Free Online Courses from the Nation’s Leading Professors: AcademicEarth and LectureFox

On 01.28.09, In News, By Benson Varghese

In interviews with Forbes and Charlie Rose last year, Bill Gates spoke of his love for watching recorded lectures. Mr. Gates commented that although he often purchased courses from The Learning Company, there was a great need for free online courses with similar content.

picture-4A new website named AcademicEarth aims to provide just that. AcademicEarth has lectures from renowned professors from universities including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Princeton, and Stanford. There are courses from a wide array of subjects ranging from Economics and History, to Physics and Religion. There are even a few courses in the law section including a copyright lecture from MIT and a class on climate change law and policy from Berkeley. The videos are free to watch, and can be viewed without registering.

picture-6LectureFox, a site focused primarily on science lectures, does remarkable job of aggregating free lectures and organizing them so they are easy to access.

What other online lecture sites do you use?

 
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Trial Tip: Outline the Answers, Not the Questions

On 01.25.09, In Featured, News, trial techniques, By Benson Varghese

justiceaProfessor Jim McElhaney, in his latest ABA Journal article, offers a great tip for young litigators: instead of writing out the questions you want to ask a witness, write down the general answers you are looking for. This will keep you from reading your questions, allowing you to frame more natural sounding questions during your examination of the witness. For more great trial tips, read the complete article here.

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Cut and Paste Text Without Line Breaks

On 01.18.09, In Featured, News, Tech Tips for Lawyers, By Benson Varghese

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Textfixer.com, a website originally designed for web developers who were editing code, offers a text-editing tool that is useful to anyone who regularly cuts and pastes text between documents: a line break remover. Line breaks are the broken lines of text seen when text is pasted between documents that are formatted differently. For lawyers and law students, this is most often seen when cutting text from a dual-column PDF document, such as a statute or case prepared on WestLaw or Lexis, into a word processing document. Unlike most formatting problems, pasting text as “plain text” does not get around the problem of line breaks. Although line breaks can be removed manually or by a “find and replace” command, using textfixer.com seems to be the quickest and easiest way to ensure properly formatted pastes.

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Additionally,Textfixer.com preserves paragraph breaks while removing only the line breaks from the text. To use the line break remover, simply cut and paste the text from the source to the website, hit the “Remove Line Breaks” button, and then cut and paste the resulting text into the document you are working on.

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