Legal Research

Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable?

Posted on June 01, 2010
A recent CRS Report addresses the question: Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable? America's current account (CA) deficit (the trade deficit plus net income payments and net unilateral transfers) rose as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) from...

Opening: Associate Director for Library Services, Univ. of Connecticut School of Law

Posted on June 01, 2010
The University of Connecticut School of Law is seeking candidates for the position of Associate Director for Library Services. The University of Connecticut Law Library is a full member of the New England Law Library Consortium, an organization that increases...

Yesterday Was Quit Facebook Day

Posted on June 01, 2010
But it appears the movement has been a flop. "Despite thousands of people pledging to delete their Facebook accounts, it is thought that only around 33,000 people pressed the button" in protest of Facebook's privacy policy reports Claudine Beaumont, Telegraph's...

Two Memorial Day Addresses by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Posted on May 31, 2010
Source: Photo by SGT Parker, US Army, The Old Guard. Arlington National Cemetery's 2007 Flags In. Arlington National Cemetery In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire (1884): So to the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is...

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Round-Up of Practitioner Blogs

Posted on May 30, 2010
Florida Securities Fraud Lawyer Blog http://www.floridasecuritiesfraudlawyerblog.com http://www.floridasecuritiesfraudlawyerblog.com/index.xml Provides insight on securities fraud cases, news and reports in Florida. Published by McCabe Rabin, PA. Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog http://www...

IRS Wants Its Cut of Online Sales

Posted on May 30, 2010
A new tax law requiring the gross amount of payments by credit credit and other payment processing systems and third-party network transactions will be required to be reported annually to merchants and the IRS by way of a new IRS...

What's the Energy Consumption of a Google Search?

Posted on May 29, 2010
Simon Fodden, in his Slaw post, The Cost of Free Google Searches, has the answer along with some very interesting details about Google's efforts to keep energy costs down for the Company's million or so servers. He writes "[T]hese are...

Friday Fun: I Google You, I Google Toast With Peanut Butter and Honey

Posted on May 28, 2010
Looks like the Orange County Library System wants Google's fiber network to come to Orlando, Florida. See Get Googling Orlando for their campaign. [JH]

NALP Takes a Hard Look at Its Class of 2009 Employment Data: Nearly 25% Employed in Temporary Positions, 10% are Part-Timers and Almost 30% are Employed in Positions That Don't Require a JD

Posted on May 28, 2010
At first glance the NALP Employment Report and Salary Survey for the Class of 2009 looks surprising good: 88.3% of Class of 2009 grads for whom employment status was known are employed. That is the second consecutive year the employment...

Drafting the Next New Media Contract: Do's and Don'ts and Gotchas

Posted on May 28, 2010
Following up on LLB's earlier post, Time for Casebook Writers to Unite: Rethinking Author Contracts Because the eBook is Coming and for readers interested in the subject generally, Copyright Clearance Center's Chris Kenneally led a panel discussion about the do?s...

Researcher Infects Himself With Computer Virus

Posted on May 28, 2010
A quick read in the Chronicle of Higher Ed about an English researcher who implanted a computer chip in his hand. [BA]

TR Legal's Unsolicited Shipments are "Viewed Favorably by Most Subscribers" If "Most" is Defined as 3.7 Percent: Findings of LLB Poll

Posted on May 27, 2010
In the land of 10,000 invoices, unsolicited shipments "are viewed favorably by most subscribers" according to Anne Ellis, TR Legal Senior Director of Librarian (Marketing) Relations. That's absolutely true if "most" is numerically defined as 3.7% which is the finding...

Two Sisters: Westlaw and Lexis

Posted on May 27, 2010
The most inspired blog post on the state of WEXIS affairs has just been written by Jason Wilson. I am speechless. I am not worthy of reading his blog. I am picking up the tab in Denver. I am hoping...

TR Legal's New Panacea for the Shed West Era: Marketing Pushes Multi-Year Print Commitments and Not Just to Law Libraries

Posted on May 26, 2010
The always informative purveyor of marketing "facts," TR's Legal Current blog seems to imply that law libraries are moving to Library Maintenance Agreements to reduce West Print Spend. From Law libraries turning to Library Maintenance Agreements: One place many law...

EPA's Envirofact Database and EnviroMapper

Posted on May 26, 2010
A hat tip to beSpacific for calling attention to the EPA recently adding to its Envirofact public database more than 6,300 chemicals and 3,800 chemical facilities regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) which provides the EPA with authority...

Law School Computing, Then and Now, Sort Of

Posted on May 26, 2010
There is a recent article in Inside Higher Ed that examines the proposition that the educational market is not important, or as important as it once was to tech companies. That's not to say that vendors don't like selling equipment...

Kicking Up WestlawNext Deployment to "11:" Can't Sell It by Way of Licensing, Then Just Push the Damn Thing to Westlaw Account Holders

Posted on May 25, 2010
Guess what, apparently you don't need a WestlawNext license for your users to rack up WLN charges. That's the word. according to Tamara Avevedo's law-lib listserv post yesterday. She spoke with a Company rep who informed her that everyone with...

CALI Conference 2010: Reboot Legal Education

Posted on May 25, 2010
The only conference I've ever attended that has something going on all day, every day, of interest, without huge gaping holes of emptiness in the program like, well AALL, is CALI's annual conference. Maybe its just that I'm not all...

Oh, It's Just a "Pay Trial" to WestlawNext (Unsolicited? Apparently the Answer is "Yes")

Posted on May 25, 2010
See our earlier post which republishes Tamara Avevedo's law-lib listserv announcement. Anne Ellis responded to it today on law-lib. Bottom line, TR Legal is calling this a "pay trial" for WLN now. The Company's efforts are not an "end-around law...

WestlawNext Plan for Law Schools Coming Into View

Posted on May 24, 2010
Some of the WestlawNext plan for academics is starting to make its way to the market. The buzz is West will give all school faculty, librarians, and staff access to WestlawNext some time in July. Students will get access by...

First Look at "New Lexis:" Just Wait to Compare WestlawNext with "New Lexis" Because When a Company is in Second Place, It Tends to Try Harder

Posted on May 24, 2010
And it sounds like LexisNexis has learned a thing or two from TR Legal's WestlawNext marketing fiasco. Check out Toby Brown's Lexis Strikes Back: The New Lexis post for his brief review. Two snips about "New Lexis" from his post:...

Reminder: Topics for Today's Law Librarian Conversations Program Are Cost Effective Legal Research and Professional Librarian: An Oxymoron?

Posted on May 24, 2010
Along with the regular Law Librarian Conversations team, guests include Ryan Deschamp, author of the provocative challenge reported on LLB here, and Todd Venie. The program will start at 2:00 PM Central. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2...

New and Updated Research Guides from GlobaLex

Posted on May 24, 2010
New research guides published by GlobaLex: A Research Guide and a Bibliography for Korean Legal Resources in English by Jootaek (Juice) Lee Global Warming: A Comparative Guide to the E.U. and the U.S. and Their Approaches to the U.N. Framework...

2010 Census Participation Map

Posted on May 23, 2010
The Census Bureau's interactive visualization tool displays the 2010 mail participation rate for the percent of census forms returned by households by state, city, and zip code. You can compare to see which ones had the highest participation. [JH]

At What Point Do Public Law School Fees Make Them No Longer "Public" Law Schools?

Posted on May 22, 2010
Public law schools are supposed to be "cheaper," at least for residents, but Berkeley's fee schedule has led Chicago law prof Brian Leiter questions whether Berkeley is still a "public" law school. From Leiter's blog post: [T]otal resident fees for...

Justia's Most Popular Law Blogs, All Time, This Month and This Week

Posted on May 22, 2010
Oh boy, looks like Slaw and LLB are running neck to neck in the legal information professional blogosphere, ranking 51st and 52nd respectively in Justia's all-time most popular law blogs (I refuse to use "blawgs") out of over 3,000 listed...

Friday Fun: More Muppets Music Videos, Beaker's Ballad and Ode To Joy

Posted on May 21, 2010
We the editors of LLB, particularly Mark, can never get enough Muppets music videos. Perhaps because they oftentimes end with a backdrop full of books on shelves. Today's Friday Fun features two, the first is Bleaker's Ballad and the second,...

Who Had the "Best" Hooding Ceremony Speaker This Year?

Posted on May 21, 2010
Looks like LSU may have had the most interesting speaker, political consultant James Carville, unless UC-Irvine Dean Erwin Chemerinsky brought up last summer's dismissal of Dean Glen Weissenberger at DePaul's hooding ceremony. See TaxProf Blog's list of 2010 law school...

Hoeflich's Legal Publishing in Antebellum America: Part Business History, Part Legal History, Part History of Information Diffusion

Posted on May 21, 2010
M. H. Hoeflich's Legal Publishing in Antebellum America (Cambridge UP, April 26, 2010) "changes dramatically how we think about ?the history of the book? and legal history, both," writes North Carolina law prof Alfred Brophy. "Hoeflich brings unprecedented precision to...

LexisNexis "Streamlines" Its Librarian Relations Consultants Program

Posted on May 20, 2010
That means cutbacks, from 13 to 9 librarian relations consultants by Greg Lambert's headcount. See Lambert's Meet The Lexis Librarian Relations Consultants - What's Left of Them.... post for LexisNexis Vice President of Customer Consultants Carol Lyons Weber's explanation...

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