Barry on March 29th, 2005

I haven’t tried any of the online PLI for a couple of years but I’ve liked what I have seen in the past. Choose the CLE you may want to take in the next year at $49 per course — this seems to include MCLE credit if you are in a mandatory state — [...]

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Barry on March 29th, 2005

(Via Professor Michael Geist’s BNA Internet Law Newsletter), the AP reports that

A thief has stolen a computer laptop containing personal information about nearly 100,000 University of California, Berkeley alumni, graduate students and past applicants, continuing a recent outbreak of security breakdowns that has illustrated society’s growing vulnerability to identity theft.
University officials announced the [...]

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Barry on March 28th, 2005

The ABA TechShow begins Thursday Morning (with some Wednesday pre-show activities) and the PR folks put out a final (?) announcement:
The ABA TECHSHOW(r) 2005 opens in Chicago this week with more than 50
educational sessions in 12 exciting tracks and an expo featuring 100
leading technology companies. ABA TECHSHOW will be held at the Sheraton
Chicago Hotel and [...]

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Barry on March 28th, 2005

Newspapers, here’s one example and bloggers that can pull their attention from the Schiavo case are full of discussion of MGM v Grokster, No. 04-480, to be argued in the Supreme Court on March 29. Put simply, if it is possible to do so, the Court will be asked to affirm the 9th Circuit [...]

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Barry on March 27th, 2005

Ed Foster has been an InfoWorld writer and editor for a couple of decades at least, and has been writing a GripeLine consumer advocate type column for the last 10 years. There’s a lot wrong in the PC business, and Foster is a good place to go if you really have been treated [...]

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Barry on March 25th, 2005

Our friends from Eagan seem to be gearing up to get more in-house counsel onto Westlaw

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Westlaw Gives Corporate Counsel More Powerful Tools for Litigation Management
EAGAN, Minn., March 24, 2005 - The new Westlaw® Corporate Litigation package announced this week by Thomson West offers resources specifically tailored to the full range of unique needs [...]

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Barry on March 25th, 2005

Aspen Publishers — which includes sister company CCH — announces:
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Barry on March 25th, 2005

As a writer and as I lawyer, I get a lot of press releases and law-stuff-related solicitations to purchase or that, usually at some special deal. And some of the deals are very good, but there isn’t time to write about them in my columns. (I can turn something around in about weeks from [...]

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Barry on March 24th, 2005

One of the conveniences of received faxes as an attachment to e-mail, as arranged by eFax, TrustFax, SmartFax, or any of the other similar services is that when you get a fax in with information for others, you can just forward the e-mail to whoever needs the additional information. EFax can send a plain TIFF [...]

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Barry on March 21st, 2005

I never know what to do about about “Sales” announcements. Sometime they are bogus, sometimes they are for real. But I will post what I think to be the real ones on the blog.
I haven’t reviewed FileMaker Pro7 but from looking at earlier versions, the product is, I am sure for real. [...]

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