181 ABA Journal Law Libraries articles.
A state-court judge in New York has given the green light to a controversial 25-year campus building plan at Fordham University School of Law.
Under the proposal, which is opposed…
Aug 19, 2010 11:51 PM CDT
A flat fee of $450 per attorney per month appears to be the ace in the hole for underdog Bloomberg Law as it enters the electronic research market and competes…
Jul 8, 2010 12:21 AM CDT
A Toronto lawyer who represents a Canadian engineer alleging he was wrongly accused of terrorism and sent to Syria for torture is pursuing a separate but related suit that claims…
Jun 15, 2010 10:30 AM CDT
A University of Texas dormitory is named after a dead law professor who was a Ku Klux Klan leader. But the university doesn’t want to be too hasty in considering…
Jun 10, 2010 10:30 AM CDT
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is being praised for healing rifts as dean of Harvard Law School, but she also has a tough side, as Above the Law blogger…
May 14, 2010 10:30 AM CDT
Concerned that jurors might improperly access public information from the online court docket, an Oklahoma judge ordered it taken down for the duration of the trial in a medical malpractice…
May 4, 2010 10:04 PM CDT
A new dual degree program being launched at the University of Texas at Austin will award both a juris doctor degree and a master of science and information studies degree…
Apr 14, 2010 6:25 PM CDT
An open records advocate contends that a free source of legal documents could eventually save the federal government $1 billion, and he offers the Justice Department as Exhibit A.
A…
Dec 2, 2009 4:25 PM CST
Updated: Google has announced it is adding a new search function that will find full-text legal opinions from federal and state courts.
Users can go to the Nov 18, 2009 4:11 PM CST
An ambitious project to create an open-source authenticated repository of all primary legal materials in the United States is being proposed by Law.Gov.
Detailed by Law.Gov, the project…
Oct 15, 2009 7:24 PM CDT
After at least two years of development, Bloomberg is getting ready to launch a new legal search engine that could give industry leaders Westlaw and LexisNexis…
Oct 7, 2009 12:04 AM CDT
An increasing number of law firms are cutting their law library budgets, spurring some librarians to buy new usage tracking software to make decisions about resources.
Forty-six percent of law…
Sep 2, 2009 12:56 PM CDT
Many federal courts make their case documents readily available online—for a price. And even though it’s only 8 cents a page, that can quickly add up for frequent users.
As…
Aug 14, 2009 6:34 PM CDT
In an age where law students are more familiar with digital books than bound ones, Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law is spending up to $140 million on two…
Aug 2, 2009 2:50 AM CDT
It sounded easy.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s counsel, Denley Chew, slapped down some $2 bills and challenged a room of lawyers and legal researchers with laptops and iPhones…
Jul 31, 2009 6:38 PM CDT
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