Government Memberships

Posted Sat, 05/30/2009 - 6:26pm by Site Administrator

BENEFITS OF CALI MEMBERSHIP FOR GOVERNMENT LAW DEPARTMENTS

Annual Membership dues for US State and Federal Law Departments is currently $250.

  • Site license access to over 700 computer tutorials in over 30 different legal subject areas for all of your attorneys, associates, investigators, paralegals, legal secretaries and law staff.

    • CALI's Lessons are authored by experienced law faculty and law librarians who teach in the subject area in which they write lessons.
    • CALI Lessons run in Macromedia Flash which is cross-browser and cross-platform independent (Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, OSX and Linux/Unix).
    • CALI lessons are interactive with branches and feedback for every question. Students can take the lessons multiple times and see different questions or paths through the material.
    • CALI lessons are multimedia using text, video, audio, flowcharts, graphics and photos to teach complex areas of law.
    • CALI lessons break down complex topics into short, focused lessonette® exercises that are attractive to lawyers for the short time investment per lesson.
    • CALI lessons keep score so the lawyers can gauge their own progress and even save their scores on the CALI website (optionally for faculty viewing).
    • CALI lessons are reviewed extensively by other faculty who teach the same subject, by faculty who teach other subjects and by experienced CALI staff who have been working in computer-mediated legal education for over many years. Based on student feedback (which is built into each lesson), we refine the clarity of the language and the double-check the accuracy of the materials in the lessons.


  • Site license use of CALI Author, the software used to create CALI lessons. Lawyers or trainers can create their own tutorials or quizzes for their own use with this software. CALI Author was developed specifically for law faculty to capture socratic interactions with students. CALI Author has a raft of powerful features that would cost hundreds of dollars per copy for comparable, commercially available software. CALI has been working on CALI Author for over 6 years and it has been used by dozens of law faculty and thousands of students to create and view our lessons.
  • Discount registration attendance at the annual Conference for Law School Computing held each June at various law schools around the country. This is the premier event for people interested in using technology in legal education, administration and student services.
  • CALI is all about innovation. CALI is constantly working on new services, tools, content and ideas that make intelligent use of technology for legal education.
  • CALI is supported by nearly every law school in the U.S. and is expanding its reach into law firms, paralegal programs, undergraduate legal education, legal aid/legal assistance organizations, state/county law libraries, law library schools and non-U.S. legal education institutions.

 

To become a CALI Affiliate, contact LaVonne Molde (lvmolde@cali.org), Director of Membership Services at her email address or call 612-627-4908 or fill out this form and mail and fax it to LaVonne.