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There has been a lot in the listserves lately about Lexis-Nexis offering passwords to law students who have had the employment offers deferred. The deal with deferral is that the students do public service work on a volunteer basis, while the employer pays the student a much-reduced stipend (but still a pretty nice deal and certainly better than zippo!). I was offered a question & answer with one of the executives at Lexis-Nexis about this very public-spirited offer. Here is the result of the e-mail interview:

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As Roger V. Skalbeck documents, one of the underlying obstacles to
reproducing older books a central place to look for information
about what is protected by copyright and what may have passed into the public domain is lacking. Responding to this need, OCLC recently introduced a beta service, the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry (CER). It could be a very valuable resource for recording and sharing copyright status information.

Are the Kindle DX and the iPad leading us to Legal Pad 2.0? On this edition of the Kennedy-Mighell Report, legal bloggers, Dennis Kennedy, Tom Mighell and Adriana Linares, will discuss how the new Kindle DX and the current Kindle might be used by lawyers and law students, explore related products like the iPad and question whether we are headed to an all electronic legal pad. Dennis, Tom and Adriana will also take questions from their growing audience and wrap up with Parting Shots, leaving you with lasting tips and observations. After you listen, be sure to check out Tom & Dennis co-blog and book by the same name, The Lawyers Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies.

The Techwell Inc. private equity co-sale agreement with the company’s shareholders and prior investors sets the terms for granting a first right of refusal to the investors regarding the sale of capital stock. Capella Education Company drafted a private equity and co-sale agreement with Maveron Entities in order to detail board representation and a co-sale transaction. Both of these Private Equity Co-Sale Agreements are available in their entirety on the RealDealDocs.com website.

The demands and responsibilities placed on in-house legal departments are at an unprecedented level and show no signs of abating. In-House Legal host, Paul D. Boynton, Esq.,welcomes Attorney Jane Sender of Sender Legal Search to help explain the current thinking on how many lawyers a company should have and how to balance that with spending on outside counsel legal bills.

While a Recapitalization Agreement is an important and often used corporate contract, most executives might have trouble explaining what it is! In order to understand a recapitalization agreement, the following issues must be addressed.
1. Recapitalization: What is it? Recapitalization is a restructuring of a company’s mixture of equity and debt for [...]

A local library here in Westchester County, the Pelham Public Library, made news this week by calling the local high school when an 11th-grade student visited the library and asked for a book on gun carry and concealment laws. The student was interviewed by the police, who concluded that the student posed no danger and had broken no laws. The library refuses to explain the incident or its policies on notifying authorities about “questionable book choices.”

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At the age of 69 and after 18 years on the Supreme Court, Justice David Souter made the announcement that he would be retiring from the Supreme Court at the end of this years term in June. Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Professor Daniel J. Meador, James Monroe Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Virginia School of Law and Kermit Roosevelt, Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School and Justice Souter’s former law clerk, to reflect on Justice Souter’s career, look at the potential list of replacements and the opportunity for President Obama to leave an imprint with his choice for the High Court.

The U.S. Department of Justice is cracking down on employers who are discriminating against returning injured soldiers that are having a hard time getting their old jobs back, being demoted, or straight up denied work altogether.
“The DOJ is suing employers nationwide — almost on a weekly basis — for failing to promptly re-employ returning service [...]

Inside Higher Ed reports today on the new version of the Kindle reader that is “specifically designed to be friendlier to books and newspapers than other digital devices are.” The new Kindle is larger and PDF enabled, making it more textbook friendly. Amazon is partnering with three textbook publishers (Cengage Learning, Pearson, and Wiley) and six colleges (Pace University [at whose downtown campus the announcement was made], Reed College, Princeton University, University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Arizona State University, and Case Western Reserve University) with the goal of incorporating Kindle into their curricula “in pilot experiments designed to test how students use e-textbooks and whether using them improves learning (or not).” I am affiliated with Pace Law School, and have to confess that I didn’t know about this initiative until I read about it in Inside Higher Ed. Suffice it to say that the Law School isn’t involved with the pilot, at least so far as I know. Here is a recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education on the new Kindle reader that expresses skepticism that students will be take to it as a substitute for traditional print textbooks.

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