Blackberries and deposition ethics

Read on - this article is funny, but brings up very interesting points about whether or not it is ethical for attorneys to check/reply to emails during depositions.

Whacked Out on BlackBerrys in Depositions

By Jerold S. Solovy and Robert L. Byman
The National Law Journal
June 19, 2008

...Our BlackBerrys keep us connected. We are in a service business and these wonderful devices let us render service to our clients in real time, every
waking moment. But here is a caution -- when we use them at a deposition to
check and return and compose e-mails, we may be violating ethical rules. ...
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AALL Call for Papers

A message from AALL for librarians (and hopefuls) across the country:

The AALL Call for 2008 Papers has begun.

Have you been thinking of writing an article of interest to law librarians? Need a push to get started? Well, here it is.

The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee is soliciting articles in three categories:

Open Division: for active and retired AALL members and law librarians with five or more years of professional experience;

New Members DIvision: for recent graduates and AALL members who have become law librarians since July 1, 2003.

Student Division: for students in library, information management or law school. Participants in this division need not be members of AALL.

The winner in each division receives $750 generously donated by LexisNexis plus the opportunity to present the winning paper at a program during the AALL Annual Meeting in Portland! Winning papers are also considered for publication in the Association’s prestigious Law Library Journal.

A list of previous winners is available at the Call for Papers web site. This list can give you an idea of the range of topics that law librarians have chosen. The web site also has additional information about the competition, including information on how to submit your entry and an application form. That web site is at:

http://www.aallnet.org/about/award_call_for_papers.asp.

Articles in the Open and New Members Division must be submitted by March 1, 2008.

Articles in the Student Division must be submitted by April 15, 2008

If you have any questions, please contact a member of the AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee:

Chair, Joseph Gerken, gerken@buffalo.edu;
James Donovan, jdonovan@uga.edu;
James Heller, heller@wm.edu.

Good luck!

"The Happy Hiker" and other fun reads from LLSDC

From lawlib: Dawn Bohls Library Manager Ropes & Gray LLP

Heading to the beach and looking for some light summer reading? Check out the latest issue of Law Library Lights and find out what your colleagues do when they're not researching legislative history, trying to figure out the latest Thomson West bill, or hunting down that elusive 20-year old 2nd edition of XYZ treatise. Click here to enter "The Secret Lives of Law Librarians": http://llsdc.tendenci.com/attachments/contentmanagers/32/LawLightsSummer2007.pdf
Here are some of the feature articles:

• "The Happy Hiker" Laura W. Dickson
• "On (not) Writing" Glen Jordan Spangler
• "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Library School (Novelist Edition)" Mindy Maddrey (aka Mindy Klasky)
• "Letterboxing: Modern Day Treasure Hunting" Shelley and Steven Shearer
• "Plants are my Passion" Judy Gaskell