Joshua Auriemma

Got a Kindle (or the App), Prime, and Need a Hornbook? 80% Off TODAY on Amazon

by Joshua Auriemma January 10, 2012 Featured
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Looks like Amazon is having a fire sale (no pun intended) on hornbooks today. Come on, little buddy, there’s no shame in picking yourself up a well-organized outline on basic federal income tax. We all know your professor is just winging it anyway. You don’t need a Kindle for this sale — it’ll deliver to [...]

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Legal Geekery Roundup for 12.2.2011

by Joshua Auriemma December 2, 2011 News
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The Copyright Office recently sought submissions for new exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The EFF yesterday filed a comment with the Office seeking an extension of last year’s exceptions for phones and remix videos, and urged that the Office expand its protection to the jailbreaking of smartphones, electronic tablets, and game consoles. Hypothetically, [...]

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Episode 30: FBI Blows Cases So You Can’t See the Specs on its Little Black Box

by Joshua Auriemma November 14, 2011 Podcasts
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Introduction Josh grills Laura on what it’s like to be a real lawyer, and we find out what she’s been doing with herself. Josh went to Mexico and worked on a law review article pertaining to the First Sale Doctrine. Legal Geekery has been tweaked a bit, and now features Matthew Butterick’s Equity font! You [...]

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Legal Geekery Roundup for 11.11.2011

by Joshua Auriemma November 11, 2011 News
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Justice Stevens defends his Kelo opinion while simultaneously criticizing Justice O’Connor for alleged inconsistencies in her dissenting opinion. If you play video games on your computer, it’s likely that your personal information, and maybe your credit card, were compromised in the recent Steam hacking. Lifehacker has some tips on what you should do if you [...]

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Legal Geekery Roundup for 11.09.2011

by Joshua Auriemma November 9, 2011 News

Wired begins licensing photographs taken by its staff with Creative Commons licenses. Adobe announces that it will be officially killing off Flash Player for mobile devices. Forces iOS competitors to lose the snarky site redirects. Stanford CIS reviews the Digital Advertising Alliance’s recently announced supplementary set of self-regularory principles for third parties on the web. [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Think of Virtual Property As Real Property

by Joshua Auriemma November 7, 2011 Legal
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I was inspired to write this post following Josh Fenton‘s recent appearance on TWiL. Denise Howell asked Mr. Fenton whether he believed that existing laws should be interpreted to encompass the internet and applied accordingly, or whether new laws should be drafted and previous laws updated in lieu of the omnipresence of the internet. The [...]

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A Law Student’s Preliminary Thoughts on the Lexis Advance User Experience

by Joshua Auriemma November 5, 2011 Reviews

This is a republished guest post by Scott Kuhagen. Scott is a third year law student at Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia. You can find his blog at scottkuhagen.com. I’ve been tinkering some with Lexis Advance, the updated version of the Lexis legal database, and thought I’d offer some initial thoughts on [...]

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Typography for Lawyers Brings Legal Geekery a New Design

by Joshua Auriemma November 3, 2011 Reviews
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Meet Matthew Butterick’s Equity font. You should be reading this article right now in said font unless I’ve messed something up, or you’re using a seriously outdated browser. I had the privilege of beta testing the font for Matthew, and I’m a fan (obviously, or I wouldn’t have embedded it into this blog). I used [...]

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A Review of Fastcase’s Cloud Printing Suite, Part II: The Word Ribbon

by Joshua Auriemma November 2, 2011 Reviews
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We got our hands on a new feature from the Fastcase Cloud Printing Suite recently that we’ve been looking forward to sharing with our readers. In our last review of the Fastcase Cloud Printing Suite, I mentioned that I was looking forward to experiencing the Cloud Printing integration with Microsoft Word. This feature takes your [...]

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