CFR Color Selection for 2015!

https://www.federalregister.gov/blog/2014/09/cfr-color-selection-for-2015

Five questions with... Phillips Lytle LLP‘s Timothy Hoover

http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/blog/buffalo-law-journal/2014/10/five-questions-with-phillips-lytle-llp-s-timothy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20industry_14%20%28Industry%20Legal%20Services%29&page=all

LLAGNY - SLA NY Joint Education Series Project Management

News of interest from SLA NY and LLAGNY:

Mark your calendars - SLA NY and LLAGNY are pleased

to present SESSION ONE of the Fall Project  Management Series:

Introduction to
Project Management

Wednesday, October 29,  8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

$40.00 Members and $60.00 for Non-Members (until Oct. 15)

$50.00 Members and $75.00 for Non-Members (after Oct. 15)

Register no later than October 24 at

http://slanypublications.org/event-registration/?ee=9

PayPal or Credit Card payment is required. No checks or payment at the door.

Building on your professional experience and organizational skills as an information professional, this session will introduce you to concepts and best practices that you can immediately apply to any project. The session will provide an overview of the methodology endorsed by the Project Management Institute, the professional organization that sets the standards for the globally recognized PMP (Project Management Professional) certification.

This session will be presented by Mimi B. Rosenfeld, MBA, PMP - Mimi is a project manager who specializes in

leading cross-functional teams with a focus on process, documentation and training.

Mimi holds Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute and an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University. She currently serves as Program Manager of Outreach Communications for the Project Management Institute, New York City Chapter (PMINYC).

Location: All sessions will be held at The SUNY Global Center - 116 East 55^th Street.

Food will be served at all sessions!

Discount: Session 1

Registrations received by October 15 will receive a 20% discount.

Cancellation for Session 1 must be received no later than October 27 or no refund will be granted.

Session 2, Project Management Tools, will be held on

November 24.

Session 3, Project Management Case Studies, will be held on December 18.

There is a discounted price to attend all three fall sessions in the series:
$100 for Members and $175 for Non-Members. For details and registration, click here.

Hosts:  Donna Severino, SLA NY; Elaine Eagan, Amy Carr, and Steve Lastres, LLAGNY

               

Please contact Donna Severino for any questions related to this event.

Caselaw is Set Free, What Next?

Caselaw is Set Free, What Next?

Monday, October 20, 2014 | 2:41 PM

The next article in our 10th Anniversary Series is by Thomas Bruce. He is the director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell. He co-founded the LII in 1992. Today, its legal collections are used widely and have inspired the Free Access to Law Movement which has helped citizens worldwide learn about the laws that govern them. Thomas is also the author of Cello, first Web browser for Microsoft Windows. -- Anurag Acharya

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Caselaw is Set Free, What Next?

Thomas Bruce, Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell

http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2014/10/caselaw-is-set-free-what-next.html

Grants & Awards for ALLUNY's Annual Meeting

Don't forget to submit applications for the following grants. Also if you would like to nominate someone for the Katie M. Deveau Spirit Award please do so by the deadline.

The deadline for both is Friday September 26.

Ernest H. Breuer Memorial Grant
One grant in the amount of $250 will be awarded to a member to attend the ALLUNY annual meeting. The application may be submitted online or printed and mailed.

Library Studies Student Grant
One grant in the amount of $150 may be awarded to a library science/studies student to attend the ALLUNY annual meeting. The application may be submitted online or printed and mailed.

Katie M. Deveau Spirit Award
The Katie M. Deveau Spirit Award honors those individuals or groups who perform volunteer service for the greater good without regard for personal gain and who inspire others through their community service. Eligible nominees for this award, which is presented annually at the fall conference, include members of ALLUNY in good standing who volunteer in ANY community service organization OR any individuals or groups (not necessarily ALLUNY members) who make volunteer contributions directly benefitting ALLUNY. The nomination form may be submitted online or printed and mailed.

Questions?
Contact Jean-Paul Vivian, Grants & Scholarship Chair, email: jvivian@courts.state.ny.us

ALLUNY Annual Meeting Registration Now Open

I am very excited to finally invite you all to register for the Annual Meeting, to be held Oct. 17-19 at the Crowne Plaza in Syracuse. Details about the meeting and registration forms are available at the ALLUNY webpage: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/alluny/am2014/

This year we have amazing speakers lined up, a great venue with a wonderful view of the City of Syracuse, and the option for online registration and payment. Here at the Syracuse College of Law we are particularly excited to be able to offer tours of our brand new facilities!

I look forward to seeing you all in Syracuse to celebrate ALLUNY's diamond anniversary year conference, the theme of which will be "ALLUNY: A Foot in the Past, an Eye to the Future."

-- Christine

Christine Demetros
ALLUNY Vice President and Education Chair
Syracuse University College of Law
(315)443-9531
cmdemetr@law.syr.edu

Recent landmark trucking case from WDNY - Graves Amendment

“A landmark decision affecting the trucking industry nationally was recently made in U.S. Federal Court, the Western District of New York.

For the first time, the Graves Amendment, a 9-year-old federal statute protecting car rental and truck companies from liability in operator accidents, was rejected from being used in a civil action against the vehicle’s owner.”

http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/blog/buffalo-law-journal/2014/08/landmark-trucking-case-decided-in-buffalo.html?page=all

You can find a copy of the decision on PACER or Google Scholar. The case Stratton v. Wallace, No. 11-CV-74-A(HKS).

United States District Court, W.D. New York. July 31, 2014.