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The Boston Globe Ideas section today included a very moving essay by poet Jennifer Michael Hecht, adapted from a blog post she wrote at The Best American Poetry (The Lion and The Honey Comb). The Globe article in more polished and easier to read than the original blog post, though, so I recommend you go there. The Globe editors introduce the essay by explaining that Hecht wrote her essay in response to the suicide, separated by a few years, of two friends, both women poets, who met in graduate school. Rachel Wetzsteon took her own life on Christmas 2009. Boston poet Sarah Hannah had killed herself in 2007. Hecht made the blog post in January, 2010. Here are some of the most moving pieces, but I recommend you read the entire essay, which is not long! Read the rest of this entry »

Carol A. Watson’s discussion of how well-defined scope statements are the key to successful project management continues with this article focused on how all written documentation should be clearly and concisely written, avoiding ambiguities at all costs.

The murder of a young woman in Massachusetts raises new questions about the laws and the legal system in cases involving abusive relationships.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education, in its Feb. 5, 2010 Technology section (or front page of the print edition), has a story “Tablet May Help E-Textbook Market, Publisher Hope,” by Jeffrey R. Young. The story is careful to note as wrong previous rumors that Apple has made agreements with textbook publishers surrounding the new iPad tablet. But apparently textbook publishers are hoping that the new piece of technology will breathe life into the poor sales of e-textbooks. The article notes the problems with e-textbooks: students don’t really like hauling their laptops everywhere, and e-textbooks sales have grown more slowly than expected. So publishers hope that the lighter, more portable and very hip iPad may make students more excited about e-books for class.

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In this edition of the Boston University School of Law podcast, host and media veteran, Dan Rea of WBZ-Radio 1030 welcomes an expert on constitutional law, theory and interpretation, Professor James E. Fleming to discuss his new book, Constitutional Interpretation: The Basic Questions. Dan & Professor Fleming will discuss constitutional interpretation, who is qualified to interpret the Constitution and partisan approaches to constitutional interpretation.

Pricing don’t mean thing if it don’t got that Algorithm:

As it was explained at this meeting in Eagan (though they may change it, I suppose!), there is no charge at all until you look at a result from the list. So the charge is not based in the Westlaw Next model on the size of the database searched, unlike the model we are used to.

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This extensive guide by search expert Marcus P. Zillman includes a wide range of sources designed to serve as a foundation for knowledge discovery specific to business intelligence resources on the Internet.

In this special edition of the Legal ToolKit , we explore security compliance issues from The Massachusetts Information Security Summit (MassISS) with co-hosts, Jared Correia, Law Practice Management Advisor with Mass. LOMAP and Ray Catuogno, Founder & CEO of Catuogno Court Reporting and Sten-Tel Transcription . Special guests are Diane Lawton, General Counsel of the Commonwealths Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) and Chris Squier, renowned speaker on national security issues from New Technology Systems, to discuss security compliance issues, including the hacker mindset and the best methods for protecting information on PDAs and smartphones.

OK. Well, Ive had a little time to digest and grieve and generally process the big news that is Westlaw Next. Im ready to talk a bit more about it.

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On this edition of Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen welcomes Ringler colleague, Jim Early, Senior Vice President-Eastern Region out of New Hampshire and Dan Durbin, President of the National Structured Settlement Trade Association, to take a look at NSSTA’s initiatives in the new year. They will discuss structured attorney fees, factoring and the special emphasis on educating plaintiffs about the security and value of structured settlements.