Our guest blogger today is Celia Elwell – back with another useful column of Informative Articles and Interesting Blogs:
Legal Articles & Blogs:
2011 a transformative year” for workplace
class action litigation, by Ashley Post, InsideCounsel
http://bit.ly/wE1eT1
D.C. Judge Orders Deloitte To Court In Subpoena Dispute,
posted by Mike Scarcella, The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
http://bit.ly/ydRSeL
Piggybacking on Students' Free LEXIS Access by Practitioners: "No
can do" says Utah State Bar, Law Librarian Blog
http://bit.ly/wWMHeF
Stop Online Piracy Act Wants Biglaw Support; Biglaw Says, Aw,
Hell No’ by Christopher Danzig, Above the Law Blog
http://bit.ly/zlOlXZ
What Employers and Employees Should Understand About Conducting
Background Checks, by Jason Shinn, Michigan Employment Law
Advisor
http://bit.ly/xDCynq
The Best of the Best of the Best – The 2011 ABA Journal Blawg
100, by Jason Shinn, Michigan Employment Law Advisor
http://bit.ly/vQHd3k
Litigation Tips & Techniques:
Did Mark
Cuban's Attorney Just File Greatest Legal Scoreboard Ever in Ross Perot Jr.
Case?, by Robert Wilonsky, The Dallas Observer Blog
http://bit.ly/lvHt1h
His First Jury Trial, by
Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips
http://bit.ly/oXf6U9
Plaintiff “Entitled” to Search Non-Party’s Personal Hard
Drive Pursuant to Modified Subpoena, by K&L Gates Electronic Discovery
Law Blog
http://bit.ly/wKq3TM
Local Rules, Forms and Guidelines of United States District
Courts Addressing E-Discovery Issues, by K&L Gates Electronic Discovery
Law Blog
http://bit.ly/wCsiY8
Current Listing of States That Have Enacted E-Discovery
Rules, by K&L Gates Electronic Discovery Law Blog
http://bit.ly/wpBvYI
Examining Witnesses: Tips from Pace Law Library, by Evan
Schaeffer, The Trial Practice Tips Blog
http://bit.ly/AD81yU
Legal Writing and Research:
Competitive Intelligence – A Selective
Resource Guide – Completely Updated – December 2011, by Sabrina I.
Pacifici, LLRX.com
(Extremely comprehensive – a “must” bookmark)
http://www.llrx.com/features/ciguide.htm
Locating the Law – A Handbook for Non-Law Librarians,
by Southern California Association of Law Libraries (with hat tip to Bill
Statsky!)
http://bit.ly/x1Cfic
Writing Clear and Effective Legal Prose – When to Use the Passive
Voice, by George P. Gopen, ABA Law Practice (with hat tip to Raymond
Ward, the (new) legal writer!)
http://bit.ly/vpFHH9
Your Honor, could you repeat that . . . in plain language?,
Writing Matters, by E-Write’s Leslie O’Flahavan
http://bit.ly/zPmgh9
Website Explores the Evolution of Law and Language at Supreme
Court, by Marcia Coyle, Law Technology News
http://bit.ly/zYikCr
Exemplary Legal Writing – 2011 Honorees, by the Green Bag
Almanac & Reader
http://www.greenbag.org/green_bag_press/almanacs/almanacs.html
CEOExpress (great one-stop site to find all types of handy
links for research, travel, news, etc.)
http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp
LawyerExpress (Like CEOExpress above, but with legal slant. See
“user manual” link at bottom of page to maximize use.)
http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp
Technology Tips and Tricks:
Review: iPad at Work by David Sparks –
excellent book for attorneys using an iPad, by iPhone J.D.
http://bit.ly/yNUzug
Ten Essential Classes of Websites for Lawyers, by Jim
Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog
(Another “must” bookmark!)
http://bit.ly/vQ7x7F
Six Tips to Safeguard Your Mobile Devices, by Albert
Barsocchini, Law Technology News
http://bit.ly/xwKPfo
TRUSTe's 2011 Website Privacy Index, by Law Librarian Blog
(with hat tip to Sabrina I. Pacifici!)
http://bit.ly/wDYr82
Law Office Management & Ethics:
Social Media Networking For Lawyers: A
Practical Guide to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Blogging, by Simon
Chester and Daniel Del Gobbo, ABA’s Law Practice
http://bit.ly/v4qApW
Social Media Management Tools, by Jim Calloway and Catherine
Sanders Reach, ABA’s GP Solo
http://bit.ly/zlOlXZ
