Criminal Law Library BlogTop Ten Stories of the Week:
Layoffs Jenner & Block Asks About 10 Partners to Leave Oct 21, 2008, 10:52 am CDT
Law Schools Law School Free for UC Irvine’s Entering 2009 Class Oct 22, 2008, 09:34 am CDT
Articles Posted in News from Organizations
New ABA Books on Experts, E-Discovery, E-Evidence
Attacking Adverse Experts
Stephen D. Easton
“The is a step-by-step guide to investigating, evaluating, and attacking the adverse expert in civil cases. It outlines tactics you can use to gather information about the adverse expert, both in the discovery process and on your own to: take an effective expert deposition; evaluate the adverse expert’s analysis of the key issues; move to exclude his testimony; cross-examine him effectively when he testifies at trial; handle voir dire, opening statement, closing argument, and even to successfully handle appeals regarding experts. Includes CD-ROM of time-saving checklists and citations to dozens of critical rules, statutes, cases, and other law.”
LEH Newsletter: Copyright, New Media Law and E-Comm News
FROM THE OFFICES OF LESLEY ELLEN HARRIS Copyright, New Media Law & E-Commerce News
NOTE: THIS CONTENT IS BEING REPRODUCED FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES ONLY.
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AALL: State Court and County Law Libraries Special Interest Section Newsletter, Fall 2008
The fall issue of the State Court and County Law Libraries (SCCLL) Newsletter has been published at:
http://www.aallnet.org/sis/sccll/pdfs/news/2008fall.pdf
There is an inoperable hyperlink on page 12. The link to the article “Law Libraries Keep FOL in $titches” is: http://www.friends-library.org/about/footnotes2008/footnotes-0808.pdf
The Colin Powell Endorsement of Obama
“The Colin Powell endorsement was one of the best addresses I’ve heard in years. It’s worth listening to the entire speech–about 5 minutes.
use the link below to hear it”
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/powell-endorses-obama/?hp
PC Magazine Chooses “5 Sites That Boost Your Political Awareness
PC World has named its ‘5 Sites That Will Boost Your Political Awareness.’ Included on this list are some very useful Web sites that many of you are probaly familiar with. Here is their list as posted by the American Association of Law Libraries Washington Blawg along with some helpful comments.:
U.S. Federal Documents Covering the Economy
The following list of documents covering the economy for the week ending October 10 was compiled by Basil Tilmon of Gallerywatch. We appreciate his efforts:
Letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller From Reps. Mark Kirk and Chris Carney
Letter Expresses a Need for More Resources to Investigate Corporate Fraud
Sentencing Advocacy, Practice and Reform Institute
Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA) will share his unique insight and perspective on rates of incarceration, sentencing trends and alternatives, and recent legislation
Click for full Brochure: “http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/calendar/2008fallconference.pdf
Sentencing Advocacy, Practice and Reform Institute
U.S. Federal Agencies Launch Digitization Guidelines Inititiative
U.S. Federal agencies join together to define digitization guidelines. For more information see the complete posting entry on the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Washington Blawg
CLLB Information Security Newsletter. October 2008.
October 2008
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month Volume 1, Issue 6
Phishing – How to Avoid Getting Hooked!