Accepted Sessions
| Session | Speaker(s) | Experience level | Session Track | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridging the Gap on Legal Tech Proficiency at Law Schools | Tobias Franklin |
More and more law students are pursuing interests in legal technology, but many are witnessing a gap at their respective schools. |
Beginner | Technology |
| Distance Learning in Non-Distance Learning Courses | John Mayer, William Byrnes, Christopher Bevard |
The ABA allows law schools to use distance learning in any course as long as it doesn't replace more than 1/3 of in-class time. This should make it easy for faculty to explore the use of distance... |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| The Problem of Engaging Students at a Distance | John Mayer, Minara Mordecai, Glenn Greenberg, Jack Graves |
Now that everyone is sitting at their computers in the wee hours, bathed in the warm glow of their screens, how do you get to really engage with the instructor, the material or other members of... |
Beginner | |
| Teaching Tech to Law Students | Grace Simms |
For the last three years - I have taught Technology and the Practice of Law. My class covers hardware/software, security, social media/marketing, apps, and more. This session is for... |
Beginner | Technology |
| Law Library Websites and Third Party Trackers: A Privacy Study | Tom Boone |
Librarians are known for protecting the privacy of their patrons, but with the shift to online resources, third parties regularly collect data on library patrons' use of library materials, using... |
Beginner | Technology |
| Using Drupal for a Better Orientation Experience | Corinne St. Claire, Gabe Estrada |
For several years, Loyola Law School Los Angeles utilized a home-grown “Orientation Task Scheduler” to help incoming students complete necessary tasks prior to arriving on campus for Orientation... |
Beginner | Technology |
| How to Convert a Website to a Web App | Patrick Wiseman |
At CALIcon12, Prof. Wiseman demonstrated how to convert a course website to a Chrome app. As of about the date of CALIcon18, Google is no longer supporting Chrome apps, having replaced them with... |
Intermediate | Technology |
| How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bot | Jesse Bowman |
As a law librarian, I find emerging technologies to be a source of both inspiration and concern. |
Beginner | Technology |
| Scrape it off: Using or making web scraping tools to gather structured data from webpages | Ben Carlson |
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Beginner | Technology |
| 60 TIPS IN 60 MINUTES FOR LAW SCHOOL TECHIES - THE CALI EDITION | Deborah Ginsberg, Emily Barney |
Back by popular demand from the 2017 MAALL conference in Milwaukee. We’ll showcase 60 of our favorite tech tools, tips, apps, websites, cheats, and more. These tips will benefit anyone looking... |
Beginner | Technology |
| The Malpractice of Hunches: Professional Responsibility, AI, and Data Analytics | Ed Walters |
Clients ask lawyers the most important questions facing their families and trust lawyers with bet-the-company questions. But lawyers answer these questions, for the most part, based on limited... |
Intermediate | Technology |
| IT Operations: Lessons Learned from the Field | Corinne St. Claire, Corey Meingarten, Jonathan Sibray, Tony Forsythe |
This panel will focus on the most recent challenges facing law school IT professionals. Discussions will include lessons learned and support strategies in the following areas: |
Intermediate | Technology |
| Word Styles and Document Automation: Making documents more efficient in the practice of law | Stacey Rowland |
Technology has changed the practice of law and, increasingly, is creating new job opportunities for enterprising lawyers. Many practitioners and law students, though, do not unlock the true power... |
Beginner | Experiential Learning |
| Battling Fake News and Developing Digital Literacy Skills within the Legal Profession | Carol Watson, Caroline Osborne, Kris Niedringhaus |
Alternative facts? Truthiness? Post Truth? Hardly a day passes without someone making a reference to fake news. But why should lawyers care and what can information technology professionals and... |
Beginner | Technology |
| Tips for Including CALI's Materials in Your Courses | Deb Quentel |
Assessment and more An experiential session to get you thinking about when and how to use CALI materials. |
Intermediate | Experiential Learning |
| Get Smart: Are Smartphones in the Law School Classroom a Recipe for KAOS? | Shannon Roddy, Khelani Clay |
Should laptops and smartphones be allowed in the law school classroom? This session will provide a brief overview of the research on laptops and smartphones in the classroom. |
Beginner | Technology |
| Using Guided Interviews to Serve Non-Profits | Raymond Brescia |
This session will describe a class project, incorporated in a course entitled "The Law of Social Entrepreneurship and Exempt Organizations," in which students utilized A2J Author to prepare two... |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| Sources of American Law - An Introduction to Legal Research: Adopting an eLangdell Book as a Coursebook | Edward Hart, Meg Butler |
Law librarians from UNT Dallas College of Law and Georgia State University College of Law will discuss their experience developing the first-year research curriculum and a similar class for an LLM... |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| Lessons in Engagement from Game Designers | Joshua Pluta |
A few years ago, “gamification” was the Next Big Thing in everything, borrowing the incentive systems from games – scores, achievements, and levels – to engage students, customers, and employees... |
Beginner | Course Management |
| Dealing with established systems, legacy systems, and technical debt in law school IT shops | Elmer Masters, john Joergensen |
This is an issue that I don't think has ever been fully discussed at CALIcon: how do small development operations like law schools deal with things like the endless upgrade cycle, technical debt,... |
Intermediate | Technology |
| Syncing CRM at Colorado Law | Jonathan Sibray, Mike Burr |
Like most Law Schools, Colorado Law has a number of systems in use to manage specific points in the student lifecycle. These systems are disparate: third-party, main campus, or Law School-... |
Beginner | Technology |
| H2O 2.0: A New Way to Create and Share Legal Ed Texts | Brett Johnson |
Casebooks are expensive, inflexible, proprietary and mostly unavailable in digital form. This is bad for law faculty and their students. |
Beginner | Technology |
| Wikipedia in the Legal Research Classroom | Nicole Downing |
No matter how many reliable research strategies they are taught, the new generation of law students (and attorneys) often use Wikipedia as a starting point for their legal research. |
Beginner | Course Management |
| Notes & Comments: Unique Resources for the Law School Institutional Repository | Aaron Kirschenfeld |
Institutional repositories provide law schools the opportunity to make unique resources available to their patrons and to the public. The University of North Carolina School of Law's Kathrine R.... |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| All the Cool Things CALI is ... and Could Be Doing | John Mayer |
CALI has a LOT of projects. I will talk about these cursorily, but the bulk of this session will be talking about CALI and the future of edlegaltech. What *should* CALI be doing to deliver the... |
Beginner | Technology |
| Teaching a Synchronous Online Class using WebEx. | Charles Perkins, Kathleen McLeod, Abigail Deese |
This program will discuss using WebEx to teach synchronous online courses. This program will examine: |
Beginner | |
| LII: Under the Hood | Sara Frug |
LII publishes original content and enhanced primary legal materials for an ever-growing audience that ranges from lawyers to middle school students. With examples from recent projects, this... |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| Real World Video Accessibility | Bryan Rapp |
Video accessibility is a hot topic in higher education these days with several universities facing lawsuits related to their practices in this area. This session will discuss what's required... |
Intermediate | Technology |
| Law student technology competency - how do we pay for it? | Kris Niedringhaus, Carol Watson, Roger Skalbeck, Darin Fox, Michael Robak |
Most of us agree that the majority of law students need some level of technology education in order to in order to be competent to practice law under... |
Intermediate | Case Studies |
| Using Excel for a simulation exercise in a law office technology course | Wayne Miller |
Simulations can run the gamut from paper based to full online environment. What if you want a “what-if” scenario, but don’t see the need to invest in an interactive environment? Excel can serve as... |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| Death-proofing Web Citations with Perma.cc | Brett Johnson |
As the citation of web pages in journal articles, court briefs and decisions continues to grow, the permance of the cited item becomes increasingly important. |
Beginner | Technology |
| Sparking Innovation in the Classroom: How to Introduce Faculty to Instructional Technology | Alyson Carrel, Clare Willis |
Before the 2017-2018 school year, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law held TEaCH LAW, a day-long... |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| Law School Transparency | Kyle McEntee |
Kyle McEntee, executive director of Law School Transparency, will provide an overview of LST's Data Dashboard,... |
Beginner | Case Studies |
| Is There Anything Law School Faculty Members Can Learn from Research on Evidence-Based STEM Instruction? | Marjorie McDiarmid, Jane Winn |
Since the 1990s, the National Science Foundation directed millions of dollars into research into how to increase participation rates and remove barriers to success in STEM education. For... |
Intermediate | |
| Keynote: How Do Lawyers Get Paid If Access to Justice is Free? | Katherine Alteneder |
The rise of the self-represented litigant has disrupted the civil justice system. Courts no longer rely on lawyers to manage the litigants, but the due process remains so courts have had to step-... |
Beginner |