| The Little Book of Coffee Law |
 By Carol RobertsonThis book examines coffee, from it’s origins to its current status in our daily lives as an essential part of Western European and American culture. You’ll discover how law and the trade in coffee have evolved together including cases involving free trade, contracts in the global coffee economy, insurance and commodities futures in the growth of coffee imports, and the commercialization of the coffee business. Library Record • Borrow it • More Titles |
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Comments (0)| Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier |
 By Carolyn Elefant, Nicole BlackThe world of legal marketing has changed with the rise of social media sites such as Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook. Law firms are seeking their companies attention with tweets, videos, blog posts, pictures, and online content. Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier provides you with a practical approach to using social media in your law practice that will enable you to identify social media platforms and tools that fit your practice and implement them efficiently, and ethically. Library Record • Borrow it • More Titles |
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| Concern Expressed Over Reliability of Medical Apps for Smartphones |
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An article in the LA Times reports that some doctors are expressing concern about the reliability of the information provided by some of the almost 6,000 health-related smartphone applications that are available. They are also concerned that a consumer might follow an app’s guidance and not visit his physician when he should, for example, monitoring his own blood pressure himself instead of having it checked by his physician. Presently, there is not much vetting of a health-related app. As Dr. Joseph Kim, a physician and founder of medicalsmartphones.com, said “Type ‘diabetes’ into an app-store search engine, you can find a huge list of apps, but you have no way of knowing which ones are good and which you should avoid”… He recommends consulting a healthcare professional that you rust about any apps that you are considering adding to your smartphone. Choosing an app is akin to deciding whether or not a health-related Internet resource is reputable or not. In my Medical Resources on the Internet class, I list 5 factors to consider in evaluating a website: accuracy, authority, objectivity, coverage, and currency. Likewise, when choosing an app, you want to know who produced the app (accuracy and authority), whether or not there is any bias that might affect how and what information is available (objectivity), whether or not the information is fairly comprehensive (coverage), and how up-to-date the information is (currency). For example, the University of Maryland Medical Center, produced a medical encyclopedia app for the iPhone, which I recommended in a previous blog . It passes the 5 factor test. Another way to check the reliability of a health-related app, as the LA Times article states, is to check for to see if anyone has written a review on it, but be aware of who is writing the review - is it a doctor or another health professional, an unbiased user, or the producer of the app. The article links to a Consumer Reports article that lists a few dozen health apps that it considers reliable. The author of the LA Times article also lists a few apps that she has tried and likes. Among them are: American Heart Association’s Pocket First Aid and CPR (available for iPhone, Android) Lose It! (calorie tracker; iPhone) iTriage (medical symptoms, locate nearby hospitals; iPhone, Android, Blackberry) As anyone with a smartphone knows, the applications market is an exploding market. The 6,000 health-related apps statistic came from a March 2010 mobilehealthnews review. I am sure there are a lot more out there now, 5 months later, and this amount can only grow exponentially. Many will be “junky”, some will be very useful and reliable. Let the downloader beware. |
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| Choosing the Language of Transnational Deals: Practicalities, Policy and Law Reform |
 By Patrick Del Duca The book integrates investigations of national legal systems, the European Union, the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa, and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, to illustrate the new institutitional dynamics through which the languages of transnational commerce and finance are being defined. Library Record • Borrow it • More Titles |
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| Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges |
 By Antonin Scalia, Bryan A. GarnerIn their professional lives, courtroom lawyers must do two things well: speak persuasively and write persuasively. In this noteworthy book, two noted legal writers present every important idea about judicial persuasion. The book covers the essentials of sound legal reasoning, explains the art of brief writing, especially what to include and what to omit, so that you can induce the judge to focus closely on your arguments. Finally, they show what it takes to succeed in oral argument. Library Record • Borrow it • More Titles |
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| Your Rights in the Workplace |
 By Barbara Kate Repa The 9th edition is completely updated to provide the latest legislation and case law that affects employees in all 50 states, including changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), new rules on COBRA continuation of health insurance, and the new Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). Library Record • Borrow it • More Titles |
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| Introduction to Law Firm Practice |
 By Michael Downey Whether you’re a law student interested in working in a law firm or a young lawyer who would like to gain a better understanding of how your law firm operates, this guide will provide you with the “ins” and “outs” you need to help you navigate your way through a law firm and excel in such a firm. Library Record • Borrow it • More Titles |
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| English Doctors Say One in Ten Medical Records Contain Errors |
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One of my first blogs discussed concerns that English family physicians have with the National Health Service’s National Programme for IT. Nearly two thirds of those polled said that they would boycott the patient health record database because they were not convinced that their patients’ health information would be secure online. Now it turns out that there is also an accuracy problem with the electronic health record (EHR) system. The Daily Mail Online reports that ten percent of EHRs on a pilot version of the system have not been updated to reflect changes in the patients’ medical conditions, which includes changes in their medications or additional allergies that they may have acquired. The level of errors was revealed at a meeting of managers of the pilot project in Birmingham. Dr. Robert Morley, a doctor in Birmingham and a member of the British Medical Association’s (BMA) General Practitioners (GP) Committee, expressed his concern – “Across the country we have been told that around two million records have been uploaded. If that rate of inaccuracies is repeated nationally – and we have no reason to see why not – we’re talking about 200,000 patients.” The BMA called on the Ministers to suspend the project, a £600 million ($915.54 million in US dollars according to the Google currency converter) “scheme” called the Spine, wherein a doctor uploads his patient’s Summary Care Record onto the national database which is then accessible by other doctors across the country, if they need medical information about that patient in an emergency situation. If this Record has not been updated to reflect a change in medication, a reaction to a medication, or a new allergy, the patient could suffer serious health consequences. The GP committee wants the Spine suspended immediately until the safety issues have been “fully investigated and satisfactorily resolved”. The accuracy problem is felt to stem from either the doctor’s Smartcard not working properly because of IT problems with the scheme and/or the doctor not being able to authenticate his Smartcard because he is working “out of hours”. (The Smartcard is what allows a doctor to access, post to and update a patient’s EHR.) As we develop our own National Health Information Technology system here in the U.S., we should look to England to learn from their negative (AND positive!) experiences with their system. |
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| The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law |
 By Nancy Levit , Douglas O. LinderThe Happy Lawyer examines the causes of dissatisfaction among lawyers, and then charts possible paths to happier and more fulfilling careers in law. It shows how maximizing our chances for achieving happiness depends on understanding our own personality types, values, strengths, and interests. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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| A Legal Guide to Doing Business in the Asia-Pacific |
 By Albert Vincent Y. Yu Chang, Andrew H. Thorson, editorsThis book is a primer for those who do not typically focus on business transactions in Asia, but whose business strategies take or have recently taken them to the Asia-Pacific region. It provides an overview of the legal frameworks that will govern business relationships in many of the important countries in the region. The contributing authors offer domestic law expertise, on-the-ground experience, and/or a global perspective developed from the experience of advising foreign companies in doing business in particular markets in the Asia-Pacific region. Library Record • Borrow it • More Titles |
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