Legal Information Alert articles from January 2002

Legal Information Alert archives from January 2002

Diary of a mad cybrarian ... the saga continues.
January 1, 2002... Monday There's a call from the Boston office. They want to have access to Maine materials, preferably MCLE titles that are supposed to be available on Loislaw. I log on, but don't see any secondary materials. Loislaw has been acquired by...

From the Editor.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Welcome to 2002 and our 21st year of publication. Our 20th anniversary celebration during 2001 was terrific--we certainly appreciated all the congratulations we received from you, our readers, during the year and particularly at AALL and SLA....

State laws on the web or state law research: musings on print and web sources.
January 1, 2002... If we can make any blanket observations about the state of legal research in this modern day and age, we can say with certainty that we are now at the point of having too much information. Vendors should keep this in mind as they develop...

Law of Internet Disputes.
January 1, 2002... Law of Internet Disputes. David W. Quinto. 2001. Aspen Law & Business. Looseleaf. 1v. ISBN: 0-7355-2592-7. $165. Law of Internet Disputes is written for practicing attorneys (associates or partners) who would like to extend their...

A Business Skills Curriculum for Law Firm Associates.
January 1, 2002... A Business Skills Curriculum for Law Firm Associates. Stephen R. Chitwood, Anita F. Gottlieb & Evelyn Gaye Mara. 2001. Association of Legal Administrators. Looseleaf. $595 ($495 for ALA members). There are not enough superlatives to...

Berring's Legal Research for the 21st Century: Advanced Research.
January 1, 2002... Berring's Legal Research for the 21st Century: Advanced Research. Robert C. Berring. 2001. West Group. Videotapes (4-tape set, nos. 6-9). ISBN: 0-314-26082-X. $275 (quantity discounts available). Overview of the Set This four-tape set...

Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification: A Megan's Law Sourcebook.
January 1, 2002... Elizabeth Rahmberg Walsh & Fred Cohen. 2001. Civic Research Institute. Looseleaf. 1v. ISBN: 1-887554-05-X. $279.95. Updated annually. Before the murder of Megan Kanka, few states had sex offender registration laws. Just a few years later,...

Mealey's Litigation Report: Product Liability and Risk.
January 1, 2002... Mealey's Litigation Report: Product Liability & Risk. Thomas E. Moylan, ed. 2001. Mealey Publications and Conferences Group, a member of the LexisNexis Group. Newsletter. Semi-monthly. 80p. $895 per year. Litigators familiar with other...

OCLC to buy netLibrary assets. (Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Perhaps the leading provider of e-books, e-textbooks, and Internet-based content, netLibrary has filed for bankruptcy. OCLC has been approved by the Bankruptcy Court to buy all the assets. NetLibrary will continue as a for profit subsidiary of...

Looking for salary data? (Abbott, Langer and Associates, Inc. report) (Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Abbott, Langer & Associates, Inc. publishes current salary survey figures for over 450 benchmark jobs in information technology, marketing and sales, accounting, engineering, human resources, consulting, manufacturing, nonprofit, legal, and...

Check this. (legal info on www.civildiscovery.com) (Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Electronic mail discovery expert Jerry Saperstein is offering a free monograph, "Effective Discovery of E-mail," at his web site, www.civildiscovery.com. In the materials he sent us, he makes a strong case that discovery of email should be...

(Law publishing firm merger news).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Law Library Microfilm Consortium is celebrating 25 years in business. Congratulations. LexisNexis acquired CourtLink at the end of November. This is not surprising since LexisNexis has been involved with the CourtLink board for over a...