We just received the following announcement and thought some of you might be interested even if you are not able to participate. Calling All Library Auteurs: Library Movie Festival! Free Nylink Community Brown Bag Session Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 Time: 11:30am – 1pm Location: Mid-Manhattan branch of NYPL Have…
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.
Jackson, William. “Wireless Rules for Oregon Courts,” Government Computer News, (February 1, 2008). “Officials at the Oregon Judicial Department (OJD) ran into a problem several years ago when they began looking for a new home for the department’s information technology staff and equipment. ” “Managers had to figure out how…
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…
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From LexisNexis, In the Know: In an exciting move, LexisNexis has been able to work with numerous cities, municipalities, and villages to obtain the right to publish their local codes, statutes or ordinances (depending on the term that the location uses). These sources are currently scheduled for updates twice a…
From Cassidy Cataloguing Inc. “We are pleased to announce that… Cassidy Cataloguing [is offering] MARC21 records for the World Trials Library. The MARC21 records for this collection will be developed and managed wholly by Cassidy Cataloguing, who is offering the records at a one-time subscription price. A subscription will include…
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…
What does “the rule of law” mean in today’s multi-cultural society? In a growing number of cases in state and federal courts all across the country, immigrants are pleading “the cultural defense” – invoking the customs and traditions of their homelands to explain their actions. Even when it is not…