Bloomberg Adds BNA Content to BLAW

Please see the Bloomberg BNA press release here.

And additional coverage is here.

Boing Boing Posting “Liberating America’s Secret, For-Pay Laws”

Boing Boing, a group blog that started out as a zine, has recently posted an interesting and provocative piece by Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org:

Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.

A PDF of the full report is here.

KEY FINDINGS:

82 members (40 Democrats and 42 Republicans) paid family members through their congressional offices, campaign committees and political action committees (PACs);
44 members (20 Democrats and 24 Republicans) have family members who lobby or are employed in government affairs;
90 members (42 Democrats and 48 Republicans) have paid a family business, employer, or associated nonprofit;
20 members (13 Democrats and 7 Republicans) used their campaign money to contribute to a family member’s political campaign;
14 members (6 Democrats and 8 Republicans) charged interest on personal loans they made to their own campaigns;
38 members (24 Democrats and 14 Republicans) earmarked to a family business, employer, or associated nonprofit.

Bloomberg Law (BLAW) has won the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) 2012 new product award, recognizing BLAW’s innovation in providing access to legal information.

Please see:

Following up earlier LegalResearchPlus posts on recently-filed legal actions as to the copying/sale of court filings/lawyers’ briefs and related matters — here, here, and here, West Hartford, Connecticut attorney and lead plaintiff David J. Heinlein on Wednesday 14 March 2012 brought a class action (docket no. 12-00386) against West Publishing Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut — please see:

See here for descriptions of the online digital map collections that are accessible/searchable, as well a listing of participating contributors.

Last but not least, here is the “Search” link.

Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.

The American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates has approved a resolution — Resolution 102B — in support of the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA) of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) of the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws as to the authentication and preservation of laws, court decisions and other legal materials that are published online.

See:

Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.

Online provider of legal research, news and other content LexisNexis, has launched a new service: LexisNexis Social Media Visibility.

According to the press release here, the new service enables solo practitioners and lawyers at smaller law firms to establish a solid, comprehensive, and manageable social media presence.

LexisNexis Social Media Visibility includes creation of an exclusive blog page as well as guidance and assistance in crafting profiles and in generating and posting appropriate content on major social media websites, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.