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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…

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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…

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I was sick recently and had to miss some days of work. This meant that my email inbox was filling up. Even as we move into the holiday-end-of-semester-holiday period, I can see more than 50 emails a day. A handful of those messages matter—colleagues on a shared project, staff with specific…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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I’ve been at the law school for over a year now and we have monthly faculty assemblies outside of the summer months. It has been interesting to see people’s presentation styles in what is the largest regular meeting I attend. It’s an audience of 50 odd people—faculty and staff—and that’s a…

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I have been noticing my guard dropping in my interactions at work. I first noticed it after a class, when the students had brought up a topic and I had ended up reaching back into my own personal history for a story. I’ve felt it a bit with interactions with some…

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I will be taking my research and writing students on a tour of the law library soon. It’ll include a walk through our collection floors and past my office, as well as other nooks and crannies. I don’t keep any diplomas on the wall which, while I’m not defensive about it,…

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I’ve been in my current role just over a year and it is the second one where we had a bit of process change around money. In my previous role, the CFO died about 5 months after I started and we found that knowledge of some of the library’s processes died…