Archive for October, 2006
October 25th, 2006
This Week in Law with Denise Howell
A promising new podcast focusing on internet law and technology premiered this week on the TWiT.TV netcast network.
This Week in Law, or TWiL, is hosted by IP and technology attorney and longtime blogger Denise Howell. Denise is joined by IP attorney Cathy Kirkman, blogging attorney Ernie (the Attorney) Svenson, and Harvard Law professor/Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society John Palfrey.
The TWiL panelists will “discuss breaking issues in technology law including patents, copyrights, and more.” Their first podcast covered copyright and YouTube, the DMCA and YouTube, Creative Commons (”symptom or solution?”), music licensing and, indeed, much more.
Expect a new TWiLcast twice a month or so, with the next one promising improved audio.
Sources: WisBlawg, Seb’s Random Thoughts
October 24th, 2006
Fashionable Intent: The LC Professors of Style
This latest Lewis & Clark Law School student blog (we think) tackles a grave and important mission:
They’ve gone to Harvard, written books and law review articles, made speeches, and every day they impart crucial legal wisdom to aspiring lawyers. But what we really want to know is: do they look good doing it?
Go to Fashionable Intent and, well, judge for yourself.
October 24th, 2006
The October 16, 2006 issue of Cornell Law Library’s InSITE contain reviews of these legal sites:
Read the full reviews, and find subscription info at the Law Librarian Blog.
Source: Law Librarian Blog
October 18th, 2006
CNET: Make your own headlines
CNET posts this nice little review of RSS readers. It is tough to choose a newsreader (also called an aggragator or rss reader) – there are a lot of them out there.
CNET does a good job of limiting their review to five of the most popular. Three are Web-based, two are programs you use on your own computer. Many have already pointed out that they leave off the very popular NetNewswire for Macs.
For more on RSS, newsreaders, and the whole business check out our own About RSS page.
Source: Stark County Law Library, Real Lawyers Have Blogs
October 18th, 2006
Law Librarian Blog: Putting Lexis & Westlaw Database Links in Pathfinders
Law Librarian Blog provides this quick primer on creating links to LexisNexis & Westlaw databases. Just plain handy when you wish to send folks to a particular title or database for searching.
Not content to stop there, however, the LLB points out broader linking resources:
New to the very many editors of BoleyBlogs! is this lovely Westlaw page, breezily titled “Build a Link or Search Box for Your Intranet for Any Westlaw Database or Document.” It provides tools for building links to a document, search or keycite result, database (the subject of the Law Librarian blog post), or a Brief It document. Truly helpful when needing a permanent link to a document (or search or dbase) on Westlaw.
LexisNexis has a similar tool, the LexisNexis Link Builder, one we’ve used many times before and highly recommend. It allows you to create a link to any document on LexisNexis by citation or to create searches. Unlike Westlaw’s link-building tool, however, you’ll need to use the Law Librarian Blog tips to create links to databases.
Sources: Law Librarian Blog, content v.4
October 18th, 2006
Oregon Legal Research
We have been quite remiss in not pointing out the Oregon Legal Research blog, created and filled with great content by our good friend Laura O, “an Oregon public law librarian with the usual law librarian urge to share what she knows about legal research.”
Great gobs of useful info, from legal research tips to local sources for law to local legal news. Recent posts included pointers to a Research Guide for Lottery Winners, to Oregon state family law forms & guidelines, and to the recent announcement of Lewis & Clark Law School’s new Small Business Law Clinic.
Intimidated by the blog’s title? No worries. Oregon Legal Research is not only about Oregon legal research. It’s tagline lays it out: “This blog includes information about and links to Oregon Legal Research resources, in addition to comments about cases, statutes, and interesting events in the world of legal research and law libraries.” So, go visit this blog full of appeal to anyone with an interest in legal research, information and libraries.
October 10th, 2006
Project Posner
The alliterative Project Posner has set out “to make freely and easily available to the public Richard Posner’s largest and greatest body of work — his judicial opinions.” The site successfully makes the opinions of “probably the greatest living American jurist’s” easily and freely available to all, and not just because some of his opinions are funny. Find out more about Project Posner.
Judge Posner’s opinions from 1981 to 2006 may be searched (full-text) or browsed (by year). The most recent opinions are not included in the database. The Project is the creation of Professor Tim Wu and programmer/designer Stuart Sierra of Columbia Law School.
Find out more about Judge Posner from The University of Chicago Law School here and here, the Federal Judicial Center, and Wikipedia. Or enjoy Judge Posner’s own musings at the Becker-Posner Blog.
Source: How Appealing
October 10th, 2006
309 Law Professor Bloggers
Concurring Opinions (”the Law, the Universe, and Everything”) has updated their semi-annual Law Professor Blog Census. The findings: over 300 law professor bloggers, up from 130 in June ‘05, 202 in November ‘05, and 235 in March ‘06. For what it’s worth, 24% are female and 76% are male.
The L&C Law faculty are well represented with three high-quality blogs: Jack Bogdanski’s Jack Bog’s Blog, Geoff Manne’s Truth on the Market, and Joseph Miller’s The Fire of Genius.
6 New Law Prof Blogs
The estimable Law Professor Blogs Network has added 6 new blogs to its portfolio. That brings the Network’s total to 34 blogs on distinct legal subject areas. The new additions:
1 in 5 Firms Has a Blog
This Survey of Law Firm E-Marketing Practices (Primary Research Group, $295) reveals that 20 percent of law firms are currently publishing their own blog. Firms with 20 or more practice groups (40% of them) were the most likely to have a blog.
http://www.legaline.com/lawsites.html“>LawSites summarizes the results, which goes beyond blogs to examine other electronic marketing ventures of law firms such as traditional web sites, e-newsletters, e-press releases, and more.
Sources: Objective Justice, Law Librarian Blog, Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites
October 4th, 2006
MLRC: Libel and Related Lawsuits Against Bloggers
The Media Law Resource Center (MLRC) provides a unique list of lawsuits against bloggers. The list comes complete with annotations, links to decisions, case documents, related web sites and news stories. The range of cases is impressive, from Apple suing over trade secrets, to actresses protecting their reputations, to judges taking on local critics, and to principals suing over false MySpace pages.
ZiefBrief (thanks!) points out that included on the list is “the first victorious U.S. plaintiff in a libel suit against a blogger, Florida attorney Rafe Banks III. A jury awarded Banks $50,000 in damages after blogger David Milum accused the attorney of delivering bribes from drug dealers to a local judge on his blog.”
The Media Law Resource Center “is a non-profit information clearinghouse originally organized by a number of media organizations to monitor developments and promote First Amendment rights in the libel, privacy and related legal fields.” More about MLRC.
Source: ZiefBrief
October 4th, 2006
Vancouver Law Librarian Blog: Top 10 Uses for RSS in Law Firms
One of our Northwest blogging neighbors provides this excellent list of the uses a firm (or individuals, or law schools…) may make of RSS feeds. What are RSS feeds you ask? Just click our discreet About RSS link to the right for a ready answer. What can they mean to your firm? Business, market relevance and efficient information sharing.
We haven’t covered all of the top-10 list, but we should note that our own RSS dabblings go beyond the RSS feeds available for all of our blogs – BoleyBlogs!, Law in the News, L&C Law Podcasts, and Library Updates – to include individual feeds to new titles added to our collection in over 40 legal subjects. Check out the Boley Law Library’s New Law Titles site for more.
Source: WisBlawg
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