Remember TR Senior Director, Librarian Relations, Anne Ellis’ response to CRIV’s Shaun Esposito about format switcheroos to pamphet editions of West print titles previously published in hardbound volumes with pocket parts or loose-leaf sets back in November? No, well after…
Browsing On A Sunday: Secret Contracts, Another Dean Goes, and Let It Snow
19
Dec
The story of the missing Megaupload to YouTube gets stranger as time goes on. Universal demanded of the video featuring major artists in support of Megaupload be removed. The assumption was that the takedown request was filed in accordance with…
Round-Up of Law Practitioner Blogs
18
Dec
Indiana Injury And Family Lawyer Blog http://www.indianainjuryandfamilylawyerblog.com/ http://www.indianainjuryandfamilylawyerblog.com/index.xml Examines injury and family law cases, news, and opinions in Indiana. Published by Padove Law. Bay Area Divorce Lawyer Blog http://www.bayareadivorcelawyerblog.com/ http://www.bayareadivorcelawyerblog.com/index.xml Examines divorce cases, news and related matters in the San…
Become a Certified Patriot by Donating Cash to Draw Down the National Debt
17
Dec
That’s the idea behind Representative Don Young (Alaska) DebtPatriots.Gov Act of 2011. Introduced last month, H.R. 3504 calls for the creation of federal government website dedicated to collecting donations to reduce the country’s public debt. Quoting from the bill, here…
What is a Defense Attorney’s Job? Defend At Any Cost, Confuse Witnesses If Possible
17
Dec
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A Bit More On Carrier IQ
16
Dec
Senator Al Franken received letters from Carrier IQ, AT&T, Sprint, Samsung, and HTC detailing their use of Carrier IQ software as he had requested. They are available in full from Senator Franken’s Senate web page and summarized in a Bloomberg…
SOPA Mark-Up: Manager’s Substitute and Links to Webcasts of Committee Hearings
16
Dec
Text of the Manager’s Subsitute for H.R. 3261, the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, referred to in yesterday’s LLB post. Links to “official” yesterday’s and today’s webcasts (well, sort of) and more here. [JH]
Friday Fun: The Bottom Rung Job
16
Dec
Bitter Lawyer’s Matt Ritter writes “Bottom Rung out of my own experience doing document review in Los Angeles. Until I moved out to LA in 2010, I worked as a big firm corporate associate in New York and had never…
Onshoring LPO Work Because Recent Law Grads Are Looking for Jobs, Any Sort of Jobs, Even Bottom Rung Jobs
16
Dec
In Ten for 2012: Top Ten Trends for Legal Outsourcing in 2012, Fronterion, an international consulting firm for outsourced legal services, identifies profitability squeeze on foreign LPO firms as one of the market dynamics that will impact the industry next…
Law School Theory Vs. Practical Skills, One More Time
16
Dec
Yale’s own Professor Stanley Fish provided his own response to David Segal’s recent article in the New York Times that berated law schools for not teaching practical legal skills. His lead example is his class on law, liberalism and religion…
