Legal Research

ALA Task Forces Work on Coordinated ALA Response to E-Book Marketplace Issues

Posted on March 09, 2011
From ALA's March 8, 2011 announcement: Recent action from the publishing world in the e-book marketplace has re-ignited interest and sparked many questions from librarians, publishers, vendors, and readers. Two ALA member task forces ? the presidential task force on...

Illustrating Legal Research Concepts Using Examples from Pop Culture: There's a Wiki for That!

Posted on March 09, 2011
I?ve Got a Hit! is a new wiki which collects examples of legal research concepts found in movies, TV shows, songs and print. Entries give detailed information about where to find the example, which research concept it demonstrates, how it...

Is WikiLeaks the whistleblowing heir of the Pentagon Papers?

Posted on March 09, 2011
Brooklyn Law School professor Derek E. Bambauer answers "no" in his Consider the Censor [SSRN]. From the abstract: This Essay argues that portrayal is false, for reasons that focus attention on two neglected aspects of the case. First, the New...

Top 25 Law Schools Ranked by Law Firm Recruiters

Posted on March 09, 2011
U.S. News ask 750 hiring partners and recruiters at law firms who made the 2010 Best Law Firms to rank the best law schools. Note that the response rate was 14 percent. From the US News story, Law Firm Recruiters...

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Status of Public Sector Information in the United States

Posted on March 08, 2011
Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons Policy Coordinator, has published State of Play: Public Sector Information in the United States [ePSI-plus]. The report examines US public sector information policy, the economic effects of open access to public data and recent developments relating...

Friday Fun on Tuesday: Andy Rooney on eBooks

Posted on March 08, 2011
Why Tuesday? Because it is just too entertaining to wait for Friday. Check out the video (and transcript) here. Hat tip to LISNews. [JH]

Supreme Court Action

Posted on March 08, 2011
The Supreme Court issued three opinions yesterday, one of which made an impact on the news. That case of the three is Skinner v. Switzer (09-9000), where the Court sided with an inmate who was seeking DNA testing on evidence...

Lexis versus Westlaw: Goldman Sachs Wants to Know Your Professional Opinion

Posted on March 07, 2011
It?s been over two years since Stanford Law Library ran a survey on Lexis versus Westlaw and Goldman Sachs thought it would be informative to see how the results would fare two years on. (Especially given the launch of several...

Some Thoughts on eBook Licensing Terms for Libraries

Posted on March 07, 2011
The news feeds picked up the move by HarperCollins to restrict library loans of ebooks to just 26. After that, a library will have to buy an additional license for another 26 loans. Rinse and repeat. The magic number of...

To post or not to post (today), that is the question

Posted on March 06, 2011
Source: Ashley Connick's Newsflash: Legal Bloggers are real people! Reflections on the #LawBlogs seminar. [JH]

Time for an eBook User?s Bill of Rights?

Posted on March 05, 2011
Check out the LISNews post on the issue and add your comments to the post if you have an opinion. [JH]

Three Law School Faculties Oppose ABA Proposal That Would Remove Tenure as Accreditation Requirement

Posted on March 04, 2011
They are Georgetown, Golden Gate University and the University of Hawaii. See the NLJ's Faculty mobilize against ABA's proposal to drop tenure requirement. Hat tip to Jim Levy, Legal Skills Prof Blog. [JH]

Friday Fun: Only one ALR assignment binder was injured in the production of this video

Posted on March 04, 2011
A law school student parody of the movie Office Space. (Naughty language alert for the easily offended.) [JH]

"Decertifying" the AAUP in Ohio Public Sector Institutions of Higher Education by Legislation: Profs as Managerial Employees

Posted on March 04, 2011
"There is an assault on public sector workers throughout many parts of this country," writes Mitchell Rubinstein in his Adjunct Law Prof Blog post, Union Busting In Wisconsin And In Other Parts of the Country, And Rubinstein should know. He...

A Glimpse at Some Public Sector Law School Dean Salaries

Posted on March 04, 2011
Hat tip to TaxProf Blog for calling attention to recent law school dean salaries. The median 2010 law school dean salary was $278,454. (The median 2010 salary for university-wide library deans was $124,750). See The Chronicle's Median Salaries of Senior...

Princeton University?s Writing Program Comes to AALL Annual Meeting

Posted on March 04, 2011
From the announcement: The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee is excited to announce a brand new, hands-on Writing Workshop to be offered at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Please join us for this rare opportunity for librarians to spend some...

Some Thoughts on the ABA and Tenure

Posted on March 04, 2011
Law.com is reporting on the latest reactions to an ABA draft which interprets its accreditation standards as NOT requiring an approved school to offer tenure to its faculty. As Joe notes in his post, the Georgetown faculty issued a resolution...

The Xtranormal Reenactment of the Keynote Speech at AALL's Vendor Colloquium

Posted on March 03, 2011
Greg Lambert writes "I know that there were a number of members that would have like to have that keynote speech live streamed, but I'm going to try to do the next best thing and use XtraNormal to create my...

iPad 2 Reviews

Posted on March 03, 2011
For initial reviews, check out TechCrunch and Engadget articles. See also Computerworld's iPad 2 announcement: Review roundup and Engadget's iPad 2 vs. original iPad: what's changed? [JH]

Librarians Call on Institutional and Individual Consumer Licensees to Boycott HarperCollins Over Plan to Cap eBook Lending

Posted on March 03, 2011
In response to HarperCollins's plans to limit libraries to 26 loans of each ebook, librarians are mounting a campaign to boycott the company. The call to boycott extends beyond institutional licensees and their patrons to encompass individual consumer licensees of...

Beyond Traditional ?Protectors and Purveyors:" Commentary Based on the Filtered Vendor Colloquium By a Legal Publisher Left Out of the Loop

Posted on March 03, 2011
Check out Jason Wilson's post based on AALL's filtered blog posting covering Law Librarian of Congress Roberta Shaffer's presentation at AALL's Vendor Colloquium on Monday. See Contents, conduits, contexts, and conductors ("As best as I can tell from Estes?s posts...

Opening: Research Services Librarian, George Mason Univ. Law Library

Posted on March 03, 2011
The George Mason University Law Library in Arlington, Virginia seeks a creative, energetic, and highly customer-oriented Research Services Librarian with legal research and teaching experience. As one of six professional librarians, the Research Services Librarian will provide legal research and...

Isn't It Time to End the Congressional "Work Product" Fiction for CRS Reports?

Posted on March 02, 2011
"In 1822, James Madison explained why citizens must have government information: 'A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern...

From What American Lawyers Earn in Major Metro Areas to BigLaw's $1,000-Plus Hourly Billing Rate Club

Posted on March 02, 2011
ABAJ's first installment of a periodic series is reporting on the geography of lawyer salaries, "showing where the jobs are and what they pay." This not some cursory journalistic exercise. The data being reported was producted by William Henderson of...

Opening: Director and Librarian, University of Michigan Law Library, Ann Arbor

Posted on March 02, 2011
Salary: Open Employer: The University of Michigan, The Law Library Category: Director and Librarian Required Education: MLS/MLIS & JDs About the Law Library of The University of Michigan. The University of Michigan Law Library is one of the world?s greatest...

Supreme Court Action With Major First Amendment Case

Posted on March 02, 2011
It's been an unusually busy week for the Supreme Court. This is the third day in a row where the Court issued opinions, including one of the type usually issued at the end of the term rather in its middle....

Harper Collins and Libraries

Posted on March 02, 2011
While the attention of law librarians everywhere was trained on Oak Brook, Illinois and news coming from the AALL Vendor Colloquium, another interesting vendor/library news story has been developing. Harper Collins has decided to change its agreement with public libraries...

Top 50 Go-To Law Schools for BigLaw Firm Hiring

Posted on March 01, 2011
The National Law Journal has ranked the top 50 law schools by percentage of grads in 2010 who found jobs at NLJ 250 firms. The top five feeder law schools for the legal academy's Class of 2010 were: Chicago Cornell...

AALL's Consumer Advocacy Origami: Day Two of the "Return on Investment" for AALL's Vendor Colloquium

Posted on March 01, 2011
As noted yesterday, no webcast, live or archived, will be available to AALL members in order to form their own opinions about today's Vendor Colloquium session. And is anyone really surprised to hear that AALL has "asked" that no live...

New and Updated Research Guides from GlobaLex

Posted on March 01, 2011
New Research Guides: The European Human Rights System by James W. Hart An Introduction to the Law of the Southern African Development Community by Dunia P. Zongwe Updated Guides: Immigration Law ? A Comparative Approach. Guide to Immigration Law of...

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