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They're gonna find out who's naughty and nice

Posted on September 04, 2009
The Florida Board of Bar Examiners will be checking the Facebook and other social networking sites of bar applicants who: are required to establish, under 3-13(d) of the Rules of the Supreme Court Relating to Admissions to the Bar, that...


How to be a Monster in the Law Library

Posted on September 04, 2009
Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog


Stimulus Checks used to serve warrants in Ft. Lauderdale

Posted on September 03, 2009
Findlaw covers the police ruse incorporating bogus stimulus checks that nabbed 76 individuals recently. Findlaw


Math Majors score the Highest LSATs

Posted on September 01, 2009
See the full ranked list of majors and LSAT scores from TaxProf Blog. My own major, history, had a respectable showing! Commentary at ATL.


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A rare Sunday Funny...

Posted on August 30, 2009


For Those of You Concerned About the Effects of Swine Flu

Posted on August 28, 2009
We offer for your consideration The Eye of the Beholder.


Legal Forms

Posted on August 27, 2009
Many law library patrons are in need of a form. This blog post from Justice/e-learning provides a good list of free or nearly free form websites to choose from: Forms. tip: Futurelawyer


Trouble concentrating? Blame your media habits

Posted on August 26, 2009
An article in Wired Science discusses a study which identified a connection between multi-tasking behavior (simultaneously watching TV, reading e-mail, browsing the web and talking on the phone) and an inability to concentrate. When self-identified multi-taskers were tested on a...


Why Many Federal Bills Go Nowhere

Posted on August 26, 2009
Less than a percent of bills find their way into Law; the process and how to spot the winners are in this intriguing OpenCongress post.


Florida Public Records and Public Meetings in the Sunshine

Posted on August 25, 2009
From our friends at OpenTheGovernment.org: The First Amendment Foundation announced dates for one day training session on Florida's public records and public meetings requirements. All attendees also receive a Government-in-the-Sunshine Manual, which contains the most current Florida public records and...


Japan's Jury Experiment

Posted on August 24, 2009
Japan's first jury trial in 60 years is detailed in this interesting article from the Jurist.


Rules for Using Law Library Reference

Posted on August 21, 2009
Thanks to Mary Rumsey, Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian at the University of Minnesota.


Own Your Own Information

Posted on August 21, 2009
Everybody has a Facebook page these days. Even the Law Library and Technology Center has a Facebook page. Facebook claims more than 250 million "active users." There are lots of networking benefits attached to a Facebook page, but there is...


Legal Publishing in Trouble?

Posted on August 20, 2009
The article 'Trouble in Dayton' suggests so. The high profits of Reed Elseiver (owners of Lexis Nexis) may be unsustainable.


NARAtions

Posted on August 19, 2009
The National Archives now blogs: NARAtions


Congratulations, FAMU! College of Law Wins ABA Accreditation

Posted on August 19, 2009
The ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar granted full accreditation to the public university law school on July 30. The law school, which opened to students in 2002 and gained provisional accreditation in...


United Nations' International Day of Peace, September 21, 2009

Posted on August 18, 2009
Since 1981, the United Nations has been promoting an International Day of Peace (IDP) as a ?day of global ceasefire and non-violence". This year, leading up to the September 21 observance, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon started a campaign with the...


The Truth About Law School

Posted on August 14, 2009
Hat tip to Chuck Newton!


Future Web 2.0: Google Wave

Posted on August 13, 2009
A wave will be a hybrid email, wiki, and IM all in one. The video and description of this latest Google effort is here.


The President's Reading List

Posted on August 12, 2009
A list of books President Obama has been reading is compiled in this list by the Daily Beast.


Excellent Discussion of Network Neutrality

Posted on August 11, 2009
If you know what network neutrality is about, you should read this blog post by Carrie Lowe. It originally appeared in Save the Internet's blog, but I read it in District Dispatch blog from the Washington Office of the American...


Social Networking Meets Shepards

Posted on August 07, 2009
Thanks to Courtoons and David E. Mills


Complete Law Papers of Lincoln online

Posted on August 07, 2009
The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln can be searched in full-text. Images of the cases, letters, and memos are organized into subject and by jurisdiction. Tip: find the one case Abe argued before the US Supreme Court. LPAL


Thinking, And Acting, Like a Lawyer

Posted on August 07, 2009
Readers of Novalawcity may recall a previous post about Paul Lippe's critique of legal education in the United States. Along those lines, a symposium called "It's More than Grades: Matching Law School Preparation with Employers' Needs" was conducted at the...


GovTwit (!)

Posted on August 04, 2009
I think I would have favored the name GovTweet, but GovTwit - "the Government Twitter Directory ... of 2,217 Twitter users, 60,295 tweets and 20,879,938 followers" - is still a useful site. The site was started in late 2008 by...


LexTweet

Posted on August 03, 2009
Check out LexTweet , a Twitter feed which allows you to follow members of the legal community who use Twitter to discuss the law. The Tweeters there post a variety of interesting links, whatever catches their interest in their legal...


FreelanceLaw.com

Posted on July 31, 2009
Still in beta, FreelanceLaw.com is "A national database of freelance attorneys, paralegals, and other legal professionals, offering their services to law firms on an independent contractor basis." It was founded by San Diego lawyer Melody A. Kramer, and reports over...


Exciting New, Drug-Free Soporific

Posted on July 31, 2009
From the inimitable David E. Mills, at Courtoons.


The Scoop on Lawyers and Law Firms on Facebook

Posted on July 31, 2009
The rising number of lawyers & firms using Facebook is clear from this list at JD Scoop.


Activity for an Idle Summer Day

Posted on July 30, 2009
Vote for your favorite legal TV show at the ABA Journal's website. Hat tip to Law Librarian Blog.


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