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Legal Research Instruction: Recent Developments

Colleagues, Greetings. I've gathered information about recent developments in legal research instruction, in a new post at Legal Informatics Blog. Comments are welcome. Happy holiday weekend, and best wishes for the new semester/quarter, Rob Continue

Added by Rob Richards on September 6, 2009 at 2:22pm — 1 Comment

Law School Admission Project & Legal Research

Colleagues, Professor Marjorie Shultz of Boalt Hall just gave me permission to distribute a report explaining the methodology used in developing the "effectiveness factors" utilized in the The Law School Admission Project: Looking Beyond the LSAT. Those factors include "Researching the Law." The report also includes a useful literature review of empirical studies that ide… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on August 17, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Susskind on The End of Lawyers

Colleagues: I've put together, over at Legal Informatics Blog, links and cites to a number of resources (including lectures, interviews, commentary, and reviews) related to Dr. Richard Susskind's book, The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (2008), which is being widely discussed by lawyers and leg… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on August 7, 2009 at 5:50pm — No Comments

Law Student Learning Styles: Boyle et al., Law Students Are Different from the General Population

Colleagues: Jim Milles recently pointed us to the following new article on SSRN, which may be of interest: Robin Boyle et al., Law Students Are Different from the General Population: Empirical Findings Regarding Learning Styles, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1416866. Abstract: "The authors conducted an empirical study comparing the learning styles of law students with young adults at other educational institutions. The law school sampl… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on July 1, 2009 at 5:12pm — No Comments

Future of Private Legal Services Market: Discussion

Jim Milles has a fine post at Out of the Jungle about the debate over the permanence of the contraction in the private legal services market. This is an important contextual issue respecting legal informatics, legal education, and law libraries. A lively debate is taken place in the comments to Jim's post… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 22, 2009 at 2:03pm — No Comments

WolframAlpha & Legal Research

Colleagues: Some of us have done some testing of legal questions on WolframAlpha this weekend; results so far are reported in the comments to this post at Legal Informatics Blog. What are your experiences with WolframAlpha and law-related questions? Please add comments to this post or join us for discussion of this topic… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 17, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Web 3.0 Presentation: Macmanus & Boutin

Colleagues: Richard Macmanus summarizes Greg Boutin's presentation on Web 3.0 at http://bit.ly/ROmgs ; both look useful and current. Rob Richards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert C. Richards, Jr., J.D.*, M.S.L.I.S., M.A. Law Librarian & Legal Information Consultant Philadelphia, PA richards1000@comcast.net Legal Informatics Blog: http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com Legal Information Systems & Legal… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 15, 2009 at 5:26pm — No Comments

Legal Informatics Blog Now Available

Colleagues: Legal Informatics Blog, offering scholarly and professional commentary on legal information systems, is now available. It's a companion site to Legal Information Systems & Legal Informatics Resources, which gathers resources on legal information systems research. We also have a Twitter feed at h… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 15, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

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