Legal Apps - Part 6, Productivity

App	Description
	The Evernote app saves, shares, and organize files and record voice notes. Available for free at iTunes and Google Play.
	Dragon Dictation is a voice recognition app that allows you to speak and instantly see your text or email messages. Available for free at iTunes.
	The Dropbox app automatically saves photos, videos, and documents. Available for free at iTunes, Google Play, Blackberry and Kindle.
	The Docs To Go app allows users to view, edit, and create documents. Available for $9.99 at iTunes and free for Docs to Go 3.0 at Google Play (additional purchase included).
	The GoDocs app allows users to view documents, edit documents online, and manage multiple accounts. Available for $4.99 at iTunes .
	The Adobe Reader app allows users to view PDF files, fill out forms, and print files. Available for free at iTunes and Google Play.

UNT Digital Collections

I know I've mentioned these before - but the University of North Texas Libraries have some pretty good digital collections. One of these collections consists of reports from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which otherwise can be difficult to find. There are reports dating back to the 1970's.

To see all of the offerings, go to their collection home page at http://digital.library.unt.edu/.

Court materials online?

From the Legal Research Plus blog:

The Existential Exercise of Finding State Court Materials Online

May 12, 2011 — Rachael Samberg

Recently, we’ve had the opportunity to explore the online availability of state superior court filings, both through commercial retrieval services (such as Lexis’ CourtLink or Westlaw’s CourtExpress), and the superior courts’ own websites. Sites like Justia are also incredible resources for obtaining select trial court documents, but our project instead examined more standardized provision of dockets and filings. (cont)

Discovery Dispute

I came across this on Above The Law in my RSS feed this morning, and thought it was very interesting. Here's a snippet from the post:

If you’re a Biglaw litigator searching for a published opinion addressing discovery issues, well, today is your lucky day. Check out this great opinion, just handed down — not by a mere magistrate or district judge, but by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit…

Source: "Biglaw Litigators, Rejoice! A Circuit Court Opinion on a Discovery Dispute" By David Lat, Above The Law, posted 03 May 2011 at 6:34 PM.

Case referenced: Markyl Lee v. Max International, LLC [U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit]

Oops! Texas exposes individuals' information

Here's a blurb from txsafeguard.org -

Incident Background

The Comptroller’s office recently identified the exposure of three data files that contained individuals’ personal information. There is no information at this time that the personal information has been misused in any way.

The data files were provided to the Comptroller’s office by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC), the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and the Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS). They included information such as names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers and some driver’s license numbers. (cont)

Additional information:

Press release: http://txsafeguard.org/110411-security.php
Ars Technica article discussing the incident: http://tinyurl.com/3w6kxvm

New UK legislative web site

I rarely have to research United Kingdom law, but this post from the new In Custodia Legis blog from the Law Library of Congress regarding the new UK legislative web site had me in stitches. Go read it for yourself!

FederalRegister.gov goes live

FederalRegister.gov is now online, in time to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication. This new web site has a number of ways to find items in the FR:

• Search
• Browse
• Section
• Topic
• Agency
• Dates
• Current issue
• Notices
• Proposed Rules
• Rules
• Presidential Documents

Each individual document can be seen in HTML, with links to PDF and XML versions. Further, the HTML version has a nice box on the right showing official citation, date, type, document ID, and shorter URL.

Check it out and add comments to this entry on what you think of the new site.

Madoff Documents

The Wall Street Journal has gathered most open-source documents and links about the Bernard Madoff Fraud Case. The URL is http://online.wsj.com/public/page/bernard-madoff.html

There are links to resource lists, and articles in the Wall Street Journal.

Resources

• Madoff's allocution (March 12, 2009)
  
• Department of Justice information for victims
  
• SEC Dec. 11, 2008 press release on Madoff
  
• U.S. attorney's statement on Madoff's arrest
  
• SEC memorandum for a preliminary injunction
  
• Criminal complaint
  
• Cox's Dec. 16 statement on SEC failures
  
• SEC inspector general's Jan. 5, 2009 testimony
  

Markopolos's Documents

• Documents Harry Markopolos submitted to the SEC in fall 2005, making a case that Bernard Madoff's business was a Ponzi scheme.
  
• Asset Firms Dispute Markopolos Documents (1/16/09)
  
• The response Mr. Markopolos received from an SEC official in response to his case against Mr. Madoff.
  
• An email Mr. Markopolos sent to a SEC official in April 2008.
  
• See the SEC's case opening and closing recommendations.