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February 17, 2004

Class Action Securities Fraud Litigation

Looking for a place to go for information on federal class action securities fraud litigation? Connect to Stanford Law School’s Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, which features complaints, briefs, filings, and other litigation-related materials.

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on February 17, 2004 - 12:00 am

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February 15, 2004

Questions from the Bench

By Douglas S. Lavine

Written by a trial judge, this guide includes a discussion of general principles related to advocacy as well as basic approaches, themes and “rules” to consider when answering questions from the bench.

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The First Counsel

By Brad Meltzer

Aficionados of the hit TV show The West Wing who are suffering through holiday reruns will jump right into Brad Meltzer's third novel (after The Tenth Justice and Dead Even), which takes readers into the White House office of the president's own law firm and introduces a first daughter whose complex psychological problems jump-start this fast-paced thriller.

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The Lawyer’s Guide To Fact Finding On The Internet

By Carole A. Levitt, Mark E. Rosch

Written especially for legal professionals, this newly revised and expanded edition is a complete, hands-on guide to the best sites, secrets, and shortcuts for conducting efficient research on the Web.

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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Digital Content Coordinator
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The Trial

By Robert Whitlow

In The Trial, small-town attorney Kent (”Mac”) MacClain, in despair over the death of his wife and two sons, is about to commit suicide. Then the phone rings. The beautiful heiress and daughter of the most powerful man in Dennison Springs, has been found dead at the bottom of a ravine in her yellow porshe. The accused killer, Peter Thomason, needs a lawyer.

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

By Jared Diamond

A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Diamond argues that societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, developed religion — as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war — and then adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures.

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February 2, 2004

With Apologies to Hormel Foods

Need to keep up with anti-spam legislation? Visit Spam Laws, which covers the U.S., European Union, and other countries such as Canada and Russia. The site contains links to relevant cases and articles, too.