Scribes Legal Writing Program at The John Marshall Law School Friday, March 23, 2012 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Room 1200 Scribes—The American Society of Legal Writers—will hold a free, two-hour legal writing workshop for law students and legal writing faculty from all Chicago-area law schools. This fast-paced and entertaining program will benefit law review…
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Are you confident in your ability to conduct effective legal research in your summer position? Do you feel like you have forgotten much of what you learned about research in LS? Law librarians Jamie Sommer and Tom Keefe offer these research refreshers to help you feel more certain about your ability to conduct effective legal…
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Have you ever compared yourself to a hip hop artist as you sit hunched over your laptop writing a memo or brief? No? Then you should definitely join Professor Kim Chanbonpin for the next installment of the Scholars & Students series In her recent article Legal Writing, the Remix: Plagiarism and Hip Hop Ethics, Prof….
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Professor Timothy O’Neill will be the second speaker in the library’s Scholars & Students series. You may know Prof. O’Neill for his classes and writings on criminal law and procedure, but in his most recent article he explores a different side of human behavior. In Law and “The Argumentative Theory” he looks at the work…
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Are you interested in learning more about the iPad? The Academic Technology Department is presenting a series of workshops exploring how the iPad can be used in both the courtroom and the classroom. The second workshop in the series will cover task management with apps like Dragon Dictation, Evernote, and Mindjet. This session will take…
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Scholars and Students with Prof. Allen Kamp The Louis L. Biro Law Library invites you to join us for a lunchtime conversation with Professor Kamp as part of our Scholars & Students series. We hope you will take this opportunity to get to know favorite professors in an informal setting and to learn what they…
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The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is offering a FREE online course called Topics in Digital Law Practice. The course will run for 9 weeks beginning on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:00. This course is designed to provide an overview of the changes that are occurring in the practice of law today, especially with…
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Are you interested in learning more about the iPad? The Library will be presenting a series of workshops exploring how the iPad can be used in both the courtroom and the classroom. The first workshop will cover “cloud” computing, and how services like iCloud, Dropbox, and SugarSync can be used to manage documents and…
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Lori Andrews, internationally acclaimed legal pioneer in the areas of modern ethics and privacy, discusses and signs her latest book, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy. This will take place at the Harold Washington Library Center Cindy Pritzker Auditorium (400 S. State Street)…
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Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald’s coffee case. It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of America’s legal system, but is that a fair rendition of the…
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