September 2008
A special commission appointed by Hon. Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the Courts in the State of New York, has issued a Report: Justice Most Local, The Future of Town and Village Courts in New York State, which recommends a significant consolidation of the “centuries-old” local court system.
Am excerpt from the Overview of Findings section of the Executive Summary”
Volume 20 Issue 3 September 2008
Table of Contents
The Preparation of Narcissistic Witnesses
Top Ten Stories of the Week:
Law Firms Lehman’s Impact Stretches from Corporate Lawyers to Litigators
Sep 16, 2008, 06:39 am CDT
From: Government Computer News, September 19, 2008.
“InfoWorld breaks down the highlightsand the lowlightsfor the Mozilla Firefox 3.1, Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Web browsers. and lowlights of each offering and where it stands as far as a full release”.
As of September 16, 2008.
Search run on New York State Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), September 17, 2008.
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To see the most recent New York Court of Appeals slip decisions (September 4 through September 16, 2008) click here.
Some of our readers have suggested it would be helpful to have copies of the full text of remarks of all four nominees at the 2008 Democratic and Republican Conventions held in late August and early September.
Thanks to both the democratic and republican parties we are able to do so by downloading these documents from their respective websites, listed chronologically by convention dates:
Prior to the 2008 National Convention fo the Democratic Party we posted the Draft of the 2008 Platform of the Democratic Party. At that time we did not have comparable information from the Republican Party to post, even though we very much wanted to do so. To be fair and impartial we are now posting a link to the 2008 GOP platform as well.
Click here for access to the GOP platform and related information.
The e-newsletter of the American Library Association*.
Critics revisit library incident that paints Palin as censor
“Journalists and bloggers scrutinizing Sarah Palin’s record of public service have made national news out of a 1996 library incident in Wasilla, Alaska, where the Republican vice-presidential nominee was then mayor. The story that has emerged-in countless reports, from the blogosphere to the New York Times-paints Palin as a would-be censor and then–city librarian Mary Ellen Emmons as nearly losing her job for disagreeing….”
Lawyer Pay Being a Lawyer and Male Makes You a Top Earner, Census Report Shows
Sep 10, 2008, 06:57 am CDT
“The highest earners in 2007 were men in legal occupations, who earned a median salary in 2007 of $105,233, according to a Census Bureau report. The online report (PDF) issued in August shows women in legal occupations, which includes paralegal as well as lawyer positions, didn’t fare as well.”
