Jessica is currently a student at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago seeking her joint JD/LLM in IT & Privacy Law. Jessica is also an active member in the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and the Latino Law Student Association. She previously worked for the National Law Review as a legal research intern.
Jessica graduated cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin with an honors degree in Government and a minor in Spanish and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While in her undergraduate studies, Jessica had the opportunity to study abroad in Santander, Spain where she refined her Spanish skills and developed a new appreciation for social media and the internet as a tool for communication. Jessica began developing a greater knowledge of social media through her position as an IT Specialist and while working at Apple, Inc. Since building her first website in 2001 and writing her first blog post in 2005, Jessica has maintained a connection with her family and friends throughout the world through social media and sees social media as an invaluable tool for bridging the gap between economic, political, cultural and educational barriers.
When I worked at Apple the number one thing people would call or come into the store complaining about was how their screen on their iPhone was broken and how their hard drive crashed and they thought they’d lost all their music! I don’t have a solution for a broken iPhone screen, but I do [...]
How Lawyers View Death Death is always a morbid topic, but we’re mortal beings and it’s better to discuss this topic sooner rather than later. As law students we are quite detached from death because we are trained to think of death in legal terms infused with logic and exempt from pathos. In law school, [...]
1. “I need more than 140 characters.” 2. “Have you checked out my legal blog?” 3. #ilta09 #techshow #getalife #legalrebels #lma 4. “I’m a thought leader.” 5. “I was the first social media lawyer expert guru. Have you read my book?” 6. “I usually don’t follow the first night but for you I’ll make an [...]
Legal Marketing Done Different Have you ever looked for an attorney? Did you open the yellow pages? Phone a friend? Google Search it? Looking for an attorney can be an overwhelming experience because there are so many choices. There are a dozens of listings for lawyers in the yellow books and in online search results. [...]
Ever seen this image? Does it make you sad? It makes me sad too. Unfortunately, we’re probably going to be seeing a lot more of it very soon. Three weeks ago Veoh, an online video site similar to YouTube, won a suit against Universal Music claiming they had no actual knowledge that users of their [...]
Are you a content hoarder? Do you love to check updates for your favorite blogs and news sources every single second of the day? Did you integrate your RSS feed to your phone? It’s okay…we do it too. We’re multi-taskers too. We can’t sit still for very long without thinking 8 things we should be [...]
The Example Case For whatever reason, Hollywood and the Music Industry just love to tell us how we should all live our lives. Britney Spears practiced Kabbalah, then she got a tattoo? Jessica Simpson waited until marriage, now she’s divorced and has lots of boyfriends? Oh, I could go on and on. It’s one thing [...]
A lot of people don’t know that Google Images has some pretty cool advanced search options. One of which is the ability to search for images labeled for reuse, commercial reuse, reuse with modification and commercial reuse with modification. I made this super quick tutorial to help bloggers, content creators, YouTube directors, etc. who are [...]
What is Behavioral Advertising? Behavioral Advertising is when advertisers use information gathered from cookies placed on a user’s website and information gathered from user’s public profiles to target a user with a specific advertisement. Numerous websites sell their user’s public information or place cookies on user’s computers to track users and their buying behavior. Advertisers [...]
I’m a new aggregator, RSS feed reader junkie. I cannot get enough of the stuff I love. So today when Google quietly announced Google Fast Flip – I was a bit skeptical. In reality, it’s really amazing! Here’s what Google has said: “Today we’re adding a new experiment to Google Labs: Google Fast Flip, accessible [...]
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