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Lawyer2Lawyer Podcast: Diversity in the Legal Profession
Co-hosts Robert Ambrogi and J. Craig Williamsdiscuss diversity in the legal profession in theirLawyer2Lawyer podcast available on the LegalTalk Network. Guests include Fred Alvarez, chair of the ABA Commissionon Opportunities for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in theProfession, Richard A. Soden, of...
The Weirdest Legal Cases of 2008
Need a laugh or a good story to share with yourstudents? Gary Slapper (Director of the Centre forLaw at The Open University) offers his listof the year's weirdest legal cases in the Times Online (12/050/2008).Among the weirdest are:An English bodybuilder fined for gruntingnoisily while...
New GlobaLex Research Articles in Foreign, Comparative & Int'l Law
The following new and updated research articles arenow available on GlobaLex (NYU Hauser GlobalLaw School Program):European Union Travaux Preparatoires: A Guide to Tracing Working Documents (Patrick Overy)Introduction to the Legal System and Legal Research of the Kingdom of Thailand (Joe Leeds)The...
"BigLaw Faces Grade-less JDs"
Michael Estrin (Bitter Lawyer, 12/11/2008)ponders the consequences of law school pass/failgrading systems on the hiring practices of big law firms,asking: "Does the elimination of competition from ahighly-competitive profession make any sense what-soever?"Estrin suggests that, as more top law...
Search and Find Magazines on Google Book Search
On 12/9/2008, The Official Google Blog announcedthat Google has partnered with publishers to begindigitizing millions of articles from magazines asdiverse as the New York Magazine, PopularMechanics and Ebony.Magazine articles located through Google BookSearch appear in full color and in their...
State Responses to Immigration Database
The Migration Policy Institute has launched State Responses to Immigration:A Database of All State Legislation.The database contains all bills and resolutions related to immigrantsor immigration that were considered by state legislators across thenation. At present, the database contains all...
Search All Law Schools from the CALI Web Site
The CALI web site features a Google Custom Searchthat allows you to search all law school web pagesthrough a single search.Hat tip to Marianne Alcorn and Beth Difelice of theRoss-Blakley Law Library at Arizona State.
How to Reach a Human When You Call Your Credit Card Company
The GetHuman Database, compiled by Paul English,is a nifty list of phone numbers for credit card companies,car companies, airlines, etc. with instructions on how toby-pass electronic customer service options and reachan actual human being.You might also wish to try GetHuman2, a companionsite by...
NYU's New Grading Curve
Brian Leiter has posted NYU School of Law's new mandatorygrading curve for first-year law students and its advisoryupper level curve for classes with 28 or more law students.
ABA Launches Its Own Social Networking Site
The ABA has launched its own social networkingsite called Legally Minded. The goal of the site isto "create an unparalleled resource that gatherslaw school students, academics, firm administrators,legal support staff, judges, paralegals, attorneys, lawlibrarians and other professionals to...