Newly-named student editors for 2006-07:
Do you sometimes find yourself mystified by government abbreviations? Does a document littered with unfamiliar government acronyms make about as much sense as a bowl of alphabet soup?
Help is as close as the nearest internet browser. The University Library at IUPUI has a list of Abbreviations & Acronyms of the U.S. Government with the full names of the agency or program to which they refer. Most entries link to the official website. There is also a page for Military Acronyms and Glossaries.
For abbreviations in legal citations, check out the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations.
For help deciphering medical records, see Berman JJ. Pathology abbreviations and acronyms. May 18, 2001.
Thanks to Moritz Legal Information Blog, South Carolina Trial Law Blog, and Internet Legal Research Weekly for the links.
The newly elected 2006-07 executive committee of the Southern Illinois University Law Journal:
Professor Greg Duhl, who currently teaches Property II and Agency and Partnership at SIU School of Law, has joined the ranks of blogging law professors. He is the Blog Editor for the new Unincorporated Business Law Prof Blog, a member of the Law Professor Blogs Network and the official blog of the AALS Section on Agency, Partnership, LLCs, and Unincorporated Business Associations.
Subscribe to the Unincorporated Business Law Prof Blog Atom feed or RDF feed.
This week's SIU Law Dog is Max. He is Sarah Fript's study buddy. Sarah is a 2nd-year law student.
Join us next week for another Law Dog of the Week. We will feature a dog each week until we run out of photos.
Honorable Mention:
SOURCE: beSpacific
From inter alia by way of the BarclayBlog comes a tip about the free online tutorial provided by Microsoft for adding graphics to Word documents. According to its introduction, you can use the tutorial to "[l]earn how to insert many types of graphics into your Microsoft Word document and position them exactly where and how you want, including inside or alongside a block of text." Its goals are to enable you to:
The following 2L members of the Southern Illinois University Law Journal had their casenotes chosen for future publication in the Journal.
BEST CASENOTE:
Collin Richmond, “Promissory Estoppel: Only a Shield, Not a Sword? Analysis of DeWitt v. Fleming.”
OTHER ARTICLES:
Elizabeth Wieneke, “Secured or Unsecured?: Conflicting Requirements of the Notice Filing Systems of the Uniform Commercial Code and the Tax Code Lead Creditors to a False Sense of Security, United States v. Crestmark Bank”
Michelle Sanders, “To Serve and Protect? Supporting Polic Inaction over Domestic Violence Victim Protection in Castle Rock v. Gonzales”
Erin Doyle, “Endangering the Great Divide: Challenges to the Establishment Clause in Van Orden v. Perry”
Stephanie Lindsay, “Dirty Water on a Daily Basis: Friends of the Earth v. Environmental Protection Agency”
Natalie Kussart, “Paid Bills v. Charged Bills: Insurance and the Collateral Source Rule, Arthur v. Catour”
ALTERNATES:
Chris Frericks, “The Need for Speedy Trial Reform in Southern Illinois: People v. Workman”
Dane Kurth, “Corporate Decision-Making and the Lack of Invovlement frm the Board of Directors: In re The Walt Disney Co. Derivative Litigation”
Individuals identifying themselves as AT&T Service technicians are calling private residences and informing individuals that they are conducting tests on the telephone lines, and that in order to complete these tests, the owner needs to press the following keys: nine (9), zero (0), the pound sign (#), and then hang up.
PLEASE BEWARE! By pressing this sequence of keys and hanging up, you give the requesting individual full access to your telephone line which enables them to place long distance calls that are billed to your home phone number.
Apparently this scam has been originating from many local jails/prisons. This information is from a very reliable source and was verified with UCB Telecom, Pacific Bell, MCI, Bell Atlantic and GTE. Please beware and pass this information on ...
DO NOT Press 90# for ANYONE.
Update: The 90# scam is only is a problem with large, organizational phone systems, and not personal residences. There is more information on this matter at: TruthOrFiction.
However AT&T warns of a similar call-forwarding scam in which automated messages are left on residential phones directing people to dial a 2-digit code preceded or followed by the * or # key in order to claim a prize or money. The AT&T Consumer Tips site has more tips for protecting yourself from scams involving residential and cell phones.
Remember, if it sounds fishy, it probably is. Don't press * or # for anyone. Just hang up.
This week's SIU Law Dog is Samson. He is an 8-month-old yorki/poo mix puppy, who lives with Joy Krohne, a 3rd-year law student.
Join us next week for another Law Dog of the Week. We will feature a dog each week until we run out of photos.
Instructions: using your mouse, select the text you want, then either cut (Ctrl + X or Edit, Cut) or copy (Ctrl + C or Edit, Copy) as usual. Position the cursor at the point in your document where you wish to insert your cut or copied text, and choose paste special (Edit, Paste Special). Depending on your text destination(i.e., word processing choice, etc.), you will be given a number of choices of formats in which to paste the text: unformatted text is usually the safest since it will copy the cut or copied text into the default format of whatever text document you are currently using.
This week's SIU Law Dog is Chloe. She lives with Jane Miller, who works in the law library.
Join us next week for another Law Dog of the Week. We will feature a dog each week until we run out of photos.
David Swanner has an excellent post about making more time at the South Carolina Trial Law Blog. His conclusion:
In reality, when we say that we don't have time for something, we’re saying "It's not a high enough priority to get to".
His post reminded me of a study I posted about a year ago on Why We Overcommit. The authors of the study found that we always expect to have more time in the future than we have in the present.
But as Dave points out, "Everyone gets the same amount of time." And even though you can't make more time, you can make better choices about how you spend your time.
Read this story from the Boston Globe about a recent law graduate who declined a job by email. Her would-be employer chided her, also by email. Emotions escalated, and the final email was a short one from the graduate: "bla bla bla."
Soon the exchange was traveling around the world at the speed of – well – email. Have you ever sent an email you would rather not see in a newspaper? Enough said.
Thanks to Betsy McKenzie for pointing out this story at Out of the Jungle.
Update: See also The email that roared from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
