Quoting from the 2011 LSSSE Report: Promising Findings The vast majority of students rated their overall law school experience favorably; 83% reported that their experience in law school was good or excellent. Eighty percent of students said that they definitely…
Reminder: LawLibCon’s 2011/2012 Year in Review Set for This Afternoon
20
Jan
LawLibCon regulars, Rich Leiter, Roger Skalbeck and Marcia Dority Baker, along with today’s guests, Ken Hirsh, Sarah Glassmeyer and Elizabeth Farrell, will be discussing last year’s developments in legal bibliography and law librarianship as well as prognosticating about about what…
Megaupload Shut Down By DOJ For Piracy
20
Jan
Megalupload, send me a file, as the song goes. Well, no more as the United States Justice Department shut the site down and arrested several executives on various charges of criminal copyright infringement. The indictment, as reported, claims the company…
CALI’s New Booth Bunny
19
Jan
Sarah Glassmeyer reflects on representing an exhibitor instead of being a conference attendee. See A Booth Bunny’s Tale (“[T]o say I was dreading this duty was putting it mildly really. I don’t schmooze well. I’m pretty introverted. … It is…
Congressional Lawmaking: A Perspective on Secrecy and Transparency
19
Jan
From the summary of the CRS Report, Congressional Lawmaking: A Perspective On Secrecy and Transparency, (R42108) (November 30, 2011): Openness is fundamental to representative government. Yet the congressional process is replete with activities and actions that are private and not…
Legal Forms UK British Legal Forms
18
Jan
Legal forms UK Free 100s of plain english legal articles for British legal issues. Court and magistrate links, UK legal resource
links and British legal documents to solve legal problems in United Kingdom.
Supreme Court Action: Ineffective Assistance, Federal Question Jurisdiction, and the (Shrinking) Public Domain
18
Jan
The Supreme Court issued three opinions this morning. The first is Maples v. Thomas (10-63). Maples was convicted of murder in Alabama and sentenced to death. He sought post-conviction relief in Alabama state courts as represented by two pro bono…
Save the Date: Free Enhanced eBooks and Apps Best Practices Webcast on Jan. 19th
18
Jan
Presented by Digital Book World and sponsored by Constellation, “Enhanced Projects Best Practices” is a free one-hour webcast that will be broadcast on January 19th at 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST, and 6 PM GMT. From Digital Book World’s…
Reforming Law Schools And The Job Market: What To Do, If Anything?
17
Jan
The discussion on what to do about law schools finds the Wall Street Journal on the dishing end with two articles. One is about how to reform legal education. The basic suggestion is to open up legal training by making…
