Friday, July 17, 2009

McKinney's we hardly knew ye....

Check out William Manz's article, "Researching Superseded New York Statutes" in the June 2009 issue of the New York State Bar Association Journal (81(5):46-49). Although the article is primarily about searching those elusive superseded statutes, the first half provides a brief history of the Edward Thompson Co. and the man for whom our statutes are named, William Mark McKinney.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Five Things Lawyers Should Know About Social Media

Nicole Black, ALLUNY Spring Institute and Annual Meeting speaker, has a recent article posted at LLRX, the Law Librarians Resource Exchange:


http://www.llrx.com/features/lawyersandsocialmedia.htm

Competitive Intelligence Using Twitter

If you're not already a reader of 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, do check them out. Here's a recent post about using Twitter to find company employees:

http://www.geeklawblog.com/2009/07/competitive-intelligence-in-web-20.html