From: “This Week’s News”, Library Journal.com (May 29, 2008). Last week, Harvard University professor Stuart Shieber made history-he was named the first director of Harvard’s newly minted Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC). In his new role, Shieber will oversee the implementation of the university’s groundbreaking open access mandate, which he…
Judith S. Kaye, chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, has been selected as the recipient of the Fifth Annual Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence. Chief Judge Kaye was chosen by a three-member panel: JudgeEllen Rosenblum, Oregon Court of Appeals; Judge Lorenzo Arredondo, Lake Circuit Court…
A calendar arranged by topic of CLE trainings and other public legal events. To see the calendar click here.
The June issue of WSLL @ Your Service has been published at http://wsll.state.wi.us/newsletter/0806.html In this issue: *What’s New: Please take a 5-minute survey about our website; Library news and upcoming events *Start Here: A Selected List of Resources on … Estate Planning in Wisconsin *This Just In…: Selected new and…
World Trials Library With the addition of 99 new trials in the May content release, HeinOnline’s World Trials Library now contains 1,300 titles. If your library does not already subscribe to one of the most astounding online trials collection in the world, now is the time. Click here for the…
“Ten Tests for Microsoft’s Document Inspector: Does it Satisfy the Metadata Management Needs of Law Firms?” runs through a battery of tests to determine the answer to the question posed. Click here to register to download the Report
Challenges in International Security “A Symposium to Showcase Senior Women in the Fieldl June 18, 2008 National Museum of Women in the Arts 1250 New York Ave. N.W. Washington, DC For more information, please contact WIRL@TRACEinternational.org .
Top Stories of the Week: Layoffs Sonnenschein Acknowledges Layoffs of 37 Lawyers, 87 Staffers May 28, 2008, 05:29 am CDT “Updated: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal is laying off 37 lawyers and 87 staff members, spread across practice groups and offices. Twenty-seven of the lawyers are associates, six are partners and…
May 2008 issue: The May 2008 Pro Se Newsletter, the newsletter of the New York State Unified Court System Newsletter, is being distributed because it contains at least two articles of possible interest. One article “Web-Based Services at the Supreme Court Criminal Term Library New York County” by me describes…
New York Governor David Paterson said yesterday May 29, 2008 that in the interests of firness and legal liability he is directing all state agencies to immediately recognize as valid same-sex-marriages solemized outside the State of New York. The Governor said that “if I didn’t take this action I would…