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Monday Morning Fun for Our IT Cats: The Internet is Made of Cats

19 Sep

Hat tip to Mark E. Wojcik’s International Law Prof Blog post for this gem. [JH]

 
 

Time to Use RECAP Instead of PACER?

16 Sep

As a quick follow-up to Mark Giangrande’s earlier post about PACER’s fee increase, it seems worth noting that under the new fee structure infrequent PACER users get a bit of a break as long as they do not download 150…

 

Friday Fun: Now We Know How Many Lawyers It Takes to Screw in a Lightbulb

09 Sep

Here’s proof: Hat tip to Bob Ambrogi’s LawSites post, Is This a Good Use of Video for a Law Firm? (“I like humor. Really I do. But even if the firm’s intent was to poke fun at itself, at what…

 
 

Some Thoughts On "Thinking Like A Lawyer"

09 Sep

I’ve been having this ongoing argument discussion with one of my colleagues at DePaul about the ability of law school (generally, not just mine) to adequately prepare students for the real world of law practice. Joe’s post, Resistance? No Doubt,…

 

Legal Information Institute and CALI Partner to Publish Free eBooks

06 Sep

So, it looks like my first post on Law Librarian Blog since I started working for a publisher/vendor/partner in legal information is going to be….to promote one of our products. Awkward. But it’s a FREE product! Does that help? I…

 

So what that there was a Hurricane and Earthquake–Adherence is More Important

30 Aug

I will start this post by admitting that after the events of the last week I have zero patience. We, on the East Coast, have dealt with two very unusual events for us, an earthquake and then a hurricane. I…

 

Time for AALL to "Interfere" in Licensing: An Approach for Petitioning State Governments

29 Aug

Initially I thought the title of this post would be “Time for a Model Act on Fair Use Preservation in Licensing of Electronic Content?” Certainly UNC Law’s David Robert Hansen has provided a working draft for consideration by the NCCUSL…

 

A Bit More on Senator Grassley And The ABA

17 Aug

I wrote yesterday about the most recent letter Senator Charles Grassley sent to the ABA seeking additional information about the organization’s oversight of law schools in regard to mounting graduate debt and poor job prospects. See my post Grassley to…

 

A Bit More on Senator Grassley And The ABA

17 Aug

I wrote yesterday about the most recent letter Senator Charles Grassley sent to the ABA seeking additional information about the organization’s oversight of law schools in regard to mounting graduate debt and poor job prospects. See my post Grassley to…

 

Just Trying to Survive: County Law Library Mission Statements Round-Up

05 Aug

Greg Lambert has compiled some 50 county law library mission statements. See his 3 Geeks post for details. While all are noble aspirational statements, I think the reality in this economy is that county law libraries are just trying to…