LLRX.com: Law Firms Now Outsourcers? – With the recent announcement that UK law firm Eversheds will launch its own outsourcing business, Ron Friedmann addresses the question of what exactly is law firm outsourcing, and how does it differ from where lawyers are located.
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Daily Archives: February 21, 2010
New on LLRX.com – FOIA Facts: Why the Wait?
LLRX.com – FOIA Facts: Why the Wait? Requesters who are new to using the FOIA statute often complain that they have filed a request within the last month but haven’t receive their documents yet. FOIA expert Scott A. Hodes explains that the congressional budgeting process does not specifically provide FOIA operations within an agency a… Continue Reading
DOJ Report on Bush Administration Interrogation Memos and Related Documents
Follow up to previous postings on the Bush Administration Torture Memos, significant new documents were made public by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr., who posted the following document library on February 19, 2010: DOJ Report on Bush Administration Interrogation Memos and Related Documents [note: several of these documents are redacted] Memorandum for the… Continue Reading
Pew Report: The Future of the Internet IV
The Future of the Internet IV: “Experts and stakeholders say the Internet will enhance our intelligence not make us stupid. It will also change the functions of reading and writing and be built around still-unanticipated gadgetry and applications. The battle over control of the internet will rage on and debates about online anonymity will… Continue Reading
White Paper – Legal Abandon: How Limiting Lawsuits Led To The Financial Collapse And What To Do About It
“In a new White Paper, the national nonprofit consumer group Center for Justice & Democracy explores how the weakening of investors and borrowers legal rights since the 1990s has compounded deregulation and lax regulatory enforcement led to the recent economic collapse. In Legal Abandon: How Limiting Lawsuits Led To The Financial Collapse And What To… Continue Reading
Millions of Unemployed Americans Face Years Without Jobs
New York Times: Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs: “Every downturn pushes some people out of the middle class before the economy resumes expanding. Most recover. Many prosper. But some economists worry that this time could be different. An unusual constellation of forces some embedded in the modern-day economy, others unique to this… Continue Reading
Melodic Intonation Therapy Provides Path Back to Speech for Stroke Patients
Melodic Intonation Therapy: “The technique was developed because a lot of patients who can’t talk can still sing. Gottfried Schlaug, a neurologist at Harvard University, is studying how and why this treatment seems to work for many patients who have failed at other forms of speech therapy. He’s running a randomized clinical trial of the… Continue Reading
FHFA Releases Working Paper "Estimating Median House Prices"
FHFA Working Paper 10-1: Estimating Median House Prices, Andrew Leventis, Senior Economist, Office of Policy Analysis and Research Federal Housing Finance Agency, February 2010. “Nondisclosure laws and other factors have hindered the production and release of median home price in many areas across the country. This paper attempts to fill the gaps and develops a… Continue Reading
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Salon – The author of a new book talks about the secret lives of America’s favorite — and endangered — disciplinarians “Marilyn Johnson, a former staff writer for Life magazine…delights in refuting our assumptions about librarians, while making a rock-solid case for their indispensability at a time when library systems are losing an average of… Continue Reading
CDC: Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2008
Follow up to related postings on obesity in America, this new study: Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2008. Katherine M. Flegal, PhD; Margaret D. Carroll, MSPH; Cynthia L. Ogden, PhD; Lester R. Curtin, PhD. JAMA. 2010;303(3):235-241. Published online January 13, 2010 (doi:10.1001/jama.2009.2014). “Herein we report the results from the latest National Health… Continue Reading
