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Law Firm Hiring practices in the economic downturn

August 28, 2009 17:57

The economy continues to impact the traditional large law firm hiring cycle:A NY Times article focuses on 2Ls waiting for the chance to interview in the fall: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/26lawyers.html?em Some famous firms have stopped interviewing at Yale...Gerry Shih, Downturn Dims...

Movin' On

May 04, 2009 17:28

To my faithful readers: After many happyand productive years at the Barclay LawLibrary, I will be moving on to becomeExecutive Director of the Dewitt CommunityLibrary. This was a tough decision, but asa former library director always told me,change is good!

New Online Legal Magazine a "Refreshing Alternative" to Traditional Law Reviews

April 26, 2009 19:27

The Legal Workshop is a new online legal journalthat seeks to disseminate legal scholarship to a broadaudience of readers. The new endeavor is produced bya consortium of academic law reviews: Stanford LawReview, New York University Law Review,Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown...

Library of Congress on YouTube

April 26, 2009 18:58

The Library of Congress has a new YouTube site.Currently, the site features 74 videos, organizedinto the following playlists:2008 National Book Festival (Readings byauthors from the National Book Festival, Washington DC,Sept. 27, 2008)Books and Beyond (Public talks at the Library ofCongress by...

Black's Law Dictionary Now Available for iPhone/iPod

April 26, 2009 18:39

West, part of Thomson Reuters, has launched a Black's LawDictionary on iTunes. The new application for iPod or iPhonefeatures the most recent edition (the 8th) of the dictionary,edited by Bryan A. Garner. The iPhone version, which sells fora whopping $49.99, features hyperlinked cross-references...

Law Professors Seek Injunction Over 'Sham' West Treatise Supplement

April 16, 2009 13:25

Shannon Duffy (The Legal Intelligencer, 4/16/2009)reports on a claim by two law professors that WestPublishing falsely identified them as authors of a2008 supplement to their Pennsylvania criminal lawtreatise.According to the article, David Rudovsky of the Universityof Pennsylvania and Leonard...

National Archives to Release Reagan and Bush 41 Presidential Records

April 16, 2009 12:59

National Archives news release: "Acting Archivist of the United States AdrienneThomas announced [April 10, 2009] that 245,763 pagesof Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush Presidentialrecords will be opened for research on Monday, April 13,2009, at their respective libraries. These records, whichwere...

Best Academic Presses in Law

April 15, 2009 00:07

Brian Leiter has posted the results of the poll here.

Internally Displaced Persons: Guide to Legal Information Resources on the Web

April 15, 2009 00:03

Elisa Mason has published a new annotated web guide on internally displaced persons on LLRX.According to the 1998 United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, internally displacedpersons (IDP's) are "persons or groups of persons who havebeen forced or obliged to flee or to leave...

AAUP Releases Annual Faculty Salaries Report

April 14, 2009 23:42

The AAUP (American Association of University Professors)has released its 2008-09 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession [PDF].Paul Caron on the TaxProf Blog links to related dataand extracts faculty salary information for selectedtop universities here.