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.

Foreword: Law and the Library

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

The AALL and its Government Relations Program: Part I and II

The Government Relations Policy [hereinafter Policy] of the AALL outlines the objectives of its government relations program. The Policy emphasizes that a primary goal of this Association\u27s program is to ensure timely and equitable access to government and legal information. This Policy represents the views of an association with more than 5,000 members who provide law library services to government officials, the bench, the bar, legal scholars and the public in nearly 1,900 libraries. AALL, its members and its users are affected by a broad span of public policy concerns ranging from the development of the National Information Infrastructure and the dissemination of government information to intellectual freedom and intellectual property. AALL members have a special responsibility for ensuring that federal, state and local legal information resources are developed, managed and shared effectively. For these reasons, the AALL membership and its leaders recognized early in the Association\u27s development that they must participate in legislative, judicial and regulatory processes. It is only recently, however, that the government relations program of AALL has been formalized into a proactive program to inform its members of current issues and to assist government decision-makers developing laws and policies consistent with its Government Relations Policy. This statement traces the early involvement of the Association, its committees and its members in government activities and tracks the developing collective interests of law librarians and AALL members in these issues. The discussion concludes with the late-1980s and early- 1990s developments, which resulted in an increased AALL, presence in Washington, D.C. The presentation deals exclusively with the American Association of Law Libraries\u27 activities and not with the activities of its chapters and Special Interest Sections. It focuses primarily on involvement at the federal level, rather than at the state and local levels

Finding Legal, Factual, and Other Information in a Digital World

This updated listing of Internet sites for legal, factual, and other research offers a combination of more established sites and newer sites developed since the publication of the previous listing. The article began as a comprehensive bibliography of research and other sites for an Advanced Legal Research course and a series of continuing education sessions for legal assistants and paralegals.1 The current version includes sites for primary authorities, both federal and state, as well as URLs for other types of information, such as sites that assist in finding 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