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KCLL Klues, the King County (Washington) Law Library blog has this post from 10/31/11.  It has links to useful resources and sample policies, all of which may be helpful to lawyers and law firm librarians.
I posted a little while ago on the related subject of blog Comment policies on public library websites.
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Only a few people have that gift that can make people laugh and cry at the same time: Mark Twain, Molly Ivins, and others.  Sometimes I think we can include on that list California appellate court’s:
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Volunteering = Networking
One way to find a job is to volunteer with an organization that does the sort of work you might like to do yourself one day.
If you’re not sure what you love to do, try out different volunteer gigs:
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My roommate is a high-strung moron.”   This was the first line of a letter to The Ethicist” column, in the New York Times Magazine, September 18, 2011, and it reminded me that I wanted to blog about “Comments” policies.
This “my roommate is a moron” type of statement, and its close cousins (e.g. “my fat, ugly, stupid friend, sister, brother, mother,” etc.), will be familiar to anyone who writes online and allows Comments.  Comments can be useful, informative, responsive, educational, helpful, and thoughtful.  However, they generally are not.  I’m not sure why and won’t waste time wondering why not.
For practical purposes, though, it’s useful for blogs and websites to have a Comment Policy so readers and Commenters are forewarned about why they may see the Comments they do see and why their own Comments might not see the light of day.
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There is a new book out on images of justice, specifically Lady Justice.  You know, Themis, that blindfold, the scales, the sword, the statue.  See, e.g., the Wikipedia entry: Scales of Justice.

Visit the Yale Law Library “Justice as a Sign of the Law” exhibit blog post, featuring a book by Yale Law Professors Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis, “Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms,” (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).

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