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I am coming towards the end of my book project. I am proofing the pages — which is kind of fun, a bit like seeing a movie trailer before it comes out, the words finally constrained by proper page layout — and thinking about the index. It seems common for the author to be responsible for…
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I am about one-third of the way through the first run of my law practice technology course. It has been very useful as I am writing the teaching manual for my coursebook (coming out in about 6-8 weeks) and so I’m able to battle test some of the manual’s content. So far, the students…
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The chairman of the American law firm, Paul Weiss &c, resigned after his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein became known. It’s hardly surprising that the first law firm to put its business model before its professional legal ethics during the second Trump Administration was led by someone with questionable personal connections. The legal profession…
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We are over a quarter of the way through the initial semester of my law practice technology class. Talk about building an airplane while flying it. My book has provided the skeleton and now I’m figuring out what can be accomplished within a 26-hour semester. In order to keep it practical—because otherwise, what’s the point?—we’re going…
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Another year, another change in legal information. The AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) did a nice write up of American Lawyer Media’s strategic changes. It is not the first legal publisher to (a) center its content exclusively on its own platform nor (b) to create all-or-nothing content pricing. As I look at…
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The semester is over. All going well, my grading will be done by the time this post appears. I am looking forward to the student evaluations, which I made a very pointed pitch to have them complete. It is the second skills-oriented class I have taught and reinforced for me how much focusing on effort matters.
Continue Reading Æ is for Effort

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I posted recently about how, despite there being a great opportunity, blogs seem to remain a niche information source. I mentioned the LawProfs network, which hosted a couple of blogs I followed (Academic Success, and so on), as coming to the end of its life. I had reached out to one of the blogs to…
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The University is moving from Anthology’s Blackboard learning management system to Instructure’s Canvas. It looks like it’s just in the nick of time. Our full cut over isn’t until fall 2026 but, both because I’m the person responsible for our instructional tech team and because I’m teaching in the spring, I figured I’d start to…
Continue Reading Dog Fooding the LMS

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I had a sales pitch from a program inside Elsevier’s SSRN unit. The idea was to create a Research Paper Series that showcases the law school’s scholarship. The Dean pitched the cold call over to me and so I followed up. I was interested to see that part of the pitch relied on Cloudflare firewalling scrapers.
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I had to laugh to myself when a journal editor said that it was all they could do to avoid an AI-only volume. We were on a panel discussing artificial intelligence in law school and I felt their pain. Who wants to read anything about AI any more? Haven’t we all had enough? At the same…
Continue Reading Artificial Intelligence is a Gift