“Yes,” according to Elie Mystal. In Occupy Wall Street Needs To Occupy A Library, he writes The world is complicated. It takes a certain amount of work and study to even figure out what the hell is happening, much more…
Archive for the ‘Current Affairs’ Category
ATL’s Current Photo Caption Contest Focuses on the Shed West Era in Law School Libraries
13
Oct
Here’s the photo for ATL’s latest caption contest. Entries due by 11:59 PM today. How about “just too damn expensive to maintain in print”? Or “thank god, WEXIS doesn’t charge law schools list price because they want to addict law…
Is the Legal Profession, Is the "ABA-Legal Academy Cartel," as Future Ready for Alternative Business Structures as "Professional Legal Services" Vendors Are?
06
Oct
Readers of Richard Susskind’s The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology (OUP, 1998) and The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services, Revised Ed. (OUP, 2010) can already see forecasted changes in the provision of…
Copyright Developments In The News
05
Oct
There were three recent developments in copyright. The first is that the United States and seven other governments signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) last Saturday. Parties to the super-secret talks who have not signed yet include the European Union,…
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….
"From soup to nuts, the legal system needs an overhaul:" Glassmeyer’s Record-setting Blog Post
29
Sep
Quoting Sarah Glassmeyer from her Everything Sucks post. about which she tweets “I try for a new record on how many times a person can use the word ‘suck.'” I countered something like 35 times and that was just in…
Thomson Reuters in Turmoil: Danger Alert, It’s Time for "Chiefs" to Duck and Cover
29
Sep
Here we go … TR is executing a reorg — the Markets Division is merging with the Professional Division and the Head of the Professional Division has been appointed TRI’s COO. First Question: Why wasn’t this reorg executed last summer…
What If the Euro Fails: What Happens to Our Dependence on Multi-National Foreign-Owned Corporations for the "Oil" which Lubricates the "Law of the Land"?
28
Sep
The EU has a common currency but no unified political structure yet. For a light take on this in the context of the possible collapse of the Euro see below two recent Colbert Report segments. For something a hellva lot…
Short Takes On The News
26
Sep
The National Labor Relations Board issues a preliminary report covering investigations where an employee’s use of social media clashed with an employer’s social media policy. Though there have been reports where an employee’s criticism of an employer has been protected,…
