Law School

End User Advice for Law School Finals, Podcast 6A

by Laura Bergus December 12, 2009 Law School

Josh and Laura discuss law school finals: taking the tests, exam software, the pros and cons of hand-writing essays, and much more. Join us in our temporary formatless format — you know you want a break from studying.

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More Tales from the 1L Underbelly

by Christopher Wright November 19, 2009 Law School

A post in which Chris talks for a long time about Midterms, Study Groups, Outlines, and the large amounts of Drama in law school.

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Future You Will Be Smarter than Present You

by Laura Bergus November 19, 2009 Podcasts

Fair use, smartphones, and whether or not you can break the BigLaw hierarchy.

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Legal Researchers Rejoice! Google Scholar Provides Access to U.S. Case Law

by Sean McGilvray November 17, 2009 Legal

It’s official: All you budding legal scholars out there have a powerful new research tool, and it comes from Google. In a move that probably takes it off the Christmas card mailing list of Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw, Google has given its research portal Google Scholar the capability to search through American case law. The official [...]

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It’s Not Defamation Unless It’s False

by Laura Bergus October 23, 2009 Legal

Introduction – Outlining course material? Or not. Laura prefers baking. – The continuing saga of the Shepard Fairey case. – Celebrate Pro Bono Week, Oct. 25-31 – Josh auditions for trial ad. Sadly, neither singing nor dancing is required. Incoming search terms:defamation podcastdefamation hyposmarter poland

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Kindling for the Legal E-Book Fire

by Jon Bartelson October 17, 2009 Geekery

The wake of my gloomy report on the status of legal e-books seems surprisingly upbeat this week: it seems that West has released nearly 30 of its titles for electronic download on the Amazon Kindle. A press release issued last week gives the nod to “law students, law school faculty and legal professionals who are increasingly using new [...]

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Scalia: Lawyers Do Nothing Productive for Society

by Sean McGilvray October 2, 2009 Legal

Everyone’s favorite (or at least most quotable) Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia is once again making the headlines with his delightfully grouchy take on the legal profession. When asked by a CSPAN reporter about the quality of lawyers who appear before him, Scalia gave a complimentary answer, affirming the high caliber of the lawyers he [...]

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Copyright Propaganda, Facebook Spying, and Lawbrarians

by Joshua Auriemma September 23, 2009 Podcasts

Introductory Stuff Laura’s not on a journal and isn’t doing OCI, and that’s why she’s still sane Federal clerkship interviews are crazy pants Incoming search terms:facebook character and fitnessfacebook propaganda

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Tales from the 1L Underbelly

by Christopher Wright August 24, 2009 Advice

Greetings Legal Geeks, it’s been far too long since I updated so you may have forgotten who I am.  Well here’s a quick reminder, my name is Chris, I’m a 1L, now I must go read for 27 hours, kthanksbye. Okay in all seriousness I am a 1L who is going through the law school [...]

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