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One Professor's Approach To Increasing Technology Use In Legal Education, Shelley Ross Saxer Jan 2000

One Professor's Approach To Increasing Technology Use In Legal Education, Shelley Ross Saxer

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Legal educators must increase the use of technology in legal education today Although some legal educators may disagree vehemently with this statement, most have accepted the fact that technology has and will become an even greater part of the fabric of our learning institutions. Students in kindergarten spend some portion of their week in the computer lab. By the time kids reach their middle- and high-school years, many are well-versed in word processing programs, e-mail, and surfing the Internet. Elementary school teachers are trained and encouraged to use multi-media software, the Internet, and other technology in their classrooms because not …


Consumer Privacy, James M. Mccauley Jan 2000

Consumer Privacy, James M. Mccauley

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Pretty scary. This whole business of technology and privacy. I don't know about you but it makes me think about that John Grimes song where he wanted to blow up the TV, throw away the paper, and move to the country. I think that there are probably some things that we can do and that we cannot do. One of the things that comes to mind in listening to my colleagues talk about the shutdown of the dotcoms, last year Congress overhauled the 65 year prohibition against insurance companies not being permitted to get involved in financial services and banking. …


Corporations Practicing Law Through Lawyers: Why The Unauthorized Practice Of Law Doctrine Should Not Apply, Grace M. Giesel Jan 2000

Corporations Practicing Law Through Lawyers: Why The Unauthorized Practice Of Law Doctrine Should Not Apply, Grace M. Giesel

Missouri Law Review

Historically, a doctrine has existed within the area of unauthorized practice of law regulation which holds that a corporation or other entity cannot be licensed to practice law and thus cannot legally practice law. Even if the entity hires as an employee an attorney duly licensed to render the service, the doctrine forbids the attomey from representing any party other than the employer because if the attorney were to represent a third party, the entity, a nonlawyer, would be representing the third party, and this would violate the rule that corporations may not practice law.2 The primary motivating rationale of …