THE FOUR CORNERS
A Publication of the Sol Blatt Jr. Law Library Charleston School of Law
Allison Kaiser Jones, Editor
April 2017 Welcome Kathleen “Katie” Brown and Marisa Henthorn
Welcome New Staff………………1
Links We Like…2 As most of you know by now, Paula Tejeda and Melissa Strickland left the Law On the Shelves...3 Library in March. Paula is now enjoying her
retirement and 8 grandchildren. Melissa is What is New from working as a Reference Librarian at LSU, Wexis and which puts her closer to her family in Bloomberg……..4 Mississippi and Texas. To help staff these
positions we have hired Kathleen “Katie” App of the Brown as the Deputy Director for the Law Month……………5 Library. Katie has a JD from Seattle
University and a MS(LIS) from Drexel. She Faculty has served on AALL's Executive Board and has experience with teaching, Achievements….6 budgeting, collection development, library services, and personnel. Her
research interests include Intellectual Property, International Foreign Thank you………7 and Comparative Law, Legal Technology, and Storytelling in the
Law/Oral Advocacy. During Maymester, Katie will be teaching Advanced
Legal Research, and she will follow that by teaching the Art of Lawyering
this summer. Her office is located upstairs in the library, room 212.
Another new addition to the Law Library is Marisa Henthorn. Marisa
recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College where she concentrated
in Art History. She is working as our Circulation Manager and TWEN Administrator on a temporary basis as she applies to graduate school. If you need assistance with TWEN, please contact Marisa at [email protected] or x2421. Marisa’s office is in the library workroom, room 113.
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Links We Like Lisa Smith-Butler, Associate Dean for Information Resources and Associate Professor of Law
For cheaper alternatives to expensive student textbooks, consider digital alternatives at: CALI’s eLangdell Charta Course Clause 8 Publishing H2O Classroom Tools Law School Café’s Alternative Publishing Models for Cost Conscious Professors Semaphore Press
Want to take notes, annotate, share, and highlight? Consider: Annotary Diigo EverNote Liner Slideshare Zotero
Tools for teaching and publishing include: Camtasia DropBox FlippingBook Go Animate Google Hangouts Institute for Law School Teaching and Learning Vine Washington and Lee’s Annual Law Journals: Submissions & Rankings Wordpress
Tools for law students include: Law Tool Box LexisNexis Courtroom Cast Powered by Courtroom View Network Neota Logic
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Programs integrating the practice of law with legal education, business development, and technology include: Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Law Without Walls Legal Design Lab
AALS, ABA Standards, NCBE (National Conference of Bar Examiners), LOD, LSAC, SALT & other acronyms can be found at: AALS (American Association of Law Schools), including Directory of Law Teachers ABA (American Bar Association) and Standards for Approval of Law Schools National Conference of Bar Examiners and Bar Admission Guide and Statistics LOD (Learning Outcomes Database) LSAC (Law School Admissions Council) and Data SALT (Society of American Law Teachers) and Salary Survey
Want to keep up with current events and information? Check out: Brexit Jurist Law 360 Law.com The Barrister o Articles Worth Reading o Carolina Case Summaries Check these sites out!
On the Shelves Allison Jones, Systems Librarian
Teaching Law Online by Jennifer Camero Call Number: KF282.5 .C37 2015
In Teaching Law Online, Jennifer Camero details all of the steps necessary to create a successful online legal education course. From providing insight into understanding the ABA’s standards on distance education to discussing distance education’s impact on the tenure-track professor, Camero covers all of the “issues, technologies, and tools related to teaching law online.”3 Camero also includes a comprehensive bibliography of additional resources to consult which address this exciting topic. If you are interested in reviewing this resource, please contact Allison Jones at [email protected].
3 Jennifer Camero, Teaching Law Online, Lake Murray, Fl: Vandeplas Publishig, LLC, 2015, back cover.
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What is New from Westlaw, Lexis, and Bloomberg? Kathleen “Katie” Brown, Deputy Director, Sol Blatt Jr. Law Library
Westlaw:
Research Recommendations Westlaw® • See legal-issue patterns in your document interactions during your research session • Find additional relevant documents and Key Numbers recommended from West’s editorial tools and common usage patterns • Easily access the stored results in your History
Westlaw Answers • Get specific answers to common types of legal questions • Click on links to authoritative court decisions • View questions appearing in type-ahead display, with the answers appearing above your search results
Snapshots • Access information quickly on: – Legal professionals: attorneys, judges, and experts – Companies – Select popular statutes • Click on links to more detailed information in Profiler, Company Investigator, and Statutes
Folder Analysis • Identify the legal issues present through automatic analysis of cases in a folder • View additional cases recommended to you • See a visual representation of issues • Navigate documents by issue
LexisAdvnced:
Search Term Maps Data visualization is added to assist in more efficient color coded case law evaluation. The human brain processes visual cues much faster than a review of text alone. After performing a search using this feature you will see, Color-coding results, and highlighting the most relevant passages in a case. Lexis® Learn An interactive learning platform to supplement the current research curriculum. It's designed to help students learn legal research fundamentals outside of class. Each module incorporates animation and questions that require the student to apply what they learned. Recently Updated Modules: Online Basics: Navigation, Document Retrieval and Source Selection Constructing an Effective Search Why start Your Research with Secondary Sources?
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Finding the Right Statute and Statutory Interpretation Finding the Best Cases for Your Research Making Sure You’re Citing Good Law Finding More Authority from a Case Researching Administrative Law Issues Legislative History Drafting Documents for Transactional Practice Briefs, Pleadings & Motions
Bloomberg Law:
New User Interface Recently Bloomberg Law released a new user interface designed to increase content discoverability through advanced search and streamlined navigation. The platform boast enhanced contextual and simplified search capabilities, flexibility to use both natural language and more advanced search terms and connectors, increased precision and relevant results.
Bloomberg BNA:
Labor and Employment Law In April Bloomberg released expanded labor and employment law resources and content as part of the company's continued innovation and technology investments.
App of the Month: Tripit
With summer break just around the corner, it is almost time to head out of town for a get-away, maybe to see friends and family you haven’t visited in a while, or perhaps to explore a completely new destination. As fun as traveling is, it can also be stressful, especially
keeping up with all the different schedules and confirmations for flights, rental cars, hotels, and more. Before you head out, you may want to checkout Tripit, a fantastic travel app that takes the hassle out of traveling. Tripit is available in both a Free and Pro version, but the free version has so much good stuff it really isn’t necessary to upgrade. For example, with the free version, you can manually add and edit all of your travel plans, sync them to your calendar, share your plans with others, and store all of your travel documents in one convenient place. Tripit is available for both iPhones and Android devices.
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Faculty Publications & Achievements
Kathleen Brown, Teaching Legal Technology: A Critical Conversation on Legal Technology and Skills Training, AALL Spectrum, Mar.Apr.2017, at 22 (co-authored with Camille Broussard, Daniel Cordova, & Sarah K.C. Mauldin. - Elected as Chair for the SEAALL Scholarship Committee 2017-2018 - Speaker, Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web, National Business Institute, Charleston, SC, Feb. 27, 2017. - Speaker, Coming Full Circle: Making the Pitch Technological Competency, SEAALL Institute March 30, 2017.
Debra Gammons is elected Secretary Treasurer of the Charleston County Bar Association.
Paul Lund, Federally-Chartered Corporations and Federal Jurisdiction, 36 Fla. St. U.L. Rev., 317 (2009) cited in 85 U.S.L.W. (2017).
Jonathan Marcantel, Abolishing Implied Private Rights of Action Pursuant to Federal Statues, 39 Notre Dame J. of Leg., 251 (2013) cited by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Jorge Roig, Can DNA Be Speech?,34 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J., 163 (2016).
Lisa Smith-Butler, Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web, NBI, Feb. 2017 (co-authored with Catherine Chase and Amy Johnson). - Speaker, Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web, National Business Institute, Charleston, SC, Feb. 27, 2017.
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Have a Great Summer!
Thank you all for a very successful academic year. We will be open our regular hours during the summer, so if you are doing research in town or teaching a course this summer, stop by to visit. Please enjoy some of our favorite pictures from the past year.
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