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For over 120 years, Hearst has been the name of newspapers in America. Last Tuesday, a transition services agreement took effect that marked the end of Hearst Corporation’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer - the oldest daily newspaper in the city.
The transition services agreement with the Seattle Times Company stated terms under which the Seattle Times will offer [...]

Here is a very good report from www.365gay.com, a gay-interest blog, on the legislation in Vermont to change their first-in-the-nation civil union statute to gay marriage. The Boston Globe reported here on May 18, about a special senate committee that held hearings on the matter, drawing more than 500 demonstrators for both sides to the Vermont state house in Montpelier. But the blog report linked above brings us more up to date and is quite fact-based, gibing with the comments in the Globe article. Apparently, the committee of 5 voted unanimously to move the bill along to the complete Senate. According to the blog, the prospects in the Senate look good, and even in the House. There seems to be doubt about whether the Republican governor will sign the bill if it passes both houses. If Governor Douglas vetoes the bill, it is not clear whether the legislative supporters of the bill can muster enough support to override the veto. Read the rest of this entry »

With considerable detail and insight, Diana Philip reviews a recent book that explores whether the concept of whether the glass ceiling still accurately describes the challenges women face to realize leadership aspirations. The book’s authors examine leadership theories developed by multiple disciplines to explain what is holding women back from becoming leaders. They provide data from various studies on employment trends as well as insight gathered from interviews with women leaders to assess how true or false these theories apply to contemporary female workers.

Page four of the Winter 2009 SCCLL Newsletter has my review of a book written by Judge Gilmore and Dr. Beal for the children of incarcerated parents. This population of at-risk children is well known to courthouses. This booklet can help laypeople working with these children. The authors are eager to work with interested groups and our courthouses and bar associations may want to know about such tools to support their community work. Read the rest of this entry »

With considerable detail and insight, Diana Philip reviews a recent book that explores whether the concept of whether the glass ceiling still accurately describes the challenges women face to realize leadership aspirations. The book’s authors examine leadership theories developed by multiple disciplines to explain what is holding women back from becoming leaders. They provide data from various studies on employment trends as well as insight gathered from interviews with women leaders to assess how true or false these theories apply to contemporary female workers.

I ran across a very helpful article in the December, 2008 issue of Scientific American, link here, on how to avoid phishing scams. By Lorrie Faith Cranor, “How to Foil ‘Phishing’ Scams; Understanding the human factors that make people vulnerable to criminals can improve both security training and technology.”

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Join In-House Legal, host Paul D. Boynton Esq., as he welcomes two great guests. In our first segment, Paul welcomes Jim Durham, a former in-house lawyer and veteran law firm marketing consultant to discuss his book The Essential Little Book of Great Lawyering. In the second segment, Paul welcomes Attorney Marty A. Mazzone, vice president and associate general counsel in the legal department of Fidelity Investments in Boston, to explore the discovery process.

The employee bonus policy that allowed $165 million in bailout funds to be doled out to AIG executives posed a legal quandry for the Obama Administration. The AIG employee bonus policies were indeed legall binding agreements and thus could not be taken away from the corporate executives.
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Sarah Kubik, an associate faculty member in visual communications and design at Indiana University-Purdue University, writes in today’s Inside Higher Ed about the use of online research sources. She is of two minds–on the one hand, she loves print for the same reasons most librarians do. On the other, as a faculty member, she recognizes the fact that today’s students naturally gravitate toward digital media; moreover, she herself has embraced technology and the “flow of information” that has come about because of it. Kubik describes a changing landscape. At one time, it was thought to be wrong to cite Wikipedia, and yet now we have judges citing it. At least some online reference sites seem to acknowledge their role in modern scholarship. Wikipedia “wants to make the site more accepting to academic referencing by having ‘faculty-approved’ sites.” Another wiki, Scholarpedia, describes itself as “the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.” Kubik’s conclusion is that “[i]f we are to use these quality online resources, while insisting on high standards for students, academics need to take seriously issues related to citing materials in media that didn’t exist a generation ago more seriously.”

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