Dan wrote yesterday about what to do if hackers steal your online accounts. As a companion to that, Yahoo!Canada has an article from Real Simple magazine entitled Scams Even you Could Fall For – And How to Avoid Them. 

It talks about things like phony gift card offers, mails that look like they come from your bank, sellers of fake items like event tickets, and fake charities. It also suggests some resources to use for checking to see if things are legit. Sometimes just doing a Google or Bing search will ferret out if something is a common scam. . . . [more]

Although duty-bound to report on the Ark Group seminar on Legal Project Management held last week in Chicago (led by Stephen Levy of Lexician and Patrick Lamb of the Valorem Law Group) — which I will do shortly — I will instead first post a SLAW travel tip that will highly recommend a visit to the iconic Farnsworth House about 1 hour outside of Chicago in Plano, Illinois (and yes, if you bear with me, there are several law-related components to this travel story, if only slight).

To hear about or see pictures of the Farnsworth House does not . . . [more]

Like many of my North American colleagues, I keep up with new law journal articles by subscribing to alerts from Current Law Journal Content (CLJC), the free table of contents service published by the Washington & Lee School of Law Library and the University of Texas Tarlton Law Library. Particular characteristics of certain of the commercially published law journals indexed in CLJC have recently puzzled me: the practices of these journals seem out of step with today’s norms for distributing metadata and content of scholarly and professional articles. Here’s what I’ve seen:

• Many of the articles in these

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Earlier today I tweeted about a great article on the New York Times tech blog What to Do If Hackers Steal Your Online Accounts.

In hindsight, I think the advice in the article is very practical and relevant to just about everyone, thus making it worth sharing via a SLAW post with a far wider audience than just those that follow me on Twitter.

Over the years I have received more than few panicked calls from lawyers that have had their email accounts hacked, and more recently, from a lawyer that lost control of his Facebook page. Email and . . . [more]

The Canadian Encyclopedia is 25 years old (plus one month). Wow! It seems like it wasn’t that long ago that my parents drove to the post office to pick up our copy of this 3 volume set.

There is a nice history of the development and release of the work which has evolved and is now a free, bilingual, fully searchable online resource.

The full text of The Canadian Encyclopedia and its related resources has been made available online by the Historica Foundation as a public service since 1999. Since its publication in book form in 1985, The Canadian Encyclopedia

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Groups against anti-piracy companies and law firms who allege heavy-handed tactics have launched Denial of Service Attacks against law firms and their clients.

Outsourcing deals usually involve very intense and lengthy negotiation between supplier and customer team members. They spend months or year(s) together in planning, drafting and negotiating the agreement before the deal gets implemented or executed. There are at least two review processes that should take place shortly after an outsourcing deal is finalized. The first one is the contract handover process which provides an opportunity for the deal team to pass on the knowledge to the delivery and implementation team so that they can run with the project. The second review is the deal review or lesson learned session to . . . [more]

This week in biotech was pretty mellow, fellow denizens (and residents) of Slaw.

Health Canada is , saying that personal test kits are “neither prohibited by law, nor subject to federal regulation.” This is in contrast to the U.S., where regulators have been inclined to treat the tests as regulated medical devices.

Endo Pharmaceuticals bought generics company Qualitest this week, demonstrating just how chill they are with mixing generics and innovative products. The blurring of lines between innovators and generics is part of a general re-alignment of constiuencies in the pharma industry that will impact how products are developed . . . [more]

The Khan Academy represents a new way to learn. It’s a YouTube-based video library consisting of over 1,800 videos on topics ranging from math, science, the humanities and other topics. Sal Khan, an MIT graduate, Harvard MBA and ex-hedge fund manager, singlehandedly delivers each of the lessons. His videos have more than 22 million views and are viewed more than 70,000 times per day – more than the combined courseware provided by both MIT and Stanford. For an idea of what a typical lesson looks like, take a look at Khan’s lessons on DNA or solving linear equations.

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[Under the Québec Civil Code, an instalment sale is a sale on credit by which the seller reserves ownership of the property until full payment of the sale price. Even though a debate has been going on as to whether this constitutes a security, one should keep in mind that the seller does not have any hypothecary rights. As owner, he does not need any such right to repossess the sold property in case of default. Paradoxically however, in instances where the seller wishes to reclaim the object of the sale from the buyer in default, the Québec RPMRR demands . . . [more]

Equal access to a civil and family justice system that can uphold rights and fairly and effectively resolve disputes is a fundamental and far-reaching component of democratic societies. It influences our lives every day via contracts and credit situations, the ownership and distribution of property, family relationships and their breakdown, personal injury, benefit entitlements, human rights, and various corporate arrangements.

At the most basic level, the civil justice system exists to provide people with access to knowledge about their rights, and if necessary to a means of enforcing them (Civil Justice Advisory Group, 2005, p.20).

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Last week when I wrote about Students and the New Personal Learning Environments, the topic of students now contacting experts directly came up. One major component of students’ Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is the Personal Learning Network (PLN).

The new social networking tools allow students to more easily find, connect and interact with experts and other students from around the world learning about the same topics. Educator Wendy Drexler, who presented last week’s video, wrote and produced this Common Craft-inspired video a year earlier (December 2008):

Asking others about what they know and looking for expertise within our . . . [more]