Inefficient Westlaw Searches Causes One National Firm to Hold Mandatory Training for Associates

From 3 Geeks & A Law Blog:

A memo (see snippet below) was sent out to all associates at one national firm last week mandating any associate that "utilizes or intends to utilize Westlaw" to attend a training session to learn the firm's "Best Practices".

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10 Emerging Technologies 2010

From Technology Review:

10 Emerging Technologies 2010

Each year, Technology Review selects what it believes are the 10 most important emerging technologies. The winners are chosen based on the editors’ coverage of key fields. The question that we ask is simple: is the technology likely to change the world? Some of these changes are on the largest scale possible: better biofuels, more efficient solar cells, and green concrete all aim at tackling global warming in the years ahead. Other changes will be more local and involve how we use technology: for example, 3-D screens on mobile devices, new applications for cloud computing, and social television. And new ways to implant medical electronics and develop drugs for diseases will affect us on the most intimate level of all, with the promise of making our lives healthier.

Click here to see the list of 10.

The Government Domain: New & Free Regulations Trackers

From LLRX:

The Government Domain: New & Free Regulations Trackers
By Peggy Garvin, Published on April 21, 2010
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The independent web developers of this 2.0 world have done a great job in making federal legislative information available in new ways; see GovTrack.us and OpenCongress.org for examples. The same is happening with federal regulatory information. New, free, nongovernment resources have come online to complement the official U.S. government regulatory information sites, RegInfo.gov and Regulations.gov. For this bounty, we can thank innovative developers and the relatively new availability of a free XML version of the Federal Register that can be downloaded in bulk. The Federal Register has long been available for searching and viewing for free, but subscribing to the data in bulk--necessary for meaningful repurposing--carried a cost that discouraged entrepreneurial individuals. In the meantime, both RegInfo.gov and Regulations.gov have been redesigned and continue to provide content and functionality not available.... Click here for more.

Recent Acquisitions

- Joseph, Gregory P. Civil RICO: A Definitive Guide, 3d. Chicago: ABA, 2010.

- Thompson, Robert A. Real Estate Opinion Letter Practice. Chicago: ABA, 2009.

- International Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel. National Pressure Ulcer Prevention & Treatment Clinical Practice Guidelines.

- ThomsonReuters. Florida Rules of Court - State. Eagan, WN: West, 2010.

- Equal Justice Initiative. Alabama Capital Postconviction Manual, 4th. Montogmery: EJI, 2009.

- ThomsonReuters. Real Estate Investment Trusts Handbook, 2008/2009. New York: West, 2009.

- Markenson, Ari J. and Carrie Kissick Rabbitt. Fifty State Survey of Certificate of Need and Licensure. Washington D.C.: AHLA, 2009.

- ThomsonReuters. Restatement of the Law 3d - Trusts. Eagan: West, 2010.

- O'Reilly, James T. Litigating the Nursing Home Case. Chicago: ABA, 2009.


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FASB Codification - Please see me for log on information.

Alabama Attorney General Opinions

Effective immediately, the Alabama Attorney General Opinions will no longer be mailed in print form. However, I will be receiving the digest via email and will send out the weekly report. The files for each opinion will be saved on Worldox

Also, they are all available (and search-able) online at the Attorney General's web site.

Casemaker

"Casemaker is a unique online legal research tool with a powerful search engine providing access to a combination of state and federal materials, which was launched by the Ohio State Bar Association in 1998. Casemaker includes historic to current cases, statutes, and regulations.

"Casemaker's comprehensive library includes links to Alabama case law, Alabama statutes, state and federal court rules, administrative codes, Attorney General opinions, and much more. Recently, Casemaker added libraries for every state in the country, which include state caselaw, current state statutes, and the state's constitution. Casemaker is currently expanding its federal content to include all U.S. Supreme Court cases and Circuit Court cases going back to 1950. This ever-expanding library makes Casemaker one of the most valuable member benefits the Bar offers."

To access Casemaker, log on with your Alabama Bar information.

Alabama Supreme Court & State Law Library - new web site

The Alabama Supreme Court and State Law Library is pleased to announce the launch of its new website. Please check us out. As part of our redesign, we are proud to present the full text of the Alabama Rules of Court—Civil, Criminal, Small Claims, Juvenile, Appellate, and Judicial Administration and the accompanying forms.