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The Clinical Legal Association is Soliciting Contributions for Follow-up Book to Best Practices in Legal Education
10
Nov
The Clinical Legal Association, Best Practices Implementation Committee is planning a follow-up publication to Best Practices for Legal Education by Roy Stuckey and others. The vision of the book is to build on ideas for implementing best practices, and to…
California Enacts Book Purchase Privacy Law
04
Oct
California has enacted the Reader Privacy Act (S.B. 602) which requires search warrant to access customer data on regular and e-books purchased online or from bricks-and-mortar store. All the law and privacy groups are cheering. Here’s the ALCU press release,…
Google Books Case Gearing Up For Trial As Settlement Talks Still Going On
16
Sep
There are some developments in the Google Book Settlement talks. Search Engine Land is reporting from cited sources that Judge Chin is setting up pretrial steps with the idea that the case could go to trial sometime in mid-2012. However,…
Reminder: LawLibCon’s Teaching Legal Research: By the Book or Off the Cuff? Today at 3:00 PM EDT
16
Sep
LawLibCon is back from summer break. Today’s topic is “Teaching Legal Research: By the Book or Off the Cuff?” From the announcement: A discussion and debate about whether, when and how to use a textbook for teaching a legal research…
eReading Application Showdown
05
Aug
India Amos has launched a series of articles to analyze eReaders by functionality titled E-Reading Application Showdown on Digital Book World: The Publishing Community for the 21st Century. The areas she plans to discuss are Annotation Typography Colors and themes…
Book Review: Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage 3rd Edition
04
Aug
Oxford University Press sent a review copy of Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage 3d Edition recently. I’ve been paging through this marvelous resource regularly, which is not something I would normally do with a dictionary. In fact, calling the book…
A Little Light Reading from the ABA: Rantings of a Partner … and Pushback from the Associate
29
Jul
From the blurb: Law firm partners have no shortage of opinions about associates. And associates have plenty to say about working with partners. This new book gives both parties a forum to express their views about the current practice of…
