Virginia Law: It’s Online, But Should You Use It?

A judge asks you to present her with a copy of the Virginia Code section you are referencing in court, or she asks you to provide a copy of the Supreme Court of Virginia opinion you cited. You used Virginia state government websites to find both the code section and the court opinion. This is easy, right? You give her the copy of what you found online. But could there be a problem? Is the court opinion that you retrieved from the court website considered an official version of the court opinion? Has the Virginia Code section that you provided been authenticated to establish its legitimacy? Do these issues matter, and do they have any practical effect on your work as an attorney

Arkansas

An update to the 2007 State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources

Crossroads: Strategic Partnerships and Collaborative Programming

A number of the educational offerings at the 1999 Annual Meeting will support the Association\u27s interest in partnering through active participation in programs by groups associated with AALL. The Annual Meeting program planners, at the direction of President Heller, identified specific groups and associations that should be represented at the 1999 Annual Meeting. President Heller directed the planners to propose programs for the Annual Meeting featuring representatives from both AALL and our legal information partners that would appeal to members from both groups and would focus on the issues that affect all of us. The conference theme, At the Crossroads: Information Management, Technology, and Policy, not only represents the many issues facing law librarians at this crucial time, but also reflects the interconnectedness of all the players involved in the legal information arena

The National Conference on Legal Information Issues: Selected Essays

During the past decade, information technology developments have the dissemination and use of legal and legal-related In 1995, the American Association of Law Libraries, a organization with more than 5,000 members, convened the first National Conference on Legal Information Issues in conjunction with its eighty-eighth meeting. National Conference provided a forum for members of the legal and information communities to discuss the challenging problems and issues arising from the dynamic technological changes that have impacted the creation, dissemination and use of legal information. The National Conference assembled more than 2,500 librarians, law faculty and deans, judges court administrators, practicing attorneys and firm administrators, government officials, legal information producers, and leaders of information associations to help chart the course of the information revolution

1999 Annual Meeting: Strategic Initiatives Sessions

The Superintendent of Documents with the U.S. Government Printing Office ... the Law Library Director of the Tel Aviv University School of Law ... Justices of the Supreme Courts of Virginia and Oklahoma ... Deans of three library schools .. . Several law school professors .. . the President of the American Judicature Society ... Judges from other courts ... plus many MLL members. These were among the more than 45 individuals who participated in the Strategic Initiatives sessions following the Sunday and Monday programs at the 1999 Annual Meeting and Conference in Washington, D.C, in July. The final report from these Strategic Initiatives sessions is available now at the following URL: http://www.aallnet.org/events/99 strategic.as

Legal, Factual and Other Internet Sites for Attorneys and Legal Professionals

This listing of Internet sites for legal, factual, and other research presents a variety of sources for attorneys, law students, law librarians, and others who use the Web. Initially developed for an Advanced Legal Research course and a continuing education session for legal assistants and paralegals, the listing includes sites for primary authorities, both federal and state, as well as URLs for other types of information such as names of possible expert witnesses and biographical and background information about individuals.

A School Board\u27s Authority Versus a Student\u27s Right to Receive Information

This note examines the considerations which led the United States Supreme Court to determine that a school board\u27s authority over the administration of the schools is not absolute if the exercise of this authority violates the constitutional rights of the students. Second. the note explores the development of a student\u27s right to receive information through a school library as a guarantee of the first amendment, a right that cannot be ignored by a school board when the board removes books which it considers to be inappropriate either because of the ideas presented in the books or because of the local community\u27s moral. political, and religious opinions. Third. even though the Is/and Trees decision offers no final determination on the right to receive information issue, this note will point out how the alignment and the analyses of the Justices will influence the future determination of the issue

Legal, Factual and Other Internet Sites for Attorneys and Others

This listing of Internet sites for legal, factual, and other research presents a variety of sources for attorneys, law students, librarians, and others who use the Web. Initially developed for an Advanced Legal Research course and a continuing education session for legal assistants, the listing includes sites for primary authorities, both federal and state, as well as URLs for other types of information such as names of possible expert witnesses and biographical and background information (including social security numbers in some instances) about individuals

Discovering E-Discovery: a Resources Guide

E-discovery refers to discovery in civil litigation that focuses on the exchange of information in electronic form. Lainie Crouch Kaiser, a litigation attorney with McDermott Will & Emery, writes that “e-Discovery can be used as an umbrella term for both the legal and operational considerations related to how electronically stored information (ESI) is used in the modern day practice of law.”There are many types of ESI, including e-mail and office documents, voicemail, photos, video, and databases. Attorneys and others who write about e-discovery also include “raw data” as discoverable information. Ronald J. Hedges of Nixon Peabody writes that “[t]echnically, documents and data are ‘electronic’ if they exist in a medium that can only be read through the use of computers. Such media include cache memory, magnetic disks (such as DVDs or CDs), and magnetic tapes.” This article does not present any legal analysis of e-discovery and what is and is not discoverable, but rather it provides a listing of resources that attorneys and those who work with them can use to gain a better understanding of e-discovery and its application in both federal and state courts

Foreword: Law and the Library

A Foreword for the North Carolina Libaries Journal on Law and the Library