Here are a few of the new materials the Law Library has acquired this summer. Please stop by and browse the New Books display for more interesting titles!
Legal Ethics and Social Media : A Practitioner’s Handbook by Jan L. Jacobowitz, John G. Browning
Call Number: KF390.5.C6J33 2017
While technology positively impacts the legal profession and improves workflows, a lawyer must also master social media skills and know that all existing rules of ethics still apply while navigating the brave new world of status updates, tweets, Instagram followers, and YouTube uploads. Written to assist lawyers navigate the often slippery slope of digital communication such as Twitter, Facebook, and more, this pertinent book offers necessary guidance for one’s ethical responsibilities in social media.
Effectively Staffing Your Law Firm by Jennifer J. Rose (Ed.)
Call Number: KF318.E34 2017
There are a lot of things you don’t learn in law school—how to staff your law firm is one of them. This book provides everything you need to know about hiring (and firing) employees straight from the mouths of the experts. If you own your own firm, this book is a must-have for your firm’s future success.
Chief Crisis Officer : Structure and Leadership for Effective Communications Response by James F. Haggerty
Call Number: HD49.H34 2017
An organization’s crisis response involves public communications response: ensuring the general public, media, employees and other stakeholders understand (1) what has happened, and (2) what the organization is doing about it. Chief Crisis Officer explains why every company and organization needs to identify a CCO, who will take the lead in preparing the organization for crisis communications response, and responding effectively when the inevitable crisis hits. Using a mixture of real life examples, strategies, and tactics, the book breaks down various forms of crises into their component parts and provides both a strategic approach and the proper tools to enable the Chief Crisis Officer to assemble his or her team, and respond–effectively and efficiently–when the crisis occurs.
Environmental Information : Research, Access & Environmental Decisionmaking by Sarah Lamdan
Call number: GE30.L36 2017
In an ideal world, environmental information would be easy to find and use. But the current state of environmental information access requires additional knowledge and expertise — the kind that this book provides. Designed for legal practitioners, librarians, journalists, advocates, students, and researchers, this book helps environmental information seekers locate, obtain, and make sense of environmental records, documents, and pieces of data. It contains tips and concepts that expand beyond legal research or general research and into the broader realm of information-gathering. The book discusses environmental research tactics and resources and it also covers methods for obtaining information from nontraditional sources like government offices and open meetings.
A Tragic Fate : Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art by Nicholas M. O’Donnell
Call Number: K5219.O36 2017
The organized theft of fine art by Nazi Germany has captivated worldwide attention in the last twenty years. As much as any other topic arising out of World War Two, stolen art has proven to be an issue that simply will not go away. Newly found works of art pit survivors and their heirs against museums, foreign nations, and even their own family members. These stories are enduring because they speak to one of the core tragedies of the Nazi era: how a nation at the pinnacle of fine art and culture spawned a legalized culture of theft and plunder. A Tragic Fate is the first book to seriously address the legal and ethical rules that have dictated the results of restitution claims between competing claimants to the same works of art. It provides a history of Art and Culture in German-occupied Europe, an introduction to the most significant collections in Europe to be targeted by the Nazis, and a narrative of the efforts to reclaim looted artwork in the decades following the Holocaust through profiles of some of the art world’s most famous and influential restitution cases.