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Lawyers as Peacemakers: Practicing Holistic, Problem-Solving Law

From the ABA Web Store: 

Law is an adversarial business--it can be difficult to find ways of successfully practicing while also providing balance and well-being to your clients and yourself. Lawyers as Peacemakers can teach you new ways of finding satisfaction in your job and providing comprehensive, solution-focused services to clients; sometimes it's not about winning, it's about finding the best possible answer for everyone involved. These practices focus on a more holistic, humanistic, solution-based approach to resolving legal problems, an approach that many clients want and need:

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Posted by Jon Lutz

Operation of wireless microphones in the 700 MHz band prohibited after June 12, 2010

Users of wireless mics in the 700 MHz band will need to quit using them by June 12, 2010.  Here's more:

Certain wireless microphones have operated in frequencies that are needed for public safety. When these microphones were first designed, the frequencies they used were in between the frequencies that television stations used to broadcast television programs. With the completion of the digital television (DTV) transition on June 12, 2009, television stations no longer use the frequencies between 698 and 806 MHz (the 700 MHz Band) for broadcast. These frequencies are now being used by public safety entities (such as police, fire and emergency services) and by commercial providers of wireless services (such as wireless broadband services).

Read more here.

Posted by Jon Lutz

Apple Overtakes Microsoft in Market Capitalization

From Bloomberg Businessweek:

By 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading, Apple’s market value was at $222.1 billion, higher than Microsoft’s $219.2 billion. That made Apple the most valuable technology firm in the world. It’s also the second-largest U.S. stock by market value, behind oil company Exxon Mobil Corp., valued at $278.6 billion on the New York Stock Exchange.

Read the whole article here.

Posted by Jon Lutz

FSU Law Professor Annino's study cited by U.S. Supreme Court

A study conducted by Florida State University College of Law Professor Paolo Annino and the school’s Public  Interest Law Center was cited repeatedly by members of the United States Supreme Court in a landmark decision issued Monday, May 17.

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Posted by Jon Lutz

FSU Mobile Catalog

FSU's online library catalog is now mobile.  Try it on your cell phone here:

http://fsu.catalog.fcla.edu/fs.jsp or if your phone has a QR Code reader scan the code:

 

Posted by Jon Lutz