Legal Information Alert articles from April 2004

Legal Information Alert archives from April 2004

Marketing and the information resource center.
April 1, 2004... "Hitch your wagon to a star." Ralph Waldo Emerson Samuel Johnson once said that there are two types of knowledge... knowing something and knowing where to find it. During the last three decades, information professionals in large law...

What will they think of next? WestPack 2004 Patron Access.
April 1, 2004... Just when you thought you'd seen it all, Westlaw offers us a new product. If you haven't heard yet, you will soon. I, for one, could not see this coming, not even in my wildest imagination. Readers with any experience at all will probably be...

Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003: Law and Explanation.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003: Law and Explanation. Jay Nawrocki, ed. 2003. CCH, Inc. Hardcover. 633p. SBN: 0-8080-1098-0. $149. Prepared by CCH editors, this is a typical work from the publisher...

Intellectual Property Taxation: Transaction and Litigation Issues.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Intellectual Property Taxation: Transaction and Litigation Issues. Jeffrey A. Maine & Xuan-Thao N. Nguyen. 2003. BNA Books, Hardcover. 808p. ISBN: 1-57018-373-2. $345. In the preface, the authors make a clear assessment about the scope and...

Trademark Law Guide.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Trademark Law Guide. Thomas P. Arden & Peter J. Strand. 2003. CCH, Inc. 2v. Looseleaf. $975. The CCH Trademark Law Guide is the only looseleaf service solely covering trademark law. I reviewed the print edition, but not the CD or Web...

Keeping the Keepers, vol. 2, Mobility and Management of Associates: Entry Level and Lateral Hiring and Attrition.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Keeping the Keepers II: Mobility and Management of Associates--Entry-Level and Lateral Hiring and Attrition 1998-2003. 2003. The NALP Foundation. Softcover. 127p. $295. This book is essentially a collection of statistics about the mobility...

The Lawyer's Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet, 2d ed.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Lawyer's Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet. 2d ed. Carole A. Leavitt & Mark E. Rosch. 2004. American Bar Association, Law Practice Management Section. Softcover. 606p. ISBN: 1-59031-274-0. $79.95 ($69.95 for section members). ...

Mealey's Litigation Report: Discovery.(Periodical Review)
April 1, 2004... Mealey's Litigation Report: Discovery. 2003. LexisNexis Mealey's Publications & Conferences Group. Monthly report. $699 per year. Documents, no matter what their format, can tell a story, prove a theory, or reveal truths denied or long...

The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes to Win.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes to Win. David Berg. 2003. American Bar Association, Section of Litigation. Hardcover. 328p. ISBN: 1-59031-232-5. $110 ($95 for section members). David Berg loves being a trial lawyer. That much is clear from...