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This post was written by StephanieWestAllen: "In the past, I have blogged about problems with memory as it relates to eyewitness testimony (links below). A public defender in California recently called to the stand a memory expert to testify about the potential problems with what eyewitnesses believe they saw..."

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Source:  idealawg, 18 August 2010, reproduced with permission of the author. 

This post was written by Kevin O'Keefe: "Tell a law firm leader that few, if any, of their recent associate hires subscribe to their major local newspaper or the Wall Street Journal. The leader would want to know who hired the dim wits who were going uninformed.

Tell a law firm communications director that they would be better served to have one of their lawyer's blog posts shared on Twitter than to have the lawyer quoted in the New York Times. No way they'd buy it.

But law firms are going to come to understand that newspapers and other traditional main stream media are not the primary way many people receive their news today. News today is a shared experienced.

Based on their study this spring, the Pew Foundation Internet & American Life Project describes the manner in which Americans get their news and information as foraging and opportunism..."

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Source: Real Lawyers Have Blogs, 13 August 2010. Copyright © 2010, LexBlog, reproduced with permission of the author.

In the news: "Two recent cases found that detectives were not qualified by training and experience to interpret cell site location records to determine whether a phone was within range of a certain tower. Leonard Deutchman questions whether this constitutes an overreliance on expert testimony."

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 10 August 2010. Copyright 2009.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe  <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>

This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Maximize Your Return on CLE

For many attorneys, getting your CLE credits is something done every three years, and consists of attending whatever is available in June or July.

For others, they attend with good intentions but quickly find themselves killing the battery on their smart phone before lunch. If you want to actually learn, it can be done..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 28 July 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

This post was written by Stephanie WestAllen: "Two recent studies have looked at patterns of relationships between parents and adult children. The researchers in both studies grouped relationships into four categories: amicable, disharmonious, detached, and ambivalent. Below are the abstracts of the studies, and an excerpt from an article about the most recent piece of research.

"Emotional relationship quality of adult children with ageing parents: on solidarity, conflict and ambivalence" (European Journal of Ageing):

Abstract:

Emotions towards a relationship partner provide relevant and specific information about relationship quality. Based on this assumption the present study was performed to identify different types of emotional relationship quality of middle-aged adult children with their ageing parents..."

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Source: idealawg, 27 July 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by the library staff: "A new study that is being released today by the Council of State Governments Justice Center indicates that Ohio's probation system is expensive and ineffective. According to a news report from the Columbus Dispatch, the study criticizes Ohio's decentralized system whereby numerous individual county agencies address probation issues. The same article indicates that the study also shows that offenders are not receiving the correct probation-i.e., minor offenders linger too long in the system while more serious offenders are released without adequate supervision."

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Source: Cleveland Law Library Weblog, 26 July 2010. Reproduced with permission by Kathleen Sasala.

This post was written by Dennis Kennedy: "It might be a question: "Would you like to be on the firm's technology committee?" It might be an assignment: "We've put you on the firm's technology committee?" But, however it starts, one day you find yourself on your law firm's tech committee. Maybe you even find that you are chairing it.

You know a few things right away. First, you won't see anything extra in the pay envelope for this mission. Second, this appointment probably has more to do with the fact that you seem to know your way around a computer more so than you know what is required to meet the technology needs of a law firm. Third, based on my experience, you will quickly find that a word like "paucity" seems quite appropriate to describe the resources that are available to help you learn about your assignment.

The technology needs and goals of law firms can vary dramatically, depending on the size of the firm, areas of practice, firm culture and other factors. A firm's historical experience with technology can have a dramatic impact many years after a negative experience, and every firm has at least one horrifying bad technology experience in its history. It's also the case that technology committees often get started in response to a problem. They also get started and continue to exist in an effort to bridge the large and growing communication gap between lawyers and IT staff.

With that in mind, I wanted to draw upon my own experience on technology committees and working with and talking to many lawyers on tech committees to offer my top ten tips for technology committees and lawyers on technology committees. These are not "cure-alls." They are not even specific things that you must do. However, they will help you have better success with your committee experience, improve the technology situation at your firm and make your life a little easier..."

(I couldn't find a link to this post - you may have to navigate to 15 July 2010 to locate this post, but it is worth the trouble!)

Source: Dennis Kennedy.com, 15 July 2010. © 1995 - 2005 Dennis Kennedy, reproduced with permission of the author

This post was written by Holden Oliver: "They're still new. They're global. Use them. The still-new rules are aggressive--and we are free to use them. Global Rules For Accelerated Commercial Arbitration (Effective August 20, 2009), of the CPR Institute. Best two features: (1) The default position is a sole (one) arbitrator. (2) Arbitrators should make award ASAP and in any event within six months of formation of the tribunal."

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Source: What About Clients? 21 July 2010. © 2005-2010 John Daniel Hull, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Kevin O'Keefe: "Sitting with Craig Ball yesterday at the Washington Solo and Small Law Conference, he asked a wonderful question. "Do you think younger people are learning what they really need to know when they are getting their information from bits here and there, mostly shared from 'friends,' some in a form as short as 140 characters." Craig was deeply concerned that our next generation is not going to be prepared for life ahead..."

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Source: Real Lawyers Have Blogs, 17 July 2010. Copyright © 2010, LexBlog, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Chuck Kallendorf: "The U.S. Department of Labor has issued what it is calling "the most ambitious and far-reaching revisions to the child labor regulations in the last thirty years."

The new regulations, which take effect next Monday, July 19, 2010, make a variety of changes to how DOL will interpret the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, Thompson-West Publications says in a newly released special report.

"Perhaps the most significant among them is the lifting of a decades-old restriction that limited the industries in which 14- and 15-year-olds were permitted to work. Now, instead of being allowed to work only in retail, food service and gasoline service establishments, young workers may work in other environments such as state and local governments, banks, insurance companies, advertising agencies and information technology firms..."

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Source: Hamilton County Law Library Blog, 16 July 2010. Reproduced with permission.