The New York Law Journal has reported that Melvyn Weiss has agreed to plead guilty to a racketeering charge for participating in a scheme to pay kickbacks to lead plaintiffs in shareholder suits. Mr. Weiss, a famed securities class action lawyer, was one of the co-founders of the law firm…
From the AALL E-Newsletter, March 2008: “We have just learned of an exciting new outcome of AALL’s National Summit on Authentic Legal Information in the Digital Age convened by Immediate Past President Sally Holterhoff in April 2007. Delegate Michele Timmons, Minnesota revisor of statutes and a National Conference of Commissioners…
Conference Dates: November 30 – December 3, 2008: You want to join the next IALL Annual Course? The International Association of Law Libraries each year makes available financial assistance to enable law librarians who are normally unable to benefit from Association activities to attend the Annual Course in International Law…
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Virtual Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Virtual Worlds By Benjamin Tyson Duranske This book is an introduction to the emerging and intriguing world of virtual law. It examines current cases and legislation impacting virtual world providers and users, and makes predictions about the future application of…
As of March 18, 2008. CE COURSES Saturday, June 14, 9 AM – 6PM (full-day CE) Cataloging for Non-Catalogers – Course covers ISBD (International Standard Book Description), MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging), and cataloging using an automated bibliographic utility. Saturday, June 14, 8 AM – 12 PM (half-day CE) Creating a Brand…
Deadline for all Nominations: April 1, 2008. The ABA Commission on the American Jury Project established the Jury System Impact Award to recognize an individual or organization that has made significant contributions and tremendous efforts to the improvement, preservation and strengthening of the American Jury System. The 2008 Award will…
Excerpts from AIIM President, John Mancini’s Keynote Address — 4 March 2008 — AIIM International Exposition and Conference There are four intersecting tensions in the marketplace that have been at work over the past 2 years and are aligning right now to change all of this and to truly create…
Letter to New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Bruno From Gov. Eliot Spitzer (PDF 192.2 KB) Official Letter of Resignation as Submitted March 12, 2008
________________________________________________ Illegal Sex Discrimination or Permissible Customer Preference? Refusal to Hire and Employ Male Gynecologists: A Legal Research Guide “This new publication from Hein is the latest title in the Legal Research Guide Series. Professor Amy Stein provides researchers with a starting point to help determine when the occupational qualification…
“As Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg observed: ‘In working as a lawyer, law teacher, and now judge, I have discerned no distinctive male or female styles of thinking or writing. And I agree with Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Jeanne Coyne, who said, when asked whether women judges decide cases…