| No. 491 | February 2005 |
In This Issue
Articles for the Job Hunt
Article by Dean Carroll
Recent Acquisitions
Congratulations
Ten Reasons to Use HeinOnline
From the News
Firewalls
The Langum Project
By Ed Craig,
Reference Librarian
elcraig@samford.edu
The articles listed below provide advice for legal job searching and can be found in the periodical collection on the Lower Level of the Law Library.
Bridget Bosworth, Alternative Careers in Legal Publishing, Student Lawyer, Dec. 2004, at 24. Author discusses the landscape of the legal publishing field and typical positions available in the industry.
Bruce Buckley, Make Your Résumé Work Harder, The National Jurist, Jan. 2004, at 33. Advice given for preparing a résumé for the job hunt.
Robert J. Derocher, The Politics-Interview Mix, Student Lawyer, Sept. 2004, at 32. Advice on whether to mention political activities and views in a law firm job interview.
Jim Dunlap, Graduating With No Job?, The National Jurist, Mar. 2004, at 38. Article discusses short-term alternatives when facing unemployment after law school graduation.
Jim Dunlap, Hottest Legal Specialties, The National Jurist, Feb. 2004, at 31. Article lists “hot” and “cold” practice areas for finding legal employment.
Donna Gerson, Jobs: If There Are Items on Your Résumé You’d Rather Not Share, Then Don’t, Student Lawyer, Mar. 2004, at 5. How to deal with “hot-button” entries on your résumé.
Donna Gerson, Jobs: Legal Experience Is Key to Landing a Legal Position After Graduation, Student Lawyer, Dec. 2004, at 5. Author discusses the importance of legal experience while in law school for obtaining a job offer after graduation.
Donna Gerson, Jobs: Small Firms Provide Big Opportunities For Students, Student Lawyer, May 2004, at 5. Author discusses opportunities available and gives advice on how to get your foot in the door at smaller law firms.
David C. James, Jobs: Summer Is Time To Consider How Legal Employers Will Evaluate You, Student Lawyer, Apr. 2004, at 5. How you spend your summers during law school and how you perform during those periods has a definite bearing on your employability in the legal profession.
David C. James, Jobs: Three Strategies Will Give You An Edge As You Search For A Job, Student Lawyer, Feb. 2004, at 6. Hiring attorney gives three strategies to give you an edge in your job hunt.
David C. James, Jobs: Writing Samples Are A Crucial Part Of Your Job Search, Student Lawyer, Jan. 2005, at 5. Hiring attorney discusses the importance of a writing sample in the interviewing process and ways to improve the sample work product you provide.
Christian A. Johnson, Jobs: Get Great Experience By Being a Professor’s Legal Research Assistant, Student Lawyer, Nov. 2004, at 6. Law professor gives advice for and discusses advantages of obtaining a research assistantship with a law faculty member.
Rebecca Luczycki, How Students Really Find Jobs, The National Jurist, Oct. 2004, at 24. Article discusses many paths to successful networking for finding the first job in a legal career.
Michael N. Rader, Jobs: Ask For Numbers, Not Slogans, When Interviewing Firms, Student Lawyer, Sept. 2004, at 5. Discusses asking the right questions to evaluate a prospective employer.
Lisa Stansky, Hot Practice: Homeland Security Creates Legal Jobs On The Cutting Edge, Student Lawyer, Oct. 2004, at 9. Discussion of opportunities available with federal and state agencies working in the area of homeland security law.
Debra M. Strauss, Judge for Yourself, Student Lawyer, Mar. 2004, at 24. Discussion of clerkship opportunities available to law school graduates.
Deanna Wilkinson, Jobs: Be Thoughtful When Handling A Firm’s Offer, Student Lawyer, Oct. 2004, at 5. Professional recruitment manager gives advice on proper etiquette in handling a firm’s offer and the considerations that should be made when making a decision to accept or decline the offer.
The Fifth Annual Symposium, Leadership in Legal Education, was held at the University of Toledo in Fall 2004. The goal of this symposium was to provide law school deans an opportunity to share some of their ideas, plans, successes as well as failures. The articles from this symposium can be found in Volume 36, number 1, Fall 2004 of the University of Toledo Law Review. Cumberland Dean John Carroll authored an article in this issue entitled, “Words of Wisdom for Deans from Mick Jagger and Others” at page 29. A copy of this journal containing his article can be found in several locations. The unbound issue is shelved with the periodical collection, Lower Level, under the title University of Toledo Law Review. A cataloged copy of the article is classified as a treatise and shelved on the Second Floor at KF264/.L42/2004. The article can also be found on both Westlaw and Lexis.
American Bar Association. MODEL CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT. 2004 ed. KF8779/.A95/2004.
ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE IN CIVIL LITIGATION : PROTECTING AND DEFENDING CONFIDENTIALITY. 3rd ed. KF8959/.A7/A935/2004.
Campbell, Arthur W. LAW OF SENTENCING. 3rd ed. KF9685/.C35/2004.
Imwinkelried, Edward J. EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE : THE ACCUSED'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO INTRODUCE FAVORABLE EVIDENCE. 3rd ed. KF9662/.I45/2004.
LaFave, Wayne R. SEARCH AND SEIZURE : A TREATISE ON THE FOURTH AMENDMENT. 4th ed. KF9630/.L26/2004/v.1-v.6.
Ritter, G. Christopher. CREATING WINNING TRIAL STRATEGIES AND GRAPHICS. KF8915/.Z9/R58.
Rutherglen, George. MAJOR ISSUES IN THE FEDERAL LAW OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION. 4th ed. KF3464/.R87/2004.
Torcy Newcombe, one of the Law Library Assistants you often see at the Circulation Desk, completed the ½ marathon distance of 13.1 miles in the Mercedes Marathon on
Sunday, February 13, 2005. Congratulations to Torcy - quite an accomplishment!
By Brenda Jones,
Cumberland’s Law Library provides access to HeinOnline, an electronic database of legal journal articles, federal registers, treaties, U.S. Supreme Court cases, and more.
The full text resource covers a wealth of materials in history, law, political science, business, public policy, government, and criminal justice. HeinOnline is a product of the William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
In the Law Library, access HeinOnline from any public catalog station. From the pull-down menu on the web catalog, choose HeinOnline and click on "subscribers" to enter. Alternatively, access
the database from the Law Library’s website at http://lawlib.samford.edu/research.html.
For those unfamiliar with the resource, here are ten good reasons to use HeinOnline:
1. The Cumberland Law Review is now available on HeinOnline. Coverage begins with the founding issue in 1970.
2. HeinOnline covers journal articles from the inception of each publication. Typically, legal databases like Westlaw and Lexis cover journal articles from the 1980s forward. Greatly expanding that scope,
HeinOnline provides full text searchable articles back to the 1800s. For example, the American Law Journal begins in 1808, just thirty-two years after the Declaration of Independence.
3. Hein’s PDF format is an exact duplicate of the original document and includes all charts, graphs, pictures, tables, photographs, and footnotes just as they appear in print. To illustrate, a fascinating
account of Cumberland Law School, written in 1890 by Chancellor Green, includes photographs of the campus and portraits of Cumberland’s first faculty members. 2 Green Bag 63 (1890).
4. HeinOnline includes full text copies of the Federal Register from its inception in 1936, updated presently through 1993. Unlike print or microform versions, Hein’s product is a fully searchable database
of these daily publications covering federal administrative rules, regulations, notices, executive orders, and more. The Federal Register collection also includes Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
(1977 - 2003) and legislative history of the Federal Administrative Procedure Act.
5. Use HeinOnline for quick access to all U.S. treaties and agreements, whether in-force, expired, or yet-to-be-published. Users may browse by volume or treaty number. Alternatively, search by keyword,
phrase, country, date, subject, treaty number, and more.
6. HeinOnline provides exact reproductions of Supreme Court cases in the official U.S. Reports from 1754 forward. Find cases by citation, by party name, or search the full text for keywords and phrases.
The collection also includes preliminary prints, recent slip opinions, and a guide to early Supreme Court reporters.
7. Use HeinOnline for a fully searchable collection of U.S. Attorney General opinions (1791 - 1982) and Department of Justice legal counsel opinions (1977 - 1996).
8. HeinOnline offers a uniform, user-friendly search interface. Located in the top right corner of the screen, the handy "citation navigator" allows quick retrieval of a document by volume and page number
or other criteria. Use the "collection index" to browse by title, volume, treaty number, date, and more. The "search" button displays all available search options for a particular collection.
9. Hein’s new American Bar Association library, presently containing thirteen publications, will eventually include all 97 journals published by the ABA.
10. At roughly 15 million pages so far, HeinOnline continually expands. Coming soon, look for a new module of legal classics containing landmark books like Blackstone’s Commentaries (1803) and
Kant’s Philosophy of Law (1887). Hein also plans to add a database of presidential public papers.
Ordered a Pizza Lately?
Amazon.com’s search company A9 has something new - www.a9.com Yellow Pages. When you type in a ZIP code and the word pizza, you not only get nearby pizza parlors, but pictures of the storefronts.
And using “block view” you can walk down the streets to see what else is around. Then, with a single click, you can place an Internet phone call to order your pizza!
Source: Yellow Pages with Eyes on the Prize, Posted Online at www.msnbc.msn.com (February 7, 2005).
Civil Rights in Mississippi
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi.
Prepared and maintained by the Special Collections Digital Program, a division of USM Libraries at the University of Southern Mississippi, this web site includes oral histories, manuscripts and photographs.
The web site is: www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda.
Source: Civil Rights in Mississippi, Viewed Online at www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda (February 15, 2005).
Well Known Author Dies
E. Allan Farnsworth, a Columbia Law School professor, died January 31, 2005, after a long illness. He was 76.
Mr. Farnsworth, who had earned advanced degrees in mathematics and physics at the University of Michigan and Yale University, joined the Columbia Law faculty after his own graduation from the school in 1952.
Recognized as one of the nation's foremost authorities on contracts, Mr. Farnsworth served on the U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law and represented the United States on
the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.
The Law Library has many books by Mr. Farnsworth. A popular title is Farnsworth on Contracts, 4th ed., KF801/.F365/2004/Reserve.
Source: Law Professor Dies, Posted Online at http://www.nylawyer.com
(February 1, 2005).
Alabama Judge and the Freedom of Speech
Alabama U.S. District Judge William Acker, will no longer accept Yale Law School graduates for clerkships. Acker, a graduate of Yale Law School, explained his decision in a letter to Yale’s law school dean Harold Koh.
Acker told the law school that he won’t accept its graduates because the school blocks military recruiters from campus. Faculty at Yale claimed that their rights to free speech were violated by enforcement of the
Solomon Amendment which requires schools to provide access to military recruiters or lose federal funds. Acker wrote that he was exercising the same freedom of speech in his decision.
Source: Judge Won’t Use Clerks from Yale, Posted Online at http://www.al.com (February 9, 2005).
A firewall is a program or hardware device that protects an Internet connection and blocks malicious or unwanted access. Windows XP Service Pack 2 comes with a firewall.
A firewall is necessary along with virus protection and spyware software (such as Ad-Aware and Spybot) to create the best defense.
To start the Windows firewall in XP SP2:
Click Start and then choose Control Panel.
Click the Windows Security Center in the Control Panel.
Click Windows Firewall.
Select On to use Windows Firewall. If any other firewall is used, make sure that the Windows Firewall is turned off.
There are also firewalls available for purchase from other vendors such as McAfee and Norton. For a list of third-party firewalls that will work with Windows XP:
http://www.windowsmarketplace.com.
A third-party firewall might be useful in situations where there are greater security concerns. The Windows Firewall protects the computer from unauthorized incoming connections
but not outgoing. Some third-party firewalls could protect a computer from sending data as well as receiving. It would not be necessary to use Windows Firewall if a third-party firewall is already in place.
If a hardware firewall such as a router is used, Windows Firewall or a third-party firewall program is recommended.
If Windows Firewall has been activated, a Windows Security Alert will appear the first time a program is run when the program requests network connection information. The choices are Unblock,
Keep Blocking, and Ask Me Later.
If Unblock is chosen, Windows creates an exception for that program. Keep Blocking will continue to block the program and Ask Me Later unblocks the program for that instance but will ask again
the next time the program is run.
To add a program to the Exceptions list, click on Start, Control Panel, then Security Center. Select Windows Firewall, click on the Exceptions Tab, and choose Add. A list of programs to choose from
will appear. Programs may also be deleted from the Exceptions area.
Using a firewall along with virus and spyware protection is an essential part of protecting a computer from unwanted attacks.
For more information regarding Microsoft security, go to: http://www.microsoft.com.
Or contact Grace Simms, Computer Services Librarian, via e-mail: glsimms@samford.edu or by phone: 726-2687.
The Langum Project for Historical Literature, a division of the Langum Charitable Trust, announces its book prize winners for 2004.
For American historical fiction: Seven Laurels: A Novel by Linda Busby Parker (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2004).
For American legal history and legal biography: Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge by John M. Ferren (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
The winners will receive their prizes and $1,000 honoraria in a ceremony to be held on Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 3:00 P.M. in the auditorium of the Central Branch of the Birmingham Public Library.
At the conclusion of the ceremony the Friends of the Birmingham Public Library will host a reception in the Trustees’ Room of the library. The public is cordially invited to both the awards ceremony and the reception following.
Cumberland School of Law professor David J. Langum, Sr. founded the Langum Project for Historical Literature in 2001 out of the conviction that too many historians today write only for each other, and that there is a
need to make the rich history of the American colonial and national periods accessible to the educated general public. It seeks to encourage this sort of writing by awarding two annual prizes, each in the amount of $1,000, for
the best books published by university presses in the category of historical fiction (“both excellent fiction and excellent history that to some extent delineates between the two”) and the category of American legal history or legally
related biography (“rooted in sound scholarship, accessible to the educated general reader, and with themes that touch upon matters of general concern to the American public, past or present”).
Information about the Langum Project can be found online at http://www.bplonline.org.
Source: Langum Project for Historical Literature, Press Release (January 31, 2005).
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