CNMI Immigration and Border Control Databases, GAO-10-345R, February 16, 2010 Disaster Assistance: Federal Assistance for Permanent Housing Primarily Benefited Homeowners; Opportunities Exist to Better Target Rental Housing Needs, GAO-10-17, January 14, 2010 Surface Coal Mining: Financial Assurances for, and Long-Term Oversight of, Mines with Valley Fills in Four Appalachian States, GAO-10-206, January 14, 2010 Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Recalibrating the System: Toward Efficient and Effective Resourcing of National Preparedness
Project on National Security Reform (PNSR) released the study Recalibrating the System: Toward Efficient and Effective Resourcing of National Preparedness, December 2009 “In the U.S. three levels of government share sovereignty over common territory. This fundamental reality requires substantive improvement to current approaches to homeland security mission preparedness and execution, and if necessary, establishment of… Continue Reading
UK's mySociety.org creates and runs democracy and transparency websites in the UK
“mySociety has two missions. The first is to be a charitable project which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. The second is to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how to use the internet most efficiently to improve lives. mySociety is a… Continue Reading
Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism: A Report Provided to the United States Congress
Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism Report Released by the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, U.S. Department of State: “In memory of Tom Lantos, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, a leader of moral force and a champion of human rights. As the only Holocaust survivor… Continue Reading
CRS: The Debt Limit: History and Recent Increases
The Debt Limit: History and Recent Increases, D. Andrew Austin, Analyst in Economic Policy, Mindy R. Levit, Analyst in Public Finance, January 28, 2010 “Total debt of the federal government can increase in two ways. First, debt increases when the government sells debt to the public to finance budget deficits and acquire the financial resources… Continue Reading
CRS: Insurance and Financial Regulatory Reform in the 111th Congress
Insurance and Financial Regulatory Reform in the 111th Congress, Baird Webel, Specialist in Financial Economics, January 13, 2010 “In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, broad financial regulatory reform legislation has been advanced by the Obama Administration and by various Members of Congress. Under the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945, insurance regulation is generally =… Continue Reading
Security Labs Report Jul 2009-Dec 2009 Recap
Security Labs Report Jul 2009-Dec 2009 Recap – “This report has been prepared by the M86 Security Labs team. It covers key trends and developments in Internet security over the last six months, as observed by the security analysts at M86 Security Labs. M86 Security Labs is a group of security analysts specializing in Email… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Ethics of Legal Outsourcing White Paper
LLRX.com – Ethics of Legal Outsourcing White Paper: The practical reality for US and UK attorneys engaging in or contemplating Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is that the outsourcing of both core legal and support services across the legal profession is nothing new. What is different today with the emergence of the LPO industry is that… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – Effective Project Management: the Art of Creating Scope Statements
LLRX.com – Effective Project Management: the Art of Creating Scope Statements – Carol A. Watson’s discussion of how well-defined scope statements are the key to successful project management continues with this article focused on how all written documentation should be clearly and concisely written, avoiding ambiguities at all costs. Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Preserving Born-Digital Legal Materials – Where to Start?
LLRX.com: Preserving Born-Digital Legal Materials – Where to Start?: Sarah Rhodes discusses the monumental challenge of preserving our digital heritage. She argues that law libraries specifically have a critically important role to play in this undertaking as access to legal and law-related information is a core underpinning of our democratic society. Our current digital preservation… Continue Reading
Investigative Resources, Due-Diligence Tips and Useful War Stories For Doing Business in a Complex World
Investigative Resources, Due-Diligence Tips and Useful War Stories For Doing Business in a Complex World – Eight Lessons from Recent Due-Diligence Background-Checking Gone Wrong. James Mintz Group, Global Fact Finding, Issue Five, February 2010 “The unmasking of Bernard Madoff has made many business people uneasy about the ventures they invest in, and the new partners… Continue Reading
Some News Organizations Persist in Using FOIA, and Prevail
New York Times: “Some big companies, like Hearst and The Associated Press, have been quietly ramping up their legal efforts, by doing more of the work in-house and saving costs by not hiring outside lawyers and being more aggressive in states where they can recoup legal fees and at the federal level, which… Continue Reading
