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New Legal Skills Textbooks from Carolina Academic Press

13 Jan

Federal Legal Research by Mary Garvey Algero, Spencer L. Simons, Suzanne E. Rowe, Scott Childs, Sarah E. Ricks Forthcoming January 2012 Federal Legal Research explains how to conduct research in the U.S. Constitution and in federal cases, statutes, and administrative…

 

Piggybacking on Students’ Free WEXIS Access by Practitioners: "No can do" says Utah State Bar

04 Jan

It’s a widespread and fairly well-known practice that one “benefit” of hiring a law student as a law clerk is access to free WEXIS legal search. However, under Westlaw’s “Educational Purposes” and Lexis “Academic Purposes” licensing agreement clauses with law…

 

Court Questions Existence of An Academic Privilege of Confidentiality

19 Dec

There’s an opinion out of federal district court in Boston from last Friday that’s making the rounds of academic news sites. It’s the case In Re: Request from the United Kingdom Pursuant to the Treaty Between the Government of the…

 

Right-sizing Academic Law Library Print Collections in and for the 21st Century: Cornell substituting print with digital like "all other top law schools are doing" but consequences need to be addressed

23 Nov

Most every academic law library director knows that when their institutions need more space, the law library’s big footprint on the blueprint becomes an attractive target for a land grab. Law firm directors too. At least since the hiring boom…

 

Opening: Associate Dean for Information Services, Wake Forest Univ. School of Law

16 Nov

The Position: Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, invites applications for the position of Associate Dean for Information Services. The Associate Dean for Information Services oversees the library and information technology services that support the academic,…

 

Fighting for Open Access in Academic Legal Publishing

28 Oct

During this year’s Open Access Week, CALI Director of Content Development Sarah Glassmeyer published the first post-launch announcement feature on the new CALI Spotlight blog. In Why We Fight, Sarah writes: I feel like OA doesn’t get as much traction…

 

And the Winner in ATL’s Shed West Print Era in Academic Law Libraries Photo Caption Contest Is

18 Oct

Having catalogued the total number of volumes, microfilm, microfiche, and titles, this dumpster is hereby accredited. – ABA Details on ATL here. Image suitable for framing in Lexis, Fastcase, Bloomberg Law and Wolters Kluwer executive offices below (click to enlarge)…

 

Declining Academic Credentials of 1Ls: Will the mad dash to fill seats in the legal academy put lower-tier law schools at risk of losing ABA accreditation?

14 Oct

After presenting a statistical analysis showing that enrollment rates at ABA law schools have been increasing while LSAT takers and law school applicant rates have been declining over time, Gary Rosen writes If the sharp drop in takers in June…

 

Every Little Fraction of a Point Matters: A Brief (Don’t Know If Complete) Chronology of the Univ. of Illinois College of Law Administration’s Unethical Conduct

30 Sep

2011: Gaming academic credentials of 1Ls since Class of 2011 Illinois Law Academic Credentials Median LSAT Median GPA Class of 2014 163 (not 168) 3.7 (not 3.8) Class of 2013 167 3.6 (not 3.8) Class of 2012 165 (not 166)…

 

Opening: Reference and Electronic Technologies Librarian, Northern Illinois University College of Law

22 Aug

DAVID C. SHAPIRO MEMORIAL LAW LIBRARY NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW POSITION: Reference and Electronic Technologies Librarian ACADEMIC RANK: Assistant Professor, Law Library DUTIES: Provide reference service to faculty, students and other library users. Teach legal research to students…