Legal Information Alert articles from June 2005

Legal Information Alert archives from June 2005

Investigating Merlin and Accurint.
June 1, 2005... Is Merlin really a "magical database"? Is Accurint really accurate and current? After working as a law school librarian for 10 years, I switched careers and became a law firm librarian. One of the biggest changes I encountered was going...

SLA report.(Special Libraries Association)
June 1, 2005... Summer is travel time for law librarians. Many of you did as I did and traveled first to Toronto in June for the Special Libraries Association's meeting and then to San Antonio in July for the AALL meeting. Here I cover the Toronto meeting. ...

Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts, 2d ed.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts, 2d. Robert L. Haig, ed. 2004. Thomson/West. Hardcover. 5v. $480. Annual supplements. This second edition of Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts, produced in conjunction with the New...

Practical Guide to Document Authentication: Legalization of Notarized and Certified Documents.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Practical Guide to Document Authentication: Legalization of Notarized and Certified Documents. John P. Sinnott. 2005. Oceana Publications, Inc. Hardcover. 732p. ISBN: 0-379-2127-7. $165. The phrase "document authentication" refers to the...

Procedural Due Process: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Procedural Due Process: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution. Rhonda Wasserman. 2004. Praeger Publishers, an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group. Hardcover. 377p. ISBN: 0-313-31353-9. $124.95. Eighth of a planned series of...

E-Commerce and the Law of Digital Signatures.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... E-Commerce and the Law of Digital Signatures. Dennis Campbell, ed. 2005. Oceana Publications, Inc. Hardcover. 916p. ISBN: 0-379-21515-2. $135. One mark of the modern age is the substitution of electronic communications for paper documents....

Books and Periodicals Online: Law, Business and News, 2005 ed.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Books and Periodicals Online: Law, Business & News, 2005 Edition. Nuchine Nobari, ed. Library Technology Alliance, Ltd. Softcover. 1,686p. ISBN: 0-9745845-4-1. $269. Weighing in at three pounds, dressed with a paper cover, measuring 8 1/2...