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"An outlet for some geeks in law school." Topics of interest to law students with a slight focus on patents and copyright.

Author: Joshua Auriemma and Andy Schnitzel are students at Penn State Dickinson School of Law.

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Recent Posts from Legal Geekery

  • More Tales from the 1L Underbelly

    A post in which Chris talks for a long time about Midterms, Study Groups, Outlines, and the large amounts of Drama in law school. Related posts:Tales from the 1L Underbelly Greetings Legal Geeks, it’s been…

  • Future You Will Be Smarter than Present You

    Fair use, smartphones, and whether or not you can break the BigLaw hierarchy. Related posts:It’s Not Defamation Unless It’s False Introduction - Outlining course material? Or not. Laura prefers baking....Obessed + Intelligent + Socially Adequate…

  • Legal Researchers Rejoice! Google Scholar Provides Access to U.S. Case Law

    It’s official: All you budding legal scholars out there have a powerful new research tool, and it comes from Google. In a move that probably takes it off the Christmas card mailing list of Lexis-Nexis…

  • Law Schools with the Most Super Lawyers

    On November 17th, Super Lawyers released a ranking of law schools. The schools were ranked by the number of graduates selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers in 2009. Cumulative research and peer evaluation scores were…

  • Law School Proliferation

    Southern New England School of Law seeks to donate itself to the University of Massachusetts system, thereby creating the first public law school in Massachusetts. Does the current economic climate lend itself to law school…

  • Obessed + Intelligent + Socially Adequate = Geek

    Introduction - Yay, swine flu!! And how your law school is helping you prepare for the epidemic by making you bathe in hand sanitizer. - I don’t know what to call this, but it’s awesome:…

  • Review of LexisNexis iPhone App

    I have to admit that when I received an email yesterday pushing the new Lexis iPhone application, my expectations were not very high.  After spending some time with the program however, I’ve been pleasantly surprised.…

  • Work Relationships on Social Networking Sites Can Lead to Liability

    Michael Schmidt of Cozen O’Connor tells the LawJournal that employers who interact with employees online, outside of work, risk exposing themselves to liability. Given that social networking sites are loaded with personal information, Schmidt said,…

  • Seen Any Weird Wills Lately?

    Our trusts & estates professor usually begins class by detailing a semi-current event from T&E.  He recently brought this [defective] will to our attention: Background:  A Brooklyn couple were killed in their home, and then…

  • It’s Not Defamation Unless It’s False

    Introduction - Outlining course material? Or not. Laura prefers baking. - The continuing saga of the Shepard Fairey case. - Celebrate Pro Bono Week, Oct. 25-31 - Josh auditions for trial ad. Sadly, neither singing…


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