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5 Jun 2008, 10:58 pm
The Zief librarians are always on the lookout for the next indispensable, "must have" practice guide, and we think all of our readers will agree that Cheerleading and the Law: Risk Management Strategies is a necessity for all lawyers confronting those pesky, cheerleading and mascot-related legal issues. [read post]
14 Nov 2007, 4:24 pm
Public.Resource.Org issued a press release today announcing that they will "release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. [read post]
27 Feb 2007, 9:57 am
John Doyle of Washington & Lee Law Library has created a very handy custom Google search that allows you to search just the content of law school websites. [read post]
23 Apr 2007, 5:39 pm
"Blogging Made Easy," the feature article of the third issue of Z-Flyer (PDF; 4 pages; 17.9 MB) explores why law faculty blog, lists some prominent law professor blogs, and surveys some blogging software options that might be particularly useful to law faculty. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 10:29 am
WisBlawg reports that you can now find law review article citations from HeinOnline mixed in with your Google Scholar search results. [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 6:43 pm
Beginning with last year's National Library Week, we've started a tradition of posting some of the librarians' favorite reads. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 4:10 pm
If you took BAR/BRI's bar prep course between 1997 and 2006, you may be eligible for a little windfall, thanks to the recent announcement that West Publishing, the owner of BAR/BRI, and Kaplan, Inc., famous for its LSAT prep courses, will settle a class action antitrust suit for $49 million. [read post]
25 Apr 2007, 10:54 am
When you are a librarian you have to be ready for the occasional person who opines how nice it must be to have a job that lets you read books all day. [read post]
8 Oct 2008, 7:52 pm
Legal writing and research instructors spend a lot of time emphasizing the importance of proofreading briefs and memos, and here's why -- The Legal Intelligencer reports today that a federal judge decided to award just $26,000 in attorneys' fees instead of the requested $180,000, in part because the petitioning attorney's brief was filled with typographical errors. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 2:32 pm
The first-year LRWA final is just about over, and because our Westlaw rep just told us that she observed a 700-page KeyCite result for a single case (!!) [read post]
4 Apr 2007, 3:46 pm
The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog is reporting today on an interesting phenomenon -- a group of law students at Stanford and other top law schools have formed an organization, Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession (LSBBLP -- not sure how they're going to get a snappy acronym out of this name!) [read post]
17 Jun 2007, 4:12 pm
Over at the Wall Street Journal's always-entertaining Law Blog, a lively discussion has broken out in response to a post describing Pillsbury Winthrop's Summer Associate Research Challenge, and many of the comments resurrect the old print-versus-online debate. [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 10:14 am
Westlaw decided to give all legal researchers something to be deeply thankful for this month. [read post]
4 Apr 2007, 1:10 pm
As finals approach, Lawsagna, one of ZiefBrief's favorite sources of advice on ways to study and learn, is serving out exam preparation advice. [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 10:24 am
According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a prospective law student (who had graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers University) attempted to purchase a copy of the LSAT from employees of the Law School Admission Test for $5,000. [read post]
12 Jan 2007, 10:36 am
A recent Law.com article reports that the presiding justices of the appellate division's four departments in New York have modified proposed rules governing attorney websites and blogs. [read post]
1 Sep 2007, 2:05 pm
The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog is featuring advice for first-year law students from a host of literary lawyers, including Scott Turow, Jeremy Blachman (aka Anonymous Lawyer), Cameron Stracher, and Jeffrey Toobin. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 2:59 pm
I gave a presentation to the Northern California Association of Law Libraries on getting started with blogs and social bookmarking. [read post]
9 May 2008, 8:35 am
Did you ever wonder what happened to your travel coffee mug? [read post]
18 Dec 2006, 12:11 pm
Professor Reza Dibadj's article, "From Incongruity to Cooperative Federalism," appears in Volume 40 of the University of San Francisco Law Review. [read post]
