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Local Rules in the Wake of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1
“Local Rules in the Wake of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1″ DAVID R. CLEVELAND, Nova Southeastern University – Shepard Broad Law Center Adoption of the Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure...
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Wikipedia in Court: When and How Citing Wikipedia and Other Consensus...
“Wikipedia in Court: When and How Citing Wikipedia and Other Consensus Websites is Appropriate” HANNAH B. MURRAY, affiliation not provided to SSRN JASON C. MILLER, Government of the United States of...
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Law.gov video presentation now online!
In a January 2, 2010 op-ed in the New York Times entitled “A Nation of Do-It-Yourself Lawyers,” California Chief Justice Ronald George and New Hampshire Chief Justice John T. Broderick Jr. asked “how...
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Keeping up with the federal courts with CourtListener
The CourtListener.com From the website: The goal of the site is to create a free and competitive real time alert tool for the U.S. judicial system. At present, the site has daily information regarding...
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Free and really good information from Justia – daily opinion summaries;...
Our friends at Justia sent an e-mail to law-lib about their new free case summary service. Since all the world doesn’t read law-lib, I’ve pasted below Tim Stanley’s exciting announcement. I’ve...
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New to the legal lexicon: dissental and concurral
A story in today’s Daily Journal reports on the usage by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals of two newly coined (by him) words: dissental and concurral. According to the...
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Becoming the “compleat lawyer” the Aldisert way
From time to time I will get a call or e-mail from a proud parent whose son or daughter has been admitted to Stanford Law School. The parent wants my advice on a book for their accomplished child to...
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Selling others’ briefs
Following up on George’s post “A pair of lawyers . . . sue West and LexisNexis for reproducing their court filings,” I took a second look at a directed research paper a student did for me a couple of...
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Writing a winning brief, in three easy steps
The best way to become a good writer is to read a lot of good writing. And to me there’s no better legal writing than that of Judge Ruggero Aldisert. Judge Aldisert just published the third edition of...
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Searching for law that is “well-settled.”
It is certainly well-settled that Stanford Law School graduates are doing some very exciting things in the world of legal informatics. I’ve posted before about Ravel law, founded by our alumni Dan...
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