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LeighAnne Thompson

Reference Librarian and Adjunct Professor Seattle University School of Law

LeighAnne Thompson is a Reference Librarian and Adjunct Professor at Seattle University School of Law. She received her B.A. from the University of Washington, her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago, and her M.L.I.S. from University of Illinois. She teaches Advanced Legal Research, Research for Scholarly Writing, and Law Practice Technology & Ethics. Prior to joining the faculty at Seattle University, she practiced ERISA law at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago.

CALI Lessons

This table shows Lessons and podcasts by this author. It includes Lesson title, CALI Topics for the Lesson, the date the Lesson was published on the CALI website, the date the Lesson was last updated, and run/usage totals for the past 30 and 120 days.

Note: usage information for podcasts is not available here and is marked as N/A.

Lesson Title	CALI Topic(s)	Published in	Latest update	Runs Past 30 Days	Runs Past 120 Days
Washington State Legal Research: Primary Resources	1L - First Year Lesson Topics Legal Research Legal Research by State	2008	November 1, 2019	12	122
Washington State Legal Research: Secondary Resources	1L - First Year Lesson Topics Legal Research Legal Research by State	2012	August 22, 2019	4	6