Susan Carter Liebel is putting together Solo Practice University, a “revolutionary new web-based educational and professional networking community for lawyers and law students.” For years Susan has been teaching law students how to become solo practitioners, and now she’s taking it online. According to Susan, several of the faculty members are MILO (Macs in the [...]
We now have over 150 members in the Mac Law Students Forum, and well over 1,000 messages about everything from note-taking strategies to hardware purchasing decisions. As competitive as law school can be, it’s nice to have a refuge where everyone is encouraging and helpful. Feel free to get in on the conversation!
In May I posted a breakout of Mac/PC laptop use that was sent to me by Dennis Bishop, the Director of Information & Technology at the University of Oregon School of Law. At the time, the numbers revealed that Macs were doing quite well at the school: 209 Macs 136 Dell 77 Non-Package (not one [...]
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Chances are you can already get a pretty sweet deal on Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac from your school bookstore. Be sure to check there first, but if your bookstore doesn’t provide a deep discount, Microsoft is running a discount from now through September 8th on Office 2008 for Mac. The discount on the Home [...]
No one really teaches you how to study or how to take notes. Over my undergraduate to my graduate studies I have moved from plain paper notebooks, to exclusive laptop use, to a hybrid of both. It is a difficult problem to solve because everyone has his or her own method: some go lo-fi with [...]