Contributor: Debbie Ginsberg
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CALL Continuing Education Committee 2020-2021 Annual Report
Todd Hillmer and Debbie Ginsberg, Continuing Education Committee Co-chairs The Continuing Education Committee had a very successful year. We sponsored or co-sponsored 5 successful presentations with another tentatively scheduled for the end of this month. Due to COVID restrictions, all of these were webinars:
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Meet the 2020-2021 CALL Bulletin Committee
We are excited to introduce the CALL Bulletin Committee for the 2020-21 year. If you have an idea for an article, story, interview, or anything else you would find interesting in the Bulletin please reach out to any of us and we will be sure to work with you!
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CALL Continuing Education Committee 2019-2020 Annual Report
The Continuing Education Committee sponsored three successful presentations this year past. They were: Nailing Your AMPC Proposal – Tips from the Trenches (webinar, September 17th, 2019) The Occasional Intellectual Property Law Researcher (webinar, December 5th, 2019) What’s New and Improved in Free and Low-cost Legal Research (May 21st, 2020)
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Staying (Digitally) Safe During Covid
I’ve been giving a few talks lately about ransomware and other security threats. I presented one for PLLIP-SIS which should appear here soon, as well as one for the 2020 AALL Virtual Annual Meeting. During COVID, it’s been particularly challenging for us to keep our information and equipment safe while working at home. Here are…
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What is Legal Technological Competency?
Several of the sessions I attended at the ABA TechShow worked to define what technological competency is in the legal field (including law schools) or how it’s approached in law firms, including “Tech Competencies: Past, Present & Future” to “Can Technology Competency Help You Get a Job?” Other sessions in the Academic Track, “Law School…
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Women of Legal Tech: The Law Librarians
On February 27, ABA’s Women Rainmakers Committee presented a “Women of Legal Tech” Summit hosted at Chicago-Kent College of Law as a precursor to the ABA TechShow 2019. CALL’s own Debbie Ginsberg was one of the speakers, focusing on the role of law librarians in legal tech:
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Who Needs Blockchain Anyway?
Why Blockchain? When I give professional presentations, I choose either a subject I know a lot about and talk about what I’ve learned, or I’ll pick a topic I know almost nothing about so I can research something new. When planning my presentation for CALICon 2017, I decided to go with option two.
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Sixty Tech Tips at MAALL Joint Meeting
Modeled on the 60 tips in 60 minutes presentations we’ve attended at the end of the annual ABA TechShow each year, Debbie Ginsberg and I created a round-up of our favorite websites, tips, apps, browser extensions and more. We hope you find helpful tips for your work below, whether they match your routine tasks or…
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Cool Tools Café at AALL 2016
Cool Tools Café is always one of my favorite events at AALL. I enjoy giving demos as well as learning about new tools. Here, I’ll recap the tools I presented–Perma.cc and Page Vault, web page archiving tools that law schools, firms, and other legal organizations might find useful. I’ll also share a bit about some…
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