Top Ten Stories of the Week:
Law Firms Lehman’s Impact Stretches from Corporate Lawyers to Litigators
Sep 16, 2008, 06:39 am CDT
Highlights and Lowlights of the Mozilla Firefox 3.1, Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Web Browsers
From: Government Computer News, September 19, 2008.
“InfoWorld breaks down the highlightsand the lowlightsfor the Mozilla Firefox 3.1, Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Web browsers. and lowlights of each offering and where it stands as far as a full release”.
List of 2008 New York Chapter Laws Containing the Word Criminal
As of September 16, 2008.
Search run on New York State Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), September 17, 2008.
Chapter Bill No.
Recent Decisions of the New York Court of Appeals
To see the most recent New York Court of Appeals slip decisions (September 4 through September 16, 2008) click here.
Remarks of the Democratic and Republican Nominees at the 2008 Conventions
Some of our readers have suggested it would be helpful to have copies of the full text of remarks of all four nominees at the 2008 Democratic and Republican Conventions held in late August and early September.
Thanks to both the democratic and republican parties we are able to do so by downloading these documents from their respective websites, listed chronologically by convention dates:
2008 Republican Party Platform
Prior to the 2008 National Convention fo the Democratic Party we posted the Draft of the 2008 Platform of the Democratic Party. At that time we did not have comparable information from the Republican Party to post, even though we very much wanted to do so. To be fair and impartial we are now posting a link to the 2008 GOP platform as well.
Click here for access to the GOP platform and related information.
American Libraries Direct September 10, 2008
The e-newsletter of the American Library Association*.
Critics revisit library incident that paints Palin as censor
“Journalists and bloggers scrutinizing Sarah Palin’s record of public service have made national news out of a 1996 library incident in Wasilla, Alaska, where the Republican vice-presidential nominee was then mayor. The story that has emerged-in countless reports, from the blogosphere to the New York Times-paints Palin as a would-be censor and then–city librarian Mary Ellen Emmons as nearly losing her job for disagreeing….”
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter September 12, 2008
Lawyer Pay Being a Lawyer and Male Makes You a Top Earner, Census Report Shows
Sep 10, 2008, 06:57 am CDT
“The highest earners in 2007 were men in legal occupations, who earned a median salary in 2007 of $105,233, according to a Census Bureau report. The online report (PDF) issued in August shows women in legal occupations, which includes paralegal as well as lawyer positions, didn’t fare as well.”
Documents: Takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
From: Gallerywatch.com September 9, 2008.
Through our Gallerywatch Documents subscription service we are poviding the following selection of documents regarding the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We hope you will find them of interest:
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter. September 5, 2008.
September 5, 2008.
Exclusive survey: Lawyers slow to hop on blogging and social networking bandwagons.*
Careers Interview Mistakes Include ‘Too Much Information Syndrome’ and Bad Suits