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The 2006 American Lawyer's Summer Associate Survey is now online. Read the American Lawyer's article, The Real World According to Summer Associates , available at Law.com . The Survey's National Rankings and Results by City are linked to from this article (free registration is required). From Law Librarian Blog .

The Ohio Supreme Court recently announced a new option for tracking in pending Supreme Court cases: To access the Court's Case Activity Notification Service, simply subscribe to the case tracking system through the Court's Web site ( www.supremecourtofohio.gov/rss/subscription ) using an e-mail address and creating a password. Searching is simple – by case name, case number or more generally by the year the case was filed. Once subscribers have identified the case they want to track, they choose whether to be notified of any case activity, such as a new filing, through e-mail or RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary), or both. For more information about RSS feeds, visit www.supremecourtofohio.gov/RSS . In addition to the new case notification service, digital images of case documents soon will be available on the Court's Web site through case dockets. An icon next to a docket entry will denote that the corresponding digital document is available to view as

The Georgetown Law Library has created a bibiliography related to Robert M. Gates, the Secretary of Defense nominee. The bibliography includes documents about the nominee as well as documents created by the nominee in the course of his professional work. Georgetown has digitized the Senate Report on Mr. Gates' nomination for CIA Director in 1991 and plans to digitize more documents relating to the nomination. The bibliograpy will be updated throughout the nomination process as additional materials become available.

Buckeyes win, 42-39!

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"In the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, the world was faced with a challenge-how to seek justice for an almost unimaginable scale of criminal behavior." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has created a website, The Nuremberg Trials and Their Legacy , that focuses on the The International Military Tribunal, held at Nuremberg, Germany, at the end of World War II. The exhibit features a photo collection, images of artifacts, audio clips relating to testimony, and related material. From Librarians' Internet Index .

The folks at the University of Minnesota Law Library brought the OneLook Reverse Dictionary to our attention. From LexLibris : A working reverse dictionary (hosted by Onelook.com ) is one of the most useful sites out there. We've all had those moments when we know there's a word for some concept, but we don't know what it is. We need something more than a thesaurus, because we don't know an equivalent word. Onelook.com's reverse dictionary helps. You can even enter wildcards, if you know what part of the word looks like. The site is still a beta version, but it looks like a promising new reference tool for all types of writing.