Spotlight Blog

We at CALI have been thinking a lot about the future of legal education.

John Mayer, our Executive Director, compiled this fairly comprehensive collection of links to articles, books, blog posts and other materials that relate to how things are changing in legal education, law practice, and higher education.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the Future of Legal Education and other suggested readings. Tweet us @CALILawSchool.

We're starting webinars again next week after a little break. We're excited to bring you some great content and guest presenters in the next few weeks -- as always on Fridays at 3 PM EDT. Click the links to reserve your spot:

Oct 23: Advanced Twitter (Twitter from a Law School Communications Director's Perspective Part II)

To effectively master Twitter, there is a lot you need to do beyond what we covered in our first Twitter webinar. Tonya Oaks Smith, Director of Communications at the UALR Bowen School of Law, will present on advanced Twitter topics as a follow-up to her popular August webinar.

CALI started experimenting with Facebook Ads this July to improve stagnant Facebook Page fan growth at the time. Much to our surprise, we have nearly doubled fans since that time because of the ads. Reserve your spot now for our upcoming webinar on the topic:

We've recently added a new feature to the new website: CALI Puzzles.

Check out these crosswords and let us know what you think.

Sarah Glassmeyer, Reference Librarian at the University of Kentucky, will cover free alternatives to course management software such as wikis and blogs in this coming Friday's webinar.

Follow the link below to reserve your seat today if you have not already:


Friday, Sep 18, 3 EDT:
Free Alternatives to Course Management Software (Blogs and Wikis)

Because of the tight job market, many CALI member schools have asked us if their recent grads can continue to access CALI Lessons to keep skills sharp.

We are happy to announce that CALI will, by default, extend CALI Lesson access for at least six months after students at member schools have graduated.

To access CALI Lessons, recent grads can simply login at www.cali.org using the same CALI account they used while in school.

There is often confusion surrounding the CALI authorization code among new students. Here are a few tips and a 2 minute video that should help avoid confusion. Please pass them on to your students:

Take a look at our upcoming webinars.

With LessonLink, professors can:

To ease the transition to the new CALI website, we have created a quick tutorial on how member school's students can register at www.cali.org. 

Plagiarism and Punctuation and Grammar: at every school these are basic issues that absolutely must be addressed for your new students. But there is only so much in-class time to devote to these issues.

We highly recommend school administrators, faculty, and students take a look at CALI's Plagiarism Lesson by Prof. Rebecca Trammell and Punctuation and Grammar, Basic and Advanced, Lessons by Prof. Wayne Sheiss.

We have two guest presenters for upcoming webinars on law school professionals' use of Twitter.

1) Friday, August 7, 3 PM Eastern

Twitter from a Law School Communications Professional's Perspective - Tonya Oaks Smith (@marleysmom), Director of Communications at the UALR Bowen School of Law (@bowenlaw). More details...

Reserve your seat at this webinar now.

CALI will once again be sending DVD-Roms out to all member US law schools along with authorization code cards...enough for ALL of your students. They should be arriving towards the end of July/early August.