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• Third Annual ABA Journal Blawg 100

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 528
  The list, with live links, is here .  Its filled with old favorites and some new blogs.  After perusing, Ill be making some additions to the left-column webroll. One favorite that did not make the list is A Criminal Enterprise , noted here .
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• SRLs – A Start

  
  SC Access To Justice Weblog — Authority: 117
  For those of you interested in learning where to start to learn more about self-represented litigants in South Carolina, here’s my cheat sheet: Resources 1.         Online A.  South Carolina: http://www.sccourts.org/forms/indexSelfHelp.cfm – The South Carolina Courts official site for ...
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• Baron & Budd attorney named in 2010 The Best Lawyers in America

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 137
  Attorney Scott Summy – a shareholder at Baron & Budd, P.C . in Dallas, Texas – has been named in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America by Best Lawyers, LLC. Over 2.8 million lawyers from across the United States were involved in the peer nomination and review process to determine who was selected ...
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• Top ABA staffers exit amid reorganization

  
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  The National Law Journal : "The resignation last week of Henry "Hank" White Jr., the American Bar Associations executive director, follows other recent staff departures amid a reorganization set in motion by the ABAs new president, Carolyn Lamm."
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• The American Bar Association Spotlights Box.net

  
  Box.net Blog - Learn about Box.net's latest Features, Interviews, and More — Authority: 112
  Box ultimately makes sharing simple, but we take pride in the fact that we’re used to solve all sorts of problems for a variety of companies - from facilitating group projects and managing and tracking file activity, to creating virtual deal rooms.One industry that we’re seeing a lot of interest from is legal. ...
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• Morning Roundup

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 140
  Good morning everyone!  Today is Thursday, November 19 and this is your quick look back at the headlines. A judge in Louisiana held that the US Army is liable for some Katrina damage… Google debuts its new case law database …. Winston & Strawn has two new offices in Asia… David Hamilton is getting ...
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• Changing of the Guard at the ABA

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 140
  Henry White has resigned as the executive director of the American Bar Association.  R. Thomas Howell, the organization’s general counsel, has stepped in as interim executive direction.  In the mean time, a search committee has been appointed to find a permanent replacement for White. The ABA is the world’s ...
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• Another big day for Free Law – ABA launches site summarizing federal court opinions and upcoming cases

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 464
  Here’s a new site is designed mainly for the press but access is free to all. Cases are summarized by professors with support from law students.  For the Ninth Circuit, for example, the content contributors are:University of San Diego School of Law  andUniversity of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law Here’s ...
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• The Current ABA Criminal Justice Magazine

  
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  Published by the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association, the Fall 2009 issue focuses on Postconviction Practices .  Heres the table of contents of featured articles: Priming Postconviction Representation By Andrew E. Taslitz Issue editor for the symposium on postconviction practices, ...
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• ABA Executive Director Resigns

  
  Above the Law — Authority: 690
  There will be a change at the top of one of the few organizations that can help address some of the problems facing lawyers today. The ABA Journal reports : ABA Executive Director Henry F. White Jr. has resigned after three years at the helm of the worlds largest voluntary professional membership organization. ABA ...
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• Goal of New ABA Web Effort: All the Federal Decisions that Are Fit to Print

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  ABA Journal : "Want to know more about a 9th Circuit opinion on the First Amendment rights of a citizen ejected from a city council meeting for giving a Nazi salute? Or the 5th Circuit opinion allowing a Halliburton employee to sue over her alleged rape in Iraq? You can find those opinions summarized on a revamped ...
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• Debt Relief for Law School Grads

  
  loans-blog — Authority: 149
  Debt relief could be on the horizon for recent law school graduates. The American Bar Association has proposed extending debt relief to law school graduates who have not been able to find a job because of the recession. While most unemployed graduates can already defer their federal loans or qualify for income based ...
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• The ABA Wants Your Thoughts on Outsourcing

  
  Above the Law — Authority: 690
  It wasnt that long ago -- just back in August 2008 -- that the ABA changed its rules to allow the outsourcing of American legal work. In the midst of the recession, a lot of people are still trying to figure out if outsourcing will cause a more fundamental change to the nature of the Biglaw business model than ...
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• The Death Penalty in Washington State

  
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  The Walla Walla Union-Bulletins series continues with five major articles.  The first installment, an overview published on Sunday, was noted here . " Dollars add up in capital trials ," by Andy Porter, ran in Mondays Union-Bulletin. Estimating the cost of a murder trialinvolving the death penalty versus one ...
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• Going beyond law school rankings

  
  Equal Justice Works Blog — Authority: 113
  A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that the competition for better rankings and an increasingly hands-on approach to educating students is responsible for driving up the cost of law school. The report further blamed the focus on rankings for a drop in the number of minorities enrolled in ...
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• Justice Alito and the ABA Guidelines

  
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  National Law Journal reports, " A Justices Curious Comment About ABA Guidelines for Death Penalty Lawyers ."  Its written by Marcia Coyle. The Supreme Court this week, in an unsigned opinion, reversed reliefgranted by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to a death row inmatebecause of his lawyers ineffective ...
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• The ABA Has a Plan for Law School Loans

  
  Above the Law — Authority: 690
  The American Bar Association has a plan to help out unemployed lawyers with their student loans. Seriously. An actual plan. The National Law Journal reports : The ABA wants the government to let unemployed graduates convert private loans into federal ones. The change could allow them to defer repaying those loans ...
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• Delaware PDs See Case Loads Reduced

  
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  " States public defenders see fewer cases ," is the title of J.L. Millers report in the Wilmington News Journal. The Public Defenders Office wont seek a budget increase this year,thanks to a puzzling trend in the number of cases the agency handles. Public Defender Brendan ONeill said in his agencys budget ...
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• Florida Revises Death Penalty Jury Instruction

  
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  " Fla. justices respond to death penalty confusion ," is the title of Bill Kaczors AP report, via the Miami Herald. The Florida Supreme Court revised standard jury instructions fordeath penalty cases Thursday in ways the justices hope will reducewidespread confusion among jurors disclosed by an American ...
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• New GAO Report on Law School Cost and Access Issues

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 464
  The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recently released a new report titled “Higher Education: Issues Related to Law School Cost and Access.”The report includes briefings the GAO made to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) and to the  U.S. House of ...
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