. This one involves Amazon (the usual suspect) and Overstock.com. Unlike North Carolina's fishing expedition for customer...

CLEA Criticizes ABA Accreditations Standards Review Committee for "Shallow Engagement" With Stakeholders Other Than Law School Deans

Posted on November 09, 2010
In a letter to the chair of the ABA's Standards Review Committee carrying the subject line "Standards Review Committee?s Handling of the Comprehensive Review Process," (Nov. 4, 2010), the Clinical Legal Education Association criticizes the Committee's on-going work as being...

PLL Change as Opportunity Summit

Posted on November 09, 2010
As I have previously blogged, the PLL Summit will be held on Saturday, July 23, 2011 in Philadelphia. The theme of the Summit is Change as Opportunity. Plans for the Summit are proceeding quickly and the keynote speaker has been...

Ask.com Outsources Search

Posted on November 09, 2010
And so it goes. Ask.com has given up on providing home grown search and will partner with an unnamed competitor to deliver search. Ask president Doug Leeds said that competing with Google was not worth the effort to grow its...

TR Legal eBooks Available in Kindle Editions: Run with the pack strategy trumps claim of being "ahead of the curve"

Posted on November 08, 2010
When I first heard TR Legal had started publishing Kindle editions of some pBooks, it took a lot of work to find them on Amazon. Not TR Legal's fault; I've always wished Amazon would make it easier to find pBooks...

What Does the Blekko Search Engine Do?

Posted on November 08, 2010
The Blekko SE launched on Nov. 1st. Following up on Mark Giangrande's brief comments about Blekko at Cuil We Hardly Knew Ye, see also the following early reviews: Pandia Search Engine News: Search Engine Blekko, the hype and the facts...

US News & World Report to Cease Print Publication Except for Special Issues Like Law School Rankings

Posted on November 08, 2010
Last Friday, US News & World Report management informed its workforce that it is moving forward with its digital publication transition by ceasing publication of the print magazine with the December 2010 issue. From the internal memo republished here: The...

Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic Takes A Hit in the Courts

Posted on November 08, 2010
The question before the Court in Sussex Commons Associates, LCC. v. Rutgers, the State University, was whether the New Jersey Open Public Records Act (OPRA) allows examination of records relating to the Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic's representation of a client...

Round-Up of Practitioner Blog

Posted on November 07, 2010
Reno Criminal Attorney Blog http://www.renocriminalattorneyblog.com http://www.renocriminalattorneyblog.com/index.xml Reviews criminal law cases, reports and news in Nevada. Published by Routsis Gilbert Ltd. New York Estate Planning Lawyer Blog http://www...

What's an executioner to do?

Posted on November 07, 2010
Demand for sodium thiopental is exceeding supply. Why is this important? Because sodium thiopental, a fast-acting barbiturate sedative that induces a deep, comalike unconsciousness, is one of the three drugs used for execution by lethal injection by states and the...

How Many Emails Are in Your In-box?

Posted on November 06, 2010
Well, there are 3,117 in my Gmail account and I'm not even going try to count the number of emails in my employer's email account. Most but not all have been read. Some but not necessarily most have received a...

Friday Fun: Law Zoombie Wants To Go To Law School

Posted on November 05, 2010
Following up on LLB's The Law Zombie, Great as a Faculty Member, Less So as a Law School Applicant, today's Friday Fun features a cartoon clip featuring a practicing lawyer echoing the same concerns YLS Admission Dean did about "law...

ABA Ethics Formal Opinion on Lawyer Websites

Posted on November 05, 2010
The ABA's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility's Formal Opinion 10-457 provides guidance on the use of lawyer websites. From the summary: Websites have become a common means by which lawyers communicate with the public. Lawyers must not include...

Ohio July 2010 Bar Exam Results: Ranking of In-State Law Schools with 10-Year Track Record for First Timer Pass Rates

Posted on November 05, 2010
Congratulations to all who passed the July 2010 bar in Ohio. Note well law school applicants, there is no positive correlation between US News Law School Rankings and passing the bar exam. [JH] Ohio July 2010 Bar Ranking: 1st Timer...

Reminder: Law Librarian Conversations Features Author Richard Dooling Today

Posted on November 05, 2010
Lawyer, law professor and author Richard Dooling with be the featured guest on LawLibCon today. He has written several novels, including White Man's Grave which was a 1994 National Book Award finalist. He is also the author of the critically...

How Does Google Books Search Work

Posted on November 05, 2010
Unlike searching the web where Google uses link relevancy to get you to the top of the hit list, Google can't do that with the book scanning project. There are no links between the books to use. A recent post...

What is Oxford Thinking?

Posted on November 05, 2010
Copyright clearance for course packs at my institution lands in my office. For a new course in the making, I am trying to help a professor select a textbook for the class. He really likes the 2009 OU Press book...

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