From: New York Law Journal April 10, 2008 Chief Judge Kaye Sues State to Secure Judicial Pay Hike BY: Joel Stashenko 04-11-2008 Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye today filed a lawsuit to force the state Legislature and the governor into granting state judges their first pay raise since 1999. Former…
From: TechnoFeature: The TechnoLawyer Community, (April 8, 2008) http://www.technolawyer.com BY: David W. Mykel, M.A. INTRODUCTION Attorneys constantly search for ways to increase their efficiency, bill more hours, and make life easier. Imagine you’re working from your laptop at 35,000 feet: reviewing video deposition testimony, reading over transcripts and documents, and…
The following is a listing of articles which appear in the most recent issue of LLRX at the time of this posting. See http://www.llrx.com: The Personal Information Trainer, by Stuart Basefsky http://www.llrx.com/features/personalinfotrainer.htm Criminal Law Resources: Fingerprint Evidence Challenges, by Ken Strutin http://www.llrx.com/features/fingerprintevidence.htm The Social Networking Titans: Facebook and MySpace, by…
By Dan Hoover STAFF WRITER GreenvilleOnline.com http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008304050002 April 5, 2008 His eloquent summations have packed courtrooms, he’s been hailed as a judicial innovator and his quiet work has reshaped federal jurisprudence in America. For a lifetime of “extraordinary” contributions, Judge William W. Wilkins of Greenville received a special achievement award…
QUESTION: “I am in the process of trying to convert to a less paper driven office. We have occasion to verify information on Web pages and typically copied it and placed it in the hard file. I cannot seem to save it to a file on the computer and view…
Our Top Ten Stories of the Week Law Firms Law Firms Beef Up For Bankruptcy Work, the Hottest Growth Area Mar 31, 2008, 05:55 am CDT A new survey has found that lawyers expect bankruptcy to be the hottest growth area for law firms this year. That’s no secret to…
Every month I look forward to receiving the ABA Criminal Justice Section E-News. True to form, the April 2008 issue just received is filled with information to those involved with criminal justice issues. Here are some exampled highlighted in the April 2008 issue: Weekly Criminal Justice News Roundup. Legislative Update…
S.1638 SUMMARY S. 1638 would increase the salaries and change certain retirement benefits for some judges and justices of the United States. The bill also would allow those judges and justices to receive annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) without further Congressional approval and would increase the compensation paid to Chapter 7…
“A newly disclosed Justice Department legal memorandum, written in March 2003 and authorizing the military’s use of extremely harsh interrogation techniques, offers what could be a revealing clue in an unsolved mystery: What responsibility did top Pentagon and Bush administration officials have for abuses committed by American troops at the…
Net Neutrality: Why the Internet Can’t Remain Free * “Most users want a free Internet, but that’s not going to be possible by 2010, Gary Beach argues. Without a major investment by those who own the pipes, the likes of Verizon, AT&T and Comcast, Internet traffic will come to resemble…