On December 10, 2003, I posted Are Paralegal Work and Legal Research Next to Go Offshore? As a follow-up, today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune published a more detailed article on this issue. It specifically focuses on how Thomson West, the legal publishing unit of Thomson Corporation, has established a test project for offshore work in India. According to the article, “just a few months into the quiet Indian pilot-office experience, the half-dozen or so Indian lawyers have been doing online interpretation and legal-classification of “unpublished decisions” of U.S. state and lower courts that are not considered big deals — or “precedential” in legal parlance.”
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Daily Archives: January 16, 2004
The Internet, Privacy and Gov’t Data Mining Programs
Via usnews.com, a reference to an excellent essay, e-Privacy? by Mary J. Cronin, adapted from the book Public Policy and the Internet: Privacy, Taxes, and Contract, edited by Nicholas Imparato and Mary J. Cronin. “The everyday activities of most Americans are now routinely recorded and analyzed by a variety of governmental and commercial organizations. From… Continue Reading
Advocacy Groups Seek State Support for Victims of ID Theft
EPIC Urges Support for ID Theft Victims: “EPIC and over a dozen consumer protection groups sent a letter to the State Attorneys General urging them to accept identity theft affidavits. Acceptance of the affidavits allows identity theft victims to exercise important rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. For more information, see the EPIC FCRA… Continue Reading
Wesley Clarks Issues Agenda on ADA and Access to Gov’t Docs
While campaigning in New Hampshire, General Wesley Clark issued press releases on two topics recently making the news, disability rights and open access to government documents. For reference, see High Court Weighs State Liability Over Lack of Access for Disabled and Wesley Clark Releases Financial Data. Continue Reading
House Democrats Issue Report Appraising Status of Homeland Security
From the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, Democratic Office: Press Release America at Risk: The State of Homeland Security Continue Reading
Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services
A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services by Martha L. Brogan, Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington DC, December 2003. From the Executive Summary: “This reports provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters and then evaluates them more… Continue Reading
