The Intranet is Dead. Long Live the Intranet!?

Legal Geek – Jenni Tellyn: “The Covid pandemic threw into sharp focus how firms communicate with their employees and we started to embrace informal communication platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Slack and Yammer in earnest in our quest to remain connected through the enforced separations of the lockdowns. With this development in communication channels, businesses …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Birds Online

“The BIRDS ONLINE project has been implemented by the Faculty of Environmental Sciences of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague since 2014. The project has been through several phases – design and creation of the monitoring system, construction of a special nest box for built-in technical equipment, installing test nest boxes with the help …

Subjects: Climate Change, Education, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management

Free Law Project Makes It Even Easier to Add PACER Documents to Its Free Database

LawSites: “One way to avoid the cost of downloading documents from the federal courts’ PACER database is by getting them instead from the RECAP Archive, a database of millions of PACER documents and dockets maintained by the Free Law Project. But before you can get a document out of RECAP, the document had to have …

Subjects: Courts, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research

How Many U.S. Households Don’t Have Air Conditioning?

Energy Institute at Haas: “With rising adoption, nearly 90% of American homes have air conditioning, but almost 30% in California are still without it. And, once again, the U.S. is gripped by sweltering heat and humidity. Higher-than-average summer temperatures are everywhere, even in places like Portland, Oregon, which topped 100 degrees last weekend and in …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Health Care, Housing

Analysis Of The Importance Of Gmail For Ediscovery

hanzo / David Ruel: “Organizations that use Gmail for business communications need a way to preserve and extract discoverable information in the event of litigation. But that’s harder than it would appear at first glance. This is the first in a three-part blog series explaining: why Gmail data is an important data source for modern …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Constitutional Limits on States’ Power over Foreign Affairs

CRS Legal Sidebar – Constitutional Limits on States’ Power over Foreign Affairs, August 15, 2022 – “The Constitution gives the federal government the primary power to manage the United States’ foreign relations. Article I, Section 10 prohibits states from engaging in a set of activities that implicate international affairs, while the Supremacy Clause, Foreign Commerce …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Google Images on the web now uses Google Lens

9to5 Google: “After being integrated across Android and the Chrome browser, Google Lens is now the main visual search experience on the desktop Google Images website. Visiting images.google.com on the desktop web now shows Google Lens in-between voice and regular search. Replacing the previous gray camera icon, tapping launches a redesigned way to initiate a …

Subjects: Search Engines

The Carbon Cycle: Key Component of the Climate System, with Implications for Policy

CRS Report – The Carbon Cycle: Key Component of the Climate System, with Implications for Policy, August 10, 2022: “Large quantities of carbon are actively exchanged between the atmosphere and the other carbon storage pools, including the oceans, vegetation, and soils on the land surface. The exchange, or flux, of carbon among the atmosphere, oceans, …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework

CRS Report – The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework, August 12, 2022: “This report provides an overview of the relationship between executive and legislative authority over national security information. It summarizes the current laws that form the legal framework protecting classified information, including current executive orders and some agency regulations pertaining to the …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

Climate Liability Suits: Is There a Path to Federal Court?

CRS Legal Sidebar – Climate Liability Suits: Is There a Path to Federal Court? August 12, 2022: “Many of the most prominent court cases related to climate change in recent years have been decided by federal courts, including the Supreme Court, based on federal law. A growing number of cases,however, allege state-law claims against fossil …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Courts, Energy, Environmental Law