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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Examining Her Path to the High Court Bench and its Intersection with the ACLU

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Brinkley, Jennifer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Examining Her Path to the High Court Bench and its Intersection with the ACLU (June 1, 2018). Lincoln Memorial University law Review, Vol. 6, Spring 2019, Issue 1. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3463979

“This paper examines Justice Ginsburg’s history, her impassioned activism on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, her confirmation to the United States Supreme Court, and the partisan politics of 2016, which resulted in the failed nomination of moderate jurist, Chief Judge Merrick Garland.”

How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams

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Harvard Business Review – “Companies spend millions on antibias training each year. The goal is to create workforces that are more inclusive, and thereby more innovative and more effective. Studies show that well-managed diverse groups outperform homogeneous ones and are more committed, have higher collective intelligence, and are better at making decisions and solving problems.… Continue Reading

Ancestry® Debuts the World’s Largest Digital Archive of Searchable Online Obituaries and Death Announcements

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Business Wire, October 28, 2019: “Today, Ancestry®, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, is releasing the new Newspapers.com Obituary Collection and announcing an upgrade to its U.S. Obituary Collection, adding to what is now the world’s largest, searchable digital archive of over 262 million worldwide obituaries and death announcements, containing almost 1… Continue Reading

Legal Enterprise Search at the Crossroads

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Prism Legal – Ron Friedman: “This [was] a live post from the Ark Knowledge Management conference; the title of this talk is Legal Enterprise Search at the Crossroads. The presenters [were] Harris Tilevitz, Chief Technology Officer, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Douglas Freeman, Knowledge Systems Manager, White & Case LLP Kate Simpson, National… Continue Reading

Federal Workforce Statistics Sources: OPM and OMB

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CRS Report via LC – Federal Workforce Statistics Sources: OPM and OMB, Updated October 24, 2019 – “According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the federal workforce is composed of an estimated 2.1 million civilian workers,1 and several federal agencies collect, compile, and publish statistics about this workforce. Sources may vary in their totals due… Continue Reading

The Law of Immigration Detention – A Brief Introduction

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The Law of Immigration Detention: A Brief Introduction, October 24, 2019. “The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) authorizes— and in some cases requires—the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain non-U.S. nationals (aliens) who are subject to removal from the United States. This detention scheme is multifaceted, with rules that turn on several factors, such… Continue Reading

Experts Optimistic About the Next 50 Years of Digital Life

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“Heading into the network’s 50th anniversary, Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center asked hundreds of technology experts, including Kleinrock and fellow internet pioneers, how individuals’ lives might be affected by the evolution of the internet over the next 50 years. Overall, 530 technology pioneers, innovators, developers, business and policy leaders, researchers… Continue Reading