News release: “U.S. lawyers are free to outsource legal work, including to lawyers or nonlawyers outside the country, if they adhere to ethics rules requiring competence, supervision, protection of confidential information, reasonable fees and not assisting unauthorized practice of law. Those are the conclusions of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional… Continue Reading
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National Cancer Center Report: The Role of the Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use
“The National Cancer Institute presents this 19th monograph in the Tobacco Control Monograph Series, The Role of the Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use. Monograph 19 provides a critical, scientific review and synthesis of the current evidence regarding the power of the media, both to encourage and to discourage tobacco use. It is the… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Technology Tools for Information Management
Technology Tools for Information Management – Roger V. Skalbeck and Barbara Fullerton’s share a fast paced presentation of 19 practical, low cost and innovative tech tools they respectively use on a regular basis. So if you are looking for ideas to improve your use of Outlook, RSS, Adobe, and enhance your presentations and collaborative goals,… Continue Reading
Justia Pre-Beta Lawyer Directory Released
Justia: Find Attorneys, Legal Aid and Legal Services – Arranged by practice areas, states and metro areas. Continue Reading
Who Represents America's Biggest Companies 2008
Law.com – Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies 2008: Labor Pains “When the results of our seventh annual Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies survey came in this summer, one thing was immediately clear: Workplace issues were among companies’ biggest concerns. Firms that did a substantial amount of labor and employment litigation work for big companies in… Continue Reading
2008 Best Law Firms for Women Announced by Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers
2008 Best Law Firms for Women Announced by Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers – FindLaw: “The legal profession is in a work/life crisis, with 78% of associates leaving law firms by their fifth year and nearly 50% of women lawyers leaving the profession at some point in their careers. The question is whether law firms… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – Legal Research Training for Summer Associates
Reference from Coast to Coast: Summer Musings – Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen provide a timely and valuable refresher on a range of well-sourced, reliable, topical websites, guides, print and program materials useful for summer associate legal research training. Continue Reading
FTC Report Sheds New Light on Food Marketing to Children and Adolescents
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of a study on food marketing to children and adolescents. The report, Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation [see also Appendices A-F], finds that 44 major food and beverage marketers spent $1.6 billion to promote their products… Continue Reading
Australian Law Firm's Social Networking Survey 2008
76% See Business Benefits May Influence Job Choice for 46% of Users: “Australian employers’ approach to on-line social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace may be influencing their efforts to recruit young workers, according to new research by law firm Deacons. In the Deacons Social Networking Survey 2008, almost half of those who used… Continue Reading
Upcoming Computers in Libraries Workshop – Monitoring & Current Awareness: Mining Blogs & RSS for Research
Workshop 8 Monitoring & Current Awareness: Mining Blogs & RSS for Research, 9:00 AM 12:00 PM, Sunday April 6, 2008 – Sabrina I. Pacifici, Law Librarian, Founder/Editor/Publisher, LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com. This workshop focuses on identifying and leveraging the best of free and low-fee web sites as well as web-related services to support… Continue Reading
AIDS.gov Has a New Look
“The new AIDS.gov home page provides easier access to site information and offers new features.” Prominently displayed at the top right side of the page are links to: a well designed and organized Blog, Podcasts to which users may listen and for which transcripts are provided, RSS Feeds to the podcasts, resource announcements and alerts.… Continue Reading
American Lawyer: Brits vs. Americans: Who's Better Prepared to Weather a Recession?
Brits vs. Americans: Who’s Better Prepared to Weather a Recession? Richard Lloyd, The American Lawyer, March 24, 2008: “Traditionally, U.S. firms have benefited from the sheer size of the domestic U.S. economy, the American penchant for pursuing litigation at all costs and large bankruptcy proceedings that provided a seemingly endless gravy train for law firms.… Continue Reading
