Moritz Legal Information Blog

See Slate's interactive diagram showing who was involved in the Administration's high-profile crimes and misdemeanors.

Two librarians from Stanford Law School, J. Paul Lomio and Erika V. Wayne, have published their study analyzes law librarians opinions of LexisNexis and Westlaw. Bottom Line: law librarians prefer Westlaw, by a lot. Read the study to find out why. From WisBlawg .

BeSpacific has this post on Google's new election video search gadget, which transcribes the text of political videos into searchable, indexed text.

Law Librarian Blog has this post about (and links to) a code of best practices for use of online video.

Legal Research Plus reports that The University of Hong Kong Digital Initiatives Department has posted videos of past international moot court competitions held at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Oral arguments are available here for Jessup International Law Moot, LawAsia Moot, and the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot. Dates of coverage are 1984 to 2007.

JD Supra , beta version, is a web site for legal professionals to create a public profile and submit their work product to share with others -- hence, the "Give Content. Get Noticed" subtitle to the site. The site is free to use, and looks pro and easy to use. While it's not clear how much content currently exists, you can be sure that it takes users to create the content. So give it a try.

The Columbus Dispatch Online reports that the the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission has completed a report suggesting changes to Ohio's criminal sentencing statutes. The changes would reduce the Ohio Revised Code by more than half a million words -- roughly the size of Tolstoy's War and Peace . The proposed changes are intended to make the statutes more understandable to judges, lawyers, and citizens.