Topics in Digital Law Practice

Below you’ll find the video of our first class in Topics in Digital Law Practice. Stephanie Kimbro discusses virtual law practice.

Her presentation slides can be found here.

A gold star to student Hani Sarji who captured the links to the websites that were mentioned in the class…

Stephanie Kimbro has generously shared a free chapter from her book Virtual Law Practice (amazon.com link).

This chapter is titled… Ethics and Malpractice Issues.

Virtual Law Practice_Ch6.pdf (click to open, right click to download)

Thanks Stephanie!

The TDLP course wiki is at tdlp.wikispaces.com.

If you cannot wait for invitation email to arrive or it HASN’T arrived by now, you can to to tdlp.wikispaces.com and click the JOIN THIS button (see graphic below).

We will approve your membership so that you can start editing the wiki and submitting your homework as soon as we see it.

Where to click to join the course wiki

Please fill out the pre-course survey. We would like to know a little more about your expectations so we can better design the course to your needs.

It is very short and your feedback is essential and valuable to us.

Test Your GotoWebinar Connection

The course lectures are every Friday at 2:00pm Eastern Time starting Friday, February 10, 2012.

The lectures will be using GoToWebinar to deliver a screencast and audio to your computer. It is a good idea to test out the GoToWebinar connection.

It is a GOOD IDEA to do this BEFORE the class starts.

If you have technical difficulties with the test or on the day of the webinar, contact our webconferencing software host GoToWebinar.

Do not contact us at CALI, we will not be able to provide technical support for the webconferencing software.

Welcome to the blog home for the Topics in Digital Law Practice course.

Register for the course.

Course registrants, please take our pre-course survey.

CALI OFFERS FREE ONLINE COURSE: TOPICS IN DIGITAL LAW PRACTICE
BEGINS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012 AT 2PM ET

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The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is offering a FREE online course called Topics in Digital Law Practice starting Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2pm ET.

This course is designed to provide an overview of the changes that are occurring in the practice of law today, especially with respect to technology. It will introduce law students for real-world situations that they will encounter in the job market and point law professors to new avenues to cover in their courses.

The course will run for one hour a week for nine weeks and will feature a different guest speaker each week. Each class will be delivered via webcast and will have a 30 minute lecture presentation followed by a question & answer period and an online, interactive homework assignment for all course students to complete. There will be no formal assessment like midterms or a final exam.

The audience for this seminar is primarily law students and law faculty who will be given priority. Anyone else can join the course for one or all of the sessions.

If you can’t attend live for a class or two, that’s fine. The presentations will be recorded and posted to this course blog.

The Seminar is FREE to all registered attendees.

ABOUT CALI
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit consortium of over 200 US law schools. Non-US law schools, law firms, business schools, paralegal programs and individuals can also join CALI to support its mission. More information about CALI memberships is here… www.cali.org/faq/8054.

REGISTRATION
Register for the course.

SCHEDULE
Below is the schedule for the course. We are still confirming some speakers.

Week 1
Friday, February 10, 2012 2pm-3pm EST
The Virtual Law Office
Stephanie Kimbro
Attorney and Technology Consultant
www.virtuallawpractice.org
Twitter @stephkimbro

Week 2
Friday, February 17, 2012 2pm-3pm EST
Document Automation
Marc Lauritsen
Attorney and Document Automation Expert
www.capstonepractice.com/marc.htm
Twitter @marclauritsen

Week 3
Friday, February 24, 2012 2pm-3pm EST
Technology in the Courts
Jim McMillian
Principle Court Technology Consultant
National Center for the State Courts (www.ncsc.org)

Week 4
Friday, March 2, 2012 2pm-3pm EST
Unbundling Legal Service Delivery
Richard Granat
President of SmartLegalForms, Inc. and DirectLaw, Inc.
www.elawyeringredux.com/promo/about/
Twitter @rgranat

Week 5
Friday, March 9, 2012 2pm-3pm EST
Free Legal Research Tools
Sarah Glassmeyer
Director of Content Development / Law Librarian
CALI
sarahglassmeyer.com/
Twitter @sglassmeyer

Week 6
Friday, March 16, 2012 2pm-3pm EDT
Contract Standardization
Kingsley Martin
President, kiiac.com, www.contractstandards.com/

Week 7
Friday, March 23, 2012 2pm-3pm EDT
Online Legal Forms in Legal Aid
Ronald W. Staudt
Professor of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/rstaudt/

Week 8
Friday, March 30, 2012 2pm-3pm EDT
Unauthorized Practice of Law in the 21st Century
William Hornsby
Staff Counsel at American Bar Association

Week 9
Friday, April 6, 2012 2pm-3pm EDT
Social Media for Lawyers
Ernest Svenson
Attorney at Law
www.ernietheattorney.net
Twitter @ernieattorney

I will be your host and moderator for the course.

Questions, comments, ideas, suggestions? Contact me at the email address below…

John Mayer
jma...@cali.org
Executive Director
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction / CALI
Twitter @johnpmayer
www.cali.org