A Report for Congress Prepared by Garrine P. Laney, Analyst in Social Policy, Domestic Policy Division of the Congressional Research Service, February 4, 2008. The following is from the Summary: “Monitoring the movement of sex offenders in communities continues to be of interest to Congress, state legislatures, and local governments.…
DAVID BADERTSCHER The following posting consists of a series of documents selected to hopefully help provide those readers interested with an overview of the budget and the budget process. It also includes a list of the web sites rererenced in President Bush’s Budget Message.To provide added context I have embedded…
New Maryland Rules Now Free Online http://marylandlaw.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-maryland-rules-now-free-online.html * ————————————————– *Thanks to Trevor Rosen, Librarian at Shapiro Sher Guinot & Rosen in Baltimore, MD for sending this.
Law Firms ‘Abysmal’ Associate Attire Leads to Fashion Counseling Jan 31, 2008, 07:05 am CST “The generational divide is playing out in law firm fashion wars, with younger lawyers favoring business casual and even yoga pants and older lawyers tending to wear more traditional business attire”…Continue reading ——————————————————————————– Pro Bono…
FEATURED STORIES: January 2008 Newsmakers of the Year 2007 and 2008 Featured Stories: Electing to Litigate Full Court Coverage December 2007 ABA Journal Blawg 100 Featured Stories: A Conspiracy of One ForeBlawggers Motormouth November 2007 Top 10 Ethics Traps Featured Stories: A Shot at the Second Amendment Beast Practices Paying…
From William S. Hein and Company, Inc.: 1. Dahl’s Law Dictionary – Spanish/English 4th Edition Now in its fourth edition, Dahl’s was the first bilingual dictionary containing encyclopedic definitions. This new edition includes more than 11,000 words and phrases to aid researchers in defining legal terms in both English and…
Electronic Hein Cites Issue 408 ________________________________________________ Screening Justice – The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order and Social Justice This recent publication from Hein contains more than 50 essays written by 50 legal scholars, professionals and professors, focusing on significant films about law, order and social justice. The…
The January 25, 2008 issue of the AALL Washington E-bulletin is now available at http://www.aallnet.org/aallwash/eBulletin12508.pdf. Reading issues of this E-bulletin is a great way to keep abreast of issues of interest and concern to law librarians that are being discussed and debated in Washington, DC. Enjoy
01/23/2008 Executive Order: Further Amendment of Executive Order 11858 Concerning Foreign Investment in the United States (PDF 70.7 KB) Executive Order Issued by the President on Jan. 23, 2008 To See Executive Order 11858 Click Here
January 18, 2008 Our Top Ten Stories of the Week Careers TABLE OF CONTENTS Law Grad, 32: Don’t Do What I Did Jan 16, 2008, 04:39 pm CST “A 32-year-old Boston University law graduate is on a one-woman crusade to save others from making the same mistakes she made. High…