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Legal Researchers Rejoice! Google Scholar Provides Access to U.S. Case Law
Tuesday, 17 Nov, 2009 – 14:20 | 3 Comments
Legal Researchers Rejoice! Google Scholar Provides Access to U.S. Case Law

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 …

Laptops in the Classroom: Learning Tool or Time Waster?
Tuesday, 7 Jul, 2009 – 18:33 | 13 Comments
Laptops in the Classroom: Learning Tool or Time Waster?

One of the more popular questions on the various law school tours I attended while choosing a law school concerned the use of laptops in class. Whenever I had the good fortune to sit in …

Why Law Students Should Adopt Twitter En Masse
Friday, 1 May, 2009 – 17:03 | 3 Comments
Why Law Students Should Adopt Twitter En Masse

I was something of a late Twitter adopter on my Legal Geekery persona.  I didn’t really understand how it could benefit me professionally.  Now I urge all law students to get a Twitter account as …

The Calm Before the Storm
Friday, 4 Jul, 2008 – 14:13 | One Comment
The Calm Before the Storm

The relaxing period of the summer has officially ended.
In the next few weeks, this is my schedule:

40 hrs/week researching
Interview for a fellowship in Philly on Friday
Loyola Patent Job Fair in Chicago (10 interviews, maybe more)
Write …

Law Research v. Science Research
Monday, 16 Jun, 2008 – 11:26 | One Comment
Law Research v. Science Research

I enjoyed physics research a lot: it involved a minimal amount of endlessly crawling through books. Legal research on the other hand, is a lot of “see, that guy said what I want to say, …

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