Sunday, April 01, 2007 7:49 AM
Blawg's Sunday Paper, a quick spin through the blawgosphere and the week that was.
Another Sunday morning, this one probably finding alums from Florida and Ohio State, a bit happier than the rest of us...
Jason Eiseman, writing at Jason the Content Librarian, talked about using Cataloger’s notes as knowledge management wiki tool.
In her post, Email paranoia?, Faye Jones at the FSU College of Law Library Blog pointed out an article concerning people who don't use email:
The U.S. attorney general doesn’t send e-mails—and he’s not alone. From government to business, many powerful people are choosing not to use email. President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, CEOs and others do not use email.
Law library technician Emma Wood talked about New features in LinkedIn and Zoominfo at her weblog Ballad in Plain E.
Jack Vinson at Knowledge Jolt with Jack wrote about Defining multitasking. An excerpt:
The kind of multitasking that is worrisome is that which creates task fragmentation (a phrase from Tom DeMarco). This comes about when you are a working on a task in a series of tasks (on a project): the next task cannot get started until you complete the current one. This might be for your own work, where you get to manage the damage by staying up late or working over the weekend. Or it might be in combination with other people, where a delay on one task gets pushed down the entire sequence of activities and people. Task fragmentation has you working on five activities all at once, frequently because five different project managers are screaming to get their activity completed.
Professor Herbert N. Ramy, posting at the Law School Academic Support Blog, discussed academic support in Figuring Out Who Needs Help:
One of the most difficult aspects of ASP work is figuring out who is in most need of our help. The reason? As I see it, the primary reason for this problem is that we have competing factors at play that don’t always lead to the same conclusion.
For example, most would agree that we want to get students into our offices as early as possible. Addressing weaknesses in how students approach their studies as early as possible, gives students more time to implement our ideas and, ultimately, succeed. If earlier is better, then we should all be using LSAT scores and college GPAs to select students who should work with us, right?? Not so fast.
An anonymous 3L on the East Coast, The Once and Future Lawyer, wondered Clerkship bonus jumps, who will follow?
All around the clerkship circuit, people are buzzing about the fact that S&C have upped their clerkship bonus to $50k (details as to what type of clerkship qualifies remains unknown). Regardless, it seems inevitable that the rest of the big firms will follow and up their ante from the $10-25k range to somewhere in the $35k ballpark. If the rest of the big law firms follow to $35k, that will at least be around $21k after taxes, so it's something, and it's not something to sniff at.
Another law student, PT-LawMom, pointed out an Interesting dichotomy in Beltway immigration policies:
While Virginia is trying to pass a bill to withdraw state funding from charities that provide aid to undocumented immigrants , Maryland is trying to pass a law to give them in-state tuition benefits .
Ernie the Attorney recently finished Michael Lewis' latest book, The Blind Side (which I happen to be about three chapters into myself), and wrote about not only the book itself but actually getting the chance to ask Mr. Lewis a burning question he had about one moment in the story. You can read all about it at his post Michael Lewis & The Great Gazoo.
At Between Lawyers, Dennis M. Kennedy, announced an upcoming book that he will be writing along with Tom Mighell: Collaboration Tools for Lawyers - The Book. Expected release is early 2008.
Tim Stanley at Justia continued to announce new tracking tools and features being offered at his site. For a sample, see Justia Regulation Tracker Beta - Tracking Federal Regulations, Rules, Proposed Rules and Notices, Dockets.Justia.com -- beta 2 - More Updates & Faster, and Federal Court Case Filings - Dockets.Justia.com.
At The Lawyer Coach Blog, Allison Wolf, posted her list of Must have coaching books:
I just returned from the LMA (Legal Marketing Association) Annual Conference in Atlanta where I had the good fortune to present “Coaching the Alpha Lawyer” with Heather Gray-Grant the Marketing and Business Development Director from the firm Alexander Holburn LLP. I’d like to thank the members of the audience who attended the presentation for their warm welcome, active participation, and great questions. As promised, here is a list of my favorite coaching books...Must have coaching books
DealLawyers.com Blog noted the SEC Grants Class Relief under Rule 14e-5 for Purchases by Offeror Outside of Tender Offer.
Susan Crawford had a vote on ICANN Board with regard to the proposal of a .xxx domain, but ultimately found herself in the minority. She shared her statement on the vote on her weblog:
The ICANN Board voted today 9-5, with Paul Twomey abstaining, to reject a proposal to open .xxx. This is my statement in connection with that vote. I found the resolution adopted by the Board (rejecting xxx) both weak and unprincipled. I am troubled by the path the Board has followed on this issue since I joined the Board in December of 2005. I would like to make two points. First, ICANN only creates problems for itself when it acts in an ad hoc fashion in response to political pressures. Second, ICANN should take itself seriously as a private governance institution with a limited mandate and should resist efforts by governments to veto what it does. See her post Why I Voted For XXX for more...
And, finally, in a post from John Mesirow at Legal Juice (as only Legal Juice can post 'em!) Husband And Wife Despise Each Other. New York Jury Won't Let Them Divorce!
Have a nice Sunday...