The Official Blog of the Dallas Association of Law Librarians (DALL), a chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
New Model for Legal Education
"Stanford Law School announced “a new model for legal education” Tuesday, unveiling a program it calls the “3D” JD. The initiative focuses on the second- and third-year curriculums and centers on two major themes: more interdisciplinary education and expanded clinical programs."
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/11/30/stanfords-larry-kramer-wants-to-revolutionize-legal-education/
Federal Sentencing Guidelines Manual
PDAS CAUSING INCREASING INJURIES
"Employment lawyers are warning companies they could face liability or workers' compensation claims related to employee injuries from personal digital assistants. The American Physical Therapy Association in Alexandria, Virginia, and other occupational organizations warn that improper use and overuse of personal digital assistants (PDAs) can lead to hand throbbing, tendonitis and swelling, a condition known as BlackBerry Thumb, named after the popular PDA. Frank Morris, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., says employers need to develop policies on PDA use. They also face a liability risk because some employees could argue they're entitled to overtime if a staffer is expected to use a company-provided PDA after work hours. Some hotels catering to business clients offer treatments for the problem. The Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort and Spa in Scottsdale, Ariz., offers a special BlackBerry Balm Hand Massage that runs $80 for 30 minutes. A resort spokeswoman says the treatment has become very popular."
Further information may be found at
http://www.apta.org/AM/Template.cfm?Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=34990
List of Companies and Backdating Stock Options
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-optionsscore06-full.html
Texas State Law Library Resources
The Texas State Law Library has a resource page with links to codes, statutes, sections affected, the Constitution (including Braden's analysis), etc.
http://www.sll.state.tx.us/research/texaslaw.html
Texas State Bar: Winners of the Annual Haiku Contest
FIRST PLACE
Like sleeping tigers
Hungry justices dream of
Feasting on verdicts
- Neil McCabe
SECOND PLACE
Chances to win, don't ask…
on motion for rehearing-
impossible task.
- Kirby Hopkins
THIRD PLACE (TIE)
Response requested.
For relator, joy! hope! thrill!
Petition denied.
- Kirsten CastaƱeda
City of Keller,
Brister's wolf in sheep's clothing.
Can you say, "Reversed"?
- Kelly Kirkland
For the Honorable Mentions, surf to http://www.tex-app.org/haiku.html
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Update on Saving the Thanksgiving Turkeys
20,478 votes have been cast and "Flyer and Fryer" are the winning names of the Thanksgiving Turkey and the alternate that the President pardoned on November 22, 2006.
I guess my turkey votes (Plymouth and Rock) did not make the "cut," but they came in second!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/thanksgiving/2006/
:-)
ROI Seminar in Dallas
Time: 6 p.m.- 8 p.m.
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 12th
Place: Wyndham Dallas North Hotel--4801 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX
Guest Speaker: Jack Phillips
Topic: ROI Methodology
Cost: $30/members or $40/guests
Includes dinner
Dr. Phillips will share his ROI Methodology, a revolutionary process that provides bottom-line figures and accountability for all types of learning, performance improvement, human resources, technology, and public policy programs.
About the speaker: As a world-renowned expert on accountability, measurement and evaluation, Dr. Phillips provides consulting services for Fortune 500 companies and major global organizations. The author or editor of more than 50 books, Phillips provides workshops and conference presentations throughout the world.His expertise in measurement and evaluation is based on more than twenty-seven years of corporate experience in five industries (aerospace, textiles, metals, construction materials, and banking). Phillips has served as training and development manager at two Fortune 500 firms, senior HR officer at two firms, president of a regional bank, and management professor at a major state university.
His background led Phillips to develop the ROI Methodology--a revolutionary process that provides bottom-line figures and accountability for all types of learning, performance improvement, human resources, technology, and public policy programs.
Please register for the monthly meeting before midnight, Monday, December 11, 2006! To register, click here to open the registration form, or e-mail us at info@dallasastd.org or call us at 972.755.0956, ext.31 (for members) or ext.30 (for guests).
Understanding the new e-discovery rule amendments
http://www.ims-expertservices.com/newsletters/nov/eddrules-111406.htm
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
SLA/DFW Holiday Dinner
Time: 7 pm
Locations: Love & War in Texas (located near Grapevine Mills Mall)
http://www.loveandwarintexas.com/home.html
Everyone is welcome including spouses. This is a Dutch treat. Reservation is under SLA.
Please RSVP to Denis Chochrek at Denise.Chochrek@fritolay.com by Wednesday, Nov. 29th.
Monday, November 27, 2006
British copyright - not extended?
BBC News
Last Updated: Monday, 27 November 2006, 14:45 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6186436.stm
According to this article, the UK may elect not to extend copyright beyond 50 years to 95, like other countries.
Donald Wilson, LexisNexis Pioneer
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/11/27/law-blog-obituary-donald-wilson-lexisnexis-pioneer/
Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure that take effect officially
on Friday, Dec. 1.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1164189923012
E-Discovery
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving!
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Top spammers
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Presentation from Nov. 14 meeting
Friday, November 17, 2006
Cast Your Vote to Name the Turkey!
The live turkeys will be part of the 59th National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation, during which the President of the United States traditionally grants a pardon to the National Thanksgiving Turkey. The winning names will be announced on November 22, 2006.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/thanksgiving/2006/
Let the Turkey Live!!
Names to vote:
1. Ben and Franklin
2. Plymouth and Rock
3. Washington and Lincoln
4. Corn and Copia
5. Flyer and Fryer
My vote goes to Plymouth and Rock...cool names!
Ipods this Holiday season
Presentation from November meeting
Library in WA blocks gun magazine web site
Thursday, November 16, 2006
FTC Decisions Online
FTC Decisions Since 1969 Now Available Online
The Federal Trade Commission announced today that Commission actions from the past 37 years, including documents previously available to the general public only in book form, are now available on the agency’s Web site. These volumes – more than 70,000 pages covering 1969 through 2005 – contain virtually all administrative documents issued by the Commission, including Opinions, Final Orders, Complaints, and Consent Orders that result from negotiated consent agreements, as well as all Initial Decisions issued by Administrative Law Judges in administrative trial proceedings
[snip]
Future FTC Decisions Volumes also will include Commission analyses to aid public comment, and will be posted online semiannually. In addition, Volumes 1-74 (1914 through 1968), formerly available to the general public only in book form, also will be posted online.
The index to the decisions is located at http://www.ftc.gov/os/decisions/index.htm . I saw a reference to this at BeSpacific.com.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Texas Community Association Law Blog
The Texas Community Association Law Blog includes helpful articles and insights on managing community associations and navigating the provisions of the Texas Property Code and other governing laws.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Electronic waste
Does anyone know of any local programs? If so, hit the comment link.Clearing a path from desktop to the recycler
In New York, the bulk of the effort to recycle electronic trash has been left to voluntary efforts.
The New York Times By Paul Vitello
The New York Times
Published: November 11, 2006, 12:23 PM PSTFrom out of closets, and from deep corners of basements, emerged the digital equivalent of a thousand Proust-like madeleine moments: old Commodore Plus/4's with cracker crumbs in the keys, original IBM's with floppy disks but no hard drives, perfectly good but long dormant things called word processors.
Texas Legislature: Bills
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Holiday Party RSVP
- Web version: http://www.dallnet.org/holiday_rsvp.asp
- Word version: http://www.dallnet.org/docs/holiday_2006.doc
- PDF version: http://www.dallnet.org/docs/holiday_2006.pdf
Friday, November 10, 2006
Shopping Gala at the Belo
Time: Monday night, Nov. 13th.
Place: Belo Mansion
Sponsored by: Dallas Court Reporters Association
List of vendors that will be at the event:
1. Mary Kay
2. Creative Endeavors
3. Lili Feingold Jewelry
4. Have to Have It
5. Pampererd Chef
6. A Better Letter
7. Partylite Candles
8. Beijo Bags
9. Swiss Colony
10. Creatvie Memories
11. Homemde Gourmet
12. Stitches n’ Bloom
13. DCRA T-shirts
Veterans' Day
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetday_faq.asp
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Advertising Sales on the Web
http://blackfridayhome.com/
Five stages of book grief
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
National races summary
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/
More NTP lawsuits
Technology November 8, 2006, 10:10PM EST
NTP: A Taste of Its Own MedicineThe company that initiated a patent battle with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is now being sued over credit for its patents
by Arik Hesseldahl
The people behind the Virginia holding company NTP struck gold when they settled a long-running patent dispute with Research In Motion (RIMM) for $612.5 million in March. They hope to do it again with a similar lawsuit against handheld maker Palm.
By way of reminder, NTP says it came up with the technology used by both companies to provide wireless paging services. But now, Oren Tavory, a 43-year-old software developer living in West Palm Beach, Fla., says he got there first. Tavory says he did much of the work developing the technology behind NTP's patents. And since NTP has spun those patents into a big payday with hopes of another, Savory says he deserves part of the credit for the patents, and some of the payouts, too.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Election Day!
Try these websites:
Austin Statesman
http://www.statesman.com/
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/
USNEWS
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/pohome.htm?s_kwcid=texas%20elections579431713
Election Gather (must register)
http://election2006.gather.com/groupInvite.jsp?ref=gat_go.2006.j
Monday, November 06, 2006
100 million websites
See the latest issue of Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox at
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/web-growth.html
Now, I think there are over 94 million registered on MySpace...each with their own webpage.
Update on SLA Meeting for Nov. 9th
Apparently due to security procedures at Verizon, only those names that Denise provides to security will be allowed in the building.
Thank you.
It's official...Roll Call buys GalleryWatch
From the Austin Statesman
http://tinyurl.com/yyu5fs
Employment Data
Friday, November 03, 2006
This past month for example, one week's sampling includes:
====== Research and Education ====
1. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
2. Miller Center of Public Affairs
3. International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism
4. Library of Congress Information Bulletin
5. Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts
6. Intute: Interactive Chemistry Tutorials
7. Japan’s Pop Power
8. Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education
====== General Interest ====
9. Celebrating 40 Years of Film in New York City
10. HGTV: Crafts
11. The World According to Sesame Street
12. The Genographic Project
13. Academy of Achievement
14. National Collegiate EMS Foundation
15. Eye on Europe: prints, books & multiples / 1960 to now [Adobe Flash
16. Rockefeller University: Information Technology
After the listing, there will be a short blurb for each of the items as well as the weblink.
http://scout.wisc.edu/
"Since 1994, the Scout Project has focused on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata."
Go to the Scout website and sign up.
Windows Vista licensing change
Pressure Forces Microsoft to Change Vista Licensing
Microsoft removes limit on how often you can reinstall the OS on a new device.
Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service
Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:00 AM PST
http://tinyurl.com/yzl9zd
Customer concerns over changes to Windows Vista licensing that would limit a transfer of the license to only one machine have moved Microsoft to revise the operating system licensing policy.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
European Union and artist's digital rights
EU to Roll Back Artists' Digital Rights?
by Andrew Rettman
EU to Roll Back Artists' Digital Rights? A dispute hinges on whether "collecting societies" should levy fees on computers and MP3 players, plus receive payments for downloadsEuropean musicians suffered a double whammy on Monday (30 October) as news broke the European Commission and a leading UK think-tank are both pushing to cut back artists' digital music copyright privileges.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Banning trans-fats
If this happens, a trend could become precendent and we'll start to see this in other large cities. I understand Chicago is also looking at banning trans-fats.
http://tinyurl.com/ydepl6
According to the article the final New York board vote is in December.
AmLaw 100 Best Websites
Baker & Hostetler LLP -- http://www.bakerlaw.com/
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP -- http://www.wilmerhale.com/
Jones Day LLP -- http://www.jonesday.com/
Andrews Kurth LLP -- http://www.andrewskurth.com/
Hogan & Hartson LLP -- http://www.hhlaw.com/
Foley & Lardner LLP -- http://www.foley.com/
Dorsey & Whitney LLP -- http://www.dorsey.com/
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC -- http://www.mintzlevin.com/
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP -- http://www.eapdlaw.com/
Shearman & Sterling LLP -- http://www.shearman.com/
To read the entire entry surf to http://tinyurl.com/ydm2bv
Wall Street Journal Law Blog
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/
It's easy to sign up for its RSS Feed:
http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/law/feed
Delanceyplace.com
It's a short excerpt of a book - varying topics from Frank Sinatra to how Al Qaeda recruited young men in Afghanistan.
AALL: Photo taking opportunity
Dust off your cameras and start scoping out the perfect shot. A Day in the Life of the Law Library Community Photo Contest is coming back in February 2007.
During the month of February, AALL members will take a wide range of photographs of law librarians working, meeting, teaching, and doing all that law librarians do in a given day. Entries will be due by the end of the month, and they will be judged online by the membership in April. Winners will be recognized on AALLNET, in the July 2007 issue of AALL Spectrum, and during the AALL Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Visit the Day in the Life site for complete contest rules, photography tips, and the winning 2005 photos.
Journal Abbreviations
Description:
See the list at Net-Gold Yahoo Group.PERIODICALS: ABBREVIATIONS:Selected Sources for Decoding Periodical and Journal Abbreviations
This is a brief list of sources on the internet and print that decode or index journal abbreviations or list sources that decode such abbreviations.
Looking for something new to read?
law_librarian_blog/2006/11/mcdades_the_boo.html
What is TOXMAP?
The Fact Sheet about TOXMAP is located at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxmap.html
EPA Library Closing
Citing Unpublished Opinions - Texas Rules of Form 4.1.2(c)
Example:
Young v. State, No. 10-02-00186-CR, 2003 WL 22023670, at *2 (Tex. App. - Waco Aug. 27, 2003, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication).
This is a change from the 10th to the 11th edition of the Texas Rules of Form. For information about obtaining a copy, link to http://www.texaslawpublications.com.