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Vivísimo Clustering Engine – FindLaw Demo

FindLaw is one of the most comprehensive, perhaps indispensible legal sites on the web. Unfortunately, it does not do a particularly good job of making the information within readily retrievable by those without.

Vivismo, a “clustering engine” that organizes search results on the fly, now provides a page for clustering results from FindLaw. The payoff? Search results from FindLaw organized into discreet folders.

See for yourself. Click on these links to compare searches for Oregon using Findlaw and using Vivisimo’s Findlaw search page.

Vivisimo has other demos set up,
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LLRX.com – Legal and Technology Articles and Resources for Librarians, Lawyers and Law Firms

LLRX.com, a free web journal providing information on law and technology resources for legal professionals, provides a number of valuable resources this month.

Articles include:
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Computer Intrusion Cases

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, CCIPS (more info at Cybercrime.gov) provides this compendium of recently prosecuted computer cases.
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2004 TechnoLawyer @ Awards

And the winners are…

here!

Source: beSpacific

Putting PDF and Adobe Acrobat into Your Tech Toolbox

Dennis Kennedy, perhaps named for the estimable DennisKennedy.blog, provides links to resources on PDF and Adobe Acrobat for attorneys.

Why you ask? Because “Adobe Acrobat (or a reasonably equivalent program) is an essential tool in every lawyer’s technology toolbox,” and because of ” the ways in which PDF can address everyday concerns about document control, security, and usability.”

Source: LawTech Guru Blog

Advanced Legal Research begins Monday, May 24. Taking the course?

Read the basic course info and reading assignments for week number one:
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Lewis & Clark Law School Professor Michael Blumm and George Kimbrall have posted the abstract from their forthcoming article:

Flies, Spiders, Toads, Wolves, and the Constitutionality of the Endangered Species Act’s Take Provision, 34 Envtl. L. 309 (2004).
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California Supreme Court: San Francisco Same-Sex Marriage Cases

The California Supreme Court has created this resource page for information on the San Francisco same-sex marriage cases, due for oral argument on May 25, 2004.

Items included are details on live television coverage of the hearings, case documents, overviews, handsome visitor guides, and more.

Source: How Appealing

The latest issue of Lewis & Clark Law School’s The Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law (the nation’s only law review addressing the intersection of legal issues with the needs of small businesses and emergent industries/technologies), is now out.

Here are the articles published in Volume 8, Number 1 of JSEBL, complete with links to the abstracts:

• Does Size Matter? An Economic Analysis of Small Business Exemptions From Regulation, by C. Steven Bradford
• Does Sound Travel in Cyberspace?, by Joseph P. Kendrick
• Electronic Signature Laws and the Need for Uniformity in the Global Market, by Anda Lincoln
• Reasonable Royalties for 18-Month Patent Publication Infringement: An Unreasonable Remedy for Small Businesses, by Brian J. Massey
• Maintaining Innocence: All Appropriate Inquiry Under the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownsfields Revitalization Act, by William H. Dolan

New L&C Law Scholarship is a regular feature of BoleyBlogs!. Here we announce new content from the law reviews of Lewis & Clark Law School, along with the latest publishing ventures of our own faculty, students, and staff.

C. Steven Bradford, Does Size Matter? An Economic Analysis of Small Business Exemptions From Regulation, 8 JSEBL 1 (2004)

The author examines whether exemptions for small businesses and small transactions that appear in many regulations are economically efficient. The cost of regulation has both variable and fixed components. As demonstrated by many empirical studies of regulatory compliance costs, the fixed costs of regulation, and some of the variable costs, are subject to economies of scale that benefit larger firms and larger transactions. Though it is harder to measure the benefits of regulation, the benefits of regulation generally vary in proportion to the size of the regulated firm or transaction. The author develops a mathematical model of how the costs and benefits of regulation vary with size and concludes that, no matter what assumptions one makes in constructing that model, it supports small business exemptions. However, when transactions costs, the cumulative effect of regulation, and other real-world issues are considered, the case for small business exemptions is more ambiguous.

(abstract quoted from The Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law)