Quick Report from AALL

Hi, I was out at the law librarian's conference in Portland. Here's a quick update:

Westlaw has some new interfaces:

tax.westlaw.com for (big surprise) tax. It allows for a global search that organizes top hits by category.

compliance.westlaw.com for compliance information in a number of areas.

citeadvisor.westlaw.com - no kidding, it's suppose to help you get your Bluebook citations correct.

Other websites:

heinonline.org - added a "my heinonline" feature so individual users can customize bookmarks.

http://icyte.com - in beta, this is a research management software. Highlight the part of the document you like and it saves the document with the highlighting. You can annotate your entry in the database.

http://lexisweb.com/ - free legally oriented search engine from Lexis.

Here's the flower (yellow, red & blue) I painted so West would donate money to the Arbor Foundation. I know, don't quit the day job!

Shaun

Creatively Finding Career Satisfaction for Attorneys

Our Minnesota Lawyer advertisement comes out today for

FINDING CAREER SATISFACTION IN THE LAW:
Using Creative Problem Solving and Planning
6.0 Professional Development CLE hours

What does that mean for you? It's time to sign up before all of the seats are gone. Go to the web to sign up right now:

www.beardavenue.com/cle

Shaun

Creatively Finding Career Satisfaction for Attorneys

Leonard Lang, Ph.D. and I are offering a CLE entitled:
Finding Career Satisfaction in the Law: Using Creative Problem Solving and Planning

It will held at the Southdale Library in Edina, MN on November 30, 2007. It runs from 8:30-4:10. 6.0 Professional Development hours applied for.

Here is the synopsis:

Attorneys may face many different challenges to a satisfying career, such as: balancing work and life, advancing in the law firm, business development, billing clients, making billable hours goals, getting paid what you are worth, finding fulfillment from their work, and the list goes on. This highly interactive seminar will teach participants a creative problem solving process for career challenges. It will also use discussion, role playing and exercises to help them apply what they are learning to their actual challenges. Participants will leave both with a creative process to career development and progress toward addressing their own challenges.

To sign up call: (952) 933-1088. It is $245 which is a great deal for this useful and interactive seminar. Tell your friends!

Shaun Jamison, J.D., Ph.D.

Hot Legal Jobs!

Two legal industry jobs made the top ten of hot new jobs according to careerbuilder.com:

Nurse Paralegals - Medical training combined with a knowledge of law and litigation makes for one handy paralegal!

Legal Nurse Consultants - This requires similar training as a nurse, but the focus is on analysis of medical records, rather than actively supporting litigation as a nurse paralegal would.

Shaun Jamison
Contact Shaun