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    The Future of E-books and Law School

    A throw down between the traditional casebook and the e-book on portability and usability.

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featuredimage The Future of E-books and Law School

Books are very important to law students. I still remember going into the bookstore before the first day of law ...

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Vote for the best Super Bowl Ad of 2010 and discuss your favorite below. Brought to you by Forbes.com. // You ...

featuredimage Update: WestlawNext Screenshots and Pricing Information

Mike Dahn, Vice President of WestlawNext Product Development, was kind enough to answer some of our questions directly: Do you know ...

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In case you didn't know, Apple launched the iPad tablet today. Here's the link. Related posts:The Future of E-books and Law School What Apple ...

featuredimage WestlawNext: It’s About Time

Update 1/28/10: Mike Dahn, Vice President of WestlawNext Product Development, was kind enough to answer some questions about availability and ...

featuredimage Twitter Categorizes Suggested Users – Omits Legal Category

Last week, Twitter announced that the Suggested Users List is now categorized for easier browsing. Instead of just a list ...

featuredimage Supreme Court Uses ‘Blog’ for the First Time

In the Supreme Court's recent opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Court used the term 'blog' on ...

featuredimage BumpTop Mac: Reinventing Your Mac Desktop

BumpTop Mac is a brand new way to look at your Mac desktop. BumpTop is a full 3D experience with smooth, ...

Attorney Gadgets

Apple iPad

In case you didn’t know, Apple launched the iPad tablet today. Here’s the link.

Courtroom Technology

iPhone Security: Protect or Prohibit?

As a law student, if my iPhone were to be stolen or misplaced and then hacked, the individual in possession of my phone would be privy to pictures of my dog sleeping, text messages telling my husband how long I’ll be in the library and a huge collection of studying music as well as the [...]

Law Office Software

Update: WestlawNext Screenshots and Pricing Information

Mike Dahn, Vice President of WestlawNext Product Development, was kind enough to answer some of our questions directly:
Do you know when WestlawNext will be available for use at law schools?
Mike Dahn: We have not finalized a law school rollout plan.  Law school students will not have access to WestlawNext at launch.  However, we will distribute trial [...]

Social Media

Social Network Review: Counsel.Net

Counsel.Net claims to be the “first name in attorney-to-attorney connections online”. Counsel.Net has an attorney chatboard, a place for new attorneys & solo practitioners, attorney marketing, and several other attorney forums.
This social network is basically a mixed bag of forums to posts legal questions, hypotheticals, job openings, and pretty much anything you want. Attorneys can, [...]

Social Networking

Social Network Review: Counsel.Net

Counsel.Net claims to be the “first name in attorney-to-attorney connections online”. Counsel.Net has an attorney chatboard, a place for new attorneys & solo practitioners, attorney marketing, and several other attorney forums.
This social network is basically a mixed bag of forums to posts legal questions, hypotheticals, job openings, and pretty much anything you want. Attorneys can, [...]

Twitter

Twitter Categorizes Suggested Users – Omits Legal Category

Last week, Twitter announced that the Suggested Users List is now categorized for easier browsing. Instead of just a list of users, people are given a list of categories with suggested users in each category. However, the list of categories does not include “Legal” or “Law” or anything similar.

It looks like lawyers and law students [...]

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Happy New Year!

From all of us at Social Media Law Student, have a safe and Happy New Year!