Lake County Law Li-BLOG-ary

National Library Week: Reference Desk

2008-03-27T08:38:00.001-05:00

HAPPY NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK! Enjoy this short video on what it's like to be a reference librarian!

Don't forget to stop in the law library from April 14-18!

2008-03-25T14:22:00.001-05:00

presents

In Celebration of National Library Week

The Lake County Historical Society’s

Treasures of Lake County

Thursday, April 17, 2008
1:30 pm

Dale Craig,
Lake County Historical Society’s
Library Resource Manager
will Present

The Lake County Courthouse
Lake County’s Research Library
Lake County’s Heritage Homes

Coffee and Cookies will be served

Bring a Brown Bag Lunch

Free to Lake County Bar Association Members

Call 440.350.2638 to reserve your seat

Librarian: Executive Summary

2008-02-14T08:46:00.000-05:00

By Marty Nemko

Posted December 19, 2007

Forget about that image of librarian as a mousy bookworm. Librarians these days must be high-tech information sleuths, helping researchers plumb the oceans of information available in books and digital records. It's an underrated career. Most librarians love helping patrons dig up information and, in the process, learning new things. Librarians may also go on shopping sprees, deciding which books and online resources to buy. They even get to put on performances, like children's puppet shows, and run other programs, like book discussion groups for elders. On top of it all, librarians' work hours are reasonable.

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Web's Largest Free Law Library Opens to the Public

2008-02-14T08:43:00.001-05:00

WASHINGTON, Feb 13, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Fastcase today opened the doors to the largest free law library on the Web. The Fastcase Public Library of Law (http://www.plol.org) launches as the most comprehensive free resource for legal research online, making it the best starting point for anyone who wants to learn about and use the law.

The Fastcase Public Library of Law (PLoL) is powered by Fastcase, Inc., the premium provider of next-generation legal research. Since its founding in 1999, Fastcase has worked to democratize the law, making it more accessible to more people.

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Ohio Law Firm Sounds Alarm on Electronic Document Retention, Offers Guidelines to Help Companies Enhance Preparedness

2008-02-06T12:41:00.000-05:00

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb 04, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/

To address growing concern over legal challenges related to electronic documents, Harrington, Hoppe & Mitchell Ltd. today released a set of general guidelines designed to help companies prepare for the possibility of such challenges.

The guidelines, posted on the law firm's website ( http://www.hhmlaw.com/newsPR.asp?press_id=20080204b ), hhmlaw.com, are excerpted from a comprehensive and proprietary document the firm recently provided to its clients.

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Local judges, attorney write law book

2008-02-06T12:39:00.000-05:00

ELIZABETH STUDEBAKER, Feature Writer

A huge undertaking of legal research and writing, a book authored by a Fairborn attorney and two local judges, is a tool to use the law in a most effective way. One of the authors, prominent Fairborn attorney Charles M. Rowland II said, “It’s good to know the law, but it’s better to write the law book.”

Greene County Court of Common Pleas Judges Steven A. Wolaver of Fairborn and J. Timothy Campbell, Xenia, and Rowland of the firm Brown, Rowland & Kelly have completed authoring a revision to “Anderson’s Ohio Civil Practice.

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Firms scale down law libraries as Internet use grows

2008-02-06T12:36:00.000-05:00

The Business Journal of Phoenix - by Mike Sunnucks Phoenix Business Journal

TheLike horse-drawn carriages and manual typewriters, law libraries are being driven into yesteryear by technology, innovation and changing norms.

Rows of shelves with stacks of heavy books once took up substantial space in law offices. They required reinforced floors and sometimes sliding tracks for shelves, and were staffed by librarians and research assistants.

But those extensive in-house libraries are becoming obsolete as more attorneys embrace technology -- in particular, the Internet, electronic databases and legal information services.

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Mahoning law library gets wireless Internet

2008-02-06T12:35:00.000-05:00

Wireless Internet ‘is a part of the times,’ a lawyer says.

YOUNGSTOWN — The law library on the fourth floor of the Mahoning County Courthouse is now a wireless Internet hot spot.

Anyone with a laptop computer or a smart phone with wireless Internet access capability can use the new service, said Chris Liddle, owner of Mahoning Valley Data of Poland, the installation contractor.

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Law library management likely to be revamped

2007-11-14T09:49:00.000-05:00

By MARIAN MCMAHON, mailto:tribune@gazettenews.com

Task force is making recommendations which include use by the public

LAKE COUNTY - In recent weeks, Lake County Administrator Ken Gauntner has given the Lake County Commissioners updates on the matter of the law libraries.

According to its Web site, "Lake County Law Library Association, serving members of the Lake County Bar Association, Judges of the Courts of Lake County and the elected officials of Lake County.

"Located in the basement of the Lake County Courthouse in Painesville, Ohio, members have access to a wide range of print and online resources. Our collection covers a variety of areas including federal, state, tax, family, probate, real estate and labor law.

"The Lake County Library also provides materials to its three- branch libraries located in the Municipal Courts of Mentor, Painesville, and Willoughby, as well as Lakeland Community College Library and Morley Library."

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Funding shrinking for county law library

2007-11-08T15:18:00.000-05:00

By RENEE BROWN,
T-R Staff Writer

Although local funding for the Tuscarawas County Law Library is shrinking, its supporters are hopeful the library will continue to exist.

“We do provide a service,” said New Philadelphia attorney Rick Hinig. “It’s an asset to the legal community and the community in general.”

Hinig has been president of the law library association for 15 years. For the last three years, however, the law library board has been struggling with the prospect of losing a sizable percentage of its budget by 2011. The board is made up of Hinig and six other area attorneys.

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Law libraries face funding, other changes

2007-11-08T15:14:00.000-05:00

Sunday, October 28, 2007
BY Shane Hoover
REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER

CANTON: If not for the small sign next to the door, the Stark County Law Library's entrance looks like that of storage room.

Behind the door is row after row of legal volumes, code books and court opinions for Ohio, the federal courts and other states.

There are tips on tax law or drafting an entertainment industry contract. And books on medicine, environmental law and defenses to drunken driving charges. More than 60,000 volumes, plus electronic databases, take up a quarter of the County Office Building's fourth floor and there are branches at the municipal courts in Alliance, Massillon and Canton.

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Lake County Law Library Annual Meeting

2007-11-07T11:11:00.000-05:00

The Lake County Law Library Association
will host its Annual Meeting
Thursday, January 17, 2008
at Cappelli’s at The Comfort Inn
7701 Reynolds Road
Mentor, Ohio
at 12:00 noon.

A complimentary lunch of
Grilled Chicken Salad will be provided.
Vegetarian selection is available, too.

Please contact Angela Baldree
at 440-350-2638 for reservations by January 11, 2008.

Law Library's 2007 Time Capsule Submission

2007-08-01T14:34:00.000-05:00

The Lake County Law Library submitted this video to be included in the 2007 - 2107 Time Capsule Project being coordinated by the Lake County Bar Association, Lake County Historical Society, and the Lake County Commissioners. Thanks to everyone who participated in this project!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3166987691810684285&pr=goog-sl

WESTLAW TRAINING

2007-06-18T11:31:00.000-05:00

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

1.0 CLE Hour
Free to Lake County Bar Association Members

Call 440.350.2638 to reserve your spot for a session!

Basic Westlaw

10:00 am — 11:00 am
1:30 pm—2:30 pm

1. WestCheck
2. KeyCite
3. Drafting Tools
4. Natural Language v. Terms and Connectors
5. Results Plus

New Litigation Resources

11:30 am — 12:30 pm
3:00 — 4:00 pm

1. Briefs
2. Brieftools
3. Pleadings, Motions and Memoranda
4. Medical Litigator
5. Livenote

Casemaker Training

2007-06-12T14:18:00.000-05:00

The Ohio State Bar Association is making Casemaker available to all Ohio County Law Libraries. In a few weeks they will be unveiling Casemaker 2.0 which will include a 50 state library. They have hired a dedicated trainer to coordinate with this unveiling. This trainer is scheduled to be at the Lake County Law Library on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. There will be four classes offered through out the day. Participants will received one CLE credit for attended a class. Class topics and times are listed below. Space is limited so please call to reserve your spot at 440.350.2899.

Casemaker Seminar

10:00 am — 11:00 am
11:30 am — 12:30 pm
1:30 pm—2:30 pm
3:00 — 4:00 pm

1. Introduction to content available
a. Ohio/Federal content

2. Accessing the content available
a. Searching and browsing
b. Boolean searching

3. Enhanced research features
a. Casecheck
b. SuperCode

4. Printing and saving

2007-02-28T10:02:00.000-05:00

LexisNexis
Training

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

1.0 CLE Hour/Each Session
Free to Lake County Bar Association Members

Call 440.350.2638 to reserve your spot for one or more sessions!

Basic Lexis
10:00 am — 11:00 am
1:30 pm—2:30 pm

Techniques to obtain case
law, statutes, and administrative materials
Validating research results using Shepard's
Case summaries
LexisNexis headnotes
Search advisor
Searching multiple sources and electronic table of contents

Advance Lexis
11:30 am—12:30 pm
3:00 pm — 4:00 pm

Emphasizes efficient and effective searching
Term and connector searching in complex strings
Using precision search tools such as segment searching to obtain quicker and better search results
Using advanced search commands such as AtLeast, Caps, and AllCaps

Ohio traffic law targets young-driver risks

2007-01-29T10:31:00.000-05:00

New rules aim to cut distractions, deaths

By LAREN WEBER

Ohio’s 16-year-old drivers will be limited to only one nonrelated passenger and face other restrictions under a new state law that goes into effect April 3.

The law also extends the prohibition against early morning driving by 16-year-old Ohioans to between midnight and 6 a.m. from the current 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. Exemptions for work, official school functions, and emergencies will continue.In addition, back-seat passengers ages 4 to 15 in all vehicles will now be required to ride with seat belts or booster-seat restraints. Currently, only back-seat passengers ages 3 and under must be restrained.

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Free Teleseminar Helps Lawyers Define and Move Toward Work/Life Balance, Rejuvenate their Careers

2006-12-21T13:29:00.000-05:00

Ardsley, NY,
December 21, 2006

On Tuesday, January 9 at 3 p.m. Eastern (noon Pacific), lawyers can participate in XE Factor: Cultivating WorkLife Synergy, a free teleseminar presented by lawyer and work/life balance expert Arnie Herz. The program is sponsored by Legal Research & Writing Pro, a new venture that guides lawyers in starting and running successful legal research & writing practices. To register for the teleseminar, visit www.LegalResearchandWritingPro.com.

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New Worcester courthouse yet to open, already under fire

2006-12-05T11:23:00.000-05:00

By Noah Schaffer

When the new Worcester County Regional Justice Center opens its doors for business next year, it will do so minus a law library — an oversight that has some local lawyers shaking their heads in disbelief.

In a recent, strongly worded letter to the chief justice for administration and management and the head of the Division of Capital Asset Management, Worcester County Bar Association President John A. Shea called the opening of the courthouse without a law library "a major flaw … analogous to the construction of a hospital without laboratory or diagnostic testing facilities."

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Lake County Law Library 2007 Annual Meeting

2006-11-13T14:10:00.000-05:00

All Lake County Bar Association Members are invited to this annual meeting and lunch.

When: Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 12:00 noon

Where: Cappelli’s at the Comfort Inn, Route 306 at Route 2 in Mentor

Menu: Beef Stroganoff

Cost: All attendees will receive a complimentary lunch

RSVP: The Law Library 440-350-2638

No law books for state's attorney

2006-11-13T11:27:00.000-05:00

By CHRIS DETTRO
STAFF WRITER
Published Monday, November 13, 2006

It is a long, long way from being a paperless office, but the Sangamon County [IL] state's attorney's office is saving a few trees next year.

The office is eliminating almost all law books from its budget for fiscal year 2007, completing a six-year transition to computerized legal research.

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Pushing Legal Research Beyond Google

2006-10-17T07:38:00.000-05:00

By Matthew Hirsch
The Recorder
September 20, 2006

When it comes to sleuthing for information there are no hard and fast rules for paralegals, except maybe this one: Don't ignore the Internet.

The courts may notice if you do.

Last year, an Indiana appeals court agreed to dismiss a lawsuit because the plaintiff took three years to find a postal address and serve notice of his complaint. In a footnote to that published opinion, Judge Michael Barnes noticed there was no evidence the plaintiff had tried looking on the Internet to find defendant Joe Groce. And the court was Google-savvy.

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Report: $18.3B Revenue in '09 for Legal, Tax Info

2006-10-17T07:37:00.000-05:00

Oct. 16, 2006 (SmartPros)
Legal, tax and regulatory information providers -- such as LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer -- will achieve a combined $18.3 billion in revenues by 2009, which is a 6.5 percent growth rate from 2006, according to a report by research and advisory firm Outsell Inc.

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2006 ABA Survey: Lawyers More Mobile but Stuck on Basics

2006-09-27T09:51:00.000-05:00

By Laura Ikens
Law Technology News
September 27, 2006

As increasing numbers of mobile products and services are offered to consumers, attorneys are embracing the convenience and versatility of these products. Respondents to the American Bar Association's 2006 Legal Technology Survey indicated that they are using more mobile devices than ever before.

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Commentary: This Generation of Law Students

2006-09-26T10:27:00.000-05:00

by: Tricia Kasting
Back to school! The arrival of the law students the last week of August is the busiest and, in many respects, one of the most fun times of the school year, as we greet the returning students and meet the new first-year class.

Read more here!