"Rem tene; verba sequentur" - Cato the Elder
Good morning all you Law Buffs and Calves,
Welcome to week 4 of the 2022 Spring Semester! Remember, if you need reference or circulation help, be sure to reach out to your friendly neighborhood law librarian.
The following are 10 interesting articles from the previous week. These articles were pulled from either the: ABA Newsletter, AALL Newsletter, vLex Newsletter, Law360, Law Practice Magazine Newsletter, LexisNexis’ Practical Guidance Newsletter, and/or Frontiers Newsletter. Enjoy!
Introduction: “In December Joe Fore, the co-director of the Legal Writing program at the University of Virginia School of Law, posted to Twitter a thread comparing tenure track and legal writing salaries. In comparing four public schools, he discovered that the average starting salary for a tenure track professor was $173,000 while the average salary for all legal writing faculty was $111,000. A few academic law librarians saw the tweet and replied that someone should do the same for law librarians, too.”
Introduction: “Court proceedings that may have been tough to get to before the pandemic are now accessible online through a system called Webex, which has reshaped public access. For reporters and the public, access to court proceedings in the Webex era has been a mixed bag, as varied as the judges who run them. But overall, Webex is seen as a positive development. Many in the Colorado justice system want online courtrooms to remain post-COVID, including the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.”
Introduction: “In the 1940s and 50s, when Constance Baker Motley walked into a courtroom in the Deep South to try a case, people stared. And then they stared some more. For one thing, women lawyers were pretty rare at that time. For another, it was a safe bet that no one—regardless of race—had ever seen a Negro woman lawyer, let alone one with such imposing height and regal carriage. […] She was, quite simply, a unicorn—one battling (genteelly, but insistently) for civil rights.”
Introduction: “When your active status is enabled on Facebook, your contacts can see that you are currently or recently have been online. If you do not want them to know your online presence, turn off your active status on Facebook. We’ll show you how.”
“The arrival in the United States of 83,000 displaced Afghans following the military's withdrawal from Afghanistan over the summer has put stress on the already overburdened immigration system and created an access to justice crisis that Congress needs to address, attorneys say.”
“The U.S. House of Representatives approved cannabis banking legislation for the sixth time, Mississippi became the 37th state to legalize medical marijuana, and Tennessee lawmakers pitched multiple new proposals to legalize medical or recreational marijuana. Here are the major developments in cannabis law reform from the past week.”
“Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2022 editorial advisory boards.”
A paralegal accused of stealing from her former boss' law practice, failing to respond to his client — leading to his disbarment — and attempting to poison him with antifreeze can't use Texas free speech laws to dismiss claims of invasion of privacy, libel and slander, a state appellate court ruled Thursday.