According to an unnamed source, Thomson Reuters Legal may announce another wave of layoffs soon, perhaps even as early as today. The layoffs may affect customer service operations. As of yesterday evening the local press had no reports about this…
Posts Tagged ‘Press’
Palfrey Appointed Headmaster of Phillips Academy (Updated)
16
Nov
John G. Palfrey Jr., Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School, has been named the 15th Head of School of Phillips Academy. According to the press release, he…
California Enacts Book Purchase Privacy Law
04
Oct
California has enacted the Reader Privacy Act (S.B. 602) which requires search warrant to access customer data on regular and e-books purchased online or from bricks-and-mortar store. All the law and privacy groups are cheering. Here’s the ALCU press release,…
Law Grad Jobs, The ABA, And U.S. News
01
Sep
Two stories on the law student job market caught my eye today. One is from the Associated Press via Google News. It’s called Law Schools Lure Fewer Students As Jobs Dry Up. It relates how law schools in Missouri are…
Book Review: Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage 3rd Edition
04
Aug
Oxford University Press sent a review copy of Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage 3d Edition recently. I’ve been paging through this marvelous resource regularly, which is not something I would normally do with a dictionary. In fact, calling the book…
ABA Revises Law School Placement Data Reporting Requirements
02
Aug
Quoting from the July 27, 2011 press release, ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Will Collect Additional Employment Information from Law Schools in its Annual Questionnaire: [T]he 2011 Annual Questionnaire will request from law schools information…
The Stats Aren’t Pretty: NALP Reports on Class of 2010 Law Grads Average Starting Salaries
08
Jul
From NALP’s July 7, 2011 press release: As NALP reported in June, the employment profile for this class contrasts markedly from that of the previous class, with fewer employed graduates obtaining jobs in law firms — 50.9% compared with 55.9%…
Springer Launches SpringerReference.com of "Live eReference" Works for Academic and Corporate Libraries
23
Jun
From the press release: Springer Science+Business Media has launched SpringerReference.com, a new platform for researchers and academic and corporate libraries. It offers living editions of Springer’s eReferences well in advance of their print editions across every subject. Through the platform,…
Article Format of the Future: Elsevier Leads the Way for Online Journal Literature
13
Jun
Elsevier has launched new Article of the Future prototypes. From the press release: The improved Article of the Future format is one of several enhancements Elsevier is introducing to SciVerse ScienceDirect. APIs have been released to allow for applications to…
