The crippled law firm Dewey & Leboeuf LLP filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday night and will seek approval to liquidate its business after failing to find a merger partner, marking the biggest collapse of a law firm in U.S. history.
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The C-SPAN Video Library mission statement begins as follows:
The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and archives all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, research, and archival uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, almost totaling over 191,000 hours, is contained in the C-SPAN Archives and immediately accessible through the database and electronic archival systems developed and maintained by the C-SPAN Archives.
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SCOTUSBlog has an interesting post by Stephen Wermiel which sets forth the Solicitor General’s responsibilities. You can access the article here.
Joe Hodnicki at the Law Librarian Blog posts the following:
News is bubbling through law school and library forums that West will discontinue free law school printing effective June 30, 2013. I assume that includes faculty printing. Law schools can keep the printers and fund them if they wanted to, but Westlaw IDs would be tied to them only through June 30, 2014. When I wrote about Bloomberg Law’s push into law schools, I said Bloomberg had no plans to include free printing as part of the deal. I didn’t think it made any difference to the acceptance of Bloomberg in law schools given that it was essentially going to be free. See that post for more details.
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