From: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Welcome to the second issue of the Routledge Library Newsletter! The aim of the Newsletter is to provide you with the latest news about all our products including reference books, eBooks, online products, and major works. We want this Newsletter to be an interesting…
NEW YORK (AP) – Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced Wednesday that he is resigning, completing a spectacular fall from power for a politician whose once-promising career imploded amid allegations that he paid thousands of dollars for high-end prostitutes. “I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might…
William S. Hein & Co., Inc. & the American Association of Law Libraries are Looking for Proposal Ideas for the AALL Publications Series Do you have an idea for a new publication? The AALL Publications Committee, together with William S. Hein & Co., Inc. welcomes proposals relating to law librarianship…
March 7, 2008 Our Top Ten Stories of the Week Evidence Test to Spot Liars Takes Center Stage in Personal Injury Cases Mar 5, 2008, 06:20 am CST Expert witnesses are citing a test designed to spot those who are faking their pain in hundreds of court cases, prompting debate…
Susanne Pierce Dyer, Reference/Devilopment Librarian, Bernard E. Witkin Alemeda County Law Library in Oakland, California has sent the following information and announcement regarding the tenth anniversary of the Bernard E. Witkin Memorial Symposium: “How quickly a decade flies by! As we look back to the first Witkin lecture in May…
The March issue of WSLL @ Your Service has been published at http://wsll.state.wi.us/newsletter/0803.html In this issue: * What’s New: New Volunteer @ WSLL; Economic Stimulus Checks – A Heads Up * This Just In… : New & Updated library materials * Click To It! Legal Research @ Your Fingertips: finding…
The following was contributed by Bill Graham* The Internet Society played a significant role in the second meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro in December, 2007. ISOC hosted an Open Forum on ISOC’s work and worked with partners to organize or participate in nine other…
February Content Release This month’s content release includes the following NEW content: 12 years added to the Congressional Record Bound 11 new titles added to the Law Journal Library 97 new titles added to World Trials 11 states updated in Session Laws 1 new title added to Legal Classics Click…
February 27, 2008. Supreme Court rejects wiretapping suit “The U.S. Supreme Court declined February 18 to consider whether plaintiffs who believed they had been spied on without a court order could challenge the legality of such surveillance without tangible proof-even if the proof is classified as a state secret. The…
February 29, 2008: Our Top Ten Stories of the Week Law Firms Large Law Firms Prepare for a Slower Year Feb 25, 2008, 05:51 am CST “Large law firm leaders and consultants say legal work is slowing in several segments, leading them to expect a less than stellar year in…