Michelle Cosby (J.D., M.L.S.) is the Associate Director of the Joel A. Katz Law Library. She formerly held positions as the Senior Reference Librarian at the North Carolina Central University School of Law Library, where she managed the reference department and participated in teaching Legal Research & Analysis and Legal Research & Persuasion. She also held positions as the Faculty Services Librarian at North Carolina Central University School of Law Library, Reference Librarian at the University of Kentucky College of Law Library, and Reference/Instructional Services Librarian at the University of Miami School of Law Library.

Gail Mathapo is a Reference Librarian and Professor of Legal Research at the University of Florida Levin College of Law Legal Information Center, which she joined in 2016.  She previously worked at The University of the District of Columbia’s Law Library.

Gail currently teaches a Legal Research Course. She is active in the American Association of Law Libraries and currently embarking on serving as the 2018-2019 Chair of the Legal Research Teach-In Kit Committee.  She obtained her M.L.I.S. from Catholic University of America and received her J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia’s David A. Clarke School of Law.

Rachel Purcell joined the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law’s Legal Information Center in 2016 as an Information Management Librarian & Professor of Legal Research. Her expertise includes education pedagogy, information management, cataloging services and legal research, where she teaches students to use both print and electronic and formats to locate case law and relevant statues at both the state and federal levels. She previously worked at Abrahamson & Uiterwyk where she specialized in mass tort litigation. Purcell earned her J.D. degree from Stetson University College of Law.

Sarah A. Lewis is a Reference Librarian and Professor of Legal Research at University of Florida Levin College of Law in Gainesville, Florida. Sarah teaches Legal Research, a course focusing on teaching students how to research statutory and case law on both a state and federal level.  Sarah received her Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tennessee, and her Master of Library and Information Science and Master of Science in Knowledge Management from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Prior to becoming a law librarian, Sarah practiced corporate and public finance law in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ira Steven Nathenson is a Professor of Law at St. Thomas University, where he teaches courses in Civil Procedure, Cyberlaw, and Intellectual Property. He founded St. Thomas Law's innovative Intellectual Property Certificate program, which uses role-playing simulations and live websites to integrate the learning of IP law, lawyering skills, and professional ethics. Professor Nathenson also runs popular websites—his homepage and YouTube channel—that provide numerous learning resources on Civil Procedure and other topics.

After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Professor Nathenson served as a judicial law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and practiced Intellectual Property law at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP (now K&L Gates LLP).

Professor Nathenson's research and writing interests are diverse. He has published in numerous law reviews on topics such as copyright, trademark, technology and internet law, procedural justice, and legal education reform. He has twice won the prestigious BNEF Ladas Memorial Award for his writings on the internet and branding law.

On behalf of the CALI staff, we would like to thank those who attended CALIcon18 Conference, held at American University Washington College of Law, from June 7-8, 2018.  More than 275 law faculty, law librarians, IT professionals, and distance learning staff came together to share ideas, innovations, experiences and best practices that could be used in law school classrooms as a way to engage law students with tech.