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In only eight months, the Social Media Law Student (SMLS) blog has had many successful blog posts. Below is a list of [...]

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Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools – the website

Last week I attended the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)'s annual conference. It was inspiring and educational on ...

Police and Lawyers Develop Social Networking Pages

The Illinois State Journal Register reports that police departments in Illinois are creating social networking pages to fight crime. Police Departments ...

Twitter’s 1.47% Monthly Growth Beats CNN, NY Times, ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, and BBC

Twitter...just a wacky trend...or the new gold standard for online news? (Click on graphs for more details) TWITTER.COM MONTHLY INCREASE = ...

Social Media Law Student Blog Now on Amazon Kindle

Social Media Law Student Blog is now available via subscription on the Amazon Kindle Reader. Click on the graphic ...

What Kind of Value Do You Provide?

What kind of value does your law firm provide? Are you hearing what your clients are saying? What about your ...

Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

The Center for Social Media at the School of Communication at American University (yes they already have college programs dedicated ...

LegalTech West Coast 2009

The LegalTech® West Coast 2009 Conference kicks off on June 24-25 in Los Angeles, California. Legal technology industry leaders will ...

Craigslist Bartering Chickens for Legal Services?

Missouri Lawyers Weekly reports that a Kansas City lawyer used Craigslist, a free online network, to barter for legal services. The ...

Google Docs in Plain English

Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application offered by Google. It allows users to ...

New Secure Platform for Communication Between Attorneys and Their Clients: Dialawg

Dialawg is a secure platform for various types of communication between attorneys and their clients. As email is a vulnerable ...

The First Law School Seminar Paper on Twitter: Twitter and Employment Law Issues

"The following is a seminar paper authored by Vincent Pascual on Twitter and potential Employment Law issues that employers and ...

Social Media and Your Summer Job

So, you are about to start (or already started) your summer job. Now what? What should you do with your ...

Can Blogs Influence the Supreme Court?

According to a student note in the Stanford Law Review, blogs can and eventually will influence the Supreme Court. In ...

Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools (Part 3)

I had no idea when I started whining about bad advice involving Facebook horror stories that a few months later ...

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LegalTech West Coast 2009

The LegalTech® West Coast 2009 Conference kicks off on June 24-25 in Los Angeles, California. Legal technology industry leaders will be on hand giving presentations about how new technologies are shaping the legal profession.
LegalTech® provides an in-depth look at what the technological world has in store for the legal profession and will offer an exhibit [...]

In only eight months, the Social Media Law Student (SMLS) blog has had many successful blog posts. Below is a list of our top 20 blog posts based on traffic (according to Google Analytics). Some commentary is added below for a few reasons why the post may have been so successful.
In general, all posts were [...]

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Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools – the website

Last week I attended the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)’s annual conference. It was inspiring and educational on many levels (not to mention the great food). Keynote John Palfrey from Harvard’s Berkman Center had great suggestions for law schools to collaborate rather than compete (for instance on library collections). (See liveblog archive of [...]