March 11, 2009
AALL has made available four archived Webinars presented October 2008 - January 2009 in the Members Only Section of AALLNET: Twenty Essentials for the Effective Speaker ($25) How to Train Without Showing Up ($25) Law Firm Library Budgeting for Hard......
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March 02, 2009
The Boucher case has bubbled back up recently. Boucher had been stopped at the Canadian border while crossing into Vermont. His running laptop was examined by an ICE agent who determined that it contained child pornography. Boucher was arrested and......
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March 01, 2009
Wired has an interesting story on how the Gaussian Copula Function, a statistical formula used to asses financial risk, devastated the global economy. In Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street, Felix Salmon describes how math wizard David......
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January 19, 2009
Because every time we ventured into a store to comparison shop we were confronted with older technology stickered with a premium price. It didn't help that popular DVDs priced at $14.95 to $18.95 at other stores sold for $24.99 at......
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You invite a couple of million of your closest friends to the biggest bash your town has ever thrown. You extend bar hours nearly till dawn. You import thousands of cops to keep the streets safe. You commandeer every bit......
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January 06, 2009
While politically-themed Internet censorship in China has received most of the attention, news sites and human rights sites are frequently restricted too. Now China's State Council Information Office has intensified its campaign against sexually-explicit Internet material by instructing companies in...
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January 05, 2009
Fearless: The Richard A. Sprague Story is a new ABA title. It was published by the ABA as part of a settlement agreement with Sprague after an ABA publication described him as a "lawyer-cum-fixer." No such slams in the product......
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December 29, 2008
As violent crime nationally slows in growth or declines, the United States is facing a dramatic — but hardly noticed — increase in murders by and of young African-American men, a Northeastern University study released today reports. Between 2002 and......
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December 21, 2008
Professor Andrew Leipold, the Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law, graduated summa cum laude in Public Relations from Boston University. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of Order of......
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December 19, 2008
Last month, voters approved a statewide measure decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Now, wary authorities say, comes the hard part. They are scrambling to set up a new system of civil penalties before Jan. 2, when the......
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