Newsletter No. 5 of 2008 2008-2009 LGRMIF Grant Applications: I know that many of you are wondering about the status of your 2008-2009 grant application. Here is where we are now: The first step in the review process, the formal evaluation by outside reviewers and staff members, was recently completed.…
BY Keith Ecker FROM: InsiderCounsel Magazine April 2008 Issue Excerpt: “Many lawyers believe the nature of their profession necessitates the hoarding of paper-a lot of paper-a misconception that through time has made them the enemy of tree”… “Thanks to the advent of certain technologies, in-house counsel don’t have to be…
by: David Badertscher For those who have not visited us, the New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library of New York County (sometimes referred to as the New York Criminal Law Library) is located in lower Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bridge, City Hall, and State and Federal courthouses. Like other…
Primary Research Group has published Library Use of E-books, 2008-09 Edition, (isbn 1-57440-101-7) and would like to share some of the results. * Data in the report is based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries.. Librarians detail their plans on how they plan to develop their…
The following was first posted on the InChambers weblog compiled by boppanny@aol.com, May 2008. [From Mark Levin’s book, “Men in Black”] “Robert C. Grier (U.S. Supreme Court Justice). Appointed by James Polk in 1846, Grier suffered paralysis in 1867 and thereafter began a slow mental decline. Grier’s case is most…
As information becomes available to us, we post information about the status of various initiatives including the Working Group for Bibliograph Control and RDA. On May 1 we received the following correspondence from Richard Amelung, the AALL representative to this group: Dear all– As your AALL representative on the Working…
TOP TEN STORIES OF THE WEEK: Legal Ethics Judge Smacks Law Firms & Partner With $150K Sanctions, But Spares 2 Associates Apr 29, 2008, 03:14 pm CDT “A federal bankruptcy judge in Massachusetts has sanctioned two law firms and a name partner a total of $150,000 for incorrectly claiming that…
From: Vesselin, Mitev and Daniel Wise. ” Kaye Writes Governor To Deny Work ‘Slowdown’ “, New York Law Journal, April 30, 2008. p. 1,6. “Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye wrote Governor David A. Paterson yesterday to assure him that reports of judicial “slowdown” were ‘without basis.’ ” “In addition, the…
An article in the April 29, 2008 New York Law Journal ( http://www.nylj.com)reports that the state Assembly’s Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote tomorrow (April 30) on the bill A10615/S7585 which would create 14 additional family court judgeships in New York City and 25 elsewhere in the state of New…
New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman issues a statement explaining his verdict as he announced that he was acquitting three New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in the death of Sean Bell. To see that statement, click on the link below: Statement issued by Justice Arthur Cooperman explaining verdicts…