Reading Time: 4 minutes
We are over a quarter of the way through the initial semester of my law practice technology class. Talk about building an airplane while flying it. My book has provided the skeleton and now I’m figuring out what can be accomplished within a 26-hour semester. In order to keep it practical—because
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Zero Sum Legal Publishing
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 5 minutes
Another year, another change in legal information. The AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) did a nice write up of American Lawyer Media’s strategic changes. It is not the first legal publisher to (a) center its content exclusively on its own platform nor (b) to create all-or-nothing content…
Scholarship Clout Chasing
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 8 minutes
I had a sales pitch from a program inside Elsevier’s SSRN unit. The idea was to create a Research Paper Series that showcases the law school’s scholarship. The Dean pitched the cold call over to me and so I followed up. I was interested to see that part of the pitch…
Artificial Intelligence is a Gift
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 10 minutes
I had to laugh to myself when a journal editor said that it was all they could do to avoid an AI-only volume. We were on a panel discussing artificial intelligence in law school and I felt their pain. Who wants to read anything about AI any more? Haven’t we all…
Irresolute Literacy
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 8 minutes
I am back in the classroom this semester. As I put together my syllabus, I faced the artificial intelligence section. It is, for me, relatively inconsequential even though I am teaching a research and writing class. I point students towards Grammarly, which the university (not the law school) has a site…
Give It Your 85%
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 5 minutes
I have been contemplating my ability to juggle my responsibilities—leader, manager, parent, partner, pup valet—and was reminded, once again, that we need to give ourselves slack. No one and nothing operates at 100%, let alone the cliché commonly brought up of 110% now that we’re in American football season, on a…
The Form of the Law
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 7 minutes
There are times when you know you need help and you take the step to ask for it. We were selling a house in Canada and moving to the United States. There are tax consequences and they were complicated because now we had 2 national tax regimes to deal with: capital…
Fine-Tuning A Firewall
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 5 minutes
When you self-host your own website or have it hosted on someone else’s hardware, it takes up a small part of your brain. I chose to put my websites on other people’s equipment because that mental occupation was a bit more than I wanted to handle: was it running, how was…
In With the In Crowd
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 6 minutes
One thing that I attempt with this blog is to share what I know. It may not be much and it may not be exactly what someone is looking for, but I always think that knowledge is accretive. Like a puzzle, a bit gets added here and there until the picture…
Correct Twice A Day
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 4 minutes
I was adamant that the artificial intelligence was wrong. My family had given me a bird feeder that came with a camera. As the birds appeared, the camera would take pictures and make an assessment of the bird’s species. It gathered a location for the camera, so it could geo-locate its…