If you’re like most 1Ls, you probably had visions of beaches, mojitos and relaxing following your final spring exam. But somewhere along the way, you started to hear rumblings of a casenote competition. Fast-forward now 10 days after my last final, and I’m still in the library, still reading cases, and still not drinking mojitos. [...]
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A Casebrief Search Engine
As classes finish up and another academic year comes to an end, I wanted to share a resource I have been using throughout this semester: A Casebrief Search Engine. Whether you like to book brief, paper brief or not brief, sometimes it’s nice to be able to reference casebriefs online. I started out using Google [...]
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Formatting Appellate Briefs: Arabic and Roman Auto Numbering
[Ed: You know you're a law geek when you're reading about numbering pages in appellate briefs] You can use the following directions before you write the substance of your brief, or after. Either way, you need to start with all your basic pages titled. (e.g., Cover page, Question Presented, TOC, etc.) 1. Go to the [...]
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Monitor Your Hard Drive Space Visually
Ever wonder where your hard drive space went? Find yourself needing to free up a few gigs to download that Snow Leopard update? While you can manually start checking individual folders and files, this can be a tedious and daunting task. Fear not, there is a better way. GrandPerspective and Disk Inventory X are both [...]
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Delete Old Junk from Time Machine
Like many, I use Time Machine to regularly backup my entire machine (and Dropbox for my most often used and important files). The great thing about Time Machine is that you install a hard drive, turn it on, select which folders you don’t want backed up, and you’re done. The next time you need to [...]
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