Sources welcomes Omar Ha-Redeye

January 30, 2009

Sources welcomes a new member: Omar Ha-Redeye.

Omar Ha-Redeye is frequently interviewed by the media on subjects relating to health, security, law, politics, social media, disasters, minority rights and multiculturalism.

His educational background is in nuclear medicine technology, health management, and corporate communications. He is currently completing his degree in law at the University of Western Ontario.

For more information contact:
Omar Ha-Redeye
Phone: 226-448-6627
Email: omar@lawiscool.com
Website: www.omarha-redeye.com

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The January term ended today.

Classes resume after a week.

Pace Law Library in White Plains, New York has one of the most extensive environmental law collections in the U.S.  They provide materials, instruction and research assistance to the Pace Law School community.

But as part of their outreach activities they also operate a blog, where they picked up on a recent post:

Law is Cool has a post Law Students Can Network With Lawyers, discussing Facebook, Jurafide, LawLink, and one of the latest Lawyrs, which is a platform intended to be specifically for lawyers and law students.

The ability to dialogue and network with legal professionals from 128 countries (although mostly American and British) is fascinating. They obviously have groups like other social networks, often comprised of alumni or interests, and a legal news page. There’s also a page for law firms. Lawyrs has a publications page.

Read the full review of this new platform called Lawyrs, including pros and cons, right here. Do you have any preferred social/professional networking tools that you’d like to recommend? Do you have any experience with any of the tools mentioned above? Feel free to share.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff today announced he will require the Conservative government to accept mandatory reporting requirements in order for the budget to be adopted. The first comprehensive report on progress on the economy will be required by March 26, 2009.

From the economy to the environment, from Afghanistan to trade, a public forum at Western Law will explore what the new Obama administration means for Canada/U.S. relations.

A panel discussion with:
Prof. Don Abelson (Centre for American Studies)
Prof. Michael Perry (Emory University)
Prof. Chi Carmody (Western Law)
Sue Barnes (Former Liberal M.P.)

Moderator: Prof. Michael Lynk (Western Law)

Wednesday January 28, 2009
Moot Court Room, Faculty of Law
University of Western Ontario

Doug Cornelius of KM Space and the Real Estate Group at Goodwin Procter LLP, picked on on the post reviewing Lawyrs.

He also shares some of his own experiences,

Omar Ha-Redeye writes on slaw.ca about two new social networks for lawyers: Lawyrs Looking for Alternative Social Networks and Social Network on Jurafide for American Clients…

Omar signed up on Lawyrs but finds that it is missing the ability to pull in your contacts and see who you know is in the site. A fatal flaw.

I did not bother signing up for either one. Legal OnRamp seems to be the dominant site in the world of social networking in the legal field. I previously wrote about my bad experiences with LawLink and ABA’s LegallyMinded. I still hold out some hope for Martindale Hubbell Connected. So, I am skeptical that either of these two companies with no apparent connection to the US legal market can provide an interesting online networking platform.

The editors from the Parkhurst Exchange picked up on the First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference series of posts.

Short news bites
Want to read about the First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference, held January 17 at the University of Toronto? Notes on two sessions are available online. [Law is Cool]

In his first interview in the Arab world, Obama states the following:

“…start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating — in the past on some of these issues — and we don’t always know all the factors that are involved. So let’s listen.”
“Ultimately, we cannot tell either the Israelis or the Palestinians what’s best for them. They’re going to have to make some decisions. But I do believe that the moment is ripe for both sides to realize that the path that they are on is one that is not going to result in prosperity and security for their people. And that instead, it’s time to return to the negotiating table.”
al Qaida leaders and Osama bin Laden “seem nervous” now that they don’t have George W. Bush as a recruiting tool
“There’s no actions that they’ve taken [i.e., terrorists] that say a child in the Muslim world is getting a better education because of them, or has better health care because of them.”
“We cannot paint with a broad brush a faith as a consequence of the violence that is done in that faith’s name. I cannot respect terrorist organizations that would kill innocent civilians and we will hunt them down. But to the broader Muslim world what we are going to be offering is a hand of friendship.”
“I have Muslim members of my family.  I have lived in Muslim countries.”

Full text of the interview here.

Dennis Jansen of the University of Minnesota Law blogs on No. 634.  He  picked up on an amusing story posted on Twitter by Omar Ha-Redeye,

Oh my goodness. From a tweet from Omar Ha-Redeye:

SAN DIEGO — A mistrial was declared Monday when a home-invasion robbery suspect smeared human feces on his attorney’s face then threw more at the jury.

Weusi McGowan, 37, was upset because San Diego Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Fraser refused to remove Deputy Alternate Public Defender Jeffrey Martin from the case, prosecutor Christopher Lawson said.

At the mid-morning break, McGowan produced a plastic baggie filled with fecal matter and spread it on Martin’s hair and face, then flung the excrement toward the jury box, hitting the briefcase of juror No. 9 but missing the juror himself.

And the ringer:

“That juror didn’t even see it coming,” Lawson said.

The rest of the story is on 10news.com.

At least this time it’s law-related.

See the review on Slaw.