Laura Bergus


"Law student + Web & media background = belief that legal services should be affordable, accessible, and online."

Author: Laura Bergus is a law student at the University of Iowa and also contributes to Social Media Law Student.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Practice Management • Legal Technology • University of Iowa • Law Student

Recent Posts from Laura Bergus


  • Google Scholar advanced search: CASE LAW & LEGAL JOURNALS!!!!

    Ok, I might be a bit overly-excited about the fact that Google tonight dropped a bomb on the free, online legal access world: federal AND state case law search, with legal journals, with an excellent…

  • Looking for a 2L summer 2010 position

    I have over a decade of professional experience in web, video, municipal government, and I'm doing pretty well at working towards this law degree. Please consider employing me next summer.

  • Twitter is valuable: a few examples

    Twitter is useful. If you don't believe me, I think you're doing it wrong.

  • 2L is hard, but I guess it should be?

    This semester is kicking me, hard. But in an attempt to be positive, here’s a list of what’s good, or at least what could be so much worse: Having worked makes it much easier to…

  • There are worse things in life to feel cool about…

    Today I got the following email from a salesman at ExamSoft, the company that makes the final exam software my school uses, SoftTest. Hello Laura, We met at the CALI conference, where we discussed some…

  • Anything or anyone law school

    Is your school planning anything for orientation this year about building or hiding an online identity? Are you advising professors on whether or not to friend students on Facebook? Do you know if your dean…

  • Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools (Part 4)

    For all of my drum-beating about the glories of online social networking, the CALI annual conference last week was a welcome reminder of how nice it is to actually *meet* people. It was great to…

  • Every blog needs a Wordle word cloud post

    Thanks to Josh Auriemma for the reminder of the coolness that is Wordle. Here is the automatically generated word cloud for laurabergus.com. Pretty right-on, if you ask me.

  • Over the top with social media for law students?

    In preparation for CALICON09 (and an awesome session with John Palfrey), I’m creating a website to share the Social Media Best Practices document I’ve been working on between classes and finals over the past few…

  • School’s out for the summer

    I wish I could be inspired to write one of those great 1L retrospectives, but I have no such motivation (nor nearly an exciting enough life). So all you’re going to get is my classic…