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Do you have an elevator pitch?

11 Oct

As some of you reading LLB might know, a few weeks ago I moved from New York to Honolulu to take a new position on the faculty at the Richardson School of Law – where I am the Library Director…

 

Lost and Found: The Castro Arizona Law Alternative Careers Handbook

06 Oct

Commenting on LLB’s Perhaps Fidel Castro Isn’t a Good Example of an Alternative Career: Arizona Law’s Handbook Disappears from the Web, the author of In Tough Job Market, Law Grads Use J.D.s for Nonlegal Work (US News, Sept. 30, 2011),…

 

TR Legal’s Mike Dahn on WestlawNext, WestSearch, and Haters: Part 2

05 Oct

Part 2 of Jason Wilson’s interview with Mike Dahn is now online. Do check out Mike’s response to Jason’s question: Lately we’ve seen a very lengthy criticism of WestlawNext by an anonymous author over at LLB. Any response to that?…

 

Clearing the Lungs

01 Oct

The Daily Beast offers many not-so-fun facts about the American workforce in an infograph published at Land Of The Free, Home Of The Workaholics. Hat tip to LLB co-editor Mark Giangrande. Many thanks. Hacked up some phlegm over this one….

 

Girls (Strike out that) Law Profs Gone Wild

26 Aug

The once anonymous “LawProf” blogger of Inside the Law School Scam has identified himself. As most readers of LLB know, Mark Giangrande reported that he is Colorado Law prof Paul Campos. I don’t know if the WSJ Law Blog broke…

 

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a TR Tax & Accounting Catalog on the Same Day as an Advance Renewal Invoice for a WG&L Print Title

19 Aug

I should add luckily both appeared before my wondering eyes on the same day … that would be yesterday. While any regular reader of LLB knows that I am less than delighted with the editorial quality and pricing of many…

 

A Little More on Drexel Law’s ABA Accreditation

09 Aug

Opened in the fall of 2006, the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel recently received ABA accredition as Mark Giangrande posted on LLB earlier this week. Folks may recall that when plans for the law school were announced in…

 

Round-Up of Law Practitioner Blogs

25 Jul

We’ve fallen behind in LLB’s regular Sunday Round-Up of Law Practitioner Blogs feature. So in an effort to start catching up, here’s a listing of blogs that may be of interest. While most law practitioner blogs tend to focus on…

 

New Academic Law Library Directorship Appointments: Vicki Szymczak (Hawaii) and Teresa Stanton (Florida International)

11 Jul

Vicki Szmczak, Library Director at Brooklyn Law (and long-time LLB contributing editor) has accepted a faculty appointment at the Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, and will serve as the Law School’s library director. Vicki will be making the…

 

Friday Fun: Library Public Service Desk

08 Jul

By Pearls Before Swine with a hat tip to LLB co-editor Mark Giangrande for this gem. And since it is brief, let’s add this Pearls Before Swine one about the free atlas giveaway. Plus this Pearls Before Swine one from…