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Trends in Law School Applications Nationwide

Posted on March 06, 2009
Law school application levels and future projections are discussed at the National Law Journal.

International Women's Day, Sunday March 8

Posted on March 05, 2009

Librarians, Working to Put the World In Order, Or At Least to Make It Messy In An Interesting Way

Posted on February 28, 2009

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National Debt Clock

Posted on February 26, 2009
The Gross National Debt

Something Old, Something New, Something Complimentary for You

Posted on February 25, 2009
Curious if your favorite Thomson West publication has a new edition on the horizon? Check out the West Academic Faculty Online Store. A keyword or advanced search will alert you to newer editions and estimated dates of availability. Professors can...

Can't Find a Job? How Does Agency Administrator Sound?

Posted on February 25, 2009
Despite the chilling news about the lack of jobs in academia in our current hard times, it appears that there are still opportunities for legal academics. This article in The National Law Journal details the nomination of JD's with academic...

Florida Bar Selling Members' Email

Posted on February 25, 2009
Florida Bar membership has some drawbacks - including email spam linked to the practice of selling member information to third parties. ABA Journal

Florida's Rocket-Docket

Posted on February 23, 2009
Florida foreclosure hearings lasting only 15-20 seconds are featured in the WSJ article.

New Apple Laptop in the Works

Posted on February 20, 2009
Hat Tip to Law Librarian Blog

The Supreme Court Hit Parade

Posted on February 20, 2009
Here's a trivia question for you lawyers in our reading audience. Which Supreme Court case leads the list of those most-cited, according to HeinOnline's citation metrics? No peeking, now. It's Brown v. Board of Education, followed closely by Roe v....

Facebook Users Face Off with Facebook

Posted on February 20, 2009
Faced with the ire of thousands of users who objected to the social networking site's new policy on ownership of user-posted content, Facebook has done an about-face. They have dropped the changes they made to their terms of use, and...

"Why Minnesota 2008 Is Not Florida 2000"

Posted on February 18, 2009
Edward B. Foley, director of Ohio State University's Election Law @ Moritz, has posted a very interesting analysis of the current contest between Norm Coleman and Al Franken for Minnesota's senate seat. Among other points, he argues that, unlike the....

Your Life, a Facebook Production

Posted on February 17, 2009
Exploiting the nearly universal tendency of end users to click on through terms of service without bothering to read them, the social networking site, Facebook, has changed theirs in a disturbing way. They now provide that even if you terminate...

A Bit of Comic Relief for Those of Us at Work on President's Day

Posted on February 16, 2009
Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog.

American Lawyer Comments on the Job Market

Posted on February 13, 2009
American Lawyer discusses BigLaw unemployment and future trends this year. AmLaw

The Complete Stimulus Bill

Posted on February 12, 2009
Every amendment, version, and vote on the economic stimulus package in Congress is available at the website ReadTheStimulus.org.

Books We Hope President Obama Will Read

Posted on February 11, 2009
Shepard Broad Law Center's own Joel Mintz has written a chapter on how the United States has dealt with hazardous waste in an important new book, Agenda for a Sustainable America, edited by John C. Dernbach. Professor Mintz's chapter, titled...

See your name in the Next Grisham novel

Posted on February 10, 2009
West is sponsoring a cool contest with John Grisham to name a character in his next novel with the proceeds to go to the Innocence Project. Put your name in the Grisham inspired video to see, or look at the...

Plea Agreements from US District Court to be on PACER

Posted on February 09, 2009
The Southern District Court of Florida Judge Moreno ordered this beginning Feb 20th, 2009. Details

Most-Cited Legal Scholars, from HeinOnline's Law Journal Library

Posted on February 06, 2009
This list, which arguably provides a look at which legal scholars are the most influential, is headed by Richard Posner, Cass Sunstein and Richard Epstein. Further down the list of the top 50 are such luminaries of bygone years as...

Something Completely Unexpected, Unless You Were Expecting The Spanish Inquisition

Posted on February 06, 2009
Perhaps one of the most searing scenes of torture ever filmed.

11th Circuit Rules that Miami School Board Can Ban Vamos a Cuba

Posted on February 06, 2009
See this post on the First Amendment Center's blog. Read ACLU of Florida v. Miami-Dade County School Board at the U.S. Courts website.

The New Administration and the Supreme Court

Posted on February 06, 2009
The news that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was operated on for pancreatic cancer yesterday has kicked up the level of speculation about the possibility of President Obama making an appointment to the Supreme Court after the end of its present...

New "Plain English" Court Forms Online

Posted on February 05, 2009
The U.S. Courts website now has links to a number of both civil and criminal forms written in "simple, modern English". Revised by a group of judges, clerks and staffers at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the PDF...