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Recently there has been an explosion of advances in the ebook arena. New tools, new standards and formats, and new platforms seem to be coming out every day. The rush to get books into an “e” format is on, but does it make a real difference?

There’s still time to join our free online course, Topics in Digital Law Practice.

If you haven’t yet, register for the course and catch up by watching video of last week’s class (below).

Then join us live Friday at 2pm Eastern for special guest Marc Lauritsen‘s class on Document Automation.

Want to know what we’re up to here at CALI? John Mayer, our Executive Director, gave his annual “State of CALI Address” during the 2012 CALI Member Meeting at the AALS Annual Conference in January. You can watch it here:

We updated our Terms of Service on February 10, 2012. I know what you're thinking: "someone else telling me what I can't do on their site," right? Well, not quite this time. Read what we did and why we did it...

The stories are legendary – of great tech companies from HP to Google starting in garages.

The theme for this year’s conference is "Some Assembly Required."

We are constructing our future, here in the present. We have many excellent technologies, but figuring out how to use them to serve the educational, scholarly, professional and public service missions of law school is an ongoing challenge. This year’s theme is a double entendre meant to explicitly evoke that our future is not pre-packaged or purchased from a vendor – some assembly is required to make the pieces fit into our institutional cultures. (Read More...)

Because of technological, economic, and market pressures, the way we practice law is rapidly evolving. Law students, are you prepared for these changes in law practice? Law faculty, are you preparing your students? CALI is offering a FREE nine-week online course on Topics in Digital Law Practice to help address these issues starting Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2pm ET.

Register here.

I have a box of tissues on my desk that’s decorated like a bookshelf. My mother jokingly gave it to me when I started at CALI just in case I started to miss being surrounded by books all day. The thing is, though, I’m still surrounded by books all day.

Another new CALI Lesson feature: print a score certificate outside of a lesson at cali.org, even after the lesson has been finalized.

We start the Spring semester with a surprise new feature for CALI Lesson users: lesson resume. Here’s a quick tour:

• The resume feature is automatic. If you leave a lesson by any means such as closing the browser or turning off the computer, you’ll be able to resume later…that is, unless you complete and finalize (more on that below).
• There’s an Exit & Resume Later link in the upper right that has the same effect as above.
• To resume a lesson in the same spot with the same score, login to cali.org and click “My Lesson Runs“ in the right hand menu.
• When you get to the end of a lesson, you’ll be given the option to complete and finalize your lesson. If you take this option, you cannot resume that lesson. You can, of course, run the same lesson again from the beginning. There’s also a “Complete the Lesson” link in the table of contents if you’d like to finalize your score prior to hitting the final screen.

Here’s a more detailed FAQ on the new CALI Lesson resume feature.

If you’re attending the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, join us Friday morning for breakfast and a brief presentation about CALI’s work in electronic casebooks, new online teaching tools, technology to integrate practice into teaching, and other innovations in legal education and access to justice.

To reserve your place at the breakfast, please RSVP by December 28, 2011.

I bet the overlap between CALI Conference attendees and those who played with Leg…

Wait. Oh, hi Deb, CALI General Counsel and colleague with whom I share an office wall...

 Recently, the Colorado Supreme Court posted a proposal for adding public domain citations to Colorado case law. As part of the proposal, they asked for comments from the public. CALI submitted a response – which includes some suggestions for changes to the proposal – that appears below.

CALI is extending the deadline for the Administrative Law Fellowship to Friday, January 13, 2012. Details about the Fellowship are here.

The air is getting crisp, Starbucks changed from their white to red cups and law students are running around in a frenzy trying to get ready for their fall finals.  Yes, it truly is  the most wonderful time of the year.