Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Opposition, spoke to students at the University of Toronto – Mississauga today. He addressed recent comments about airport security and the use of profiling, as well as discrimination generally in…
It’s a law student’s dream – or maybe a nightmare. Law firm recruiters scouring social media networks to find an appropriate candidate for their firm. The current recruitment process does little to reveal the personality,…
If you’re just starting law school, law blawgs can be your best friend. In addition to this site, here are 99 other blog posts that you should read to help prepare for your adventure. It…
I am currently in Halifax, Nova Scotia where I am attending the biennial federal convention of the New Democratic Party as a delegate for the Saint Boniface Riding Association. Our party’s last convention was in…
A Dime a Dozen Political Blog ranks Law is Cool as one of the top 25 political blogs this summer. 1. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ – pr7 – 182,020 2. http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/ – pr6 – 169,602 3. http://westernstandard.blogs.com/ – pr6 – 266,842 … 23. http://lawiscool.com/…
(Part 1, Part 2) All the sites I talked about in previous posts are relatively open. You can at least freely read their content, even if you can’t contribute. Legal OnRamp is a closed community….
(Part 1) So how do a lawyer or a firm use social media to promote themselves for free? The first step to a following is to know your audience. You have to give readers some…
Don’t you cringe when you hear marketing and lawyers in the same sentence? Didn’t you go to law school instead of an MBA program so you never had to deal with marketing or sales of…
The office of Ontario Ombudsman is on Twitter and Facebook. The Ombudsman is a pretty unique independent oversight officer accountable directly to the provincial legislature. He investigates people’s complaints under the authority granted by the…
The ABA Journal reports that second-year law student Adam Reich of the University of Southern California was instrumental in the release of a woman imprisoned for the past 29 years. Connie Keel sat in the…
The scholars, captains of industry and champions of justice who compose Law is Cool‘s readership will have long since scoured their online social networks for photos or other items tending to compromise their integrity —…
Is it possible to be both happy and successful in law? Laura Milligan of Job Profiles thinks so. They wrote in last night and brought an article to our attention that provides tips and other…
