Moritz Legal Information Blog

The Moritz Law Library has had a few changes; our previous director, Bruce Johnson, retired in December after almost 20 years of leadership; our interim director, Mary Hamburger, ably helped us navigate the last six months; and we now welcome Sara Sampson ! Sara joined us from University of North Carolina School of Law where she was Deputy Director of the Law Library and Clinical Assistant Professor of Law. Prior to that, she was Head of Reference at the Georgetown University Law Center. Sara's directorship here is a homecoming: before working at Georgetown, she was a reference librarian here at Moritz. Welcome Sara!

By now, the Columbus, Ohio, resident with the potato salad Kickstarter campaign is legendary. But where there's money, there are interested parties. Per the New York Daily News , Mr. Brown will lose approximately 5% of all money raised as part of Kickstarter's fee. The IRS may also take a cut...perhaps as much as $10,000.

The Miranda warnings feature prominently in the 2012 film 21 Jump Street . Channing Tatum's character kicks off the whole film due to his failure to remember the four declaratory statements and a question. Slate.com briefs readers on how the warnings came to be ...the actual warnings themselves. See, " Miranda established that suspects must be advised of their Fifth Amendment rights to counsel and against self-incrimination before police questioning.   but nowhere did the Court mandate specific language for implementation." The guy responsible? An attorney with an affinity for fine art and letterpress printing. For more on this fascinating story, check out Miranda : the story of America's right to remain silent and The Miranda ruling : its past, present, and future.

The American Association of Law Libraries 107th Annual Meeting and Conference will take place July 12-15, 2014. Consequently, you may miss a few familiar faces around the law library over the next several days. The blog will also be on vacation during this time. But we hope to bring back to you new ideas to deliver great service to the law school faculty and students. See you next week!

The ABA Journal reports Toledo's may plans to ban the hiring of smokers . "Banning smokers has become common in the health-care industry and is spreading to governmental employment, Governing Magazine reported in an op-ed last year."

From beSpacific , U.S. Breweries are Booming According to Census Bureau . Columbus is helping the cause with dozens and dozens of craft breweries around the state. And it's not just craft breweries that are big business in Ohio, Anheuser-Busch has over one million square feet of space for its facility in Columbus . And where there is business, there are attorneys! Some firms have whole practice areas dedicated to the beverage industry. Interested in learning more? Check out these books in our collection: The Little Red Book of Wine Law Wine in America: Law and Policy Hospitality Law

Looking for insights into solo practice? Try reading MyShingle.com. The site has tips on starting your own practice including information you may not have considered, like the difference between your firm trademark and corporate names and whether solo practitioners are eligible for loan forgiveness . For more comprehensive guidance, check out these books in our collection: Run your firm like a business : an operations guide for the solo practitioner and small law firm Practicing law in small-town America Minding your own business : the solo and small firm lawyer's guide to a profitable practice