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Bob Morse of the U.S. News & World Report posts that U.S. News is considering two changes to the rankings. One change is aimed at preventing law schools from "gaming" the rankings by admitting students with low LSAT scores into the part-time program. The other would change the way bar passage rate is calculated. The latter change would help mostly California schools. You can comment on the proposed changes.

Allison Shields has an interesting post about the evolving standards of professional and casual dress for women at the Legal Ease Blog. From the Stark County Law Library Blog .

Top Google search tips and Advanced Web Searching . From TVC .

Carolyn Elefant on Legal Blog Watch describes two tools ( Alltop - Law and LexMonitor ) to monitor legal blogs that do not rely on newsreaders such as Bloglines or Google Reader .

National Law Journal's 2008 Winning special report identifies the top "winning" lawyers in the country. Nominees for the honor had to "have at least one significant win within the past 18 months, and a history of noteworthy wins during the past several years."

This is the obligatory post about Northwestern University law school's decision to create a two-year option for a law degree. The "legal blogosphere" has been buzzing about this for a few days. The WSJ Law Blog correctly identifies the $42,672 question .

Ohio man convicted of cheating at church blackjack game Mental Disorder or Good Lawyering? Texas Justice of Peace Must Stop Paddling in Court Judge takes a bite out of millionaire pooch's fortune German court rules against woman who claimed phobia of official letters Cook accused of stealing lobster tails in his pants Man gets Air Force leave extended for White Castle Illinois man changes name to 'In God We Trust' Chase turns sour for lemonade stand robber Village re-elects dead mayor Court says military police can't have lovers

Above the Law is posting a series of open threads on career alternatives for attorneys. Yesterday (6/18) they posted about Law Librarians .

Georgetown Legal Writing Professor Kristen K. Robbins-Tiscione has written an article that discusses a survey of federal judges who were questioned about lawyers' writing skills. "Only fifty-six percent of the judges surveyed said that lawyers 'always' or 'usually' make their client's best arguments." That can't be good. From CM Law Library Blog .

Carolyn Elefant at the Legal Blog Watch links to some good advice for law firm associates.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released the Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book . This book was published in 2007, but has just been released to the general public. It includes legislation, procedures, and guidelines related to intelligence and national security. All documents in the book are unclassified.

A checklist for law student papers , written by University of Missouri-Kansas City law faculty. From Heafey Headnotes .

Retired justice O'Connor unveils video game The Truth About Justice Scalia and Sarah Jessica Parker Lengthy Trial Aborted After Jurors Played Sudoku Solo Battles Jail Sentence for Obscene Gesture 'Marry or be fired', Iranian state firm warns 7 people arrested for cheering at high school graduations

The WSJ Law Blog has an interesting post about some recent free speech developments in Canada. The post, among other things, is dicussing this recent New York Times article .

The blogs have been buzzing about this New York Times article that talks about how professors can track their "popularity" by looking at the number of times their articles are downloaded. I'm skeptical that professors actually care about this very much, but I suppose everyone likes to know that people are interested in their work.

The second annual report from the computer security company McAfee identifies the safest and most dangerous domains for users seeking to avoid spyware, viruses, and other unwanted software. This riskiest top level domain this year is ".hk" (Hong Kong); number two is ".cn" (China). From the Law Librarian Blog .

What the Summer Associate Needs to Know - an interesting article from Thomas J. Coyne in the National Law Journal (via Law.com ).

Judge Sued for Offering Paddling in Courtroom A Discovery Order for Sports Fans For Cell Phone Tirade, NY High Court Rings Up Judge Restaino Singapore Blogger Says 'Catch Me if You Can,' and They Do

A good article from Ross Guberman at the Legal Times.

The Top 10 Essential Web Sites for Litgators , from TVC Alert. Good sites.

PC World's list of the Top 100 Products of 2008 is out. Everyone likes lists. From Robert Ambrogi's LawSites .

Wisblawg has a nice review of two free citators. Bottom line: When I say citator, most people think of Shepards or KeyCite. Be warned: the citators in AltLaw and PreCYdent aren't in the same league as the two giants. But, hey, they're free and free is good - in some cases anyway.