Category Archives: CALI Tools

Start Law School Off Right!

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Sarah Glassmeyer

Did you know CALI has resources that not only help you learn the law, but also ones that help you learn how to be a better student? It’s true! Law School Materials for Success, written by Dean Barbara Glesner Fines, … Continue reading →

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What the Heck is CALI???

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Sarah Glassmeyer

Greetings to new and returning law students and faculty! I know this month is filled with new, exciting (and maybe even scary) changes. It’s also filled with INFORMATION OVERLOAD. In case you missed it, hopefully in your orientation materials there … Continue reading →

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Check out the New CALI Website! Webinars available.

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Sarah Glassmeyer

You may have noticed that CALI updated it’s website inside and out this summer. And by “may have noticed” I mean “you probably muttered to yourself ‘where the heck did they put…’ while trying to do something on the site.” … Continue reading →

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We’re Rolling out A2J Author Version 5.0!!!

Posted on July 31, 2014 by John Mayer

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) and the Center for Access to Justice and Technology at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law (CAJT) will be rolling out the new version of A2J Author® for the legal aid community this Friday, … Continue reading →

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CALI Lesson Teaching Guides

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Sarah Glassmeyer

Faculty members logging into CALI this week will see a new box on the upper left hand side of each lesson page. (It’s also visible here, on the upper left hand side of this blog post.) As you can see, … Continue reading →

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Where are the ALWD Lessons?

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Sarah Glassmeyer

A very popular resource on the CALI.org website has been the four lessons that decipher and explain the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) Guide to Legal Citation. They were assigned by all sorts of courses, from basic legal research … Continue reading →

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It’s 2am..Do You Know Where Your CALI Authorization Code Is?

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Sarah Glassmeyer

It’s the moooooooost wonderful tiiiiiiiiiiiime of the yeeeeeeeeear! Yes, law school finals time! Well, it’s wonderful for us at CALI®, maybe not so much for law students taking the exams and the law professors that will have to grade them … Continue reading →

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Teaching Law Students to Program?

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Sarah Glassmeyer

One of the more controversial suggestions in legal education reform is the idea that law students should learn computer programming. Critics wonder what possible use this could have. Are future lawyers going to have to build their own tools? Is … Continue reading →

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For Your Consideration…

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Sarah Glassmeyer

It’s that time of year when up and comers and even older reliable stars have ads and phone calls placed on their behalf in the hopes that this will be the year that they are picked. No, I’m not talking … Continue reading →

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It’s Always Warm and Sunny on the Internet

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Sarah Glassmeyer

Except for those of you in the South of Florida or Southern California, January of 2014 has been one for the record books. Arctic cold fronts and blizzards have buffeted the majority of us since New Years Day and forecasts … Continue reading →

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