Moritz Legal Information Blog

You've probably noticed the Moritz Law website redesign. Have you given thought to  why the site was redesigned? Think about this: websites for organizations serve a variety of purposes, in particular meeting the needs of the organization's members as well as advertising to the public what the organization does. U.S. government websites are often like any website for an organization. They store historical information to aid that agency in its work, and they provide public-facing content to let the public (often taxpayers) know just what the agency does. In honor of Veteran's Day, here's a great example of the unique content you can find on U.S. government's websites: History of Veterans Day

For an interesting take on the ways law schools should embrace technology, check out this article from the ABA Journal.

The Little Book of Elvis Law has arrived! And who would have thought...the book is published by the American Bar Association . In fact, the ABA has a whole "Little Books of Law" series . Still puzzling over an employment path? Why not try writing for this series?

As a law clerk, National Adoption Day was the best day in court. Everyone looked forward to it, including the two judges who presided most and who were both adoptees themselves. Getting in the spirit a bit early, one judge dressed as a fairy godmother for Halloween to sign off on adoption orders. Though adoptions may sometimes be fraught with conflicting emotion, they are often the happiest reason to be in court. Care to work as an adoption attorney? Brush up with some of our best adoption law books and resources .

Almost six-and-a-half years ago, a student at Virginia Tech showed up on campus and shot numerous people in classrooms and a dorm, leaving thirty-three dead. Litigation ensued, and the university was found liable in a wrongful death suit. On appeal, the verdict was overturned on the basis that the school could not have foreseen the harm. "Last year a Montgomery County Circuit Court jury awarded each family $4 million, an amount that was reduced to $100,000 each by a state cap on damages," according to The Richmond Times-Dispatch .

Love Pandora for finding music? Try BookLamp , home of the Book Genome Project. To Kill a Mockingbird inspired you to go to law school? BookLamp gives you almost fifty comparables with varying degrees of similar elements to To Kill a Mockingbird so you can make your next reading selection. (And we probably have many of these titles in our collection here at Moritz or we can get you a copy within just a few days!) BookLamp can also be used for buying gifts: if you know your mom LOVES Stephen King's It , you can easily search for similar titles making holiday shopping a breeze.

Mere days ago, we posted about ongoing litigation related to the vague admission fee policy of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now, an update : Clarifying four decades of legal vagueness, the Bloomberg administration has amended New York City’s lease with the Metropolitan Museum of Art , spelling out that the Met is allowed to charge a suggested admission fee, as the museum has done since 1971 under an agreement with the city. The amendment adds that fees for special exhibitions may also be charged, a widespread practice in the art world but something the museum decided against in the 1980s. According to the New York Times, It is unclear what the amended lease will mean for the lawsuits — one of which says that the museum deceives its visitors and is guilty of fraud, and the other a class-action suit seeking recompense for people who claim that they were duped by the policy. Arnold M. Weiss, a lawyer for the plaintiffs in both cases, was highly critical of the city and t