Archive for Legal Literacy

Open Source Legal Education: Groklaw’s Relentless Community

Pamela Jones and the hordes of relentless keyboard kommandoes have been clicking up a storm in these waning days of the SCO v. IBM litigation. They have just posted a re-working of what PJ calls "IBM’s Greatest Hits" and Groklaw’s "Magnum Opus". It’s titled … Declaration of Todd M. Shaughnessy with Unsealed or Redacted Exhibits […]

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Future of Legal Education and Law Practice: Convergence Will Stay Ahead of Content

This the second in a series that riffs off Rob Reynolds insightful post at Xplanazine titled "Five Laws of Product Development for Education in the 21st Century. Here is Part One: We No Longer Know How They Want To Know. 2. Convergence Will Stay Ahead of Content Here’s a quote from the Reynold’s post… "…Every […]

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Future of Legal Education and Law Practice: We No Longer Know How They Want To Know

Rob Reynolds over at Xplanazine has a great post called "The Five Laws of Product Development for Education in the 21st Century" that I would like to use to riff on legal education and law practice. 1. We No Longer Know How They Want To Know Legal Education and Law Practice have had an electronic […]

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LII Launches Wex

Received an email this morning from my friend Tom Bruce announcing the immeadiate availability of Wex, a collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopedia built on the MediaWiki platform. Here’s a bit from the Wex FAQ: What is Wex? WEX is a collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopedia. It is intended for a broad audience of people we […]

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