Please Note: SLL Labor Day Holiday Hours
In observance of the Labor Day Holiday, the Social Law Library will close at 6:00PM on September 3, 2010, be closed on Monday September 6, 2010 and reopen on Tuesday September 7, 2010 at 8:00AM.
Social Law Training Judges: At the Library and On the Road
Through a series of “Legal Research Tutorials,” the Social Law Library and Flaschner Judicial Institute are helping judges throughout Massachusetts learn how to take full advantage of their unlimited, free remote access to the Social Law Library’s legal-research databases.
In 2001, the Chief Justice for Administration and Management (CJAM) issued a directive to all Trial Court judges that they should use the Social Law Library legal-research databases as their “first resort for online research, reserving expensive resources such as Westlaw and Lexis for use only as needed.” Today, as budget cuts reduce the number of law clerks and the time allotted per judge for research on the name-brand databases, both new and experienced judges in all courts are finding the Social Law Library’s databases an invaluable resource.
More Information and Photos
Photo Caption: Juvenile Court Judge Leslie A. Donahue and District Court Judge Marianne Hinkle
Upcoming! James Michael Curley—A Short Biography with Personal Reminiscences
 On Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. author William M. Bulger discusses his book James Michael Curley—A Short Biography with Personal Reminiscences.
One of the best-known Boston politicians of our times recalls the life of the controversial but beloved mayor, congressman, and governor James Michael Curley. Curley was the greatest Irish-American politician in Boston history before John F. Kennedy, who actually won Curley’s seat in Congress. . .
More info & register for this program.
This program is made possible through the generosity of the William M. Wood Foundation.
New Acquisition Highlight - Federal Land Use Law & Litigation
Attorneys who advise property owners or state and local governments about zoning and land use issues need to be aware of federal laws, regulations and policies that can affect local decisions about buildings, roads and outdoor advertising. Here is a comprehensive treatise on those issues as well as environmental and first amendment matters for the land use lawyer.
See other land use and zoning titles in the SLL collection.
Upcoming! Judge Sentences - Tales from the Bench
On Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. author Dermot Meagher discusses his book Judge Sentences - Tales from the Bench.
From the publisher — Here at last are the best of Dermot Meagher’s tales of life as a judge in Boston Municipal Court, where he presided over real-life cases rivaling the best of David E. Kelley’s The Practice, Boston Legal, and Ally McBeal. These true-to-life stories, some of which first appeared in Boston and DoubleTake magazines, showcase a writer of rare talent and humor: a Harvard-educated “man of the people,” who has seen it all yet never lost his ability to be surprised by the parade of humanity that came before his bench—from the offbeat to the curiously affecting to the downright tragic (not to mention tragicomic). . . More info & register for this program.
This program is made possible through the generosity of the William M. Wood Foundation.
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