By Brett Burney Principal Burney Consultants LLC We are proud to reprint the following article “The Emerging Field of Electronic Discovery Project Management” which first appeared as a TechnoLawyer TechnoFeature exclusive on September 1. It is being reprinted here with the written permission of both the author Brett Burney, a…
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September 11, 2001 Perspectives
Articles from the New York Times and the Washington Post September 11, 2009 discussing memories and implications of the tragic events that occurred eight years ago on September 11, 2001: New York Times: September 11, 2009. Remembering a Future That Many Feared By N. R. KLEINFIELD Published: September 11, 2009…
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter for Week Ending September 11, 2009
Top Ten Stories for Week Ending September 11, 2009. Lawyer Pay Income Gap Shrinks as Lawyers and Other Top Earners Take Pay Hit Sep 10, 2009, 06:59 am CDT Legal Ethics Blogging Assistant PD Accused of Revealing Secrets of Little-Disguised Clients Sep 10, 2009, 08:41 am CDT Law Schools North…
Editorial: Judicature Calls Caperton Decision a Wake-Up Call
Des Moines, IA – September 1, 2009 – According to an editorial in the latest issue of Judicature, the journal of the American Judicature Society, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Caperton v. Massey Coal Company is a wake-up call for states to take disqualification seriously. The editorial explains that…
Vacancy Announcement: Research Manager – Congressional Research Service
Research Manager-Congress and Judiciary SALARY RANGE: 120,830.00 – 153,200.00 USD /year OPEN PERIOD: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 to Tuesday, September 22, 2009 SERIES & GRADE: GS-0101-15/15 POSITION INFORMATION: Full Time Permanent – No time limit PROMOTION POTENTIAL: 15 DUTY LOCATIONS: vacancy(s) in one of the following locations: 1 vacancy –…
New on LLRX.Com August 2009
**The Government Domain: Tracking Congress 2.0 http://www.llrx.com/columns/govdomain42.htm With the 111th Congress of the United States reconvening on September 8th, e-gov expert Peggy Garvin highlights new tools and sources that enhance and expand your ability to track and monitor the action. **Re-Hashing the Hash Tag – Crowd Competition and Community Standards…
Judges Punish Wall Street As Regulators Just Talk About Reform
In their September 8 article in Bloomberg News, Cary O’Reilly and Linda Sandler write that “[A]s the White House and Congress debate how to regulate financial crisis, judges have assumed the point position of punishing Wall Street for causing the worst recession since the 1930s.” O’Reilly and Sandler point out…
OpentheGovernment.Org Secrecy Report Card 2009
We are forwarding the following message from Emily Feldman of the Government Relatiojns Office of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) because it contains important information that we believe should be distributed widely: OpenTheGovernment.org today released the latest edition of their annual Secrecy Report Card (http://www.openthegovernment.org/otg/SecrecyRC_2009.pdf). This year’s report…
Responding to Real Time Information, Open Systems, and the Obama IT Vision
Change 2010: August 27, 2009, Washington, DC –“The Obama administration has challenged Federal information technology managers to explore more open systems,” said Arpan Patel, Director of Somat’s Information Engineering practice. “Federal managers face a compelling need to understand the differences between traditional approaches to information technology and increasingly important open…
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Stays Microsoft Word Sales Ban
According to a report by Matthew Weigett in the September 4, 2009 Federal Computer Week, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC has held that Mircosoft can keep selling its Word software in the United States. Microsoft had filed an emergency motion with the court to stay a ruling…