ZiefBrief
Legal news analysis and legal research tips.
Author: Three librarians from the University of San Francisco's Dorraine Zief Law Library write this blawg: Lee Ryan, senior reference librarian; John Shafer reference librarian; and Amy Wright, online research services librarian.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Libraries • Law Students • University of San Francisco • Librarian
Recent Posts from ZiefBrief
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Coping with Information Overload
At the start of every semester, I definitely suffer from a bit of information overload, helpfully defined by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (!) as the "provision of information in excess of the cognitive and…
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First-Year Tips: The Ever-Popular "How to Read a Legal Opinion"
Orientation has brought a flock of new law students to the Zief Library, and reminded us that one of the hardest things about the beginning of law school was trying to make sense of the…
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First-Year Tips: CALI Exercises
Even though I was a pretty dedicated law student, there were certain concepts that I had a hard time grasping during my first year of law school. In Property, the rule against perpetuities gave me…
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Googling Your Way to Trial Victory
Want to find out how members of your jury really think? Google them and read their blogs and social networking pages. The National Law Journal reports that increasing numbers of litigators are turning to the…
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Attorney's Bar License In Jeopardy After Street Racing Death
We all know that having a license to practice law doesn't necessarily stop attorneys from engaging in negligent or criminal behavior. However, until today, I never heard of an attorney who jeopardized his or her…
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Aftershocks From the LA Quake Hit State Bar
Somehow, we knew that this story wasn't going away anytime soon. The National Law Journal has an article today, "Complaints Surface Over Bar Exam Disrupted by Earthquake," which details concerns that some test-takers had about…
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Bar Examinees All Shook Up
Kevin Underhill's very funny blog, Lowering the Bar, has this wry report on the impact that last Tuesday's 5.4 earthquake had on bar examinees in the Los Angeles area. According to Kevin, some of the…
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Read Law Professor Barack Obama’s Final Exams
There has been a lot of commentary about an article in the New York Times that discussed Barack Obama’s 12 years as a law professor at University of Chicago (click here to see article). Turns…
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Monica Goodling -- Poor Lexis Researcher?
The release of "An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General" (click here for the 524 KB .pdf file from the DOJ site)…
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Monday Buzz: Cuil Takes On Google
Well! I was all set to blog today about the new search engine that everybody is talking about, Cuil (pronounced "cool"), but Shawn, my colleague at Gleeson, has beat me to it! Check out Shawn's…