Law student + web & media background = belief that legal services should be affordable, accessible, and online.
Today I wrote about Thomson Reuter’s new legal research product, WestlawNext, over at Social Media Law Student. I really liked using it, since it is pretty much everything I think an online research tool should be. However, it is yet to be seen how accessible (pricing-, and support-wise) this awesome improvement will be, to law schools or practitioners.
The Association of American Law Schools’ annual conference is happening now in New Orleans. I’m in Iowa, and it’s cold. While I had no idea where my legal education would take me when I entered law school in 2008, my mind was filled inspiring opportunities after seeing what was happening on the tech side of legal education at the 2009 CALI conference. I met a lot of great people last summer, and have stayed in touch with many online. Most of them, and many more progressive and aggressive educators, librarians and technicians are in Louisiana this week. Wish I were there. I’ll be following #aals and #aals2010 on Twitter. Any attendees are invited to send some warm weather, great music, fabulous food, and/or job opportunities my way! :)