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Come check out our special display of materials to help you prepare for the bar exam! We’ve got flashcards, E&Es, Emanuel’s MBE bootcamp, materials on essay-writing, and resources on how to survive the whole process, as well as a LibGuide … Continue reading
A prisoner has no constitutional right to be acknowledged as a diety or any other type of supernatural being. Read all about it in Dekoven v. Bell, 140 F. Supp. 2d 748 (E.D. Mich. 2001). Use the citation information to locate the case in print, or the citation or party names to find it in your favorite database service.
Tax issues are on lots of folks minds today, so here’s a resonant research tidbit. The Northern District of CA’s Bankruptcy Court found a Chapter 13 debtor entitled to reimbursement from the IRS of $20 that he spent on stomach medication after receiving levy notices in violation of automatic stay. Read all about it in In re Jha, 461 B.R. 611 (Bankr. N.D. Cal. 2011). Use the party name or citation to locate in your favorite search engine; use the citation to locate in the print stacks.
Worried about your speaking ability? Not all lawyers are natural-born speakers. Everyone could use tips for making their speeches and oral arguments better, check out Speech Advice (http://www.speechadvice.com/). This blog is written by a lawyer and public speaking guru, Faith Pinkus. It has tips and blog posts on the fear of public speaking, rhetorical techniques, appellate and other types of oral argument, and other speaking related topics. [DEL]
On Wednesday, April 11, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced a $1 billion settlement of breach-of-trust lawsuits filed against the United States by 41 federally-recognized Native American tribes. The suits involved issues related to the management of trust funds and other trust resources. The settlement concludes nearly two years of negotiations. Read all about it here.
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And not just because finals are just around the corner. April 8-14 is National Library Week, and we’ve got lots of fun things going on!
We’ve got one-stop shopping at the Circ Desk–stop by to pick up earplugs, check out our new Law in a Flash Flashcards, and enter to win a jar of jellybeans or a basket of golfballs!
Over by the South Carolina Code Collection, try your hand at matching law school professors to their favorite books and win one of three great prizes! Or go for the Research Challenge. We’ll post a new research question every day this week–if you answer them correctly, your research skills will be rewarded with fantastic swag from our Lexis and Westlaw Reps.
And don’t forget our main event. On Thursday, April 12, from 12:30-2pm, we’ll be having an ice cream social. Come fuel up on cake and ice cream before you settle in for a weekend of studying.
See YOU at the library!
Exams start in just a few weeks, so it’s discouraging to read that cheating is a mainstream activity.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ~Henry Ford
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb
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I try to keep informed on iPad apps for lawyers. However, there are so many apps proliferating the landscape it is hard to keep up. I received a suggestion from Helene Schmidt as a comment for the article, “25 Game-Changing iPad Apps for Law Students & Lawyers”, recently published at (http://www.onlinecollege.org/25-game-changing-ipad-apps-for-law-students-&-lawyers ). This is a good article and the apps there work well for law students as well as lawyers. A word of caution, most of the apps that I recommend are free, many of these apps are not free but are very useful. Review this article and decide which ones are for you if you are an IPad owner and need legal apps for it. [Post-DEL]
In February 1982 the Syrian government killed more than 10,000 people in the city of Hama. Hama today again is a center of opposition to the current Syrian regime.
For more information on the 1982 massacre, see these resources:
Hushed voices : unacknowledged atrocities of the 20th century
From Beirut to Jerusalem : updated with a new chapter / Thomas L. Friedman Chapter 4 of this book deals with Hama, Syria.
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A recent ethical opinion from New York, citing an earlier South Carolina Ethical Opinion, allows lawyers to offer group discounts on legal services through “deal of the day” or “group coupon” websites, with some caveats. The attorney must not use advertising that is misleading or deceptive, must check for conflicts, and must be competent to undertake the matter. “If the lawyer is unable to provide the offered service due to a conflict or competence issue, the lawyer must give the coupon buyer a full refund. If the coupon buyer terminates the representation, the buyer is entitled to a refund subject to the lawyer’s quantum meruit claim.” The main concern in the SC Ethics Opinion was the issue of fee-splitting with a non-lawyer. The opinion stated that a group coupon situation was not prohibited because it did not interfere with the “lawyer’s professional independence of judgment.” However, lawyers were cautioned that other ethical concerns, such as advertising, competence, reasonableness of the fee, and conflicts of interest could be raised.
