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Mary Sexton at Heafey Headnotes writes about a recent Smithsonian article discussing the digitization project, Proceedings of the Old Bailey . The "Old Bailey" was London's felony court. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is a "A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court." More details are available at Heafey Headnotes .

Transcripts of the recent Republican and Democratic presidential debates are available at CNN.com.

The WSJ Law Blog has an interesting interview with Major General Jack Rives, the U.S. Air Force's top uniformed attorney for the Judge Advocate General.

Bonnie Shucha from WisBlawg is reporting that the 2007 CALI Legal Education Podcast survey results are available. CALI surveyed law students, between March and May of 2007, who took courses in which faculty had podcast lectures as part of the Legal Education Podcasting Project .

Robert Ambrogi and Carolyn Elefant are discussing today's launch of Avvo . Avvo is a site that promises to, eventually, rate every lawyer in the country. Currently, the system has rankings for lawyers from Arizona, California, D.C., Georgia, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. I searched the system for lawyers that I know, and I was puzzled by many of the results. I get the feeling that lawyers rated highly by Avvo are, in fact, likely to be fine atttoneys. However, I also get the sense that many fine attorneys will not be ranked highly by Avvo due to imperfections in the system's ranking criteria. I admire the effort and believe that the public would greatly benefit from an accurate rating of attorneys, but I think it's incredibly difficult to accurately rate lawyers. I think Robert Ambrogi sums up my thoughts, "I would worry that Avvo cannot live up to its promise, that plenty of well-qualified, hard-working lawyers will not get a fair s