Libraries / Librarians
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Biglaw, Libraries / Librarians
Large Law's Not-So-Secret Weapon In Marketing And BD: The Library
Should libraries, organizationally speaking, be located under chief marketing officers? -
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Libraries / Librarians
Have You Thanked Your Law Librarian?
A column devoted to the quiet, unsung heroes of law schools, government libraries, and law firms, the law librarian. -
Document Review, Law Schools, Libraries / Librarians
Law School Turns Library Back Office Into Doc-Review Dungeon
Which law school is turning part of its library into a "legal delivery center"? -
Law Schools, Libraries / Librarians
This Law School Wants Students To Stop Sobbing In The Library
This law school wants students to stop acting like babies -- after all, crying can get pretty noisy. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.27.15
Ed. note: We hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. As we mentioned before Thanksgiving, we’ll be on a reduced publication schedule today.
* Randall Kennedy, one of the African-American Harvard Law School professors whose portraits got marked with black tape, shares HLS alum Elie Mystal’s reaction to the incident: he is unimpressed. [New York Times]
* In other Harvard Law news, an HLS librarian got arrested after police claim he tried to arrange a sexual meet-up with a deputy posing as an underage girl in Colorado (site of a librarians’ conference). [Boston Globe]
* Former Supreme Court clerk Brianne Gorod argues that SCOTUS can and should decide Texas’s challenge to President Obama’s executive action on immigration this Term (i.e., before the 2016 election). [Constitutional Accountability Center via How Appealing]
* Ohio State law student Madison Gesiotto is not happy with how administrators responded when one of her conservative columns prompted a threat from a fellow student. [Washington Times]
* The SEC just dropped its civil insider trading case against former SAC Capital Advisors LP portfolio manager Michael Steinberg. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Let’s rank the top 10 women Supreme Court justices! Oh wait, there are only four…. [National Law Journal]
* Linda Greenhouse offers her reflections on “Sex After 50” (at SCOTUS). [New York Times via How Appealing]
* The father of Paul Walker is suing Porsche for negligence and wrongful death over the 2013 car crash that killed Walker, of “Fast and Furious” fame. [AP via WSJ Law Blog]
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Law Schools, Technology, Westlaw
Harvard Law And Ravel Law To Digitize All Case Law For Free; Are Paid Competitors Worried?
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Blogging, Libraries / Librarians
Could Librarians Lead Strategic Law Firm Practice Growth?
Collaboration between law librarians, lawyers, and legal marketers could result in niche blogs creating new practices -- practices resulting in significant revenue. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.14.15
* Judge Lance Mason, who was suspended from his duties earlier this year, recently pleaded guilty to charges related to a brutal attack made on his wife. He’ll be sentenced in September, and faces up to 36 months in prison. [Northeast Ohio Media Group]
* No one will be getting lucky in Kentucky under this clerk’s watch: Two months after SCOTUS declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, this state court clerk is still turning away gay couples and refusing to issue marriage licenses. [New York Times]
* Per the latest report from Citi Private Bank’s Law Firm Group, even though this year started out well, the bank is revising its financial performance forecast, and not in a good way. Hopefully firms will be able to weather the latest monetary storm. [Am Law Daily]
* Starting in mid-October, lawyers and law firms will be able to purchase .law domain names. A few influential law firms — DLA Piper, Skadden Arps, and SCOTUSblog-affiliated Russell & Goldstein — have gotten first dibs on them. Congrats! [WSJ Law Blog]
* Law librarians at large and medium-sized firms feel underutilized and underpaid, and that’s unfortunate, because like Liam Neeson in Taken, they’ve got a very particular set of skills, skills they’ve acquired over a very long career. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
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Copyright, Music
Law Librarians May Have Killed World's Biggest Copyright Troll
A copyright troll may be singing a different tune after this week. -
Law Schools, Libraries / Librarians
Is A Law Library Internship Worth Your Time?
A law library internship is definitely worth its weight in gold if you’re able to get one during law school. -
Email Scandals, Gay, Law Schools
3L At Top Law School Writes 'Derogatory' Anti-Gay Email, Hits 'Reply All'
Bigotry on open display thanks to a "reply all" mishap.
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Biglaw
The Little People
Let’s admit that a rigid social hierarchy exists at law firms -- in fact, a very rigid social hierarchy. -
Caption Contests, Libraries / Librarians, Pictures
Caption Contest Winner: Undergrads, Get The Hell Out Of The Law Library
"Oooooo I'm bad!" Which law school did this controversial Snapchat come from? -
Caption Contests, Libraries / Librarians, Pictures
Caption Contest Finalists: Undergrads, Get The Hell Out Of The Law Library
Your law school bans undergrads from sitting in reserved areas for law students, but they keep sitting there anyway. Why can't these dopey Millennials follow the rules? -
Caption Contests, Libraries / Librarians, Pictures
Caption Contest: Undergrads, Get The Hell Out Of The Law Library
Who stole your seat this time? Lo and behold, it’s one of those goddamn undergrads. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.12.15
* George Zimmerman was arrested for aggravated assault and domestic violence with a weapon. His lawyer said his client “has not been lucky with the ladies.” He hasn’t been lucky with being a decent human being, either. [USA Today]
* Lawrence McCreery, the Hawaii lawyer who licked a client’s ear and inspired the judge on his case to call him a “dirty old man,” has had his harassment conviction upheld on appeal. Get excited, he’s still got a law license, ladies. [Associated Press]
* We may soon see same-sex marriage bans in three states struck down, as the Fifth Circuit “appeared poised” to do so after oral arguments on Friday. Roberta Kaplan, our 2013 Lawyer of the Year, delivered a standout performance in arguing against Mississippi’s ban. [BuzzFeed]
* What do Sidley Austin, Baker & McKenzie, Reed Smith, Hogan Lovells, and Skadden Arps have in common? Their names were used in phishing emails to scam people out of their money. Some might say that’s business as usual. [Crain’s Chicago Business]
* An arrest was made in the forcible rape of a woman — presumably a law student — that took place in the stacks of the Southern University Law Center’s library last semester. The accused rapist is currently behind held without bond. [WBRZ]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.24.14
* The Thomas M. Cooley Law School is planning to sell one of its academic buildings for an asking price of $8.15 million. Dear Lord, the school will lose some of its library square footage. NOOOOOOOOO! [Lansing State Journal]
* Contrary to his client’s hit anthem, Pharrell’s lawyer isn’t happy. He says YouTube has been “blithely” ignoring his requests to take down music for which it lacks performance rights, and it may result in a $1B lawsuit. [Hollywood Reporter]
* Clifford Sloan, the State Department’s special envoy on Guantánamo Bay, appointed in 2013 to help shut down the detention center, is returning to the loving arms of Skadden’s partnership on January 1, 2015. Gitmo is still open. Oops. [Am Law Daily]
* After 30 years, the Food and Drug Administration decided to lift its lifetime ban on blood donation for gay men. Now gay men just have to abstain from doing gay things for a year — like having sex with other men — to donate blood. Yay? [WSJ Law Blog]
* If you’ve been wondering what the most ridiculous lawsuits of 2014 are, we’ve got you covered. These are the top 10 most absurd cases filed over the course of the past year. You may remember some of these from our coverage. [Faces of Lawsuit Abuse]
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Libraries / Librarians, Technology
Libraries Are For Hobos: New Resources For Legal Research
Even people who consider themselves current with technology trends don't think about legal research beyond the basics, but the truth is that there are many good tools out there.