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The Courts of Nova Scotia Move to Twitter

CCCT-CCTJ — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:06:41 +0000

Are you comfortable with RSS feeds? Do you follow Twitter? Where do you expect to find your court information feeds? Well, the Courts of Nova Scotia has announced their transition to Twitter as the official platform for their news, notices to the Bar and court decisions.

Read more on their website: Courts of Nova Scotia Enter The “Twitterverse”. Also from Slaw, Twitter in the Court! Twitter in the Court! by David Bilinsky.

White Paper on Primary Law Authentication (US)

Clearinghouse IWG — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:18:32 +0000

From the Legal Research Plus post

The white paper also frames the legal landscape and background of authentication for primary legal materials in electronic format, and provides context and points to applicable resources. The aim of this collective effort is to promote the understanding of costs related to authentication and invite further discussion on the issue.”

White paper is located here. The link for reference is: http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/docs_pdfs/CA_Authentication_WhitePaper_Dec2011.pdf

United States Courts Opinions on FDSYS

Clearinghouse IWG — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:40:18 +0000

The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) has announced a pilot project to make lower Federal court opinions available through FDsys. My thanks to Sarah Glassmeyer for her Law Librarian Blog post alerting me to this development in the US.

The Federal announcement is located here.

Association of Reporting Judicial Decisions Annual Meeting

Clearinghouse IWG — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:57:08 +0000

The annual meeting of the Association of Reporting Judicial Decisions is being held in Boston, August 3-8, 2011. For more information, visit their website.

“The ARJD’s purpose is to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the reporting of judicial decisions. The Association also serves as a forum for communication and cooperation among official Reporters and others in the legal publishing profession.”

SEO Ranking 101

Clearinghouse IWG — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:25:11 +0000

To find out more about search engine optimization you will want to read this very user friendly article Overiew – SEO ranking factors. This will provide court website architects with food for thought on how court websites are designed. Specifically it relates to Principle 5 Content organization & search and Recommendation 4 Search, navigation & taxonomies of the Canadian Court web site guidelines.

Check out their cool infographic: “SEO periodical” table; to view the periodical table and description click here here.. While there, browset Search Engine Land by Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman and a host of other content providers for all things related to the search engine industry.

Hat tip to Dan Pinnington for this lead.

Typography For Lawyers

Clearinghouse IWG — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:44:13 +0000

Typography For Lawyers
While the website is a promotion for the Author’s book, there are a number of ideas here for effective use of styles in preparing legal documents. Interesting before and after samples too.

Free Access to US Federal Court Decisions via www.fdsys.gov

Clearinghouse IWG — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:06:34 +0000

Piloting is beginning on providing free public access to US Federal Court opinions through the GPO’s Federal Digital System. Federal Courts can leverage the robust search tools at www.fdsys.gov as well as the GPO’s partnerships with libraries across the US under the Federal Depository Library Program.

PDF press release is available here.