OnlineUniversiteis.com recently published a list of “100 Niche Search Engines Every College Student Needs“. In this list of 100, they included the following for law students: Search through all kinds of legal history and information using these tools. Everybody’s Legal Glossary: This searchable resources puts legal terms into plain English so that you can understand them. [...]

Barbri is a known frenemy (see definition here) to law students around the nation. You hate the price and the grueling schedule, but many of us would not make it to the licensed attorney stage without it. On September 17th of this year, Barbri released an iPhone app, now on version 1.1. I downloaded the [...]

We are calling law students* to contribute to this blog for the following reasons: 1 – No one knows everything about social media or legal technology. No single person is an “expert”. 2 – The law students of my generation, like those who came before them, are amazing and profound people who have a lot [...]

Willy Franzen of One Day One Job wrote an article last year that I just stumbled onto. In it, he discusses an experiment to have job-seeking college students and recent grads advertise on Facebook. Five different people underwent the experiment with mixed results. Facebook advertising is a great way to grab the attention of employers. [...]

The Trials of Law School uses YouTube to promote their film showing the various paths modern law students take through law school.  Here is a synopsis from their website and their YouTube videos: Synopsis The Trials of Law School provides a captivating and real, in depth look at eight students, with different backgrounds and expectations, [...]

In light of the fact the US News and World Report law school rankings affects, for better or for worse, how some law schools conduct themselves, controlling a law school’s message and image has become increasingly important. In order to control this message, some schools have overtly discouraged students form having any online presence.  What [...]

Almost everyone I know is now on Facebook.  That includes my family, my co-workers and so forth.  It has become difficult to manage any meaningful relationships via Facebook, let alone meet new people interested in similar things.  That is why I really like the idea of Advanced Advocates.  It is a new social networking site designed [...]

David Thomson’s new book about the future of law school is an interesting read. The book is clearly written for his fellow professors, but that did not inhibit my experience at all. Overall it is a relatively quick read. It explores several interesting topics and offers a look at how Thomson has used some of [...]

This is the first in a series of posts about my adventures in pushing my law school to get real about social media. Like other law students, I was told not to blog about law school and to be careful what I posted on that evil place called Facebook.  About a month into law school [...]

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 [...]