Legal Information Alert articles from April 2002

Legal Information Alert archives from April 2002

Librarian at large: an interview with James Shelar.(Interview)
April 1, 2002... Jim Shelar is well known to many of us in the law library profession. He has been director of library services at Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC for 27 years. He is one of those librarians that we always look up whenever we are in...

(Legal publishing industry news).
April 1, 2002... Collier on Bankruptcy Gets New Editors LexisNexis recently announced that Alan N. Resnick and Henry J. Sommer have been appointed editors-in-chief of the Collier line of bankruptcy treatises and handbooks. In case you have forgotten (or...

Marketing the "new" technology: the law publishers' dilemma.
April 1, 2002... This column will be of interest primarily to academic law librarians, but law firm, state, and county librarians may also find it worth reading. The topic is law publishers' various attempts at marketing the "new" technology. It is also about...

Employee benefits. (online pension tracking service) (Evaluation)
April 1, 2002... Pension Tracker [TM] 2001. CCH Incorporated. Online service. $259 annually. Free for subscribers to CCH's Internet Pension Plan Guide. Reduced price for subscribers to CD-ROM and print versions of Pension Plan Guide. It seems that almost...

The Federal Courthouse Door: A Federal Jurisdiction Guide.
April 1, 2002... The Federal Courthouse Door: A Federal Jurisdiction Guide. James P. George. 2002. Carolina Academic Press. Softcover. 369p. ISBN: 0-89089-2229. $50. Anyone who has been involved in federal litigation or took civil procedure in law...

Legal research. (Evaluation)
April 1, 2002... The Public Records Research System. 2001. BRB Publications, Inc. Online service. $119 per year or $39 quarterly. I was excited when I saw an announcement for BRB Publications' new Web access to public records at www.publicrecordsources.com....

ALI-ABA's Practice Checklist Manual on Alternative Dispute Resolution.
April 1, 2002... ALI-ABA's Practice Checklist Manual on Alternative Dispute Resolution. Mark T. Carroll, ed. 2002. ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education. Softcover. 212p. ISBN: 0-8318-0816-0. $94. Filled with checklists and forms, this is...

ALI-ABA's Practice Checklist Manual on Trial Advocacy: Checklists and Advice from 'The Practical Litigator'.
April 1, 2002... ALI-ABA's Practice Checklist Manual on Trial Advocacy. Mark T. Carroll, ed. 2001. ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education. Softcover. 304p. ISBN: 0-8318-1405-5. $99. ALI-ABA's Practice Checklist Manual on Trial Advocacy is a...

Medical Evidence.
April 1, 2002... Medical Evidence. Thomas H. Quinn, Terence R. Quinn & Robert H. Quinn, et al. 2001. James Publishing. Looseleaf w/CD-ROM. 470p. ISBN: 157626-030-5. $79. The opening paragraph of Medical Evidence notes that most professions have their own...

The Law of Telecommuting.
April 1, 2002... The Law of Telecommuting. Nicole Belson Goluboff. 2001. ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education. Hardcover. 243p. ISBN: 0-8318-0820-9. $79. Once upon a time, having a job meant getting up in the morning and walking or riding to...

The Law of Products Liability.
April 1, 2002... The Law of Products Liability. 4th ed. Marshall S. Shapo. 2001. CCH Incorporated. Looseleaf. 2v. ISBN: 0-8080-0677-0. $259. Annual updates. This two-volume looseleaf treatise provides a comprehensive review of issues involved in products...