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AmLaw Daily: “In the last two years or so, though, Web development and marketing professionals say law firms have gotten increasingly serious about the Web. Slowly, the gap in quality between Am Law 200 Web sites and those of Fortune 500 companies has narrowed, as more and more firms put in the investment and manpower …
News release: “A new study clearly finds that Americas public libraries are breaking through traditional brick-and-mortar walls to serve more people online and in person. Americas 16,543 public library buildings are leveraging technology to help children succeed in school and support lifelong learning. More than 83 percent now offer online homework resources, including live tutors …
Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health (256 pages, PDF): “Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health …
Bureau of Justice Statistics: “Presents 110 tables with detailed data on major variables measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).” 2006: Acrobat file | Spreadsheets (zip format)
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Civil Rights Complaints in U.S. District Courts, 1990 – 2006 “Examines civil rights claims based on race, age, sex, or national origin involving employment, welfare, housing, voting, or other civil rights discrimination issues. It covers civil rights claims litigated in federal district courts from 1990 to 2006. Information is presented on …
Why and What Lawyers Should Consider Outsourcing: This article by Ron Friedmann reviews the history of and logic behind legal outsourcing. It then outlines some of the current legal outsourcing options. A detailed discussion of each option is not possible in one article. Instead, the final section takes a close look at one, outsourcing secretarial …
The Art of Written Persuasion: The Problem with the Case Method and the Case for the Problem Method: In this second article in the series, Troy Simpson suggests that the case method of teaching law may help to explain why lawyers write badly. He then outlines some of the advantages of the problem method of …
The Official Google Blog: “As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be …
The Future Actions Series – International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR): Seven Years After 9/11: Al-Qaidas Strengths and Vulnerabilities, Richard Barrett, September 2008. “The core Al-Qaida leadership remains in place, but it is still far from recovering the position of strength that it enjoyed in 2001; the appeal of Al-Qaida …
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Policy Report #34: Overcoming the Lethargy: Climate Change, Energy Security, and the Case for a Third Industrial Revolution, by Alexander Ochs, August 2008. Related postings on climate change
Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College – U.S. Counterterrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding Costs, Cultures, and Conflicts, September 2008, by Dr. Donovan C. Chau: “The global conflict against Islamic terrorists and their perceived threat to the United States have propelled the African continent into U.S. counterterrorism policy. The challenges facing the United …
State and Federal Electronic Government in the United States, 2008, Darrell M. West, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution, August 26, 2008. Executive Summary: “This report assesses the nature of American state and federal electronic government in 2008 by examining whether e-government effectively capitalizes on the interactive features available on the World …
