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The Ip Of Ipas, Stephen Wolfson, Brian Roth, Chase Scott, Dustin Watts, Charles Hicks, Shivani Patel

Other Colloquium, Conferences, and Symposia

Hosted by the Journal of Intellectual Property Law, this panel brought Brian Roth (Southern Brewing Co.), Chase Scott (Taylor, Feil, Harper & Lumsden, P.C.), and Dustin Watts (Terrapin Beer Co.) together with Stephen Wolfson (Research & Copyright Services Librarian, UGA Law School) and students from the Journal of Intellectual Property Law to discuss how breweries are navigating intellectual property issues. Free koozies to commemorate the event were distributed.

A Baker's Dozen Of Tips For Better Web Searches, Anne Burnett

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Anne E. Burnett also served as Program Chair. Burnett is the Foreign and International Law Librarian for the Alexander Campbell King Law Library at the University of Georgia School of Law.

An Attorney's Guide To Business And Investigative Research, Carol A. Watson

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Carol A. Watson is the Director of Alexander Campbell King Law Library at the University of Georgia School of Law.

Introduction And Program Overview, Anne Burnett

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Anne E. Burnett, Program Chair; Foreign and International Law Librarian, J.D., M.L.I.S. Alexander Campbell King Law Library, University of Georgia, Athens led the introduction to the day's schedule of CLE presentations having organized and served the role as primary facilitator of the event.

Public Records Searching, Margaret Butler

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Shared websites for searching and finding public records.

Georgia And State Research Resources, Pamela C. Brannon

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Shares a variety of websites for gathering the state of Georgia and other state information from for legal research.

Electronic Publication Of The Law: Copyright And Contract Terms Of Use, Leslie Street

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Discusses the electronic publication of laws, including sites where laws are published, their copyright and terms of use.

Federal Law Research Using Govinfo.Gov, Patrick Parsons

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

This session gave those in attendance information on how to use govinfo.gov as a research tool for federal law.

Advanced Internet Research Techniques, Stephen Wolfson

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

This session provided tips for conducting advanced legal research on the internet including special operators for improving Google searches.

Rule 1.1 Duty Of Competency And Internet Research, Sharon Bradley

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Basically the world has changed and technology is the primary driver. The legal industry has changed and yet many lawyers still brag about their lack of technology skills. These skills are not advanced programming and software design. I am talking about the competent use of basic office applications. Service providers like RocketLawyer and LegalZoom prepare wills, contracts and articles of incorporation. It’s estimated that these providers are now at least an $8 billion industry. People that used to hire local attorneys are now using these services. Potential clients are also using online service to find and evaluate lawyers. The days …

Click Here: Externship Data Management Tools To Increase Productivity (And Promote Sanity), Jodi S. Balsam, Lauren N. Donald, Carolyn Young Larmore, Sarah Shalf

Externships (X) Conferences

The most significant challenge externship programs face is “insufficient administrative support,” followed closely by “other demands on the faculty’s time,” according to the CSALE survey. And the pressure is only getting worse. The increased record keeping requirements of Standard 304(c), increased student participation due to the ABA’s 6-credit experiential learning requirement and new paid externship positions, plus the ever-present pressure of tight budgets, together are driving the need to find innovative approaches to these mounting administrative burdens.

For many of us, the answer to these challenges is finding online data management tools that can manage vast amounts of data efficiently …

Improv & Internships: Using Improvisation Techniques To Teach Vital Lawyering Skills, Leah Young, Alison Lintal

Externships (X) Conferences

How students choose to collaborate and communicate can have a significant impact on the outcome of a workplace project as well as their legal career. Additionally, the importance of face-to-face communication, body posture, and learning to interpret body language cues is crucial for building professional relationships. Through these interactive exercises, students get the opportunity to practice responses in a setting that fosters student development and growth. Furthermore, improvisation provides the legal profession with tools that can be used to enhance communication, active listening, collaboration, agility, trust, authenticity, and resilience.

An important emphasis in externship courses is a focus on cultivation …

Seize The Data! Using Evidence From Externship Courses To Measure Law School Learning Outcomes, Christine Zellar Church, Robert L. Jones Jr., Kendall L. Kerew, Kelly S. Terry

Externships (X) Conferences

With the adoption of ABA Standards 302 and 315, law schools are now required to establish institutional learning outcomes for their graduates and measure whether their graduates are achieving competency in those outcomes. Given this mandate, all law schools will need to determine the best method to measure whether they are meeting these articulated outcomes. This session will focus on the role that clinical education and externships, specifically, can have in the assessment of institutional learning outcomes. The goal of the session is to provide attendees with guidance on the role that student performance data from externship courses can play …

Teaching The Tough Stuff: The Opportunities And Challenges In Teaching Implicit Bias, Diversity And Inclusion To Supervising Attorneys, Kinda Abdus-Saboor, Gillian Dutton, Rachel Reeves, Marjorie Silver

Externships (X) Conferences

We entrust supervising attorneys with the critical responsibility of providing law students with a meaningful experiential learning experience. Supervising attorneys ultimately control the nature of work students receive, the delivery of feedback, and the work environment that the student inhabits. Thus, it is vital that we equip our supervising attorneys with the basic skills necessary to navigate student supervision effectively. Among those basic skills is the ability to traverse the cross-cultural complexities inherent in working with students whose cultural identities may differ from the supervising attorney. Equally important are the cross-cultural issues that may arise among students and the clients …

Building The Whole Lawyer: Preparing Students For Entry-Level Success, Courtney Brooks, Jeff White, Nicole Killoran, Beth Locker

Externships (X) Conferences

What competencies best assure entry level success for new legal professionals? Survey feedback from more than 24,000 hiring professionals offers solid guidance. The survey was conducted by Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, an initiative of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System and published in 2016 as Foundations for Practice: The Whole Lawyer and The Character Quotient (FFP). The authors found “characteristics (such as integrity and trustworthiness, conscientiousness, and common sense) as well as professional competencies (such as listening attentively, speaking and writing, and arriving on time), were far more important in brand new lawyers than legal skills.”

So …

Digital Literacy: Detecting Fake News In A Post-Truth Era, Carol A. Watson

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Discusses the origins and impact of "fake news" and implications for a law practice.

Searching High And Low: Advanced Search Tips And Tricks, Wendy Moore

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Searching is easy; so much so, that you can be surprised when the desired information is not retrieved in the first few search results when doing a basic Google search. A basic Google search, while a good place to begin, should not also be the end of your search. This paper gives you search strategies to apply when a basic Google search does not produce the results you

The Theory Of The Case: Competitive Intelligence Tips For Attorneys, Suzanne R. Graham

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Explores web-based or web-hosted tools that help in three important areas of online legal research: competitive intelligence, business intelligence, and investigative research. The tools are new and shiny, but the strategizing and intellectual legwork needed to use them effectively mirrors how an attorney prepares a case for trial. Shares notable tools with guidance on shortcomings and strengths.

Using Social Media Research To Your Advantage, Endia S. Paige

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

We live in a time when Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks have become so integrated into daily life that it is critical for attorneys to maintain a basic understanding of the most popular platforms and how they can benefit his or her legal practice.

Social media has made it easier to gather information about litigants and other professionals in the legal field. This paper provides an overview of the most popular social media platforms used by adults in the United States and gives insight into how attorneys can use them to conduct legal and investigative research.

From The Capitol To The West Wing: Making The Most Of Federal Law And U.S. Government Information On The Web, Anne Burnett

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

When searching for federal government materials and federal law on the web, researchers are more likely to encounter an overabundance of information than a lack thereof. Fortunately, free federal government and non-government sites have made great strides in improving accessibility to these materials through better organization and finding tools.

This paper directs researchers to both official and unofficial free sites providing access to federal government materials, including federal law. These sites are an alternative to fee-based services, including Westlaw, LexisNexis, Bloomberg BNA and FastCase, although most do not contain all of the bells and whistles that these commercial services offer. …

#Lawhacks: Websites That You Wish You’D Known About Sooner Highly-Useful Websites For Conducting Legal Research At The Local, State And National Levels, Zanada T. Joyner

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

For many of us when conducting legal research typing a few random words or phrases into a search box yields results that are wholly unusable. It is helpful to have a collection of websites on hand where legal researchers can find reliable information quickly. Herein is a listing of websites that contain useful legal information at the local, state, and national level. This list is by no means exhaustive but, instead serves as a good starting place legal researchers developing a “go-to” collection of internet resources that you can use in your practice.

Federal Law And U.S. Government Information: Exploring A Wealth Of Resources, Carol A. Watson

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

The federal government provides a plethora of free legal resources that are useful for attorneys conducting legal research tasks. In addition to providing inexpensive alternatives to commercial databases, online federal resources offer many bells and whistles such as multimedia, unique searching options, and even crowd-sourcing, that enhance their content.

Legal Research In The Age Of Social Media, Endia S. Paige

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Provides an overview of the most popular social media platforms used by adults i the United States and gives insight into how attorneys can use them to conduct legal and investigative research.

Lucky 13: Research Resources For Georgia And The Other States, Sharon Bradley

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

The title refers to the fact that Georgia was one of the original thirteen colonies and that Georgia researchers are lucky to have access to a good number of free, online legal resources.

Don’T Worry Be “Appy” Valuable Legal And Productivity Apps For Attorneys, Thomas J. Striepe

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Explains different types of apps, and presents helpful ones to make legal research and general office work more efficient and portable.

Good, Bad And Ugly: Finding Intelligence Online, Suzanne R. Graham

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

For investigative research, the internet is a helpful tool, but it is not a perfect or a complete toolkit. For a variety of reasons, not all types of questions can be found, and not all people or businesses have significant digital footprints. Social media sites, public databases, and search engines facilitate the kinds and success of research possible online. However, it remains important to know which tools offer what types of information and any limitations in accuracy and currency.

Found It! Getting The Most Out Of Your Web Searches, Anne Burnett

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Aims to provide advanced tips and strategies for crafting effective search queries as well as providing suggestions for resources useful for specific purposes. Emphasis on Google's advanced searching tools, because of that search engine's popularity, but most other general search engines allow for similar strategies to increase relevancy in retrieving results.

A Is For Attorney: An Alphabet Of Websites For Lawyers, Wendy Moore

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Contains an alphabetical list of 26 websites, each of which contains worthwhile information for legal research or professional development. Features topical legal blogs, Federal and state government websites, free legal information from both commercial and not-for-profit organizations, educational resources, and helpful non-legal research tools.

Just Because I'M Paranoid Doesn't Mean I'M Not Being Followed: Using Tracking Or Rather Do Not Track Features, Sharon Bradley

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Provides guidance on the technology competency standards in the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and offers practical tips for protecting personal privacy and professional documents.

International Criminal Law’S Millennium Of Forgotten History, Ziv Bohrer

Faculty Colloquia

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