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• The Happy Lawyer » Tarlton Library News
  Read this book and you will know whether you are more likely to be a happy lawyer at age 30 or age 60, why you can tell a lot about a firm from looking at its walls and windows, whether a 10 percent raise or a new office with a view does more for your happiness, and whether the happiness prospects are better in large or small firms.
• Immigrants on Trains Near Northern Border Detained - NYTimes.com
  "The Lake Shore Limited runs between Chicago and New York City without crossing the Canadian border. But when it stops at Amtrak stations in western New York State, armed Border Patrol agents routinely board the train, question passengers about their citizenship and take away noncitizens who cannot produce satisfactory immigration papers." If you haven't already said "This is how it begins" here's another reason to.
• G20 First Appearance Court | Adam's Law Blog
  On Monday, August 23, 2010, over 300 individuals charged during Toronto’s G20, nearly two months prior, had their first appearances at the courthouse at 2201 Finch Ave. West in North York. Although I had not been retained by any of those whom I assisted with bail on a pro-bono basis, I decided to head over to court to see what was happening.
• Dear Law Students, Secondary sources are like cheeseburgers. You like those, right? | rethinck by Jason Wilson | Law
  This came to me the other day, sitting in my car, thinking about how law students don’t know anything about secondary sources and just insist (said disdainfully, and as if I had dirt in my mouth) on looking for answers on Westlaw or Lexis as if it will just come to them if they ask.
• Lawyers and your money: Curbing those long, lucrative hours | The Economist
  Evan Chesler, the presiding partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, one of the world’s largest law firms, wrote an article in 2009 called “Kill the Billable Hour”. It has not been killed, but he is confident that clients will continue to ask for alternatives.
• Rare Sharing of Data Led to Results on Alzheimer’s | NYTimes.com
  In 2003, a group of scientists and executives from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the drug and medical-imaging industries, universities and nonprofit groups joined in a project that experts say had no precedent: a collaborative effort to find the biological markers that show the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in the human brain.
• Harvard Law librarian is organist for Boston Red Sox | Harvard Magazine Sep-Oct 2010
  “Music, libraries, and baseball: those are three things I’ve loved since I was very young.”
• Franken goes ballistic on Verizon, Google, Comcast, and NBCU | ars technica
  "I believe that net neutrality is the First Amendment issue of our time," declared Democratic Senator Al Franken at Thursday's public hearing on the Internet, held in his home state of Minnesota. Unless it's freedom of religion," he added, "which, until last week, I thought we had kind of worked out."
• Leaving big law behind:The many frustrations that cause well-paid lawyers to hang out their own shingles. - By Jill Priluck - Slate Magazine
• The Web Is Dead? A Debate | Magazine
  Perhaps the best piece in recent memory on the future of the web, competition of the closed-Apps market, and maturity of Internet content delivery. - SM

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