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Wingman

Legal Research is Easy

For those not in the know, I'm no longer with the county law library helping the legions of pro se litigants, attorneys, judges, senators, representatives who would walk through the front door. Nope, now I work at a law school trying to help in-grateful students understand the "how" of legal research. Got all that?

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Just call me Captain Obvious

Legal Research is Easy

T he other day as I was doing my Librarian thing, I happened to stop and talk with a student here at the law school. Officially, Am Jur Trials is an encyclopedic guide to the modern practices, techniques, and tactics used in preparing and trying cases with model programs for handling all types of litigation. A warm jacket.

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Why Writing Skills are Necessary for Paralegals

Paralegal Mentor

graduated from the Creighton University School of Law and practiced for many years in banking and commercial litigation in Omaha, Nebraska before she “attempted” to retire in South Carolina. Before Law School, she worked as a paralegal for a number of years and was the first CLA in the state of Nebraska.

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Tributes to Walter Dellinger, a scholar, Supreme Court advocate, and “luminary in law and in life”

SCOTUSBlog

He was a long-time member of the Duke Law School faculty, which he joined in 1969. William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School. From picketing the Carolina Theatre, as a skinny college kid protesting segregation, to arguing in front of the Supreme Court, Walter exemplified the best of what we can be.

Laws 101
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“Vote Reparations”: Law Professor Calls For The Votes of Black Americans To Count Twice

JonathanTurley

Featured prominently on the law school’s website , the article pushes a similar proposal made in the Washington Post in 2015 by Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.

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“Please Tell Me What I’m Missing Here”: Swalwell Appears to Embrace Medical and Legal Malpractice in Opposition to Parental Rights

JonathanTurley

Swalwell is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Maryland Law School. The tweet came in response to South Carolina GOP Sen. This right of consent is ongoing and can be exercised at any point in the litigation. Swalwell is missing is called informed consent. Informed Consent.

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Profile of a potential nominee: J. Michelle Childs

SCOTUSBlog

James Clyburn of South Carolina made a key endorsement, backing then-candidate Joe Biden in the state’s Democratic primary. Michelle Childs, a federal trial judge in South Carolina, to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott of South Carolina. Share In 2020, Rep.