July 2019
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We are over a quarter of the way through the initial semester of my law practice technology class. Talk about building an airplane while flying it. My book has provided the skeleton and now I’m figuring
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Another year, another change in legal information. The AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) did a nice write up of American Lawyer Media’s strategic changes. It is not the first legal publisher to
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Someone posted a long thread to a micro blogging site I am on about the self-hosted library. I am not going to link to it because it’s well-meaning and also not a one-off. These posts appear
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It is a new year according to people who follow the Gregorian tradition. Increasingly, I have neglected or ignored the change from December 31 to January 1. It may be age as much as anything—I
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The semester is over. All going well, my grading will be done by the time this post appears. I am looking forward to the student evaluations, which I made a very pointed pitch to have them
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I was sick recently and had to miss some days of work. This meant that my email inbox was filling up. Even as we move into the holiday-end-of-semester-holiday period, I can see more than 50 emails
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I posted recently about how, despite there being a great opportunity, blogs seem to remain a niche information source. I mentioned the LawProfs network, which hosted a couple of blogs I followed (Academic Success, and
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The University is moving from Anthology’s Blackboard learning management system to Instructure’s Canvas. It looks like it’s just in the nick of time. Our full cut over isn’t until fall 2026 but, both because I’m
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I had a sales pitch from a program inside Elsevier’s SSRN unit. The idea was to create a Research Paper Series that showcases the law school’s scholarship. The Dean pitched the cold call over to me
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I had to laugh to myself when a journal editor said that it was all they could do to avoid an AI-only volume. We were on a panel discussing artificial intelligence in law school and I
