University of Kansas Law School Blog
Law School Survival Tips from a Recent Graduate: Simplify Your Life and Warn Your Loved Ones
First-year boot camp has ended, and regular classes have begun. Many of you are still a bit dizzy from all of the new responsibilities that law school has thrust upon you. Fresh out of law school, the Wheat Law Library's new Faculty Services Senior Researcher, Ashly Basgall, has a few tips to help…
Google Patents, Google Scholar and Now Google Law?
It was announced on Aug. 11 that Google Ventures dropped $18.5 million into Rocket Lawyer, an online company that provides legal forms. So this raises the question: Will we be seeing Google Law in the near future? Google and the law Google has set itself up as a leader in information…
Student with Designs on Fashion Law Gets Crash Course (and a Handbag) at Summer Institute in NYC
On Memorial Day, I piled out of a taxi in Brooklyn. It was the quintessential "20-something girl from the Midwest heads off to New York" opening scene to a movie — I dragged my huge suitcase up the front steps and struggled to figure out how to unlock the apartment doors with the set of…
National Salaries for the KU Law Class of 2010
In our last posting, we shared salary information for the KU Law Class of 2010. At that time, national salary statistics for the Class of 2010 were not available. They have since come in, and the data confirms our past observation that national salary statistics are often unreliable because of…
CALI for iPad and iPhone? Yes, Please!
For those who aren’t familiar with CALI (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction), it is a computer-based, interactive tutorial that is free for KU Law students, faculty and staff. You login to the website and choose a lesson by topic, author, or even cooler, casebook. Once you choose…
1L Diaries: Final Exam Lost In Cyberspace Increases Risk Of Heart Failure
Editor's note: KU Law student Natalie Hull wrote this journal entry during the 2009-10 school year as part of the 1L Diaries project. The diaries appear in the Spring 2011 edition of the KU Law Magazine. Read the full version of the 1L Diaries. June 30, 2009 — I almost had a heart attack…
U.S. Supreme Court Finds California’s Video Game Ban Unconstitutional
As a librarian whose job is connected closely with the sharing of information, I find myself drawn to First Amendment cases. As a geek, I find myself drawn to video game cases. Well, as luck would have it, the United States Supreme Court handed down its first ruling in a case involving video games…
Salaries for the KU Law Class of 2010
We have yet to receive national salary data for the Class of 2010. We can, however, discuss the number of students and the corresponding percentage of students in the KU Law Class of 2010 reporting salaries for jobs requiring bar passage and JD-preferred jobs.KU Law Class of 2020 Reporting…
1L Diaries: From Journalist To Law Student In One Week Flat
May 29, 2009It was a mere two weeks ago that I got accepted into law school. In the time since, I have had my first visit to Lawrence, been given a crash course in Lawyering and written more than a dozen briefs. It's been a whirlwind — a Kansas tornado, if you will! Officially, I was wait-…
National Employment Numbers for the Class of 2010
Last week, the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) issued a press release detailing general findings from employment information submitted by 192 U.S. law schools for the Class of 2010. Four key national observations:The overall employment rate of the Class of 2010 nine months after…