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[Posted for Betsy McKenzie by Jim Milles.]

On the first day of the conference, a half-day, the visiting Americans sat with some of the Chinese librarians. The bulk of the Chinese librarians did not arrive until the next day, Friday. But on that first day, we had a welcoming address from Dr. Jiang Bo, Secretary General of the China Education Association for International Exchange. In that speech, Dr. Bo essentially told the attending librarians how the Chinese librarians could go about setting up their library association. It is apparent that the government is strongly in favor of such a library organization, and desires librarians to begin the work of building a cooperative profession in China.

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J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi discuss the Sotomayor nomination with Professor Jenny Rivera, Director of Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality and Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law, and Professor Stephen Wermiel, Supreme Court expert and adjunct professor at American University Washington College. Together they offer a unique perspective on this important nomination.

Three States, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Nevada are leading a national trend to protect consumer privacy, especially when personal data is transmitted electronically. Law Technology Now host, Monica Bay welcomes Melissa Krasnow, partner in the Minneapolis office of Dorsey and Whitney and Nick Ackerman, partner in the firms New York office to discuss their article in Law Technology News May issue, “Protecting Privacy”. Learn about the new laws for business compliance and what your company or client needs to know!

In recent years, many companies have realized that a “poison pill” policy may be necessary to stave off unsolicited takeover bids. A poison pill, also known as a Shareholder Rights Agreement, restricts the shareholders‘ ability to sell or transfer shares of the company upon a triggering of a certain event, such as a takeover [...]

[posted by Jim Milles for Betsy McKenzie]

The China-US Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries here in Beijing, opening today, is a miracle conference. First, the mere fact of it is a miracle. That librarians from the U.S. and China, (in fact, there are librarians here from other countries, too!), should put together a jointly planned conference, and gain support from Chinas central education ministry for it is quite amazing. With the blessing of the ministry, not only most of Chinas law schools librarians, but also their deans are attending! And many western librarians are attending not only directors, but also reference and cataloging librarians. This is a wonderful development.

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Heather Colman provides an overview of Hicks Morley’s implementation of ThoughtFarmer, an Enterprise 2.0/wiki style intranet platform, one year ago. Despite a few growing pains, she describes how the application was successful at meeting the primary objectives to decentralize content updates and increase knowledge sharing and collaboration within the firm.

How do people learn to use new technology — and is it different for lawyers and legal technology? On this edition of the Kennedy-Mighell Report, legal bloggers, Dennis Kennedy, Tom Mighell and Adriana Linares, discuss how to break it down so it isn’t overwhelming. Learn where the best resources about technology are and how e-Discovery comes into play for your law practice. Dennis, Tom and Adriana will also take audience questions from the mailbag and wrap up with Parting Shots, leaving you with lasting tips and observations. After you listen, be sure to check out Tom and Dennis co-blog and book by the same name, The Lawyers Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies.

Golden Eagle International Inc. drafted a stock subscription agreement for a total sum of over $20 thousand dollars at $0.0007 per share. The DigitalTown Inc. stock subscription agreement details the terms for the company’s stock plan breakdown per employee. Both of these Stock Subscription Agreements are available in their entirety on the RealDealDocs.com website.

When a company and stockholder come to an agreement that provides for a fixed number of shares of common stock by a shareholder to serve as security for payment of a promissory note, a Stock Pledge Agreement documents the pledge. Typically the company involved in the agreement will want to have a “Remedies Upon [...]

I am waiting to see exactly how AALL2Go will work. It sounds like it might be a very nice thing for those whose travel budgets have been slashed. I had hoped it might include simultaneous access to AALL programming, but it actually sounds like it’s more of a way to get the recordings quickly, maybe as MP3 files (for a fee, which is only fair). The most recent AALL Newsletter says: Read the rest of this entry »