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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
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Articles Posted in Commentary and Opinion
Chief Judge Judith Kaye Sues New York State to Secure Judicial Pay Hike
From: New York Law Journal April 10, 2008
Chief Judge Kaye Sues State to Secure Judicial Pay Hike
BY: Joel Stashenko
How to Successfully Integrate an iPod Into Your Litigation Practice.
From: TechnoFeature: The TechnoLawyer Community, (April 8, 2008) http://www.technolawyer.com
BY: David W. Mykel, M.A.
INTRODUCTION
New on LLRX for April 2008
The following is a listing of articles which appear in the most recent issue of LLRX at the time of this posting. See http://www.llrx.com:
The Personal Information Trainer, by Stuart Basefsky http://www.llrx.com/features/personalinfotrainer.htm
Criminal Law Resources: Fingerprint Evidence Challenges, by Ken Strutin http://www.llrx.com/features/fingerprintevidence.htm
ABA Honors Judge William Wilkins
By Dan Hoover STAFF WRITER
GreenvilleOnline.com http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008304050002
April 5, 2008
Q&A:Archiving Web Pages for Future Reference
QUESTION:
“I am in the process of trying to convert to a less paper driven office. We have occasion to verify information on Web pages and typically copied it and placed it in the hard file. I cannot seem to save it to a file on the computer and view it after the fact. Any suggestions? I have tried copy and paste and send it to.”
RESPONSE:
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter April 4, 2008
Our Top Ten Stories of the Week
Law Firms
Law Firms Beef Up For Bankruptcy Work, the Hottest Growth Area
ABA Criminal Justice Section E-News April 2008
Every month I look forward to receiving the ABA Criminal Justice Section E-News. True to form, the April 2008 issue just received is filled with information to those involved with criminal justice issues. Here are some exampled highlighted in the April 2008 issue:
Cost Estimate: Federal Judicial Salaries Restoration Act of 2007
S.1638
SUMMARY
S. 1638 would increase the salaries and change certain retirement benefits for some judges and justices of the United States. The bill also would allow those judges and justices to receive annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) without further Congressional approval and would increase the compensation paid to Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees.
Newly Disclosed U.S. Department of Justice Legal Memorandum Sheds New Light on Torture Issue
“A newly disclosed Justice Department legal memorandum, written in March 2003 and authorizing the military’s use of extremely harsh interrogation techniques, offers what could be a revealing clue in an unsolved mystery: What responsibility did top Pentagon and Bush administration officials have for abuses committed by American troops at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and in Afghanistan; Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; and elsewhere?”
See above referenced legal memorandum, RE Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States,” below in two parts: Please be patient. It may take awhile to download.