Law schools, generally speaking, have two products: new lawyers and legal scholarship. While some people are skeptical about the value of legal scholarship, I tend to believe that there are at least
How Open and Free are US Law Journals?
Reasons to Care About Open and Free Law
As someone that’s pretty much devoted their professional life to open and free information and tools, it’s sometimes hard for me to answer the question “why should I care?” when explaining the open law movement to people. I mean, it just seems so obvious that law should
What is Access to Justice?
A few years ago I was listening to Dan Lear speak about something related to changing face of the legal profession, and he said that he didn’t like the phrase “access to justice” because people think about the word justice and they think huge
Thinking Outloud: What is a Lawyer? Who is an Attorney?
Yesterday, the initial speaker list for Clio Cloud Conference was announced and yours truly was one of the ones listed. Granted, I’ve developed sort of a Jimmy
What’s the Catch with Catchlines?
Outsourcing state law publication to a commercial entity isn’t inherently bad or a guarantee that access to the information will be limited. It does, however, complicate matters because it can mix copyrightable material into state created legal information that is not copyrightable. Related
What Do We Mean When We Say #Altlaw and #Newlaw
I’ve made my third attempt at mapping out the various forms and shapes of meaning for when someone is talking about New Law or Alt Law. I added in virtual law firms, which I cannot believe I forgot since that was one of my first exposures to the changing world of legal practice due to technology.
Finding the Law – Ohio Edition
Before you can know what the law is, you have to know where the law is. Sure, there’s myriad databases and publications available for any given corpus of laws, but what if you want “the official” version of the law? That should be pretty easy to determine