Law schools are catching on.  Like thousands of colleges and universities, law schools are now using Twitter to communicate with law students and the rest of the world. The central advantage of using Twitter to communicate is the immediacy of the message delivery. Using Twitter to message students can help avoid the problem of some [...]

Introduction A friend of mine attends a top 20 law school.  At the beginning of his first year this past fall, his Career Services Office (CSO) told the entire 1L class that if they wanted to be employable, they should remove themselves from social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.  That way, potential employers will [...]

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We are officially underway with Operation Legal. I’ll start off by saying I’ve got electives until Fall semester and they are Intro to Law, Personal Property, and Legal Skills. Last night was the kick off for me and we hit so many areas and I tweeted while we had class so many peeps got a [...]

This story was originally published on Real Lawyers Have Blogs. January 13, 2009 by Lisa Kennelly Rex Gradeless (@Rex7) of Social Media Law Student [LexBlog Q & A] Those on Twitter might know Rex Gradeless better as Rex7, the profuse tweeter of links on a variety of topics, many of them social media-related. He also [...]