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I crossed the border into the U.S. from Canada with my American wife in mid March. It seemed pretty normal, even given the extra paperwork we were doing: car import, dog import. I’m a green card
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How to Prepare a Book
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I’ve signed a contract to write a book. I’m excited but also a bit daunted. It will be my third book and it is one I have wanted to write for most of my career. As
The End of the Remittance Man
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About 6 years ago, I interviewed for a job in the U.S. I had come to the conclusion that, as our kids were aging out of the house, it was time for us to start planning
A Problem in the Legal Profession
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Is working with lawyers more likely than other fields to result with colleagues being impacted by scandals? I wouldn’t have thought so but now I’m not sure. The CEO of a former workplace—who hired me to
Fear of Information Access
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One long-term challenge for law library decision-makers is the position legal publishers take on their pricing. They incorporate confidentiality clauses in their contracts to prohibit sharing of pricing information. So, when I wrote about my decision
The Bar as an Obstacle
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I was delighted to see the ABA Journal name Joan Howarth and Deborah Jones Merritt two of their 2025 Legal Rebels. I’ve already mentioned Prof. Howarth’s book—Shaping the Bar—and will recommend that you
Small Changes for the Same Access
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My first discussion about equitable access at my current role happened during my interview. I was talking with some students, one of whom had hustled for the interview from work and frequently used the law library
The Plague of Document Formats
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I was downloading a government form the other day and it told me that I would need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Umm, I don’t think so. Adobe is a corporation whose tools I avoid like the
Split the Difference
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One of the interesting things about my current role is that it is two part-time roles. When I was hired, the role required a library director 49% of the time and a faculty member for the
First Steps in Learning Management
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The semester started last week and I have been building out my course materials in our online learning management system (LMS). Our university uses Blackboard but I expect that users of Thomson Reuter’s TWEN or Blackboard’s